Volume 33, Number 34
news
After Carstarphen, What Then?
Austin ISD enters a new era, searching for a road map
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Point Austin: Perry's Peacock
Wallace Hall's abuse of power serves his governor
BY MICHAEL KING
Then There's This: SMART Is as SMART Does
City housing program becomes a balancing act
BY AMY SMITH
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Project Connect: Central Corridor Options
Last public workshop considers the future of high-capacity transit
BY MAC MCCANN
Council: Getting A Round Tuit
A crowded agenda as CMs head into budget season
BY MICHAEL KING
UT's 'Shared Services' Begins Sharing ... Layoffs
Powers endorses controversial plan
BY LIZZIE JESPERSEN
Post-Flood Report: Mixed 'After Action' Reviews
171 action items needing improvement
BY MICHAEL KING
A Walk Through the New Colony Park
New neighborhood master plan unveiled
BY ROBYN ROSS
Abbott's STAAR Idea
Gubernatorial hopefuls battle it out over education plans
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Hightower Report
Pulling the curtain on an anti-minimum wage front group
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Measured Edge
Weige Knives crafts custom blades for local chefs
BY MICK VANN
This Crispy Taco Brought to You by 50 Years of Tradition
Tamale House East has the Midas touch
BY KATE THORNBERRY
Hi Fidelity
Trying – and failing – to make it work with Hi Hat Public House
BY ANNA TOON
Food-o-File
Overheard at the East Austin Urban Farm Tour
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
April 19-24
music
The Long Journey Home
The Houston Kid comes full circle
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Playback: Record Store Day
Why Record Store Day matters
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Eliza Gilkyson
The Nocturne Diaries
Horse Opera
Horse Opera
Ray Price
Beauty Is
Weary Boys
The Early Years
Clay McClinton
Bitin' at the Bit
Jeff Whitehead
Bloodhound Heart
Kevin Fowler
How Country Are Ya?
Technicolor Hearts, Carrie Ann Carroll, Rare Birds in Flight, Wendy Colonna
Under the Big Blue Umbrella Sky, You Should Know, Murmuration, Nectar
screens
The Dancing Bear
Nick Frost realizes his secret rhinestone dream in 'Cuban Fury'
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Here, the Writer Gets the Close-Up
'On Story' season four opens with Vince Gilligan
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Film Reviews
Bears
Disneynature doc about an Alaskan bear family.
Breathe In
A comely British exchange student in upstate New York upsets a cozy family dynamic.
Cuban Fury
Nick Frost is a schlubby guy who's gotta dance.
Dom Hemingway
Jude Law, all piss-and-vinegar as the titular safe-cracker, can't light the fuse of this dud.
The Final Member
An Icelandic museum of mammalian penises is documented while seeking its final member – a human specimen.
A Haunted House 2
More horror/comedy in the Marlon Wayans vein.
Make Your Move
Two star-crossed, young dancers are caught in the middle of underground dance-clubs' rivalries.
Rio 2
The animated blue macaw family takes a trip back to the Amazon.
Transcendence
Wally Phister, the Oscar-winning Inception lenser, takes the directing reins for this sci-fi puzzler that stars Johnny Depp.
2 States
Cultural opposites fall in love in this Indian romantic drama.
Under the Skin
Scarlett Johansson is the blank alien who prowls for earthmen in this spare and disorienting genre smash-up.
arts & culture
Absolutely Confabulous
Austin Public Library's New Fiction Confab focuses on buzz over brawn
BY AMY GENTRY
MOONTOWER COMEDY 2014
Hannibal Buress
The effortlessness of Hannibal Buress? That's just 12 years of him working to become a better comic.
BY RUSS ESPINOZA
Demetri Martin
Whether making jokes with punch lines or with pie charts, Demetri Martin's job is directed daydreaming
BY ASHLEY MORENO
Arts Reviews
Romeo and Juliet
Despite some casting questions, the Baron's Men create a moving and involving version of this well-known tragedy
The Drawer Boy
To see this show is to admire fine craftspeople who set out to tell a simple story in a simple way
Scattered
The Motionhouse dancers' daring movements up and down a giant curved wall thrilled kids and adults alike
columns
Letters at 3AM: The Sadness That Stays
When the world inside you is no longer the world around you, that's called aging
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Gay Place: For the Love of Bunnies
Hop to some of the gayest fests of post-Lenten debauchery
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
Explore the Big Thicket on a two-hour cruise up the Neches River from Beaumont
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Good Eye: Closet Therapy
Peeling back the layers of clutter to an organized you
BY AMY GENTRY
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Luv Doc: Introducing
The awkwardness that exists between complete strangers
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
