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Longtime East Austinite Richard Overton, oldest surviving U.S. World War II veteran and indeed America’s oldest man at 112-plus, passed away Dec. 27 following a bout of pneumonia. He credited his long life to daily cigars and whiskey, and counseled: “I don’t worry about anything, and I don’t meddle in other people’s business.” He’s seen here celebrating his 111th birthday with Mayor Steve Adler.

NEWS “It doesn’t look good on our books that we have so much dang money. It’s bad financial practice to have so much cash just sitting there.”– State Rep. Celia Israel, D-Austin, noting that the state’s bloated rainy day fund

balance could be paying for better education. See p.10.

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HEADLINESO L D A N D N E W City Council meets Monday, Jan. 7, at 6pm to inaugurate re-elected incumbents Steve Adler, Pio Renteria, Ann Kitchen, and Kathie Tovo, and new members Natasha Harper-Madison and Paige Ellis. The brief agenda also includes a Council vote for mayor pro tem – traditionally the longest-serving member, who is Tovo (the past MPT), but there are rumbles of others, notably Delia Garza, eyeing the ceremonial slot.

P I N K D O M E PA R T Y ! And then, on Jan. 8, unto us an 86th Texas Legislature is born, with mostly ceremonial and celebratory business aside from the presumptive ascension of Rep. Dennis Bonnen as the new speaker of the Texas House. Our conversations with the Austin delegation can be found on p.10 and online.

N O S C O O T E R S I N VO LV E D At 1:06am on Jan. 1, in heavy fog that may have been worsened by fireworks smoke, a multicar collision on SH 130 near Pflugerville ensnared 32 vehicles, including two semitrucks. The pileup involved 56 people as drivers or passengers (none of whom, remarkably, were drunk, according to first responders); 10 peo-ple were injured. A Travis County deputy attempt-ing to warn drivers away barely escaped injury himself; his vehicle was among those hit by others.

S C R O O G I N G Y E A R R O U N D Former Council Member Ellen Troxclair announced, with evident glee, her first post-City Hall project: the Alliance for Affordable Cities, which she promises will “promote common-sense policies based on limited government principles.” Expect more Koch-friendly buzzwords from the nascent group to come: “waste, fraud, and abuse,” anyone? “Free minds and free markets”?

B E VO A T T A C K E D U G A ! For real, the two mascots (our 1,700-pound steer, their 62-pound bulldog) had a dustup preceding the Texas Longhorns’ rather emphatic dispatch of Georgia in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1. Texas QB and game MVP Sam Ehlinger capped the evening with a call to Longhorn Nation: “We’re baaaaack. …”

T W I T O R T W E E T As President Trump entered a multiday fugue state on Twitter, the U.S. govern-ment neared its third week of partial shutdown, with Democratic House leaders aiming to reopen for business without funding any Mexican border wall. “We are giving the Republicans [in the Senate] an opportunity to take yes for an answer,” said returning speaker Nancy Pelosi.

B U I L D A W A L L ? So far in 2019 – both days of it – there were 145 gun violence incidents in the U.S.; 40 deaths (including four children and eight teens); and two mass shootings (10 people injured in all). Welcome to the New Year. For 2018’s dismal toll, see p.9.

and the shifting political winds across the state and nation will make the Republican majority somewhat less eager to resort to polarizing cultural issues – e.g., anti-immi-grant or anti-LGBTQ posturing – to succor and energize GOP primary voters while avoiding decisions of substance. The longest-serving Austinite in the House, Rep. Eddie Rodriguez, still expects that “we’ll be playing a lot of defense” but sees reason to hope for better: “Republicans have seen a loss in their seats in the mid-terms. I think that’s scared them a little, and is forcing them to pump the brakes on this more extreme stuff.”

SHOW US THE MONEY All we talked to express hope for progress on public school financing. Historically, the Legis lat ure hasn’t acted upon its constitu-tional responsibility to “make suitable pro-vision” for “an efficient system of public

In a few days (Tuesday, Jan. 8, to be exact), the caverns of the Capitol will once again host a celebratory gathering of legis-lators, families, and supporters with the formal opening of the 86th Texas Legislature. It’s a notoriously slow-starting cir-cus, and the donkeys and elephants (and their atten-dant lobbyists) will spend a couple of months jockeying for position before the seri-ous legislating reaches exit speed. But preparations have certainly begun, and elsewhere in this issue (“Team Austin: Go!,” p.10), you can read a brace of interviews with members of the Central Texas delegation – all of them now Democrats – reflecting a common anticipation of a session more productive (or at least less disastrous) for actual political progress.

The dean of the delegation, Sen. Kirk Watson, struck the hopeful tone carefully: “So there is some good reason to have at least a level of optimism – this session just

has a different feel about it.” Nevertheless, after running through the work-in-prog-ress on public school fund-ing, on health care, and on transportation, he cautioned, “I have been disappointed before.” Throughout our conversa-tions with lawmakers, we heard variations on this theme, with several wonder-ing how much of the session

could be devoted to Democratic offense (promoting good legislation) rather than defense (opposing bad bills). The now-stronger Democratic delegation hopes that both the party’s gains in the midterms (12 seats in the Texas House, two in the Senate)

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MORRISON DIDN’T DESERVE ITDear Editor, I was shocked to read in the latest edition of the Chronicle that Laura Morrison failed to carry even a single voting precinct in the recent mayor’s race [“Days Like These,” News, Dec. 28]. I knew she had done poorly, with only 19% of the vote, but I never imag-ined that it was that bad. The sad fact is that – even if only based on her outstanding record or service to the city as a council member – she DID NOT DESERVE such a poor reception from the voters. The fanatics and extremists at the Austin Neighborhoods Council and its front CNC [Community Not Commodity] who talked Morrison into run-ning and promised her all kinds of support fully earned the total repudiation they received from the voters … Laura Morrison did not. As a voter, I want to apologize to her for our lack of appreciation for all she had previously done for all of Austin. E. Brian Graham

HALLELUJAH!Dear Editor, Ellen Troxclair has served her last day on Austin City Council. Hallelujah – Council is now in complete agreement – on all issues! There is no longer any need for voting or debating ANY issue and thus, no longer a

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need for an Austin City Council. Perhaps all council members should resign so that their salaries can be used to reduce our exorbitant and ever-increasing property taxes. Regards, Bronco Broussard

EGREGIOUS OVERSIGHTDear Editor, Have you all ever heard of this little music genre called “blues”? Because it’s conspicu-ously absent from your lists in the Dec. 28 issue [“Music Top 10s,” Dec. 28]. Seriously? In a city that’s home to Antone’s, Eric Tessmer, Chris Layton, Ruthie Foster, and Gary Clark Jr. – just to name a few? Where Paul Oscher plays at the Continental Club weekly? This little genre is the foundation for pretty much all other types of music. What an egregious oversight. If you need a writer to cover the blues, I hereby volunteer my services. Contact me to discuss my qualifications. I will make damn sure the blues isn’t overlooked again. DiAnne Olson


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Lots of political new beginnings this week and next: The new Congress gets sworn in today in D.C., the new Texas Legislature takes over Tuesday, and the new City Coun cil is seated Monday – with significant shifts in the power blocs at all three levels. The most anticipated change is at the U.S. House, where a new Democratic majority will try to shake things up and provide some bal-ance to the insanity that has prevailed for the past two years. But don’t underestimate the importance of those other two bodies, which may have just as much direct impact on your life and livelihood, and where a different kind of insanity has prevailed for the past two years. Not so bright orange and virulent, but equal-ly disruptive and dysfunctional – with a different set of reck-onings coming due. Our news staff completes its preview this week (p.10) of the 86th Texas Lege, where a 12-seat pickup for the Democratic caucus has our local delegation cautiously optimistic about their prospects for a more productive session. And not sur-prisingly, school finance is high on the prior-ity list for everyone; it’s been broken for a while, it’s hemorrhaging money, and legisla-tors have increasingly been reaching into Austinites’ pockets to plug the hole. By the end of this biennium, AISD will be sending more of your tax money into the state budget than it spends educating Austin schoolchildren. That total “recapture” figure for 2020 is expected to be just under $800 million, or just over $2,133 for every house-hold in the city. If you live in a typical 2.5-per-son household, you’ll be paying $178 a month to the state – either directly in property

Happy New Year?HOPING FOR NEW STARTS AT EACH LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT

FRIDAY 1/4WOOD RECLAMATION Reclaimed log pickup for art or milling purposes. Users must sign liability waivers and are responsi-ble for all loading and hauling. 9am-3pm. PARD Private Reclam a tion Yard, 2405 Stratford. www.austintexas.gov.

SATURDAY 1/5GIVE YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE ANOTHER LIFE Recycle your tree to become mulch or compost. Don’t place trees in bags, and only natural trees can be recycled (no tinsel, no flocking, no artificial snow). 10am-2pm. Zilker Park Polo Fields, 2100 Barton Springs Rd. www.austintexas.gov.

FIRST SATURDAYS A day for the com-munity to explore and learn about the local Black diaspora. Noon-4pm. Carver Center, 1165 Angelina. Free. www.austintexas.gov.

