Rollins Studio Theatre at the Long Center
Photo by David Brendan Hall
Volume 38, Number 25
ON THE COVER:
news
On the Edges of Gentrification, Planning a Different East Riverside Drive
City’s declared goals for the corridor and those of private developers do not necessarily coincide
BY MICHAEL KING
Point Austin: “Show Us Your Papers”
The Whitley fiasco and the persistence of voter suppression
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Another Non-Revolting Development
Planning should always be this easy
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Travis County Sheriff Apologizes for Embarrassing Internal Video
“Motivational” video re-creates galley slave scene from Ben-Hur
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
More Community Feedback on Renaming Reagan High
Northeast Austin school will drop all connections to Confederate postmaster general
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Murchison Middle School Principal Resigns Following Arrest of Two Students for Murder
The two minors are accused of fatally stabbing an Anderson High School student
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
State LGBTQ Chambers Form First-of-Its-Kind Alliance
The new Texas LGBT Chambers of Commerce will represent Austin, Greater Houston, North Texas, and San Antonio
BY BETH SULLIVAN
Council: Child Care “Scandal” Highlights City’s Own Failures
CMs also mull fate of APL’s Recycled Reads
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Four Suspects Charged in Brutal Assault on Gay Couple
Austin police are investigating the case as a potential hate crime
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Fire Chief Goes Easy on Accused Harasser
Wrist-slap for captain’s rude, sexist “horseplay”
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
City: More Affordable Housing Everywhere
Neighborhood Housing and Community Development draft goals to increase inventory for low- and moderate-income households
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
AISD Trustees Push Back on Campus Closure Plan
“When we start messing with people’s schools, we start messing with their communities”
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Lege Lines: Full-Day Pre-K Tops School Wish List
Bipartisan support emerges for plan to fund full-day pre-kindergarten
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON, MICHAEL KING, AUSTIN SANDERS AND MARY TUMA
food
Himalaya Kosheli and Fat Dragon Spice Up Spicewood Springs
Nepalese fare and Asian fusion revitalize North Austin shopping center
BY JESSI CAPE
Eating Bugs Is the Future of Sustainable Farming?
Austin entomophagy advocates bring the crispy, crunchy taste of crickets to the masses
BY JESSI DEVENYNS
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of February 14, 2019
music
Don’t Stop Believing: Moving Panoramas’ Leslie Sisson Overcomes the Trauma That Birthed In Two
Sophomore LP spins a sequel to the shoegazers’ extraordinary journey
BY LESLIE SISSON
Faster Than Sound: Multidimensional Production Team Musically Reimagines Fantastic Planet
Lifted Traces rescores classic films, Harlem re-emerges locally with Oh Boy, and more
BY RACHEL RASCOE
screens
How Robert Rodriguez Saved Alita: Battle Angel From the Scrap Heap
After a decade and a half, the legendary manga's battle dreams are made real
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
What’cha Watchin’?
Editorial intern Savannah J. Salazar joins the Resistance
BY SAVANNAH J SALAZAR
Getting Gleefully Inappropriate in Call Me Brother
Christina Parrish stars in the locally produced, subversive rom-com
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Alita: Battle Angel
The manga heroine comes to motion capture life
Arctic
Mads Mikkelsen follows in the wilderness steps of Jack London
Cold Pursuit
Liam Neeson is Mr. Plow ... with a vengeance
Donnybrook
Backwoods crime drama with a social conscience is gruelingly bleak
Happy Death Day 2U
Comedy-horror sequel is less Halloween, more Groundhog Day
Isn’t It Romantic
Another entry in the bizarre "head trauma leads to female empowerment" rom-com genre
What Men Want
Because we needed a remake of What Women Want, apparently
arts & culture
Austin Playwright-Performer Provides a New Kind of Documentation in (Un)Documents
In an award-winning solo show, Jesús I. Valles sits down, alone with family
BY BETH SULLIVAN
Austin’s OUTsider Queer Transmedia Fest Turns Five
Fest arrives with local recognition and international reach
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Snapshot: Far East Fest, Austin's Asian Food Festival
Chilly temps couldn’t keep 2,900 foodies away
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Arts Reviews
Filigree Theatre's When We Were Young and Unafraid
Sarah Treem's drama revisits a time not that long ago when American women were controlled
"Randall Reid: Past and Present" at Davis Gallery
The man who reassembles the past's artifacts has his own past's artifacts assembled for all to see
columns
Qmmunity: Love, Lust, and the Pursuit of Queerness
Lez Prom, OUTsider Fest, and more queer'd events
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Presidio San Saba, Menard
Spanish fort tells the story of a lost settlement
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc: Lucky You
How can someone who has experienced such wealth and plenitude ever hope to live a life free of tortured conscience?
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
