University of Texas Tower
Volume 38, Number 33
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news
What Land Use Code Do We Need to Build the City We Want?
Planning a way forward after CodeNEXT
BY THE NEWS STAFF
Point Austin: Dispatches From Beyond Deadline
New book collects final reports of those who gave their lives
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Getting to Affordability
Council sweats the small stuff
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Who Owns the Legislature’s Archives?
State Library Sunset bill lets lawmakers hold the keys
BY MICHAEL KING
Project Connect Unveils Cap Metro's Orange Line
The first route in a high-capacity transit plan
BY SARAH MARLOFF
City Council: Getting It All Planned Out
Inching toward Imagine Austin
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
UPDATED: AISD Reassigns Principal After "MAGA" Controversy
Andrews Elementary principal Gabriela Soto said the school's new PTA looks forward to "making Andrews Great Again!"
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Lege Lines: School Finance Bill Passes House With Flying Colors
Stickland only holdout on ambitious “Texas Plan” finance bill
BY AUSTIN SANDERS AND MARY TUMA
food
Local Musician Is a One-Woman Food and Live Music Show
Dinner With Giulia brings authentic Italian home cooking and original performances to your kitchen
BY JESSI CAPE
Longhorn Meat Market: Butcher, Grocer, and Community Hub
127 years in the business and still going strong
BY JESSIKA ROTH
None of the Gluten, All of the Fun at Wild Chix & Waffles
Southern flair comes to North Austin
BY JESSI CAPE
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of April 11, 2019
music
Settling in but Never Settling at the Old Settler's Music Fest
Executive Director Jean Spivey looks back at three decades of roots music
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Faster Than Sound: Jackie Venson Solos
Local blues hero goes solo to cut costs, city polls on use of $12 million earmarked for the arts, and the U.S. State Dept. blocks Palestinian artist Dirar Kalash from the Fusebox Festival
BY RACHEL RASCOE
Texas Platters
Patty Griffin
Patty Griffin
William Harries Graham
Jakes
Rebecca Loebe
Give Up Your Ghosts
Crypt Trip
Haze County
Steve Earle & the Dukes
Guy
T$O – Trill Shit Only
T$O – Trill Shit Only
Ladi Earth
Don't Ask Y
Being Dead
Fame Money Death by Drive By
Hey Cowboy
Sandy Cheeks
screens
Movies or Medicaid: A False Choice at the Texas Legislature
Another tug o’ war over funding for Texas’ film, TV, and gaming industry rebate program
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Complicated Legacy of America's First Celebrity Fashion Designer in Halston
Gold, glimmer, greed
BY BETH SULLIVAN
Film Reviews
After
One Direction fan fiction comes to the big screen, because that's what we deserve
Amazing Grace
The lost concert movie of the nights that Aretha Franklin recorded her iconic album
Black Mother
A hypnotic and all-encompassing glimpse into Jamaican life
Breakthrough
Evangelical tract never raises a pulse
The Chaperone
The fascinating true story of Louise Brooks falls out of focus in this anachronistic fiction
Diane
Mortality has never seemed more pressing or vibrant than in this tale of small-town aging
High Life
The tedium of space is nothing compared to the tedium of an unfulfilling story
Knife + Heart
Perfect postmodernism among Paris' porn scene in this retro-giallo
Little
Time goes backward in this riff on Big (or maybe it just feels that way)
Missing Link
More than just fuzzy fun in this latest stop-motion wonder
Penguin Highway
A wonderful anime adventure into childhood ... with lots of adorable penguins
arts & culture
Seeing the Fusebox Festival Without Reservations
Tickets to some shows have been snapped up, but there’s still plenty of electric Fusebox action available
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Mary Moody Northen Theatre's Spring Awakening
In this production at St. Edward's University, the use of movement adds emphasis to the musical's sex-positive moral
Vortex Repertory Company's Last: An Extinction Comedy
The magic cast by the company of this devised show pulls laughs from the impending demise of the planet
Outside Looking In by T.C. Boyle
With this novel about Timothy Leary and LSD in the early Sixties, T.C. Boyle has written a mighty book – and a gift
columns
Qmmunity: Interns, Writers Wanted
Join the team, cheer on a team, and find your queer events here
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Pine Forest Golf Club
Old Bastrop golf course gets a new shine
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Doing the Legwork for Love
The mighty oak begins with a tiny acorn
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
