Todd V. Wolfson
Volume 31, Number 30
ON THE COVER:
news
Dem candidates spar over the TCSO role in immigration
BY JORDAN SMITH
When the big corporate boys come calling, the city pays the fees
BY MICHAEL KING
Cost of living in Austin is 'Out of Reach' for most renters
BY AMY SMITH
Students opting out of new charter school in favor of existing AISD schools
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Public schools march and rally set for March 24
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Texas attorney general challenges fed decision in funding flap over women’s health care
BY JORDAN SMITH
APD still seeks tips on Saturday stabbing
BY JORDAN SMITH
Full week's work for City Council, including Apple incentives
BY MICHAEL KING
Attorney for neighborhood groups says the approval of outdoor venue was made improperly
BY AMY SMITH
Arizona and Wisconsin legislators try to get in women's pants
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Design of the new Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane kitchen is one key to the success of the entertainment brand
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Rockin' wines from the proprietors a 154-year-old winery
BY WES MARSHALL
Heavy hitter chefs descend upon Austin for SXSW
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Eating out to help the homebound and the Big Hair County Fair in this week's helping of food events
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Their milkshake brings all the foodies to the yard, and they're like, 'It's better than yours'
It's March in Austin, not April in Paris, but Hopfields splits the difference
music
2011-12 Austin Music Awards encore
South by Southwest Aftershots
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Did I know Bruce Springsteen was going to play the Austin Music Awards? Excellent question.
BY MARGARET MOSER
screens
One easy web address and you never have to let go of SXSW 2012
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
'Brooklyn Castle,' 'Fat Kid Rules the World' among crowd faves
Exploring identity at the Austin Jewish Film Festival
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Film Reviews
Robert De Niro and Paul Dano play the troubled Flynn father and son.
Katniss Everdeen wins the Hunger Wars and our hearts.
The renowned Tokyo sushi master Jiro Ono is profiled in this artful documentary.
In this Hindi film, a heavily pregnant woman travels searches for her missing husband, whom no one has heard of.
Unique to a fault, this Swedish film is a daft police procedural and an absurdist comedy about musical terrorists.
Madonna helms this movie about the scandalous marriage of King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson.
arts & culture
Choreographer Sharon Marroquín lets go through dance in order to live
BY JONELLE SEITZ
Seeing what's new in theatre requires letting go of old notions
BY ROBERT FAIRES
In memoriam
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
This Pulitzer Prize-winner is a terminal-disease drama that still has the power to move us
In Balkan's figurative portraits, the realism is heartbreaking
columns
April 1, 1912, has not gone down in history but deserves to
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Your Style Avatar made it out on the last night of SXSW, and boy, are his pumpkins squashed
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
We're still glowing, don't mind us.
BY KATE X MESSER
Clark Gardens Botanical Park is a place where the ordinary becomes part of the colorful tapestry of extraordinary
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Maybe the colloquialism should be changed to 'cat-shit crazy'
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
If you think running in circles is boring, well then you've never witnessed the excitement of the Texas Relays
BY MARK FAGAN
A couple 7v7 coed tourneys on the horizon, and more
BY NICK BARBARO