BUILDING BRIDGES Reps from Travis Co. Sheriff’s Office discuss crime trends in the Apache Shores neighborhood, immigra-tion policies, and more. 1:30-3pm. ACTS Church, 1304 RR 620 N., Lakeway. tcsheriff.org.

divide between two four-member blocs seemed to widen, and over the last two years it became impossible to find either middle ground or alternate solutions to issues where stakeholders on all sides have legitimate concerns. But now, with Natasha Harper-Madison succeeding Ora Houston in District 1, that 4-4 split is no more, and that could signal a sea change. But don’t expect the impasse to break like a logjam, and for townhomes and live/work spaces and public transit to flow forth unfettered once the pure waters of a new land development code are set free. Council’s biggest job for the next two years is going to be cleaning up the mess it made of the code rewrite over the last two years, and everyone who worked on the CodeNEXT fias-co knows that all the problems that project had – the lack of policy direction, of project management, of community buy-in – still remain. This was not a matter of having a slightly flawed product killed by arguing over details; this was a deeply flawed product that didn’t meet any of its stated goals. It was a dumpster fire, one created by the outgoing Council, which did little to help the process except to fan the flames. There is indeed a path forward toward a land development code that works for everyone, but it begins by tak-ing a step back and rebuilding community trust on all sides. So far, the Council under Mayor Steve Adler has been quick to take sides; now that he has an electoral mandate, a different dais calculus, and a new-ish city manager, we’ll see if he can indeed guide it toward the consensus he talks so much about. n

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taxes, or as a pass-through in increased rent and decreased business profitability. In theo-ry, this pays for educating kids in poorer school districts, but in practice the money can be and is siphoned off for other uses. This despite the fact that the Austin public school system itself serves poor children – 53.3% of its students are economically dis-advantaged, 52.2% are considered at risk of dropping out, and 28.2% have limited English proficiency (50% higher than the state aver-

age), according to stats from The Texas Tribune. Austinites have been paying this de facto state school tax disproportion-ately, but other Texas cities have begun to feel the hit, so there’s increased hope for action during this session. If not, the system, and our school district, will be fully broken by the time legislators next convene: By 2022, esti-

mated payments will have increased 85% over four years, the recapture tax bite will be well over $200 a month per household, and AISD will have depleted nearly its entire savings reserve. Then there’s City Council, which will be all-Democratic for the first time in the 10-1 era, but where the political divide over land use policy transcends party affiliation. The decades-old split between developers and environmentalists has been rebranded into urbanists vs. preservationists (though with-out incorporating all of the urbanist princi-ples). Increasingly over the past two years, Council has been at one another’s throats over, and often immobilized by, specific land use disputes, and most spectacularly by the large flaming turd formerly known as CodeNEXT. As positions hardened, the

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free schools” unless ordered to do so by the courts, and then grudgingly. This year, there’s a bipartisan rhetorical push for school finance reform, with about-to-be Speaker Dennis Bonnen prominently declaring it his first priority (and, according to our interviews, reiterating that commit-ment in one-on-one meetings). What shape any solution might take remains very unclear – substantive “reform” would mean “much more funding,” and the Republican leadership is universally opposed to any explicit support of more spending. That’s why, as Watson points out, there are as yet no tangible solutions in circula-tion, especially in light of Gov. Greg Abbott’s insistence that his first priority is to cap local property tax rates. State support for public schools has dropped from 50% to 34% of their total spending, leaving districts with no choice but to raise their property tax rates, often needing to go to their voters to do so – even if they’re required (as is Austin ISD) to remit the bulk of those collections to the state for redistribution. Pretending to fund schools while capping local tax rates is thus a flat contradiction – which is why Watson fears this argument may become the “wedge issue” of 2019. At a minimum, suspects Rep. Celia Israel, the school funding question will likely require a special session. “Everyone who got elected on a platform supporting education will be working toward that goal,” she warns, “so they’ll have to put their money where their mouths are.”

STILL ON US What might “moderate” this session – reducing pandering, increasing productiv-ity – is a realization that the midterms were indeed a harbinger of 2020. “The most sig-nificant help I got as a legislator,” says Israel, “was having historic turnout on Nov. 6 … [making] a world of difference this ses-sion.” More bluntly, rookie Rep. John Bucy declares, “If the Republicans want to hold their seats, they need to join the Democrats for our public schools.” All electeds need to remain cautiously optimistic just to do their jobs. Beyond schools, they talk about health care (even expanding Medicaid), criminal justice reform, mass transit funding, reducing incarceration, decriminalizing marijuana, and even an independent redistricting commission. Amidst these heady expecta-tions, nobody ever goes broke betting the under on the progressive prospects of any given Texas Legislature. And whatever the optimism of the Democrats, they will con-tinue to face the unholy alliance (and rival ambitions) of Gov. Abbott and the baleful Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. The Legislature remains a structurally reactionary institution in a state gerryman-dered to remain conservative. Whatever progress it achieves will be the result only of constant and broad public pressure of every imaginable variety, from marching to muckraking and, of course, to voting. We’ve only just begun. n

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SUNDAY 1/6GIVE YOUR TREE ANOTHER LIFE (See Sat.) 10am-2pm. Zilker Park Polo Fields.

BLUE ACTION DEMS JANUARY MEETING Join to discuss numbers and set collective focus on November 2019. 2-4pm. Travis County Com-mun ity Hall, 8656 Hwy. 71 W. Bldg. A #208. www.blueactiondems.com.

FIVE YEARS OF AUSTIN B-CYCLE Sign up or renew, and get 50% off. Through Jan. 6. www.bcycle.com.

MONDAY 1/7CITY COUNCIL INAUG-U RA TION Newly elected and re-elected CMs plus Mayor Steve Adler will take the oath of office; then the new dais will elect a mayor pro tem. 6pm. City Hall, 301 W. Second. www.austintexas.gov.

WEDNESDAY 1/9TX LEGE 101 WITH STATE REPS DONNA HOWARD AND JOHN CYRIER Austin Tech Alliance and Glasshouse Policy host an evening on how the 86th Texas Lege will effect the tech sector. 6-8pm. Capital Factory, 701 Brazos, 16th floor. www.austintech.org.

THURSDAY 1/10CERTIFICATION 101 A workshop on small and minority business enterprise certifications and more for business owners interested in working with government contracts. 10am-noon. SMBR Office, 4201 Ed Bluestein Blvd. Free. www.austintexas.gov/smallbiz.

ONGOINGAUSTIN STRATEGIC MOBIL ITY PLAN View the ASMP’s draft policies and maps – now available in both English and Spanish – to see the city’s revamped transportation plan, then provide feedback. Through Jan. 13. www.austintexas.gov/asmp.

ALLGO SURVEY QPOC community members are asked to fill out an anonymous survey to better support allgo’s upcoming health care provider train-ing. Deadline: Jan. 31. www.allgo.org.

TUESDAY 1/886TH TEXAS LEGE SES-SION It’s back. The 86th Legislature starts today and runs through May 27. 9am. Texas State Capitol. www.capitol.texas.gov.

MILLIONS MARCH TEXAS Demanding account-ability from lawmakers on behalf of all oppressed peo-ples. 10am-2pm. March from City Hall to the State Capitol. Free. www.austinjustice.org.

BIZAID BUSINESS ORIENTA TION A basic overview of opening a small business or re-evaluating an existing one. 3-4:30pm. Carver Library, 1161 Angelina. Free. www.austintexas.gov/smallbiz.

AFRICAN AMERICAN RESOURCE ADVISORY COMMISSION meets. 5:30pm. City Hall, 301 W. Second. www.austintexas.gov/aarac.


Well, That Got DarkAPD HOLDS LITTLE BACK IN DUSTERHOFT FIRING A tweet from April 2014 captures dis-graced Austin Police Department Assistant Chief Jason Dusterhoft on the upswing, grinning for the PIO as then-Chief Art Acevedo marks his promotion to the executive team with a new badge. His next four years as an APD poster boy can still be well traced on social media. But the Dec. 20 memo announcing his indefinite suspension (i.e., firing) places Dusterhoft’s seedy personal life at the center of his year-and-a-half-long tumble from the heights of APD brass. The department never revealed why Ace vedo’s successor Brian Manley demoted Dusterhoft back to commander in mid-2017, but sources close to APD began to talk among themselves, and to the media, about Dusterhoft’s descent and the possible rea-sons behind it. This summer, APD launched an internal investigation after a complaint by a woman the then-recently-divorced Duster-hoft had met on Tinder (known henceforth as “Ms. S”), who said the commander had choked and slapped her in front of witnesses at the Yellow Rose strip club on Aug. 24. Dusterhoft, a 23-year veteran of APD, denied the allegations, and the Travis Coun ty district attorney eventually declined to pur-sue charges. As he spent two months on restricted duty while the investigation pro-ceeded, he graduated with a master’s degree from Texas State University, to the congratu-lations of past and present colleagues includ-ing Acevedo. Then, in Sep tem ber, Chrysta Childers, a friend of Ms. S, told listeners of Michael Cargill’s Come and Talk It radio show that she’d had been with the couple the night of the incident, during which Dusterhoft had given her cocaine as a birthday gift.

