John Anderson / Design by Zeke Barbaro
Volume 43, Number 35
ON THE COVER:
features
news
It's the first time we're voting for these positions
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
Petitioner hopes so, legal experts say it’s unlikely
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Filmmaker Rick Linklater joins the call for action
BY BRANT BINGAMON
And probably a tax increase too
BY BRANT BINGAMON
A decision in the suit could prohibit secret police file
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Nearly seven decades of Austin memories
BY MAYA WRIGHT
food
All-day Italian cafe brings the romance
BY MELANIE HAUPT
music
Georgetown fest evades storms in its second year
BY DOUG FREEMAN
With Smashing Pumpkins axe support, third LP has nothing to prove
BY CARYS ANDERSON
ATX-launched duo talks songwriting and special unplugged release shows
BY GENEVIEVE WOOD
A more ruminative, less hooky use of the Texan’s bulletproof baritone
BY RACHEL RASCOE
Mary Bryce’s piano ballads explore anxiety-drenched love
BY MIRANDA GARZA
Insta-famous teenager pushes beyond countrified novelty on debut EP
BY CARYS ANDERSON
Austin musician/filmmaker’s poetic phrases demand double takes
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Choose your fest: Psych, Death, or Blues
BY RACHEL RASCOE, CARYS ANDERSON, DEREK UDENSI, MICHAEL TOLAND, RAOUL HERNANDEZ, JAMES SCOTT, KEVIN CURTIN, ABBY JOHNSTON AND DOUG FREEMAN
BY DEREK UDENSI
Screens
Film Reviews
Sci-fi romantic drama about two lovers (Léa Seydoux and George MacKay) with multiple past lives, all tortured
Bill Skarsgård stars as an orphaned, deaf, and mute “boy” seeking revenge in the post-apocalypse
Luca Guadagnino’s silly romance may turn you off sex and tennis both
Indonesian horror-thriller prequel to KKN di Desa Penari
When the government asks citizens to self-euthanize, a bourgeois family weighs what to do
Faith-based film is based on Joel Smallbone’s family’s real-life ascent as Christian recording artists
Two boys come of age in the Cabrini-Green housing project
arts & culture
What disaster preparedness experts have to say about best-laid plans for worst-case scenarios
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Lisa B. Thompson creates a community space with “choreopoem”
BY CAT MCCARREY
Get out before the heat descends
BY JAMES SCOTT, KATHERINE MCNEVINS, KIMBERLEY JONES, JAMES RENOVITCH, RACHEL RASCOE, LINA FISHER AND BRANT BINGAMON
Get reading, go shopping, or just enjoy a gala this week
BY JAMES SCOTT, KATHERINE MCNEVINS, RICHARD WHITTAKER, RACHEL RASCOE, KIMBERLEY JONES, DOUG FREEMAN, LINA FISHER AND BRANT BINGAMON
columns
90-year-old chats before Blues Fest set with the Blind Boys of Alabama
BY CARYS ANDERSON
Find great queer literature at local LGBTQ booksellers during Independent Bookstore Day
BY JAMES SCOTT
Indie bookstore widens the world of words in WilCo
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
When you need a wet vac, you usually need one lickety-split
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Your weekly horoscope, April 26 - May 2
BY ROB BREZSNY
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
The Verde and Black are still surprising us
BY ERIC GOODMAN
comics
BY SAM HURT
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY JEN SORENSEN