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Envisioning the Future of Austin State Hospital
What will it take to turn the former Texas State Lunatic Asylum into a world-class center of brain health?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Austin at Large: City Hall’s Game of Threes
Spencer Cronk quizzes the Council to win a new land use code!
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Public Notice: Slouching Toward CodeCRONK
City manager gives Council a multiple-choice quiz for the land development code redo
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Casar Defends His Opposition to East Riverside Rezoning Request
Council member argues the density gains aren’t worth displacing current residents
BY MICHAEL KING
Mobility Plan’s Bad Date With ZAP
Began in 2016, Austin's proposed transportation plan still manages to be contentious
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Austin Community College Expands Care to Younger Kids
ACC / YMCA partnership now accepting 12-month-olds and up to its drop-in center
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Lege Lines: Taking Aim at Planned Parenthood ... Again
Senate committee advances bill targeting Downtown clinic
BY MARY TUMA
Bills Filed to Limit Authority of Texas Medical Board
Van Boven case inspires lawmakers to push for more oversight
BY MICHAEL KING
Texas House Advances Ambitious School Finance Bill
Teachers’ union celebrates shedding of merit pay provision
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Gun-Filled Weekend Prompts APD Action
Spring fest unrest
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON AND AUSTIN SANDERS
Death Watch: “Texas Seven” Member Contests “Law of Parties”
A robbery ended in a police officer death while Patrick Murphy waited outside. Current Texas law holds him responsible.
BY SARAH MARLOFF
food
Sassy's Brings Its Vegetarian Soul Food to East Austin
Andrea Dawson's home cooking lands at 12th & Chicon
BY SYDNEY GREENE
Uncle Ray's Offers Peanut Brittle and Southern Charm
Local woman working for peanuts
BY EMILY BEYDA
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of March 21, 2019
music
Faster Than Sound: What Sparked Joy at SXSW Music
Marie Kondo-ing my Festival experience, with scooters and shooters in the giveaway pile
BY RACHEL RASCOE
Texas Platters
Gary Clark Jr.
This Land
Gurf Morlix
Impossible Blue
Rosie Flores
Simple Case of the Blues
Lesly Reynaga
Dual Passport
Frederico7
Exótico Americano
Magna Carda
Ladee
Warm Sugar
Warm Sugar
Harlem
Oh Boy
Löwin
Heavy as the Sun
HiGene!
In the Valley
Taft
Goodnight, Plum
Lovely Sparrows
Shake the Shadow
Mamahawk
Brain Invaderz
Hunt Sales Memorial
Get Your Shit Together
Hayes Carll
What It Is
Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord
Harder On the Outside
Lonestar
Lonestar
Instant Leftovers Vol. 3
Instant Leftovers Vol. 3
Canto de Sirena Vol. 1
Canto de Sirena Vol. 1
screens
THREE NEW FILM BOOKS ASK WHAT IF ...
What If the Marx Brothers Got Around to Making That Movie With Salvador Dalí?
Josh Frank brings the legendary unproduced movie to printed life
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
What If The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Was Really About the Horrors of Modern American Society?
Putting the Austin-made seminal slasher back into context
BY MARC SAVLOV
What If Mickey Mouse Had a Life Outside the Movies?
Why we're drawn to illustrated icons
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
VR Arena Adds Cardio to Your Virtual Experience
Virtuix's new attraction at Pinballz has players running and gunning without moving
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Film Reviews
Ash Is Purest White
The emotional cost of a life of crime across two decades in Northern China
Captive State
Aliens vs. Chicago. Chicago loses.
Dragged Across Concrete
Police brutality and corruption in a world of malice and greed
Five Feet Apart
Meet cute on the teen ICU takes a turn for the corny
Giant Little Ones
Teen sexuality as a spectrum in this tender drama of growing up and coming out
Gloria Bell
Julianne Moore excels (as always) in this funny, poignant character study
The Highwaymen
Costner and Harrelson face death and mortality on the hunt for Bonnie & Clyde
Level 16
Horror mystery used dread in a tale of the lies we tell young women
The Mustang
Two wild spirits, man and horse, find peace in the microepic
Ruben Brandt, Collector
Pop-art animated heist flick puts collection obsession on display
Us
Jordan Peele has met the enemy, and they is Us
The Wedding Guest
A simmering thriller of international abduction and pursuit
Wonder Park
PG-theme park adventure we're all tall enough to ride
arts & culture
Draylen Mason Is Still Being Remembered, and How Matters
A year after his death, we should do as Draylen did
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Dance Repertory Theatre's Fortitude
In this spring concert, a profound and moving tribute to a missing member of the Theatre & Dance Department community
"Stella Alesi: Journeying" at Prizer Arts & Letters
The artist extends her protean skills toward the bold and minimal
columns
Qmmunity: An Ode to Erica Nix & Transform
Plus queerish comedy and drag deities to tide you over
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Louisiana Swamp Tours
Louisiana swamp tours dive deep into Cajun country
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc: He Doesn’t Listen
The Luv Doc keeps a list to help him remember the things he will soon forget
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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