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Volume 38, Number 28
Issue Supplement
SXSW 2019 Week One Preview
ON THE COVER:
features
SXSW 2019
Trump’s Twitter Library, a Ferris Wheel of Cheese, and More From the Wide, Weird World of SXSW
Festival-adjacent events abound!
BY KIMBERLEY JONES, SAVANNAH J SALAZAR, GREG STITT AND SARAH MARLOFF
Party With Chrondog Hank!
And other ways to connect with the Chronicle at SXSW
news
SXSW 2019
Stacey Abrams, Without Concessions
Now and for her whole life, the rising star finds her own path to victory
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Women Empowered: Five SXSW Panel Picks
BY MARY TUMA
SXSW Panel Explores the Rising Number of Journalists Killed on the Job
Free press under fire
BY MICHAEL KING
Senators Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar Top SXSW Candidate Cavalcade
“Conversations About America’s Future” collab with Texas Tribune
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Next Austin Bust
Will it be bad? Can we be ready? Or should we not care?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Michelle Obama, and All Who Love Her
Becoming tour brings First Lady’s grace to her Austin fans
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Public Notice: CodeCRONK and the Corridors
How to fix land use and transportation
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
“Troubling Data” From APD on ICE
Austin police assisted or cooperated with immigration officials nearly 600 times between January and December 2018
BY MARY TUMA
The Next CodeNEXT Put Off for Another Day, Again
City manager Spencer Cronk to wait for more input before making tough choices
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Sexual Assault Suit Bombshell Lands in D.A.’s Office
ADA Mindy Montford accused of "possible defamation," revealed in secretly taped phone call
BY SARAH MARLOFF
High Court Turns Back Open Meetings Act
Rules that snared City Council thrown out
BY MICHAEL KING
Senate Delivers First Blow to Paid Sick Leave
SB 15, the boy who cried "voter fraud!" advance, and other Lege news
BY MICHAEL KING AND MARY TUMA
Nancy Pelosi Touts Voting Rights in Eastside Swing
U.S. House speaker stops in Austin to promote new anti-corruption legislation
BY MICHAEL KING
House Rolls Out School Finance Bill
Republican leaders propose $9 billion in funding for public schools over the next two years
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
food
SXSW 2019
Our Favorite Spots to Eat and Drink at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport
ABIA serves up live music, craft cocktails, and beloved local restaurant fare
BY JESSIKA ROTH
UT Professors Discuss the “Fourth Agricultural Revolution” at SXSW
Predicting the future of food
BY GRACIE AWALT
Why Is Austin Such a Promised Land for Food Entrepreneurs?
The land of milk and honey and consumer packaged goods
BY JESSI DEVENYNS
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of March 7, 2019
music
SXSW 2019
Cheaper by the Dozen
Twelve homegrown Picks 2 Click at SXSW 2019
37th Annual Austin Music Awards Kick Open Some Back Doors
Generations old and new nab honors and rock the Moody
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Faster Than Sound: 15 SXSW Buzz Bands to Cure Millennial Burnout
By legs, Lyft, or Lime scooter, get to the following 15 acts
BY RACHEL RASCOE
screens
SXSW 2019
This Woman’s Work
Female filmmakers take the forefront of SXSW this year
This Is Why You Have No Friends
Stories of outsiders, and the in-crowd that hates them
Are You Local?
Austin isn’t just a film-watching town – it’s a filmmaking hub
Into Darkness
Screams and laughs balance out on the supernatural side of life
Why So Serious?
From fake religions to Civil War silliness, there’s always something to laugh about
Elisabeth Moss Might Just Be Her Own Character
The actor headlines SXSW in opening night film Us, and probes the cost of fame in Her Smell
BY DANIELLE WHITE
Charlotte Flair, Queen of the Squared Circle
Women used to be an afterthought in professional wrestling: not anymore
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
VR/AR @ SXSW
What you see (and immersively interact with) is what you get
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Will Communal VR Be the New Cinema?
Lights, camera, headset
BY MATTHEW MONAGLE
Robert Rodriguez Returns to His DIY Roots With Red 11
The film the Austin director shot while filming blockbuster Alita: Battle Angel debuts at SXSW
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Who the Hell Wants to Watch Cat Videos in a Theatre?
Everyone, when they’re curated by CatVideoFest
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
ATX Film News: Good News for Texas’ Film and Game Incentives
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Captain Marvel
Brie Larson confidently lays the next cornerstone of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
The Gospel of Eureka
Restore your faith in humanity with this documentary about LGTBQ acceptance in the Ozarks
The Image Book
Godard's final experiment is more thesis and installation than film
The Kid
The tale of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid gets a worthwhile if workmanlike retelling
Triple Frontier
US soldiers versus the cartels, but it's all about the benjamins
Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral
The original mad black woman faces her mortality, and the end of the series
The Wandering Earth
Chinese sci-fi epic about the hunt for a new sun
arts & culture
SXSW 2019
The SXSW Keynote by Elon Musk Is James Adomian's Future Shtick
A satirical look at what lies ahead for humanity, as the SpaceX founder might envision it
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer Preview Broad City's Finale at SXSW
The creators of the Comedy Central series also get back to their comedy roots with Upright Citizens Brigade
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The New Negroes Showcases the Full Range of African-American Comedy at SXSW
At the stand-up show hosted by Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle, black laughs matter
BY ROBERT FAIRES
How Local Opera Company LOLA Made the Play Lardo Weeping Sing
Peter Stopschinski’s 17-year journey to bring Terry Galloway’s outsized, outspoken agoraphobe to the stage
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Hyde Park Theatre's A Doll's House, Part 2
Like its source material, this sequel from another mother entertains and inspires on its own terms
Street Corner Arts' Junk
Ayad Akhtar's drama about Eighties junk bond traders plays like a prequel to 21st century America and its financial crises
Elizabeth Chapin: "Deconstructing Nostalgia" at Wally Workman Gallery
This "type of padded cell of Southern culture" is, pardon us, insanely beautiful
columns
Qmmunity: SXSW Gets Queer’d
Whether or not you’re carrying a badge, we’ve got the q’d events for you
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Intrinsic Smokehouse & Brewery
Barbecue and beer come together in Garland
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc: The Definition of a Double Standard
There's no difference other than the equipment
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
