AFS Cinema
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features
4/20
Too Hot for Drug Tests
One man's DIY method to pass a pee test works … 'til it doesn't
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Good News for Bees and CBD Fans
Turtles all the way down
BY JESSI CAPE
Local Munchies
A handful of haunts for a stoner-friendly snack
BY JESSI CAPE
news
Dr. Robert Van Boven, the Whistleblower
Lakeway neurologist battles hospitals, officials, and the "culture of silence"
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Happy Earth Day, and More
Earth Day celebration meets transportation policy
BY NICK BARBARO
Beside the Point: Get Off Your Butt
Council can help the homeless big-time, and next week
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Headlines
Quote of the Week: Lloyd Doggett
A stormy sermon's brewin'
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Connor Clegg Impeached at Texas State
A student government showdown in San Marcos
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
ZAP on CodeNEXT Parking
Remember the Americans With Disabilities Act
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Is Travis County Doing Enough for Rape Survivors?
SARRT study says not so
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Council: At War on Two Wheels
More scooters, a possible interim deal with the APA, and more from City Hall
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Death Watch: The Constitutionality of Intent
What if the people you killed were not who you hoped to kill?
BY SARAH MARLOFF
A Lack of Info for Affordable Housing Initiative
City pledges to keep better track of SMART money
BY MARGARET NICKLAS
Feds Shut Down Backpage.com
Alt-weekly founders charged with facilitating sex trafficking
BY MARY TUMA
The Next Anti-Choice Strategy?
Widening the A.G.'s authority to prosecute
BY MARY TUMA
SBOE Passes Mexican-American Studies, but Whitewashes the Name
Right-wing board member objects to name, citing “hyphenated Americanism”
BY MARY TUMA
food
Aeroponics Are the Future for One Austin Urban Farm
Farmhouse Delivery is all grown up
BY MAE HAMILTON
UZeat Serves Cultural Mash-Up Cuisine From Uzbekistan
Spicewood Springs eatery offers international fare that's complex, comforting, and delicious
BY EMILY BEYDA
ICYMI: Musashino Sushi Dokoro Prides Itself on Craft
Edomae-style sushi at this traditional restaurant
BY JESSI CAPE
Food Events
music
OLD SETTLER’S MUSIC FESTIVAL
Tapping Into the New Old Settler’s Music Festival
Checking in with Donna the Buffalo, Billy Strings, Greensky Bluegrass, the women of I'm With Her, and more
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ, DOUG FREEMAN, KEVIN CURTIN AND RACHEL RASCOE
Old Settler’s Platters
Playback: Start the Presses – Gold Rush Vinyl
Austin’s first major record press opens, and more music news
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Austin Animator Eric Power Slices and Dices
Collage and stop-motion come together in his homemade epic Path of Blood
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
New French Cinema Week at AFS
Head over heels for the new Gallic wave
BY JOSH KUPECKI
What’s Showing at the Indie Meme Festival
Highlighting the best of South Asian cinema
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
The China Hustle
The next global economic meltdown, in terrifying detail.
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
A true-crime family mystery indicts decades of racial violence.
The Endless
Sibling banter and cosmic terror means observational comedy horror.
Final Portrait
High art in Paris with Armie Hammer and Geoffrey Rush.
Finding Your Feet
Upper class British rom-com plays for laughs.
I Feel Pretty
Amy Schumer looks for laughs in body image comedy.
Lean on Pete
Equine tale is a lot deeper than the cheesy subject suggests.
Lowlife
Sleaze, violence, and a weirdly nuanced take on race relations.
Oh Lucy!
Japanese/U.S. identity comedy.
arts & culture
Moontower Comedian Lauren Lapkus, Tube Raider
The comedian and actress digs up the good, the bad, and the cheesy of pre-Y2K television in the podcast Raised by TV
BY ASHLEY MORENO
Snapshot: Compassionate Cultivation
“Snapshot” speaks with some of the young people whose lives are being changed with the use of medical cannabis
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Fusebox and Moontower Fests
Fill your weekend with experimental performance art and/or laughs
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Mary Moody Northen Theatre's Violet
In this moving production, a young woman learns the nature of true beauty and true love
Latinauts: The Wrath of Juan at ColdTowne
Prima Doñas’ third installment of its popular “telenovela in space” delivers the laughs
“Nick Schnitzer: Inevitable Reckoning” at Dimension Gallery
Structures degraded by time and other materials provide a pointed view of dramatic change at work in the world
columns
Gay Place
A radical week of queer events is full speed ahead!
BY SARAH MARLOFF
The Luv Doc: Terrible Music
Burn it all down and start over
BY THE LUV DOC
Day Trips: Youngs Burritos & BBQ, San Saba
Family affair keeps the barbecue smoking with a Tex-Mex accent
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
