John Anderson / Design by Zeke Barbaro
Volume 41, Number 32
ON THE COVER:
WE HAVE AN ISSUE:
BY Kimberley Jones
news
"I didn’t do a thing. I sat in my office and dispatched people. But I was part of it.”
BY BRANT BINGAMON
On unforced errors, ugly legacies, double standards, and loving thy neighbor
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
BY NICK BARBARO
New tanks to be located directly opposite Southeast neighborhood
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Southeast Austin residents met in an effort to stop the construction of a new fuel facility
BY ABE ASHER
City HEALs St. Johns Encampment
BY KIT O’CONNELL
Helping the helpers
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
So be cool to your neighborhood pollinators
BY HANNAH UEBELE
Melissa Lucio says she didn't kill her daughter and half of the Texas House of Representatives agree
BY BRANT BINGAMON
As school funding in Austin is stretched paper-thin, officials say they'll push to secure more dollars
BY MORGAN O’HANLON
food
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Dinner parties, farmer's markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of April 7, 2022
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
music
Influential Austin characters reminice on 40 years of playing, shopping, and encountering life-changing moments at the heart of Austin music
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ AND KEVIN CURTIN
A cross-border collaboration, Good Looks, Adrian Quesada, Skloss, and Letting Up Despite Great Faults
BY CHAD SWIATECKI, JULIAN TOWERS, RAOUL HERNANDEZ, MICHAEL TOLAND, RACHEL RASCOE AND ALEJANDRA RAMIREZ
Liberty Lunch Reunion, Genesis Owusu, Poppy, Chief Cleopatra, Georgia Parker, Monte Luna, and more
BY TIM STEGALL, RAOUL HERNANDEZ, JULIAN TOWERS, RACHEL RASCOE AND CHRISTINA GARCIA
BY DEREK UDENSI
screens
PBS film Take Pains. Be Perfect. puts UT's theatre program center stage
BY ELLEN DALY
Film Reviews
Newton and Pine as spies and lovers caught in old intrigues
Is it good? No. Is it Michael Bay at his most explodey? Yes.
A small-town girl falls for a touring band
Tilda Swinton's sonic obsession will enthrall you
Marvel's living vampire gets a Sony Spidey-verse spinoff
Literary adaptation charts doomed romance between classes
Extraordinary documentary portrait of Putin’s nemesis
The supersonic hedgehog zips through a distracting two hours
arts & culture
FUSEBOX FESTIVAL
Fest brings together Christeene, Golden Hornet, and Dexter
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
The return of the avant garde and experimental drama and artextravaganza
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
MOONTOWER JUST FOR LAUGHS
The Austin comedy podcast's Five for Laughs: Headliners Edition
BY VALERIE LOPEZ
The Austin comedy podcast's Five for Laughs: Locals Edition
BY VALERIE LOPEZ
Moontower comic thrives on the pressure
BY ROD MACHEN
Like you're in the studio with your favorite comedy podcaster
BY DINA BARRISH
Art galleries, live performances, and more
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Local events, volunteer opportunities, fitness classes, and more
BY KATHERINE MCNEVINS
columns
Forty years of Waterloo Records, and a look back at the Waterloo sticker cut-up craze
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Austin Kink Weekend kicks up the heat with leather, fetish, and all sorts of delights in-between
BY JAMES SCOTT
Beijing-based artists spark political discussion
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The fundamental nature of entitled people
BY THE LUV DOC
Your weekly horoscope, April 8-14
BY ROB BREZSNY
Here comes the tax man
BY LUKE ELLIS
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Two wins, two draws, and one loss to start the season
BY ERIC GOODMAN
comics
BY SAM HURT
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY RYAN HENNESSEE