Oskar Blues Brewery Austin
Volume 36, Number 36
Issue Supplement
First Plates 2017
ON THE COVER:
news
Austin Bergstrom's Continuing Expansion
New terminal restores some 1950s glamour to the airport
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Point Austin: The Best of Times …
Remaining optimistic in a world spinning into darkness
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Affordability & Economic Segregation
(Plus some fun stuff at the end)
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
UT President Gregory Fenves after Monday's stabbings
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
AISD Financial Fate in Flux
Staff recently presented a draft $1.448 billion budget, a $43 million shortfall
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Travis and Hays counties Team Up for Flood Prevention
Two counties are better than one
BY JOSEPH CATERINE
Trump’s Far-Reaching Religious Refusal
An executive order allowing discrimination set to hit president's desk on Thursday
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Missing APD Officer Found, Arrested
Coleman Martin tried to fake his own drowning in Val Verde County
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Oak Springs Arson
The Austin Fire Department estimates $20,000 in damages to the school's playground
BY JESSI CAPE
Council: Day of the Robots
All automation everything
BY MICHAEL KING
Mixed Messaging on Day of UT Attack
Students, APD parse rumors, mixed messaging on tragic day
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Tenants' Rights in Question at Cross Creek
Tenants' rights in question at North Austin apartments
BY JOSEPH CATERINE
Lege Lines: Resistance in the “Sanctuary”
Assessing the fallout after SB 4’s passage
BY MARY TUMA
Kleinert Rehearing?
D.A.'s appeal in case against former APD officer due May 4
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
The HIghtower Report
Real news, fake news, and BS news
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
FIRST PLATES 2017
100 Restaurants Defining Austin Dining Now
Brandon Watson’s Top 10
Virginia B. Wood Hall of Fame
The First Plates Guide to Eating in Bed
No sleep ’til breakfast
BY EMILY BEYDA
Why Dim Sum Is the Ultimate Chinese Comfort Food
Ordering from the heart
BY DAN GENTILE
Does Food Really Help Us Through Trying Times?
Soothing negative emotions with fat, carbohydrates, and sugar
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Comfort Food by the Numbers
Facts and figures about your favorite eats
Food Events
music
Knife in the Water Resurfaces
Nineties slowcore pioneers quietly re-emerge after a decade-plus layoff
BY LIBBY WEBSTER
Blaze Foley's Lost Muscle Shoals Recordings
Cult songman keeps thwarting his own success – even posthumously
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Playback – Austin Record Convention: The Greatest Record Store on Earth
ARC of the covenant, good Reputations, and Blind Sight
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Arkane Studios' Prey Hides in Plain Sight
New sci-fi video game wants to keep players on their toes
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Film Reviews
The Circle
An absurd cautionary tale on technology
The Dinner
Family ties come undone in this dark drama
How to Be a Latin Lover
A middle-age lothario learns some life lessons
A Quiet Passion
A biographical sketch of poet Emily Dickinson
Risk
Doc follows WikiLeaks' Julian Assange
Sleight
A street magician must save his kidnapped sister
Truman
Spanish film deals with serious issues in subtle ways
arts & culture
Jennifer Sherburn's 11:11
This project of 11 different dance programs in 11 months goes through one stage after another
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Arts Reviews
Out of Ink 2017: Object Lessons
This year’s crop of new 10-minute plays captures the apprehension in the air but with creativity and craft
Austin Opera's Madame Butterfly
The company delivers a lovely staging of this Puccini opera that builds to a heartbreaking finale
"Jason Eatherly and Dave Lowell: Depth & Decay"
A fluid, graphic quality keeps the dissimilar work of these artists cohesive and makes visual candy that is pretty delicious
columns
Page Two: "Trouble Comin' Every Day"
And too many couldn't be happier about it
BY LOUIS BLACK
Gay Place
The Contemporary Austin kicks off a QTPOC film series for the month of May
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: 7A Ranch Resort, Wimberley
Iconic family summer vacation cottages get a new lease on life after devastating flood
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Churchy Parents
People who give a lot of thought to having a baby are both adorable and hopelessly optimistic
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
