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Volume 38, Number 35
ON THE COVER:
news
Making the Math Work on Real School Finance Reform
"Texas Plan" brings new money to Austin and other districts, but nothing's final yet
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Point Austin: Local Control Now in Chains
State clamps down on cities' right to govern themselves
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Earth Day Redux
Early showers stretch timeline for Earth Day celebrations
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Don Zimmerman Explores Texas Lege Run
Like Jesus, former conservative City Council member to rise again
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Austin Energy Buys Out Biomass Plant
City utility escapes money-losing 2008 energy deal
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Medical Malpractice Suit Filed Against Lakeway Hospital
Facility charged in 2018 case
BY MICHAEL KING
APD Asks City Council for Financial Help With DNA Testing
And more news from the dais
BY SARAH MARLOFF AND MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Adler: Lege Has "Declared War" on Texas Cities
The mayor's State of the City applauded local efforts and condemned state attacks
BY MICHAEL KING
Un-Celebrating Confederate Heroes Day at the Lege
BY MARY TUMA
Austin FC's New Charitable Arm Backs Affordable Housing Project
Meanwhile, Senate Bill 1771 seeks to jeopardize the Major League Soccer team
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Death Watch: Was Dexter Johnson Condemned by His Own Attorney?
Inmate's new co-counsel seeks to terminate longtime attorney for bad lawyering
BY SARAH MARLOFF
food
Exploring Diverse Foodways at the Austin Food & Wine Festival
Plant pioneers, wines, and more to satisfy your culinary cravings
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Citizen Wine’s Planned Tasting Room Looks to Bring Texas Wine to the People
Rae Wilson of Dandy Rosé imagines a fine and dandy watering hole
BY JESSI DEVENYNS
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of April 25, 2019
music
The 12 People You Meet at Sam’s Town Point, Austin’s Real-Life Roadhouse
You’d never know the South Austin honky-tonk is there, but wait 'til you meet its cast of characters
BY KEVIN CURTIN AND DOUG FREEMAN
Faster Than Sound: Vivien Goldman’s Lasting Echoes of Feminist Punk
Vanguard journalist brings new book to Austin, the Larriva family remembers their friend Elliott Smith, and local musicians pop up all over the place
BY RACHEL RASCOE
screens
The Last Color Touches the Lives of India's Untouchables
A rainbow of love at Indie Meme
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Hill Country Film Festival Looks Forward With Old Friends
From Fredericksburg to the future
BY SHALAVÉ CAWLEY
One in a Crowd: Anibikes
Get your kids moving on something magical with Anibikes
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Avengers: Endgame
The end is the beginning is the end as Marvel's Infinity Saga reaches a satisfying, tearful end
Family
Outsider comedy has a lot less Insane Clown Posse than you might expect
Fathers of Football
Oklahoma high school football documentary could have gone deeper
Satan & Adam
The personal and musical impact of a Harlem friendship
Sunset
Period drama keeps the techniques of Oscar winner Son of Saul but loses the emotional weight
arts & culture
A Guide to Austin Classical Music
The virtuosi who know the score and make beautiful music happen here
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Glass Half Full Theatre's Once There Were Six Seasons
Using innovative puppetry, Glass Half Full Theatre dukes it out with climate change in an invigorating way
Rude Mechanicals' Not Every Mountain
This Rude Mechs performance piece shows us a mountain's lifetime in an hour and makes clear that nothing lasts forever
"Rebris" at Northern-Southern
Reduce, reuse, recycle is seldom so remarkable as in these works by Virginia Fleck and Ted Carey
columns
Qmmunity: SCOTUS to Decide if Title VII Extends to LGBTQ
Plus Queerbomb fundraisers and funny queer events
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Roberto's River Road Restaurant
Baton Rouge cafe serves Cajun food on the Mississippi River
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc: She Talks Too Much
Conversation is how we flush stupidity into the open so we can kill it
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
