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Volume 37, Number 28
Issue Supplement
SXSW 2018 Week One Preview
ON THE COVER:
features
SXSW 2018
Free Events for the Cash-Strapped at SXSW
Festival films, music, and more, on the cheap
BY MAE HAMILTON
news
2018 Primary Elections: Giddy With Energy
Tracking back on a wild election night
BY THE NEWS STAFF
Point Austin: Primary Afterthoughts
Waking up wondering if Texas will ever be purple
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Hurry Up Please, It’s Time
We're late, we're late, for a very important date ...
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week: Bruce Elfant
The county tax assessor and voter registrar weighs in on primary voting
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Nuclear Freeze for Amazon?
Council members throughout the country reject HQ2
BY MICHAEL KING
Contract Talk: What About EMS?
Police impasse overshadowing EMS?
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Fasten Calls It Quits
Another rideshare bites the dust
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Lawsuit and Untapped Locations Add to Soccer Drama
Many balls in play for the Columbus Crew
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Council: Spring Has Sprung
A light agenda promises an early farewell
BY MICHAEL KING
Something Rotten at EMS
Hawley retirement shines light on systemic issues
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
It’s Official: Statesman Sold to GateHouse
Local daily goes to new media giant for $47.5 million
BY MARY TUMA
County Delays Funding for New Women’s Jail
A surprising turn of events
BY LINDSAY STAFFORD MADER
The People’s Plan to Curb Displacement
"This is coming from the Eastside, not coming from above, but below"
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Free-Net: Council Keeps It Local
Delayed vote finds local provider besting out-of-town option
BY MARY TUMA
The Border Patrol Myth
The most dangerous policing job? Not so.
BY DEBBIE NATHAN
food
SXSW 2018
What’s Cooking at the SXSW SouthBites Food Trailer Park
The sixth annual on-site food hub is extra-special
BY JESSI CAPE
Four Tasty Pop-Up Food Events at SXSW
Fiction meets reality with several bonus dining events
BY JESSI CAPE
The Four Pillars of Austin Food During SXSW
We get by with tacos, pizza, barbecue, and burgers
BY JESSI CAPE
Five Austin Chefs Reveal Their Favorite Foods to Start the Day
Who says you can't have ice cream and french fries for breakfast?
BY DAN GENTILE
Virginia B. Wood Dies at 67
Austin food community mourns the loss of one of its champions
BY JESSI CAPE
Food Events
music
SXSW 2018
12 Breakthrough Austin Bands at SXSW Music
12 Austin Picks 2 Click at SXSW 2018
The Austin Music Awards’ Ecstatic Experience
Thirty-four awards and six musical sets in 211 minutes
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Playback: Next Big Buzzes at SXSW 2018
Forecasting this year’s breakout acts
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
SXSW 2018
Poster Children
SXSW regulars discuss what the festival means to them
Meow Wolf Pounces Into the SXSW Fray
The Santa Fe-based art collective debuts newest creation and new film
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
HBO Documentary Elvis Presley: The Searcher Debuts at SXSW
New archival footage of the king, the musician, and the man behind the music
BY JESSI CAPE
Hometown Heroes
Austin’s finest, and more Texans we love
In Black America
Race relations reconsidered
Stranger Than Fiction
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
The Horror, the Horror
The darkest side of sxsw
SXSW Doc Brewmaster Takes a Sip of the Heady World of Craft Beers
Douglas Tirola puts a human face on those labels in the liquor store
BY MATTHEW MONAGLE
Team Hurricane Is an Arthouse Anthem for Teenage Girls at SXSW
Annika Berg's feature film debut dives into the maelstrom of youth
BY BETH SULLIVAN
Charlene deGuzman Tackles Sex and Love Addiction in SXSW Film Unlovable
Love is sickness, not the cure in this anti-rom-com
BY MICHAEL AGRESTA
Is Virtual Reality Heading to Its Next Great Leap Forward?
From Virtual Boy to Oculus Rift, VR tech is always improving
BY TUCKER WHATLEY
Virtual Reality Offers a World Without Rules for Filmmakers
The first rule of VR storytelling is that there are none
BY MATTHEW MONAGLE
The Brewer's Table Is Not Your Average Brewpub
Discussing the core values of Austin's forthcoming public house at SXSW
BY ADRIENNE WHITEHORSE
Laser-Focused SXSW Panels on Making Progress in the Food World
Altering the future, one bite at a time
BY VERONICA MEEWES
How Do You Pet a CryptoKitty?
ConsenSys Capital co-founder Andrew Keys on how Ethereum could be a game changer
BY DAN GENTILE
Ending the Boys' Club of Online Film Culture
Female industry professionals on power in parity, equality in cinema at SXSW Interactive
BY JENNY NULF
Seven SXSW Conference Speakers You Just Can't Miss
Ray Kurzweil, Melinda Gates, and other brilliant minds come to town
BY MAE HAMILTON
Robert Rodriguez Goes Back to His Roots for New Reality Series
The rebel without a crew becomes a rebel with a cable show
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Austin Film News
Locals at SXSW, plus RSVP for a Maybe Shower
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
One in a Crowd
Student Filmmakers Need Your Help
BY MILO WEBB
Film Reviews
The Cured
The zombie apocalypse is over. So now what?
Death Wish
Bruce Willis picks up where Charles Bronson left off.
The Hurricane Heist
It's a soggy hold up!
Submission
Based on a Francine Prose novel, Submission stars Stanley Tucci as a liberal arts professor who becomes dangerously close to a student.
Thoroughbreds
America's class system goes under a bloody scalpel.
A Wrinkle in Time
Ava DuVernay's adaptation of the children's classic rarely soars.
arts & culture
SXSW 2018
SXSW Turns the Tables on Comedy Connoisseur Dick Cavett
The veteran talk-show host matters because he took the art of being funny seriously
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The Comedian's Comedian Live Podcast Recording at SXSW
Stuart Goldsmith gets under the skin and psyches of professional stand-ups
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The Dollop Live Podcast Recording at SXSW Comedy
Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds serve up events from yesteryear with a topping of WTF
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Snapshot: Balloon Art Power Couple Stacy “Pineapple” Wheeler and Nate “The Great” Culpepper
It’s not just about twisting balloons into dog shapes, you know
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Arts Reviews
Hyde Park Theatre's Wakey, Wakey
This production of Will Eno's solo show puts us at ease with our mortality through a captivating talk from a dying man
LOLA's La Clemenza di Tito: A Retelling
The quality of mercy is never not strained in this new adaptation of Mozart's late opera
columns
Gay Place
1, 2, SXSW is coming for you
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Old Settler’s Music Festival, Tilmon
Annual music festival is rocking in a new location after three decades
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Services Rendered
Idle hands are the Devil's playthings
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