Dusterhoft sued Childers, Car gill, and oth-ers on the broadcast, but Chil ders doubled down two months later with a sworn com-plaint reiterating her claims. Three weeks later, Manley explained in painful detail what APD’s internal investiga-tion found and why he had to send Dus ter-hoft packing. In a very lightly redacted memo released to the public Dec. 20, Man ley wrote that while investigators couldn’t prove Dusterhoft assaulted Ms. S, described as his ex-girlfriend, on Aug. 24, he had “assaulted Ms. S on multiple other occasions at his residence during what can be described as ‘rough sex’ during which he would strangle Ms. S with his hands with the intent and desire of her losing consciousness.” Over the course of their relationship, Ms. S told investigators, he left bruises “and other marks on her body, and also pulled out clumps of hair from her head.” She said the former commander “could not achieve sexual gratifi-cation unless he was inflicting pain on her.” According to the memo, she reached out to multiple friends, saying she feared for her life. When asked, Dusterhoft confirmed the “rough sex” component of the relationship but denied any of the acts were intended to cause real harm – because he was “choking” Ms. S in a sexual manner, he was therefore not “strangling” her in an assaultive one. Manley disagrees; in the memo, he writes that Dusterhoft’s “belief that his actions constitute lawful, consensual ‘choking’ during a sexual encounter is wrong from both a legal and medical standpoint,” because of the inherent dangers of strangulation. Further more, he admitted to instances when he was strangling Ms. S while he was intoxicated to the point

“he would not have felt comfortable driving,” which the chief calls “reckless conduct.” In addition to Ms. S’ outcry, Dusterhoft’s own comments to investigators called into question his claim that the encounters were consensual. Initially, he stated he was drink-ing during the encounters but that Ms. S was always sober. Later, however, he told investigators – attempting to discredit Ms. S and Childers – that Ms. S was “depressed” and an “alcoholic on probation.” As the chief notes, Dusterhoft’s defense takes a critical hit if Ms. S was under the influence for any of the strangulations. The chief also dings Dusterhoft for dis-honesty in hiding his cell phone from inves-tigators, despite a search warrant, and in deleting explicit material (involving “several women”) from it – including, most relevant to the investigation, videos of him strangling and slapping Ms. S. These efforts to “thwart, and/or influence, and/or interfere with” the investigation, Manley writes, represent yet more violations of the Texas Penal Code.

He also writes that Dusterhoft associated with persons who bring discredit upon APD, another fireable offense, by consorting with Childers and being involved in her procur-ing cocaine at the Yellow Rose. The memo indicates that on Aug. 24, Ms. S had invited Dusterhoft to enjoy a threesome with her and Childers in celebration of the latter’s birthday: “Despite knowing that [Childers] used illegal drugs and was allegedly a pros-titute, Commander Duster hoft was willing to engage in a sexual encounter with her and/or be seen in a public place with her.” Later that evening is when, Childers says, Dusterhoft summoned and paid someone to deliver cocaine to their table. Ulti mately, APD couldn’t prove that Dusterhoft ordered or even knew about the cocaine, but he was cited for associating with the person (“Mr. CL”) alleged to have procured it. Dusterhoft acknowledged in an Internal Affairs inter-view that his ex-girlfriend’s circle were “obviously not people I necessarily wanna hang out with.” – Nina Hernandez

The location of Dusterhoft’s phone – perhaps at a girlfriend’s house – is the only information redacted in a memo filled with graphic sexual detail. The commander’s clumsy attempt to hide the evidence got him into even further trouble.

RICHARD OVERTON DIES AT 112 Beloved East Austinite Richard Overton, America’s oldest man and World War II veteran, died Thursday, Dec. 27, following hospitalization for pneumonia. The 112-year-old became a local icon as he sat on his porch on Hamilton Avenue, watching the world go by with a cigar hanging from his mouth, an Army cap perched on his head, and a whiskey-spiked drink at hand. Tributes to Overton, described by Mayor Steve Adler as “Austin’s great-great-grandfather,” have poured in over the last week, reflecting the supercente-narian’s national prominence. From the Congressional Black Caucus: “We have lost a national treasure.” From U.S. Rep Roger Williams, in whose district Overton lived: “I am eternally grateful to have had him in my life as a friend and role model.” From Williams’ colleague Beto O’Rourke: “A Texan, an American, a hero for the ages.” And from Gov. Greg Abbott: “We can never repay Richard Overton for his service to our nation and for his lasting impact on the Lone Star State.” The Texas Veterans Commission recalled one of Overton’s many memorable quotes: “You don’t know when you get here, you don’t know when you go, it’s in God’s hands.”

Adler spoke for many in reflecting that “Mr. Overton embodied wit, class, and a joyful spirit that invited everyone to be part of his special and world-worthy journey.” Council Member-elect Natasha Harper-Madison called Overton a “true East Austin icon,” who grew up in segregation, served in a segregated Army unit in the Pacific during World War II, and would be honored (in 2013) by the first African-American presi-dent. “His incredible story and good humor made him in his later years a rallying point for this community,” she wrote. Former Travis County Democratic Party Chair Vincent Harding, who helped organize a dinner honoring Overton in February, called him “one of the nicest and most genuine people you could ever meet. … We lost a true servant and pioneer. His impact was felt worldwide.” – N.H.

RAPE CASE AUDIT FAULTS APD Of the Austin Police Department’s “exceptionally cleared” rape cases audited by the Texas Department of Public Safety last month, fewer than one-third were correctly cleared in accordance with federal guidelines. So says a letter from DPS’s Incident-Based Reporting Bureau audit team, which noted that another third of reviewed offenses did not meet criteria for exceptional clearance – when officers have probable cause, but for a legitimate reason do not make an arrest.

NAKED CITY The DPS letter is dated Dec. 13, but APD Chief Brian Manley didn’t provide an update until Monday, Dec. 31. He reiterated that APD reached out to DPS (after the department made national headlines for its use of exceptional clearance) to review its cases. The goal, Manley said, was “to verify how we are closing cases and, if we were not doing it appropriately,” to better understand how to make the “necessary changes.” Of the 95 cases in January, November, and December 2017 that were reviewed by DPS, only 29 were correctly cleared, and 30 did not meet federal cri-teria. The DPS team identified 15 cases that shouldn’t have been classified as rape according to the federal definition, which Manley said “may indicate a potential over-reporting of rape”; once APD receives the final report from DPS, it will look at those cases again. Another 14 cases in the audit were “unfounded,” which Manley said are likely cases in which the survivor has recanted. The chief noted, however, that due to the difficulty of coming forward, “the recant may not be an actual recant,” meaning the victim may be telling the truth regardless. Lastly, six cases indicate APD didn’t follow federal rules for reporting, two cases could have been cleared years before 2017, and one incident “labeled as Internal Affairs” was never reviewed. While Manley insisted that without the full report, the department can’t “put a lot of context around

these numbers right now,” DPS has already agreed to help APD retrain its 296 detectives in accordance to federal guidelines over the next few weeks. Afterward, the department will conduct an internal review of all cases exceptionally cleared last year to make sure its 2018 annual report is correct and consistent withguidelines. – Sarah Marloff

SCHOOL FINANCE: STILL HARD At the Texas Commission on Public School Finance’s final meeting in December, the 13-member panel unanimously approved more than 30 recommen-dations to improve the state’s outdated and inade-quate school funding system. The recommendations are mostly incentive-based, targeted at improving aca-demic outcomes for students with the “greatest need,” as the report reads. For instance, the report recom-mends making a pool of $800 million available to those school districts that develop programs that improve early literacy and postsecondary school readi-ness. Another would create an “effective educator allotment” to essentially increase teacher pay based on “locally developed multi-measure evaluation and com-pensation systems,” with an initial investment of $100 million, growing annually until it reaches $1 billion. Education advocates are generally skeptical of incen-tive-based teacher pay, because those systems can rely



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GUNS IN 2018: THE CARNAGE CONTINUES The new year provides a reflective moment for one of the Chronicle’s periodic visits to the Gun Violence Archive (www.gunviolence archive.org). The GVA is nonprofit, non-advoca-cy, and a thoroughly quixotic effort to compile accurate statistics on the toll that legal and readily available firearms impose on a credu-lous American public easily distracted by the phantom threat of desperate Central American refugees. Here are a few of the headline GVA numbers for 2018 (confirmed as of Jan. 2 and including New Year’s Eve incidents):

• Gun violence incidents: 56,754• Deaths: 14,596• Injuries: 28,148• Children (age 0-11) killed or injured: 665• Teens (age 12-17) killed or injured: 2,825• Mass shootings (4 or more killed or injured,

not including the shooter): 340

Those are just highlighted numbers, and the GVA summary statistics do not include suicides by gun (which average about 22,000 yearly) or unintended gun injuries (about 12,000 yearly, though data is lacking). Closer to home, in 2018 there were 16 mass shootings in Texas, the most notorious being the May 18 attack at Santa Fe High School that left 10 people dead and 13 injured. That overshadowed the May 16 family violence in Ponder (near Denton), where a man shot his ex-wife, killed his three children and another man, then killed himself. There were five dead in a July 27 Robstown shooting, and four dead and another injured on Oct. 13 in Taft – the latter group all family members celebrating a child’s first birthday.

The database shows 10 incidents within the last 30 days in Austin, comprising five injuries and one death (Eric Allen, shot Dec. 23 in North Austin, apparently by a girl-friend). The most recent mass shooting inci-dent in Austin appears to have been Nov. 4, 2017, on North Lamar (a suspect shooting at random cars with an assault rifle, critical-ly injuring a 7-year-old and wounding three others); there was another a few days earli-er, Oct. 29, on Ave. F (a man dressed as Santa Claus opened fire at a Halloween party, killing Michael McCloskey and wounding three others). Note that the 2018 Austin bombings, which drew worldwide attention, killed two and injured three, not including the perpetrator – but these similar-ly sanguineous gun incidents are, for the most part, long-forgotten. The Archive compiles gun violence statis-tics from published reports covering the whole U.S., summarizing each incident,

providing sources, and adding various summary reports with more info

and analysis. The database is overwhelming yet fascinating in its sheer numbers and detail and worth a periodic, sobering visit for anyone interested in the ongoing

American carnage. (A related site is The Trace, which provides interactive

maps of the GVA statistics: www.thetrace.org.) “GVA is not, by design, an advocacy group,” the mission statement reports. “The mission of GVA is to document incidents of gun violence and gun crime nationally to provide independent, verified data to those who need to use it in their research, advocacy, or writing.” – Michael King

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www.gunviolencearchive.orgwww.thetrace.orgNorth Lamar: www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/980269Ave. F: www.gunviolencearchive.org/inci-dent/975600

heavily on standardized testing; the emphasis on “locally developed” systems could ease those fears. Other recommendations include adjusting the for-mulas that dictate how much money each school district gets, which could free up an additional $1.1 billion for helping low-income students; allotting up to $150 mil-lion for districts to develop dual-language programs and for additional investment in dyslexia programs; and various changes to how districts measure out-comes, such as a new commitment to have 60% of third-graders reading at grade level and 60% of high school graduates leaving with college credit, a techni-cal certification, or military readiness. – Austin Sanders

“THE GRINCH THAT STOLE OAK HILL” Neighborhood groups and environmental organizations are reacting strongly and skeptically to the Texas Department of Transportation’s Dec. 21 release of a “final environmental clearance” report on the agency’s plans for what it calls the Oak Hill Parkway and most of us call “the Y”: the badly congested intersection of U.S. 290 West and Texas 71. In a Dec. 24 press release, several citizens’ groups deplored the pre-Christmas data dump of the 222-page report and, more generally, what opponent and neighbor Carol Cespedes called “the Grinch that stole Oak Hill.” TxDOT proposes to reconstruct and widen the two highways (from MoPac to Circle Drive on 290 and up to Silvermine Drive on 71) to become an “upgraded, state-of-the-art roadway” with three main lanes and two or three frontage lanes in each direction, along with a new

overpass at William Cannon. Opponents accuse TxDOT of timing its report to temper the inevitably negative public response. “They know we are trying to save our heritage oak trees and Williamson Creek,” said Cespedes. “They know we don’t like or need 12 lanes of concrete through the heart of our community.” Others engaged with the decadelong effort to do something about the “Y” echoed Cespedes’ senti-ments. “TxDOT deserves a lump of coal for this one,” said Beki Halpin, speaking for Fix290, a coalition sup-porting a more environmentally friendly design. Clark Hancock, board president of the Save Barton Creek Association, charged that “the gigantic land clearing operations and massive rock-digging planned for Oak Hill have a potential to threaten Barton Springs, caus-ing closures and environmental degradation for years.” Alan Watts of Save Oak Hill says that nearly 300 heri-tage trees would be lost or threatened by the high-way’s construction. “We know there’s a better alterna-tive [than what’s] not a ‘parkway,’ but an elevated super-highway threatening to forever change our creek and our community,” the three groups said in a joint statement. That alternative is their “Livable Oak Hill” plan, which calls for much less massive boulevards that would allow the Oak Hill locals to “bypass the parkway and access employment, education, and recreation destinations without adding to parkway congestion.” For more information, see the TxDOT project pages at www.oakhillparkway.com and the alternative neigh-borhood plan at www.saveoakhill.org. – M.K.

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about health care from the perspective of what do we need, and then, let’s figure out how we pay for it. I think what will happen is we will get a series of piecemeal approaches. So, TRS-Care [Teacher Retirement System], managed care for medically fragile children, and mental health care are the three areas where I think you’ll see some movement in health care.

AC: The governor proposes strangling local jurisdictions on property taxes.KW: I think this will be one of the big debates and fights during the session. I think we see it as one of those wedge issues that will rise up and take significant time and oxygen out of the building. A strong case can be made that the state does so little to help local gov-ernments, that it ought to just get out of the way, instead of taking just another step in the wrong direction.

AC: We saw a new low when it came to immi-grant rights last session; do you foresee more of that sentiment this session?ER: First of all, 12 new Demo crats will help change what bills are going to be heard and will be potentially voted on. I also think how [last session’s Senate Bill 4] ended up on the floor could have been handled very differently, and I think that’s the result of a Joe Straus speakership. As the Mexican-American Legislative Caucus policy chair, I’ll be working against issues that will unfairly treat Latinos in the state. Already there’s been a bill filed to overturn in-state tuition for undocumented students in the state. We’ll be playing a lot of defense.

AC: You’ve been at the Capitol for nearly two decades. What do you think is going to make this session different than others? ER: Our 12-member gain means we’re not going to get completely run over every time. Straus was very much a hands-off speaker, and I think we need a speaker that is respon-sive and hold[s] legislators accountable. I know everyone thinks he’s a moderate guy because he opposed the [anti-trans] bathroom bill, but some very terrible bills, including the horrible SB 4, were passed under his tenure.

AC: Last session we saw unprecedented attacks against Austin and other municipalities. Do you think that will continue, and what is your strategy to defend Austin?ER: It’s worth noting that not every Republican was in favor of these pre-emption bills and all Democrats were against them. So while maybe the paid sick leave bill will be an easy target, there will be others where Republicans may not coalesce. A good number of legislators who

Sen. Kirk Watson (Senate District 14)Austin Chronicle (Michael King): What are your general expectations?Kirk Watson: The feel as we go into this session is significantly different than when we went into the last session. We’re not hearing the sort of far-right agenda that we heard as we went into the last session. The flip side of that coin is, instead, the priority is at least being said to be on public education.

AC: How do they think they’ll be able to cut property taxes while putting more money in public schools?KW: If you start looking at something like the compression of the tax rate [that the gover-nor’s office is advocating], and you also look at the Legislative Appropriations Requests that were filed by the Texas Education Agency … the TEA requests presume 6.7% growth in property tax revenue per year in the bienni-um. The governor’s proposal would compress that growth down to 2.5%. … That ends up being a delta of about $3.8 billion, a deficit that would be an ongoing, structural problem. I’m not confident there’s a plan or strategy [to close that gap] right now.

AC: Health care will certainly be another big issue. KW: Unfortunately, I don’t feel as optimistic there. I don’t think the Legislature is thinking

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It’s hard to imagine the 86th Texas Legislature being any crazier than the last three, or four, or five sessions, but as our state grows ever larger and more bumptious, so do the built-up political pressures under the pink dome. With a new speaker, a much purpler House, an electorally chastened Senate (and lieutenant governor), and an awful lot of new faces, the Legislature faces many possible outcomes as it wrestles the greased anaconda of school finance and deals with the rest of the state’s business. The team representing the 2.1 million resi-dents of the Austin metro area – more people than live in 15 of the 50 states, but only the fourth-largest urban area in our own state – reflects both what’s different and what’s the same as the Lege goes back into session. We asked our local reps what they’re expecting, hoping, and aiming to achieve during the 2019 season. The following interviews have been edited for length and clarity; our longer conversations with the delegation can be found online. – Mike Clark-Madison


Rep. Eddie Rodriguez (House District 51)Austin Chronicle (Mary Tuma): What are your top priorities this legislative session and why are they important to your district? Eddie Rodriguez: My priorities, broadly, have to do with affordability. [My] homestead preservation district bill passed in 2005, and cities have now adopted it. I filed a bill last session [to ensure Austin remained covered by the HPD legislation] – [that] was vetoed by the governor, and I’m not sure why, maybe out of spite. So I’m refiling that bill. Public education is very important as well. I want to support the idea of community schools that offer services to both kids and parents. I’m also filing food access bills, including a bill to ensure fair taxes for local farmers. And gun safety is increasingly becoming one of my main concerns.

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AC: How do you feel about having Dennis Bonnen as the speaker?ER: He’s very knowledgeable of the process and has a lot of respect for the House. I think he’ll want to maintain decorum and protect us from the will of Dan Patrick the best he can. Some think he has an abrasive personal-ity, but as a speaker, you’re a totally different animal. He’s a straight shooter, and it seems like he’s doing all the right things so far.

Rep. Donna Howard (HD 48)Austin Chronicle (Austin Sanders): What does comprehensive school finance reform mean?Donna Howard: A sustainable revenue stream that supports … all students across our state, no matter where they live, taking into account demographic challenges and

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resources needed to serve special education students, [and] investing in early literacy and providing the support for students to graduate college- and career-ready. Without unnecessarily burdening any one segment of our community with a big tax burden.

AC: Why hasn’t the state achieved any of those goals?DH: We are challenged to put in an adequate amount of money to achieve the education goals of our state, [and the Legislature] is averse to finding new sources of revenue. In fact, they like to look at ways to further cut rev-enue and limit growth. What we have now is not adequate to totally fund our current bud-get. Typically, the Texas economy does well and is diverse, but we do have downturns, and we made the choice to significantly cut education funding instead of withdrawing from the rainy day fund. We’ve never really bounced back.

AC: Will adding money solve the problems?DH: Not all of them, but we know money makes a difference. Let’s target some new money toward childhood literacy, toward high school success, toward teacher quality – the kind of things that the research shows makes a difference. We should get more money into the basic allotment, because that lifts all boats, and fund full-day, quality pre-K for eligi-ble students who don’t have access. [We should] adequately fund the teacher retirement system and TRS-Care; that would go a long way [in] boosting the sense of commitment.

AC: Other than school finance, what are some of your priority issues?DH: We still have issues providing a safety net [women’s health] system that is seeing

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the same number of women [as] prior to the 2011 budget cuts. We have a lot of families not using services they are eligible to access; we can have healthier moms and babies and address the maternal mortality issue we have – this is one of the ways we can address that. It’s also extremely benefi-cial to the taxpayer, because it’s much more costly to pay for a pregnancy and birth than it is to pay for contraceptives and family plan-ning. Unless a woman is pregnant, elderly, or disabled, she won’t qualify for Medicaid, because we didn’t expand. So a woman may not be getting prenatal care she needs to have a healthy baby. Once she has the baby, two months after delivery she’s cut off from Medicaid; in an ideal world, we should have uninterrupted coverage for women in child-bearing years. I understand that’s probably fiscally impossible, but in the long run it would reap tremendous benefits. As well, we’re doing an immense amount of work on the sexual assault forensic evidence backlog; I’m hopeful we’ll be able to better keep up with the evidence and get it analyzed and into the national system, where we’ve seen a significant number of cases solved. It’s important in terms of cold cases and pre-venting additional assaults [and in] encourag-ing prosecutors to take cases to trial that indeed bring justice to the victim. I’m still pushing for an independent redistricting com-mission as well. We can depoliticize – as much as possible – what is a very political process. I don’t think you ever get the poli-tics out of it, but you can certainly make it a more fair system that is more skewed toward what is best for voters than what is best for the party in charge.

Rep. Celia Israel (HD 50)Austin Chronicle (Austin Sanders): What are your top priorities for the session?CI: I’m a transportation chick, who fully rec-ognizes the importance of lowering our prop-erty taxes and supporting our public school children. So it’s a different kind of session for me in that sense. Four years ago, the [Texas] Supreme Court declared our [school finance] system “byzantine.” If I were the queen of Texas, I would have already called a special session. I don’t think the voters of Texas are going to accept another blue-ribbon panel. The timing is right for us in the House to make a statement about the number one

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session in general: We need to own the power that has been given to us by the hard work people did to get us those 12 new [Democratic] seats. We’re only eight mem-bers down from parity. We’ve got the better ideas, and Texans are on our side, especially when it comes to public schools, [so] we should be fighting for even more than in pre-vious sessions because we might be able to win some. I think we had the opportunity to elect a speaker with our members and that didn’t happen and I was disappointed. That being said, I had a good meeting with Dennis Bonnen, and we will move forward doing the best we can for Texans and everything we can to advance the progressive agenda.

AC: You were a freshman legislator last session. What were the biggest lessons you learned? The biggest surprises? GH: The most surprising thing to me is that I can work across the aisle with the GOP and get things done. I live in a bubble; most people I know and work with are Democrats. [Ed. note: Hinojosa’s father Gilberto is the chair of the Texas Democratic Party.] So it was a new experience for me to work in an environment that was majority Republican, but we got along well and found common ground – that was surprising to me. I think we if we are all forced to work with one another in a room for six months and pulled people from all parts of the state with different persuasions and beliefs, we’d have a better society, [and] we’d be better at respecting each other’s humanity.

issue and hope that the governor will recog-nize the same and make a stand against the Senate, who is led by a man who had his own close call with the voters. Last session was dominated by make-believe crimes and beating up on immigrants. This session, if we do it right, is going to be determined by how well we’re supporting our future economic viability. That means calming down property taxes and putting in new revenue to support our children.

AC: What could school finance reform look like?CI: We have 67 Democrats now. We had 52 when I first got here. My colleagues who rep-resent the rural parts of Texas are just as passionate about defending public schools as I am – they just happen to have an “R” at the end of their name. I may be wrong, but I think the stronger the House is collectively, that will give the governor the support he needs to find his voice for things that could be controversial – like new revenue for schools. To his credit, he’s the one that brought up full-day pre-K. So I am hopeful that Gov. Abbott is being thoughtful about his legacy. I’m thinking about mine. In political terms, the House will be more beholden to a November voter than a primary voter. Most people are November voters, and they want us to get stuff done.

AC: What transportation policy goals do you have for this session?CI: We need more voices to say we are an urban state, and we’re becoming densified in our urban cores, [and] the transportation portion of the family budget is getting bigger. Every time I bring up the word transit, everyone else rolls their eyes, but cities like Hous ton and Dallas are way ahead of the game, and in other states, cities partner with the state to pull down more federal dollars. [And] in Texas, an alternatively fueled vehicle that uses little or no gasoline isn’t paying into the big transportation purse. So we’re working on ways to push the issue of new revenue for transportation, because the future is electric and driverless. Let’s get ahead of that curve.

AC: And why is online voter registration an important issue for you?CI: It’s efficient and it’s more secure. It’s just basic good government. A big reason it hasn’t moved forward is because the clerk in Harris County [Stan Stanart] was adamantly opposed to it. But he lost his bid for re-election. I’m looking forward to this session where the county clerks are speaking in unison. We now have over 30 states with online voter regis-tration. Arizona was the first to do it, and Oklahoma did a few years ago. These are not blue states making this happen, so it’s time for Texas to step up. We do it now; it just happens to be when you appear in person at DPS [“motor-voter” registration]. It should not be a scary thing for us.

AC: What are some of your other goals this session?CI: I want to avoid fighting on social issues. Being a member of the LGBTQ community, I don’t have an appetite for those fights. Last session was miserable, so I went to speak to [Dennis] Bonnen about it. He shares my

than successes. That session saw deep, destructive cuts to education, but I walked away encouraged by our efforts to organize students and aware of the enormous amount of work still left to do to protect public educa-tion in the state. We have to recognize that there isn’t a blue or red way to fix public education – there’s only a right way. I want to work with anybody and everybody to do that. When you’re motivated by kids, suddenly partisanship seems unimportant.

AC: But ideology definitely gets in the way. How do you plan to overcome that?JT: With enough discourse and dialogue – and empathy – we can chart a path toward some common ground. That’s what I learned as a nonprofit leader. I worked with Gov. Abbott, and our board members were often Repub lic an businessmen who had different political ideologies than I did, but we all wanted to change education in Texas for the better. I believe equitable education will be the civil rights issue of our generation.

AS: How do you plan to achieve your policy goals as a freshman lawmaker?JT: My number one goal is to not be con-fused for an intern [laughs]. It’s going to be a balance. I feel reverence and respect for the people who came before me, so I’m anxious to learn how this process works. I also feel like I have a unique experience as an educa-tor and nonprofit leader to share with my more experienced colleagues.

AC: What would meaningful school finance reform look like to you?JT: There [have] to be more funds infused into the system, and we have to update that sys-tem. The Cost of Education Index hasn’t been updated since 1984, when I was negative 6 years old [laughs]. That’s a problem, especially for places like Round Rock and Austin which are very different than they were in the Eighties. … I’m not interested in moving the ball a few yards down the field. It’s time to pass something more comprehensive. And I hope the new blood at the Capitol will help push for that. We can’t go back to our con-stituents and say, “Hey, we made some solid progress, but you’re still not going to see any change in your pocketbook or at your school.”

AC: So how do you pay for that?JT: Just as one example, there’s the High Cost Natural Gas Exemption, put in place in the Eighties when it was more expensive to drill for natural gas. Technology has advanced and it’s no longer as difficult, but that exemption is still in place in our tax code, costing us about $1 billion a biennium. We’re also sending about $800 million per biennium to the border with Mexico for “increased border security” [that is] just political grandstanding. Certain lawmakers want to appease extreme parts of their base. And they do it by pumping money we don’t have down to the border. I believe our immigration system is broken, too; we need comprehensive immigration reform, both for security and for the safety and well-being of our immigrant communities. So I am wholeheartedly in favor of that. But [instead] we’re wasting money on dumb things.

displeasure with our priorities from last session. He and I came here at the same time – he as a baby state representative and I as a staffer for Gov. Richards. We remember what it used to be like around here. We are a family in the House, and Bonnen knows that. That makes me feel better about him. Pander ing to 3% of the electorate is not in anyone’s best interest. The most significant help I got as a legislator was having historic turnout on Nov. 6; it’s going to make a world of difference this session.

Rep. Gina Hinojosa (HD 49)Austin Chronicle (Mary Tuma): What are your top priorities this legislative session? Gina Hinojosa: My priority for this session, just like last session, is the public school finance system that we know is broken statewide. We know Austin is feeling the brunt of this broken system in a big way, with most of the money we collect going to the state. But really any district that sees an increase in its property value [is] getting less money from the state for education. So in that sense, everybody is in recapture. So we need to start having the state pay its fair share into the school finance system. There are different ways to approach the problem – unfortunately some are looking at it as an opportunity for property tax relief – but we need to have the same urgency behind ade-quate funding for our public schools. Really, we haven’t recovered from the 2011 cuts to education. Our schools are still feeling that. I’m also focused on the day care crisis in our state. Children are being hurt and even dying in some facilities, and part of that has to do with how little we do as a state to support the cost and to help families with cost. We need to prioritize child care for working families. Also, this last election cycle we saw challenges with student voting on college campuses, so I’ve filed a bill that would require all college campuses with 10,000 or more students to have polling locations on campus.

AC: You expressed criticism regarding the process of getting behind Dennis Bonnen for speaker. What are your concerns? GH: My thoughts about the [speaker’s] race are the same as my thoughts going into this

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Rep. James Talarico (HD 52)Austin Chronicle (Austin Sanders): You’re a young state rep. What political experience will help you in the session?James Talarico: While I was at the Univer si ty of Texas in 2011, I helped organize students opposed to proposed cuts to education spending. We held rallies [and] marches and testified at committee hearings – just general tools available in your legislative advocacy toolbox. I was involved in student government and other activist groups, so I decided to step up and serve in that way. Obviously, we didn’t stop the cuts to education, but I feel that sometimes you’re more defined by failures

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Rep. Sheryl Cole (HD 46)Austin Chronicle (Nina Hernandez): What have your conversations been like since the elec-tion? How are you preparing for the session?Sheryl Cole: People’s priority is public edu-cation, the recapture formula, and property taxes, so I think that’s what I’ll be focusing on. Of course, I’m also talking to people about reductions in prison sentencing for small amounts of marijuana. I did the “Ban the Box” [ordinance] when I was [on City Council], and I really want to explore that at the Capitol.

AC: So you’re seeing opportunities for working with Republicans on criminal justice reform? Do you agree there’s a real chance for bolster-ing our medical marijuana program?SC: You never know. I’m used to counting to seven; I don’t know how to count to 76, but I’m going to learn that. But I think [voters] having elected 12 new Democrats – and so many Republicans winning by small margins – has really changed the tone of the Capitol. We’ve been on defense, and we’ve got to learn how to play offense. I don’t think we would be talking about public education if we had not done that. People get – mistakenly, I think – saddened by the fact that we didn’t

AC: What does successful school finance reform look like to you?VG: When the state is paying 50%; since the state constitution says the state should pro-vide public education, they ought to at least provide half the funding. The Austin district has been paying more into recapture at the same time it is losing enrollment, and some-how that trajectory has to change, because it’s not sustainable for AISD. Eanes and Lake Travis ISDs are also paying more. We’ve got $12 billion in the rainy day fund, and while I don’t see representatives getting behind taking money out of it, I could see potentially diverting the next biennium’s amount that would go in over to public education as a short-term fix [or] using some of the fund [for] an endowment that would, over time, start getting interest and proceeds that could be used for public education.

AC: How can the Lege achieve the governor’s goal of capping property tax increases and also achieve school finance reform?VG: I’m not in favor of a property tax rate cap, because it’s different for every district. I met with the mayor of Bee Cave and there they have a pretty low rate, because they’re a smaller city. It doesn’t make sense to have an across-the-board, 2.5% tax rate increase cap.

AC: What are some of your other top priorities for the session?VG: There are other things within the educa-tion realm. I’m not in favor of the A-F rating system. An accountability system shouldn’t be just based on standardized testing; it just needs to take into account a lot more factors. Also, mental health counselors at schools. After the Santa Fe shooting, the governor held roundtables and that was one thing that people really could agree on. We’re having trouble paying for teachers and everything else schools need, but finding a way to help fund those counselors will be a high priority for me.

Rep. John Bucy III (HD 136)Austin Chronicle (Michael King): What’s your sense of where things stand for you, as an incoming freshman?John Bucy: I’m still very encouraged that we’re going to make progress on education finance reform. Not just because we picked up Democratic seats, but because there seems to be bipartisan support for that cause in the House right now. The incoming speaker [Dennis Bonnen] is making that his one and only priority. He seems really com-mitted to making progress on public schools.

take over. Of course you would want that, but you don’t have to do that to make a difference.

AC: [Has] the fact that more counties are feeling the pinch of recapture affected the conversation on school finance?SC: I was in my first meeting with [Dennis Bonnen], and he said the focus of the session will be on public education, public education, public education. And I said, “Even Austin?” [Laughs.] And he said, “Yes, Sheryl, even Austin.” And I walked out of the room, and I called [Mayor] Steve [Adler] and [Mayor Pro Tem] Kathie [Tovo], and I said, “He said it.”

AC: You take the new speaker at his word?SC: I have no reason not to. He seems very pragmatic. Just a cool calculator. Elections matter. “Y’all won. A lot of y’all came and supported me, and this was the condition, and that’s what I’m going to do.” It’s not personal.

AC: So how do you tackle the inequity in the “Robin Hood” (recapture) system?SC: We have schools, especially in my dis-trict, that have the profile of schools in poor areas of Texas. It doesn’t make sense to not get credit for that. We’ve got to look at the whole state budget [because] we have to do something, not because of next year, but two, four years [down the line]. It’s an unsustain-able model.

Rep. Vikki Goodwin (HD 47)Austin Chronicle (Austin Sanders): What do you think you’ll bring to the Capitol that Paul Workman [whom Goodwin defeated] lacked?Vikki Goodwin: The biggest thing is my drive to work on school finance reform. The Austin district is really in a serious situation – con-sidering closing schools and increasing class sizes – and Workman said he didn’t have any solutions to public education funding. I understand we don’t have enough money in the system. We need to raise the basic allot-ment so that all districts are doing better and increase the weights we give to our formulas, particularly for students with special needs like dyslexia and autism.

Every two years, Austin and Travis County harbor a virus that seeks to destroy us from within, but usually we’re able to stave off the worst attacks of the Legislature upon its host organism. Given that we never have a good time, will the 86th be just annoyingly uncom-fortable, or more debilitating, or truly catastrophic to local interests? The folks in charge locally echo their statehouse comrades in arms. “Really it’s all about school finance,” says Austin Mayor Steve Adler. “Even if they don’t bow to the political pressure [from Gov. Greg Abbott] and we get out of the session without revenue caps, it doesn’t solve their problem. If we don’t move on school finance, then capping city and county revenue doesn’t really provide property tax ‘relief.’” That’s because in Central Texas, school taxes (in all districts, not just Austin ISD) make up 70-75% of the increases property owners are seeing on their bills. Nevertheless, Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt is “expecting that revenue caps will be irresistible political candy for the Lege, because there is so much juice in the false claim of property tax ‘relief.’ I’m afraid that public education will be pitted against other local government, and [local officials] need to advocate to fully restore funding for public education, instead of allowing local gov-ernment to be scapegoated for the Legislature’s past failures.”

Over at AISD, Board of Trustees President Geronimo Rodriguez also doesn’t want to be stuck in a zero-sum game. “I’m hoping they’ll both reduce local property taxes and increase public school funding,” he says. “Both the taxpayers and the children deserve it. Everyone knows the system is broken. We can see marginal changes that will, hopefully, help districts like AISD that are making the larg-est [recapture] payments, [but] my hope is that we have a serious session about serious issues, and there’s no more serious issue than every child being able to graduate life-ready. We can reform the system and ensure equity across the state of Texas.” Last session, these same challenges got punted with little time left on the clock, after much game time was spent on sanctuary cities and bathroom bills and other right-wing bogeymen that, often as not, were made in Austin’s likeness. Hence Rodriguez’s reference to a “serious session,” and Adler’s plea to “make sure all the social-issue things that got in the way last session, and sucked out all the oxygen, don’t come back.” The silver lining of Abbott’s tax caterwauling, Eckhardt says, is that “the Legislature will need to have a meaningful conversation about school funding, and about emergency response to flood and fire and the difference between local and state financing of those investments. That would be a very healthy thing.”

Rodriguez does not feel he can simply wish and hope here: “We have $60 million to cut in three years and have to be good stewards now,” he says. “We can show good governance on our board, good stewardship of our resources, and the consequences of a broken sys-tem that wasn’t intended to take $673 million away from a majority economically disadvantaged district. But I don’t want to continue to have adult conversations about adult issues without actually talking about outcomes for our children.” Both Adler and Eckhardt anticipate lobbying the Lege as part of Central Texas coalitions and alongside the rest of big-city Texas. “We’re all going to do the best that we can within the limits of our influence,” Eckhardt says, adding that the bluer hue of Williamson and Hays counties lends itself to bipartisan conversations. And, “I hope legislators and state leadership recognize that Austin landed the [U.S. Army] Futures Command because of the culture that we have, and that Apple is doing its $1 billion expansion because the people they want to hire want to live here,” says Adler. “We’ll always be arguing and fighting to keep what’s special about Austin, so we can continue to be a part of the state’s diversified portfolio of cities.” – Mike Clark-Madison

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AC: Another issue prominent in your campaign was health care.JB: I think we’ve got to do everything we can to keep attention on Medicaid expansion. Standing in the way of Medicaid expansion is standing in the way of Texas. It’s truly a bene-fit to our state; it would bring billions of dol-lars into our economy, and it would help mil-lions of Texans get the health care they need.

AC: The governor is not simply talking about lowering taxes, but making it impossible for local jurisdictions to increase taxes.JB: That’s why we have local elections; the people pick local officials to make those decisions, and it shouldn’t be our job at the Legislature. In districts that are growing rap-idly, like mine, you’d really cripple the econo-my, and you’re gonna cripple schools.

AC: What issues do you think most directly affect your district?JB: Transportation is a major issue without an easy solution. The [MetroRail] Red Line runs through my district, and it’s really successful. Some times you hear jokes about the train in our community, but the Red Line is at max capacity during rush hour. I think it’s proof that people will use this kind of mass transporta-tion, and we need to be investing more in it.

Rep. Erin Zwiener (HD 45)Austin Chronicle (Nina Hernandez): Your win made a lot of Democrats happy on election night.Erin Zwiener: It’s nice to be one of the sur-prises. I joke that I’m the only person who wasn’t surprised, but the truth is there were a lot of people in Hays County doing the work on the ground that saw what was coming. We had a primary and a run-off. I first started knocking on doors in May 2017.

AC: I bet you’ve talked a lot about school finance in that time. EZ: Especially [because] I have these brand-new neighborhoods in Kyle and Buda. A lot of folks don’t know anything about Hays County politics, or were just new voters in general, or very infrequent voters. We talked to a lot of folks who were unlikely to turn out. And a lot of folks didn’t realize that the reason their property taxes were going up so dramat-ically is because of the Lege’s failure to fund public schools.

AC: What have you heard from constituents about how they’d like to see you work with Republicans?

EZ: I’m a progressive Democrat. That was in no way a secret. I did not move to the middle during the general [election], even though a lot of folks told me I should. But I think authenticity is important, and I think we’re in a moment where people want politicians to tell them how they really feel. And I don’t have the stomach to say [only] half of what I mean. But we were clear that being progressive and being tribalist weren’t the same thing. I am ready to sit down with anyone when it is con-sistent with my values. And with public school finance, I think we have a real opportunity. The needs across Texas – whether Republican or Democrat or independent or nonvoter – are best met by making sure the state pays its fair share. There’s no one whose interest that isn’t in. And both parties know it.

AC: Does the makeup of your district put you in a better position to make strides in that area?EZ: I believe so. We stretch from the very edge of Austin to a small city [San Marcos] to working-class suburbs to wealthy suburbs and then to very rural. There aren’t a lot of districts that have that makeup, and there are even fewer represented by Democrats. It will make it easier to build alliances with some more moderate Republicans from rural areas. The big question with school finance is going to be how to find more funding so we aren’t just pitting our districts against each other, and I know many of the more moderate Republicans want to find new sources of funding. But it’s a hard vote for them to take. n

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Native Austinite Robert Foster, 29, who has lived near the street’s Guadalupe end since 2015, was largely responsible for rallying neighbors (via tacos and beer parties; how else?) and attracting visitors with a new Facebook page. His handcrafted T. rex (pictured) is an homage to a larger dino that resided at the same spot when he was a kid: “It’s not what you’re expecting,” he says of the outsized lawn ornament. “Pretty much a solid hit with any 7-year-old.”

If you moved to Austin within the past decade, you probably know the Trail of Lights as the city’s premier holiday hot spot, but you may be less aware of another yuletide illumination tradition that’s been a staple for almost as long: the 37th Street lights. Specifically, it’s the stretch of W. 37th Street in the North University neighborhood between Guadalupe Street and Home Lane, which – starting in about 1980 – brought a funkier sort of Christmas cheer by way of copious strands of lights and decorations decking out nearly every house on the street, easily walkable or drivable for most of December. The lights literally dimmed in 2008 when the original creators – a loosely organized group led by former resident Jamie Lipman – moved away. But after two years of attempted revival, the spectacle returned almost full-force this winter thanks to the combined efforts of spirited millen-nials, several lingering old-schoolers, and the power of social media. As a Hyde Park native him-self, “Snapshot” was eager to revisit the old, familiar stretch, which burns bright through Jan. 5.

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A quick stroll down the driveway next door and you’ll find a stuffed animal petting zoo. You can actually apply to adopt the cuddly critters via intake forms on hand.

“I think the secret this year, why we have a little bit more

than previous [years, is] there’s a little bit more of

that one-upmanship,” says Foster, who mentioned as

an example this spiderweb-with-Santa-ensnared setup down the way. “It’s a weird

alternative for everyone that doesn’t fit into the normal

Christmas mold, who doesn’t enjoy going to see a house

covered in white with a little baby manger in the front.”

Though plenty of secular showiness still abounds (some might remember the Flying Spaghetti Monster prevalent throughout the Nineties), things have clearly evolved. Case in point: this home’s trap music-inspired display (yeah, that’s rapper 2 Chainz in the window).

Fittingly, the attraction’s longest-running residents, Tracy Firsching and Brian Birzer (involved since ’99), occupy the final stop just around the bend at Home Lane and 35th Street. Its sprawling schemes, including a psychedelic tunnel and sock monkey nativity, strive to evoke an old-school spirit when, as Firsching describes it, “you get that little tingly feeling and you’re like, ‘Ah yeah … Austin still does have the magic!’”

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That tunnel, a bamboo-shrouded path marked by “hiking trail” signs, inspires wonder and confusion: “I was just following people through the trail [and] there was this kid in front of me,” Birzer recalls, “and he’s like, ‘Is this real?’ So I guess if we were able to make an 8-year-old kid question reality …” Firsching finishes the sentence: “… our job is done.”


Once upon a time, a taleteller happened upon an idea for a new story. So he began eagerly stitching words together that he might share this story across the land. But a shadow fell across the taleteller, sapping his strength. Each day, he grew weaker, but he was resolved to finish the story and so began stringing words faster and choosing words to add in later. The shadow, however, was impatient and enveloped the taleteller before he could stitch “The End.” So his story was left incomplete, seeming never to be finished. But then …. That story is and is not Jason Tremblay’s. It’s not his in that he didn’t write it. (If he had, the prose would’ve been considerably more polished and compelling.) But it’s his in that he lived it. Two years ago, the Austin playwright had begun work on a new proj-ect for Theatre Heroes, a company he’d founded with Noel Gaulin to make quality theatre for young audiences. It drew on the Russian folk tale “Vasilisa the Beautiful,” in which the heroine is forced by her cruel stepmother to retrieve fire from the fear-some witch Baba Yaga, but with elements of the Grimm brothers’ “Hansel and Gretel” added in. As he worked on it, though, the cancer he’d been fighting for more than two

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years – intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, more fearsome than Baba Yaga – took hold of him. Sensing he would not have the three years that it took to develop Call of the Wild into a solo vehicle for Gaulin, Tremblay worked feverishly to finish a first draft of the play, now titled Gretel! The Musical. He had begun making notes for staging it when he died on April 3, 2017, at the age of 39. With most writers, that draft might have been slipped into a drawer where it would remain incomplete for eternity. But Jason Tremblay was not most writers.

SURVIVE TO THRIVE “Jason Tremblay – Our Theatre Hero” read the Paramount Theatre marquee on the day of his passing. It was a visible mea-sure of Tremblay’s connections throughout the arts community – as a playwright, direc-tor, producer, stage manager, teacher, and human being – and the regard in which he was held. Serving others was fundamental to his character and had been since his youth in Pine Bluff, Ark., where his volun-teer work with a church group and employ-ment as a social worker assistant height-

Team Gretel! in the Paramount

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FOLLOW THE BREAD CRUMBS That was the first and only song that Tremblay heard for Gretel!. But it had made such an impression on him and he’d become so attached to it in his final weeks that his widow Sheila asked Luck to sing it at a memorial service on April 30, 2017. It wasn’t to be a requiem, though, for either Tremblay or his play. The message of the song had begun to work a magic on the people con-nected with the musical. It started with Sheila, who came to the Paramount the day Tremblay died. Luck recalls standing with her under the marquee honoring “Our Theatre Hero”: “She is weeping, and the thing that comes out of her mouth is, ‘Gretel! is going to live.’ It was profound to me that this was so much on her mind even in that moment.” The universe kept sending signals that Gretel! was meant to live. The next came a week after the memorial service, when Luck went to Berkeley for a national con-ference of theatre for young audiences. Before Tremblay died, Luck had been invited to take part in a song slam, and she wanted to sing “Survive.” He’d agreed and helped her submit the song for approval. But after his death, she wasn’t sure it was appropriate. When Luck asked Sheila what she should do, Sheila replied, “You’re going to sing it. Jason would be so pissed [if you didn’t].” So Luck sang it, and in the crowd was a teacher of and mentor to both Luck and Tremblay, former head of UT’s playwriting program/Theatre for Youth professor Suzan Zeder. She had known of Gretel! and after Jason’s death told Sheila Tremblay she’d help with it in any way she could. But that was before she had any personal connection to the project. “The minute I heard ‘Survive,’ every hair on the back of my head stood up,” Zeder says. That led to “a momentous lunch” with Luck in Berkeley where Zeder said, “I’m in. Whatever you need from me: advice, dramaturgy, whatever you need.” “Well, the play’s not done,” Luck said. Zeder hadn’t anticipated jumping in as playwright, but if what Gretel! needed was work on the script, then she would work on the script. She asked Sheila to send her the draft and the notes Jason had made “to see if there were enough bread crumbs in them to follow Jason’s vision for the play.” The draft arrived first, and Zeder decided to do a pass at it to see if she could get from point A to B to C. “I made two plot changes that were radically different than what was in the draft,” she says. “The next day, I got the handwritten notes. They only go halfway through the script, but in his handwriting were keys to exactly the plot changes I made. Exactly. And I just felt like this was meant to be.”

