Waterloo Records
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Volume 39, Number 23
ON THE COVER:
WE HAVE AN ISSUE:
BY Kimberley Jones
news
Austin’s Sexual Assault Controversies Roil the District Attorney’s Race
Margaret Moore's controversial handling of rape cases brings opponents to the race
BY SARAH MARLOFF
When Did the Single-Family Home Go From Being the American Dream to an Urbanist Nightmare?
One policy wonk's view of how we got here
BY DARYL SLUSHER
Land Development Code: What's New in Draft Two
A look at the latest version of Austin's revised land use rules
BY NICK BARBARO
Travis County Primary Candidates Jockey to Champion Criminal Justice Change
A closer look at the heated District Attorney, County Attorney, and County Court at Law races
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin At Large: What Are Y'all Afraid Of?
Framing the gains and losses on all sides of Austin's battles over land use
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Public Notice: How Many Angels Fit in a Zone?
Coming up with some truly mental capacity numbers
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
On the Ground at Austin’s First-Ever African American Genealogy Conference
A community considers its roots
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Progress on Austin FC Stadium on Pace for Spring 2021 Opening
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Council Prepares for Round 2 of the Land Use Rewrite
Calm before the code
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Racial Disparities Persist and Worsen in APD Traffic Stops
Going nowhere fast
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Lawmakers Ask District Attorney to Free Rosa Jimenez
Texas Attorney General's Office urges she remain incarcerated despite poor health
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Election Ticker: The March Toward March 3
Campaign finance numbers set Senate and congressional candidates ahead, leave others in the dust
BY MICHAEL KING
food
Chocolatiers Harshit Gupta and Elliott Curelop Add Some Spice to Their Sweets
Madhu Chocolate puts an Indian twist on a classic treat
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of February 6, 2020
music
Terry Allen Reels in Moby Dick for His New Album
The multimedia conceptualist's first new studio album since 2013 sets sail
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Faster Than Sound: Body Rock Turns 10
Riders Against the Storm and Chorizo Funk’s decade-built dance institution endures, Monday City music meetings, and more
BY RACHEL RASCOE
Rolling Stones Booked for Circuit of the Americas on May 24
British Invasion co-leaders encore 2006 Zilker Park razing
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
screens
Where in Austin to Watch Hollywood’s Biggest Night
For those with red carpet fever
BY BETH SULLIVAN
Booksmart’s Kaitlyn Dever for Texas Film Awards
Parker Posey to MC, Adrian Quesada of Black Pumas performing
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
What'cha Watchin'?
Proofreader Lina Fisher gets real with interviews and the hottest of hot wings
BY LINA FISHER
Film Reviews
Becoming Leslie
The complicated real life behind Austin's weird icon
Come to Daddy
Family freakout with Elijah Wood in this slick and twisted thriller
Gretel & Hansel
The woods are dark and deep, but far from lovely ...
Parasite Black and White
A new way to see one of our favorite social satires – in monochrome
Two/One
Intercontinental tale of conjoined souls
arts & culture
Renee Davis' 25 Years as Harriet Tubman in Sister Moses
The dancer talks about her quarter-century of walking in the footsteps of this legendary conductor on the Underground Railroad
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Filigree Theatre's The Turn of the Screw
The carefully crafted atmosphere in this ghost story from Filigree Theatre may have you wondering if unseen spirits are lurking in the dark
Zach Theatre's A Night With Janis Joplin
This re-created rock concert with the legendary singer is so good, it may be better than the real thing
columns
We Have an Issue: On This We Can Agree
Land development code, the D.A. race, and adieu to Sarah Marloff
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Qmmunity: A Bittersweet Goodbye From Q Editor Sarah Marloff
Sending it off with Mahogany Project and QueerBomb fundraiser
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: South Padre Island
Texas tropics really shine in the wintertime
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Cabana Boy
Concerns about becoming an "absolute bitch"
BY LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Oops!
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
