Volume 33, Number 32
ON THE COVER:
news
City and residents plan a sustainable Colony Park
BY ROBYN ROSS
Whatever the prospects, the tasks remain the same
BY MICHAEL KING
Interfaith leaders push for more renewables in city's generation plan
BY AMY SMITH
Advisory group gets closer to official Council recommendation
BY MAC MCCANN
The November district Council races continue to rumble into action
BY MICHAEL KING
Superintendent named sole finalist to head Atlanta Public Schools
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
5th Circuit overrules Yeakel, upholds HB 2
BY JORDAN SMITH
Annual confab hopes to support democratic businesses
BY ROBYN ROSS
Larger issue still unaddressed
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
BMX riders meet with Parks and Rec
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
To start a movement, start moving!
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The ancient art of foraging for food is aged to perfection
BY JESSI CAPE
The Hightower hasn't found its groove – yet
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Classic and innovative kosher recipes to inspire home cooks just in time for Passover
BY AMY KRITZER
New menus, remodeling, and a fresh crop of weekends for Austin Restaurant Week? Spring has sprung in the Austin foodie scene.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Gina Chavez comes into her own
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Hotel Indigo to break ground on Red River as Max Frost breaks the same with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy on his Atlantic Records debut
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Everything Is Music
Breeder
Haematic
A Fist Full of Panties, For a Few Panties More, or Once Upon a Time in Your Panties
East 35
Tex Mex
screens
Premium cable network struts its stuff with three premieres this weekend
BY MONICA RIESE
He who controls the past controls the future of Alamo programming
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
AFS Doc Nights takes a trip to India for the next in its series
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Film Reviews
One of the better offerings from Marvel’s growing multimedia omniverse, this film gives fans plenty to chew on.
The team from A Town Called Panic returns with another animated charmer – this time a tale about interspecies friendship and dentistry.
Thrills start after a man receives a cryptic message warning that he's in imminent danger.
A long-married couple amusingly dance toward the kind of despair borne from overfamiliarity.
Bollywood masala.
Partly allegorical, partly spectacular, and wholly sincere, Darren Aronofsky gives us another memorable movie about a driven individual.
Second verse, not as good as the first.
Forest Whitaker stars as a very troubled man in this thriller opening locally at a dollar house.
Telugu action thriller.
arts & culture
When Cindy Wood scores the big laughs at Esther's Follies, she's channeling comedy's funniest femmes
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Move over, Queen! La Follia digs up some Bohemian rhapsodies you've never heard before.
BY NATALIE ZELDIN
Austin gets a triple scoop from the musical master: 'Company,' 'Merrily We Roll Along,' and 'Assassins'
BY RUSSELL M. DEMBIN
Arts Reviews
Though slow going, Southwestern University's staging delivered old-fashioned splendor and passion
Not everyone agreed with the clear winner in Ballet Austin's competition this year, and enough with the tweets
This chamber musical about two male-female duos in NYC is a refreshingly modern study of intimacy
columns
The park bench is a fine and honorable place to end up
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Preservation Austin knows there's no place like midcentury modern
BY AMY GENTRY
Let your hair (and other things) down at ArtErotica, Body Rock, and Lezz Dance
BY KATE X MESSER
Tyler's Barbecue in Amarillo ain't fooling around
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Tax Procrastinators Unite
BY LUKE ELLIS
What to drink and where to drink it
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY JEN SORENSEN
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY SAM HURT
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE