Photo by Shelley Hiam
Volume 38, Number 21
ON THE COVER:
news
The other ACL: The Austin Community Landfill
BY LINDSAY STAFFORD MADER
Waiting for the Legislature to finally do its duty on school finance
BY MICHAEL KING
NAKED CITY
“Full-line” store, not now-jettisoned value brand, to take spot at Plaza Saltillo
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Open data on 2 million dockless trips, plus new rules for riding on trails
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Lawsuits by Sandy Hook families want to look at Infowars’ books
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Billionaire ex-New York mayor wants to speed up urban carbon reductions
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
UT school forms a street team
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Austin's oldest man, America's oldest World War II vet laid to rest at Texas State Cemetery
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Austin finally is a major league town, with soccer taking the pitch in 2021
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Remembering Texas trailblazer Nadine Eckhardt
BY MICHAEL KING
No more Confederate nonsense, Empower Texans gets a pass, and the first-ever LGBTQ Caucus
BY NINA HERNANDEZ, SARAH MARLOFF, AUSTIN SANDERS AND MARY TUMA
food
Bigger and better from the ground up
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
The restaurant within Carpenter Hotel is a conceptual ode to German, Czech, and Texan cuisines
BY JESSI CAPE
music
We speak with Austin’s esteemed multi-instrumentalist and former arranger for Ray Charles
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Rehearsal space’s Oltorf location posted for sale; Hi, How Are You Day draws the Flaming Lips; and Esme Barrera tribute launches Girls Rock El Paso
BY RACHEL RASCOE
screens
After Us, what else does the film fest have in store?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Violet Crown season highlights the indie powerhouse
BY BRITT HAYES
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
They're all good doggo adventures, Brent
M. Night Shyamalan's meta-comic trilogy crashes into Earth with a dull splat
What hath science wrought? A dull cloning thriller, that's what.
Remake of a true story of an unlikely friendship is the flattest version yet
arts & culture
Michener Center alumnus' latest drama turns down the volume of war
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
ASO’s first concert of 2019 had us hearing all sorts of feels, but Leon Fleisher’s piano also got us thinking
The digital collagist’s new solo exhibition is peopled with many colors
Amy Gentry’s Austin-set second novel is an electric revenge thriller
columns
Signs of hope in the Capitol
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Guthrie Center hits a high note
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
You have to allow people the space to build the walls that make them feel safe
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY SAM HURT
BY JEN SORENSEN