Volume 33, Number 35
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news
Jonathan Holt told police he'd murdered his wife. But he hadn't killed her, and the cops should have known it.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Corporate advocacy group looks to deepen local influence
BY MICHAEL KING
The Vested Rights Ordinance is new, but is it improved?
BY AMY SMITH
With substantive postponements, this week's Council meeting may bring fireworks
BY MICHAEL KING
Two-part plan proposes creating 100 new full-time positions
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Memoirist will relay 'the real story' of her year in a women's federal penitentiary
BY AMY SMITH
The Austin Institute tackles divorce
BY BRANDON WATSON
City looks to keep film and digital production inside city limits
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Florida official can't seem to get the hang of running elections
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Jesse Herman – hospitality pro, mover and shaker with the Austin Food & Wine Festival – is making his mark on his adopted town
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
DIY maven Kate Payne applies her prowess to cooking
BY JESSI CAPE
Tapasitas offers a tasty, reimagined bar menu and great cocktails
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
National and local talent converge at the Austin Food & Wine Festival
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Festival, Texas – spring edition
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Antone's Blue Monday boss Derek O'Brien keeps the music alive and blue
BY MARGARET MOSER
Texas Platters
Wild Desperation, Drunkalong Singalogue, Empty Spaces, The Big Gun Show
Hush or Howl
Fractures
Ruleth
Online Architecture
Mariana Bridges
Blue Medicine
The Home Town Kid
screens
Bradley Jackson and Andrew Disney kick off a festival run of their new comedy about the importance of intramurals
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Have Car, Will Travel for Film
Four Texas film festivals on the not-so-distant horizon
Film Reviews
Steve Coogan’s comical egomaniac Alan Partridge jumps from British television to the movie screen – with all of his smarm intact.
Writer, director, and cinematographer Jeremy Saulnier colludes with actor Macon Blair to create an unusual spin on this revenge tale.
Greg Kinnear plays a dad who believes his son's claim to have seen heaven.
In this hypnotic love story, Jim Jarmusch gives us vampires who are bohemian outsiders and not blood-sucking freaks.
Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, and Kate Upton play gals who team together to ruin the mutual philanderer in their lives.
Colin Firth stars with Nicole Kidman in this memoir about a WWII POW in Burma who, in the present day, still suffers repercussions.
Ben Kingsley stars in this World War II drama that's slipped quietly into Austin.
This documentary explores the ways in which water and human beings shape one another.
arts & culture
Artist Michael Sieben ollies his skater years into the Visual Arts Center's vaulted elegance
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
MOONTOWER COMEDY & ODDITY FESTIVAL PREVIEW
Kevin McDonald explains how the Kids in the Hall have worked together 30 years
BY ROBERT FAIRES
How smarts and gumption took Noël Wells from Esther's to 'SNL'
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Colin Quinn exposes the rowdy Founding Fathers we never knew in 'Unconstitutional'
BY AMY MARTIN
Brian Gaar's monster following on Twitter paved the way for his first comedy album
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Ready or not, W. Kamau Bell is leading us into a conversation about race
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
Brad Williams will beat you to the punch (line) with jokes about being a dwarf, and his will be funny
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Blanton Museum's music series turns the clock back to minimalism's early years in Manhattan
BY ROBERT FAIRES
East Austin artist gives good face
BY ANDY CAMPBELL
Arts Reviews
After 18 years, Zach has remounted this mix of Greek tragedy and gospel, and miracles abound
Cyndi Williams' study of a subterranean retirement community during a catastrophe has promise but isn't always clear
columns
UT design students kick off Austin Fashion Week with a 'Spectrum' of influences
BY AMY GENTRY
May Day! May Day! May Day! It's May, gays!
BY KATE X MESSER
Historic spring still an oasis in the West Texas town of Big Spring
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
It’s risky business for a man to comment on a woman’s physicality in any way
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
BY SAM HURT
BY RYAN HENNESSEE