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Volume 40, Number 28
ON THE COVER:
WE HAVE AN ISSUE:
BY Kimberley Jones
features
SXSW 2021
How to “Attend” SXSW Online
The annual citywide insanity becomes Couch by Couchwest
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
SXSW Online: Recommended Programming
Must-catch panels, films, music showcases, and more at this year's all-virtual Fest
Want to Strike? Ask a Sex Worker for Advice.
Artist and activist Lena Chen explains how the sex workers' rights movement is lifting up all workers
BY JAMES SCOTT
Jemele Hill Can’t Be Contained
Across platforms, she's taking on sports, politics, and pop culture
BY ERIC GOODMAN
SXSW Online Keynote Speaker Charles Yu on Insecurity, Fatherhood, and Representation
The Interior Chinatown author reflects on how Asian American lives are characterized in popular entertainment
BY VIVIE BEHRENS
news
SXSW 2021
Al Harrington's Quest for Equity in Cannabis
The former NBA player and SXSW Online speaker bolsters cannabis entrepreneurs
BY BENTON GRAHAM
Baratunde Thurston on Staying Civically Engaged During a Pandemic
The activist-comedian comes to SXSW Online with some tips
BY TRACE SAUVEUR
Austin at Large: In Control, but Not In Charge
Amid the ruins of the Texas power grid, following two different paths to failure
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Public Notice: Doing In Deed Restrictions?
Plus: More Hancock! And fewer teachers?
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines / Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Council Recap: A Not-Just-Symbolic Promise to Lift Up Black Austin
Apologies and remedies for a long legacy of oppression
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Frontline Immigrant Workers Hesitant to Receive COVID Vaccine
Missing their shots
BY BENTON GRAHAM
Austin Commits to Local Mask Requirement Amid State Rollback on COVID Restrictions
City will enforce masks, public health measures under local health authority emergency rules expiring in April
BY BETH SULLIVAN
House Makes Its First Post-Freeze Moves to Fix the Grid
Who's got the power?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON AND AUSTIN SANDERS
Future-Proofing the Fruits of Austin's Building Boom
ULI Greenprint sets a net-zero carbon emissions goal for 2050
BY LINA FISHER
food
Mixtape of Austin Bevs for a Virtual SXSW
Songs with suds
BY ERIC PUGA
17 Austin Patios for Your Al Fresco Dining & Drinking Enjoyment
Check out these al fresco spots, if you're comfortable
BY EVAN RODRIGUEZ
Texas Strong Relief, St. Patrick's Day, Persian New Year, Intero's New Pizza, and the Hospitality Howdy-Do of Marriott International
All the news that's fit to get your taste buds quivering
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmer's markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of March 11, 2021
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
music
SXSW 2021
Three SXSW Documentaries Visualize SXSW Music
Somewhere you feel free
BY RACHEL RASCOE AND DOUG FREEMAN
A Speed Dating Sampler of All 69 Virtual SXSW Music Showcases
The sun always shines on TV
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Faster Than Sound: Triangulating SXSW Music Online
Artist, industry, and local representatives break down the fest
BY RACHEL RASCOE
New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week
What we’re listening to
BY LAIKEN NEUMANN, KAHRON SPEARMAN, GREG STITT, RAOUL HERNANDEZ, DOUG FREEMAN, DEREK UDENSI AND MICHAEL TOLAND
Live Music / Livestream Listings
BY GREG STITT
screens
SXSW 2021
Dear Mr. Brody Documents an Eccentric, Forgotten American Story
Director Keith Maitland follows $25 million given away
BY TRACE SAUVEUR
Finding the Roots of Folk Horror in Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched
Kier-La Janisse searches for the origins of a genre
BY JENNY NULF
Clerk Follows Kevin Smith From Quick Stop Anonymity to Podcast Fame
Turns out he was supposed to be here today
BY DAN GENTILE
Horror-Drama Jakob's Wife Takes a Look Inside a Tortured Marriage
SXSW world premiere looks at life's second acts
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Sasquatch Asks: Did Bigfoot Murder Three Men in Northern California?
Hulu's short series premieres at SXSW Online
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
New Documentary About WeWork Debunks the Messianic Streak in Startups
"Is this a cult?"
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Three SXSW Documentaries Visualize SXSW Music
Somewhere you feel free
BY RACHEL RASCOE AND DOUG FREEMAN
Wat'cha Watchin'?
Editorial intern Shane Pfender makes it through the cold
BY SHANE PFENDER
Film Reviews
Boogie
Love and basketball in Queens as a story of Asian-American integration
Cherry
The Russos pull the threads between addiction and PTSD
Come True
Nightmare horror is the wrong kind of creepy
Crisis
Opiate addiction drama is too obvious and scattershot
Dark Web: Cicada 3301
Online conspiracy theory gets a conspiracy movie makeover
Dutch
Street hustle and heroin
F.T.A
The suppressed anti-Vietnam war cabaret finally hits the spotlight
The Father
Anthony Hopkins gives a timely career highlight in this story of dementia
Frank Ferrante's Groucho
Groucho lives in this filming of Ferrante's one man show
Jathi Ratnalu
Telugu comedy finds laughs in prison
My Darling Supermarket
Brazilian documentary is marginally less fun than grocery shopping
arts & culture
SXSW 2021
With Postcards for Democracy, Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie Wolfe Deliver Priority Mail Art
If you like it, then you better put a stamp on it
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Conspirare's Quarantine Madrigals Creates a Choir of One
This new song cycle gives isolated singers music to build a choir with – a choir of just themselves
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Listings
Virtual galleries, streaming improv, and more
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Community Listings
Donation and volunteer opportunities, job openings, online fitness classes, and more
BY KATHERINE MCNEVINS
columns
We Have an Issue: Couch by Couchwest
Previewing SXSW’s all-virtual Conference and Festival, Austin FC’s spring training kickoff, and other stories on the web
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Opinion: Electric School Buses Are a Win for Kids’ Health, the Environment, and Our Community
There's no safe level of exposure to diesel fumes for children, and yet our kids spend hours each week breathing fumes on diesel buses
BY MARY BETH BENNETT, MADELINE HANES AND SANJANA RAVI
Qmmunity: Cooking Up Qmmunity Love
Plus, allgo's community healing fair, Poo Poo Platter, and more queer events
BY BETH SULLIVAN
Day Trips: Johnson’s Backyard Garden, Garfield
Gardeners, start your planting
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Sleepless in Springdale
The problem with neighbors is that some of them are unneighborly
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, March 12-18
BY ROB BREZSNY
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch: MLS, Austin FC Announce Schedule of Home Openers
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
