Mueller Lake Park
Illustration by Jason Stout
Volume 37, Number 32
ON THE COVER:
news
Deep Divisions in Texas' Powerful Anti-Choice Movement
Battle reflects Lege’s growing extremism
BY MARY TUMA
Point Austin: Partly Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
City Hall begins budget prep with a fair-to-middling forecast
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Doomed?
Looking forward to the November ballot
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week: Bob Nicks
Austin Firefighters Association president on the matter of self-policing
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
One Cop Fired, One's Fate Sealed?
Mathis fired following Stallings October indictment
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Pair of Deaths at the County Jail
TCSO believes both men died "of natural causes"
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Changes Ahead for Austin Pride
New president, new weekend?
BY SARAH MARLOFF
The City's (Interim) Plan for the Public Safety Chiefs
Police, Fire, and Police Monitor all addressed
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Special Prosecutor Assigned to Probe Old Sexual Assault Allegations Against Chantal Eldridge
Judicial nominee derides case as being based on "false allegation"
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Uproar Over Judge's Dismissal at SOAH
Calls to remove chief administrative law judge
BY MICHAEL KING
Rich DePalma Enters District 8 Council Race
Parks and Rec Board member joins crowded race
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Executive Oversight: Who's Watching Over City Chiefs?
Public Safety Commission continues probe into harassing behavior
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Commissioners Hash Out CodeNEXT's Mobility Details
Cars, parking, and more addressed at recent meeting
BY SARAH MARLOFF
City Council: Budding Budgets
Anticipated FY 2018 General Fund surplus: right now, $750,000
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Campaign Notes
For those about to run-off
BY MICHAEL KING
Soccer in Austin: The Road to Realness
What'll happen at McKalla Place? Good question.
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Texas Could Lose Big If Census Undercounts Immigrants
Citizenship question could eat into $43 billion state receives in federal funds
BY MARY TUMA
Feds Move Closer to Removing Vireo From Endangered Species List
A delisting for the birds
BY LINDSAY STAFFORD MADER
food
Review: ManinPasta Brings a Little Sicilian to South Lamar
Italian food crafted with love just down the road from the Broken Spoke
BY JESSI CAPE
An “Old Austin” Date Night at Phara’s Mediterranean Cuisine
Transport to a bygone Austin era of funky ambience and soulful hospitality
BY ADRIENNE WHITEHORSE
Another Look at the Underrated Tex-Mex of Vivo
Have a Mexican martini and then walk to AFS Cinema
BY JESSI CAPE
Food Events
music
How Heartless Bastards Frontwoman Erika Wennerstrom Arrived at Her Solo Debut
Songwriting at the edge of her comfort zone on Sweet Unknown
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Playback: Spatula City Limits
Austin music journeys to the desert – and you're not invited
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Loma
Loma
Why Bonnie
In Water
Daphne Tunes
Volume 1
Jarebear
The Journey for the Giant Jelly Bean
the Sweethearts
Traces of Time
Mitch Chandler
Seasons
Jon Lundbom Quartet
Live at Monks
Aaron Russell
Red Guitar
Uncle Walt's Band
Anthology: Those Boys From Carolina, They Sure Enough Could Sing
screens
Austin Writer Explores the Contradictions of Ted Kennedy in Chappaquiddick
Telling the tale of the shattering of Camelot
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Sex Pistols Go Boom
Iconic punk final tour implosion in D.O.A.
BY TIM STEGALL
Now Streaming in Austin: Gym Buddies
Web comedy Gym Buddies gets in shape
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Film Reviews
Back to Burgundy
French drama tries to find life lessons in the vineyard.
Beirut
John Hamm sweats stylishly in gritty, grim spy thriller.
Blockers
Butt-chugging gags can't hide Blockers' big heart.
Foxtrot
Israeli drama brings offbeat levity to anti-war narrative.
Gemini
Noir murder mystery for the selfie generation.
God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness
Evangelical film franchise rolls into volume three.
The Miracle Season
Friday Night Lights for the volleyball scene.
A Quiet Place
As monsters lurk, the world survives with a whisper
Tyler Perry's Acrimony
Tyler Perry takes on the "woman scorned" trope.
arts & culture
Courage Moves in Ballet Austin's Exit Wounds
For his new dance, choreographer Stephen Mills turned to moments of inspiration in his own life
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Snapshot: Balloons Over Horseshoe Bay Resort
Annual hot air balloon festival is an uplifting tradition
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Seen / Soon: April 6
On the bus in the City of Angels with Salvage Vanguard's staging of con flama and in Mexico with John Gibley, author of I Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us
Arts Reviews
Paper Chairs' The Repentance of Saint Joan
Patrick Shaw’s new play is less a tale of Joan of Arc’s life than a divine meditation on love lost
Different Stages’ Yankee Tavern
This production of Steven Dietz’s play offers a deep dive into what we choose to believe and a stimulating evening of theatre
“Michelle Marchesseault” at Northern-Southern
The paintings filled with nesting S-curves comes from the artist’s meditative practice, but they’re joyful in their rumination
columns
Oops!
Gay Place
The Great Show brings modern cabaret to Austin
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: AquaBrew Brewery, San Marcos
Popular brewpub has the agility of a homebrewer and consistency of a craft brewer
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: A Grossly Inaccurate Egyptology Lecture
We mere mortals are just feathers being blown about in the tempest of the gods
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