ened his empathy for people facing hard-ship and loss. A mindfulness of others’ needs and a responsiveness to them fed his approach to any job, whether it was stage managing the X Games or an event with former President Barack Obama; getting Austin Community College students jazzed about Austin theatre; seeing shows for the B. Iden Payne Theatre Awards Nominations Committee; or writing a play to spark the imagination of a kid in rural Texas. Tremblay valued imagination – he put “at least one impossible thing” in every play he wrote – but not for its own sake; he saw imagination as a tool that people – espe-cially young people – could use to overcome loss and move forward in the world, to dis-cover the strength inside themselves that would help them face difficult circumstanc-es. That sentiment is evident in his plays, going back to those he wrote in UT-Austin’s MFA playwriting program, such as Katrina: The Girl Who Wanted Her Name Back, in which a girl had to face down that epic storm with her name. His belief that “chil-dren must be taught to survive in order to thrive” was encoded in his plays’ DNA and figures prominently in the story of Gretel!. After presenting Call of the Wild at the Stateside, Paramount Education Director Jennifer Hartmann Luck asked Tremblay if he had another project in mind. He said he was working on a piece called Vasilisa the Beautiful, to which she said, “Can’t sell it.” “Well, really it’s kind of the origin story of Hansel and Gretel,” he added. That piqued her interest. So Tremblay shared his draft of the play about the girl who lost her mother and was abused by her stepmother and sent to a witch, and said it would be a one-man show, like Call of the Wild, that he’d write and direct, with maybe underscoring by Graham Reynolds. “My friend, this is stunning,” Luck told him, “and you cannot do this.” A girl’s story full of females made only by men? “We are desperately missing some female voice. Then, I literally heard Gretel singing to me. So I said, ‘Would you let me write a song?’” Luck had intended to deal with Tremblay as a presenter, not a collaborator, “so I don’t know what I was thinking, honestly. But being a songwriter, and it was so lyrical the way he wrote it, I could just hear Gretel.” Tremblay said she could, so Luck – who also has an MFA from the UT Department of Theatre & Dance – asked him: Where’s the heat in the piece for you? From his reply, she wrote a song and sent it to him. By this point, Tremblay’s health was failing, and Luck says, “I would get texts from him in the hospital. ‘I’ve been in the hospital all week, but I can’t stop listening to this song. It’s gonna get me out of the hospital.’” The name of the song? “Survive.”

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WHAT DOES GRETEL NEED? As Zeder and Luck began their work in earnest, the project underwent a shift in focus, from the playwright to the play. While Tremblay had left a story and some notes on how he might stage it, no one – not Zeder or Luck, not his creative partner Gaulin or life partner Sheila – could say how much of it he would have kept or discarded in rewrites or production. So Team Gretel! should not be, says Zeder, “slavishly following what we think Jason would have done but trusting in the story and trusting his passion for the tale to lead us where it needed to go. We’re following not Jason but Gretel, trying to figure out: What does Gretel need?” Like, what witch does Gretel need? In Tremblay’s preference for the “Vasilisa” witch over the one in “Hansel and Gretel,” Zeder saw a need for complexity in that opposing figure. “The witch in ‘Hansel and Gretel’ is a one-dimensional character. She deserves to get burned up. She lures people in with candy and eats them up. Baba Yaga is much more complicated. She’s a healer and a witch. Baba is wonderful in that she is not all that she appears to be.” Zeder may be biased. For years, she’s kept a picture of Baba Yaga over her writing desk, and the title charac-ter in her great play Mother Hicks is consid-ered a witch by people in her town. But it also sug-gests one more way in which her participation in Gretel! is “meant to be.” As work progressed, with Noel Gaulin as direc-tor and a vital third col-laborator, Gretel made other needs known. She needed her own voice, so a second actor was added. Her music needed more than a guitar. Taking a cue from the first page of Tremblay’s notes, where he wrote the word “cello” – an instrument he had played since the age of 10 – Luck scored music for the instrument. The result, says Zeder, is “cello is not just an accompani-ment here. Cello is a character. Cello pro-vides an emotional through line.” In August, Zeder provided an update by email: “We are now two drafts and six songs into the piece. Jenn and Noel and I are col-laborating like crazy thru Skype, email, and hours of conversation by phone, and we are in constant touch with Sheila, to be sure that we are honoring Jason’s voice and vision. It truly has a life and a voice of its own, and all of us are now following Gretel! as she tells us what she wants to be.” By October, what Gretel! wanted to be was heard. Zeder came to Austin for a work-shop and reading at the Dougherty Arts Center. Sheila Tremblay was there, hearing the full script with songs for the first time. Luck asked her, “What do you think Jason would think of this?”

“She said, ‘Well, he hates musicals … But that’s not what this is. This is something different. It’s something better, bigger.’ ‘So you think he’d be okay with it?’ ‘Oh, he’d be so okay with it.’” That was a blessing for the creative team, but one consistent with a support shown all through the project’s development. “What’s been stunning to me is the generosity of yes,” says Zeder. “Every time we’ve come to [Sheila and Noel] with something new – ‘You know, we really need three actors.’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Now, what we really need is live cello.’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Now we need a live guitarist.’ ‘Yes.’” Despite the huge risk these add for Theatre Heroes – quadrupling the cast size means quadrupling costs and complicating touring schedules – the response was always “yes.” Luck was able to express her gratitude for that at the Kennedy Center’s 2018 New Visions/New Voices festival. While Gretel! wasn’t one of the plays chosen for a week-long workshop and reading, the musical was an alternate and was invited to present some material. So a year after Tremblay’s death, Luck flew to D.C., to sing – what else? – “Survive.” And it happened to be 10

years after Tremblay won an award for Katrina at the festival. And the day she sang was his birthday. And Sheila Tremblay had come. Festival co-founders Deirdre Kelly Lavrakas and Kim Peter Kovac had asked artists to address the idea of radical commitment to their work, so Luck spoke of radical faith. “I’m standing on the Kennedy Center stage, and I’m about to sing this song that I wrote called ‘Survive,’ and it’s Jason’s birthday, and Sheila’s there. So I thanked her for having the radical faith in Suzan and me to finish the piece.” But this generosity extended beyond the Gretel! team. The Paramount was unequivo-cal about supporting the project. “We have to present this,” Luck recalls Programming Director Lietza Brass saying. So the theatre will present the world premiere of Gretel! The Musical for the public on Mon., Jan. 7, and for four school audiences so a few thou-sand students can experience it as well.

THE STORY WILL OUTLIVE THE TELLER In October of 2018, Gretel! received one last critical element in its journey to life: a workshop outside of Austin. The story of the play’s creation and completion means Gretel! will always have meaning, as Zeder puts it, “in the hothouse of home.” But for it to have a life on stages across the country – which was always the goal – it needed to connect with audiences who didn’t know that story. First Stage in Milwaukee pro-vided that chance in what was a full-circle moment for the project. Jeff Frank, the the-atre’s artistic director, had not only known Tremblay, he’d been in Berkeley when Luck sang “Survive” – “the same event that brought Suzan and I together,” Luck notes. “It was amazing.” And so was the response to Gretel!. “It landed more than Suzan or I could have ever expected,” Luck says. “In this commu-nity,” adds Zeder, “it is freighted with sig-nificance, but to find that the piece itself also has this significance was a revelation.” Seeing Gretel played by a 16-year-old and hearing the cello music played by a 15-year-old was revelatory, too, because it addressed

an issue in the play’s future as a legacy for Tremblay and his family. “If this piece is going to go, it’s got to be able to be done a lot of different ways,” says Zeder. “It can’t be dependent on three excellent adult actors and a musician. It’s got to be able to be done in elementary schools, in high schools, in colleges.” To that end, the team will work with an arts-based school in Maryland on a staging it with 10 middle-schoolers, each playing a different part. And a col-lege in West Virginia will try Gretel! with five actors. “The only thing impor-tant about a legacy is the other leg – it’s the one that

keeps walking,” says Zeder. “That’s what I feel about this piece and about Jason: that this piece is going to walk through elemen-tary schools; this piece is going to walk through colleges; this piece is going to walk through [professional theatres]. So that’s what’s important about a legacy. And what’s wonderful is the play itself proclaims that. It’s embedded in the piece. So it proclaims and it lives itself.” Now, at last, here’s the premiere, directed by Gaulin, starring Estrella Saldaña, Jason Phelps, and Veronica Williams, with Adam Sultan on guitar and Nora Karakousoglou on cello. Over 20 months, the process has involved so many more people and moving parts than first imagined. But Zeder finds a rare value in that. “It’s been an invitation to bring our best selves to the table.” n

Gretel! The Musical will be performed Mon., Jan. 7, 7pm, at the Paramount Theatre, 713 Congress.

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Being savvy to the old saw that “slow and steady wins the race,” you no doubt know the tortoise and the hare, but the question is, which hare? The one who actually engages in the amazing race with the shell-backed rep-tile or the one who trains said reptile for that race in exchange for the tortoise teaching her to read? If the latter hare doesn’t ring a bell, then know that she’s uncom-monly curious among her kind, who are generally more interested in liv-ing fast than chasing knowledge, and courageous in that she dares to cross the con-tentious line between the two species to better herself. And her assistance could save the tortoises’ ancestral lands from being over-run by the hares, who are desperate for new territory since they reproduce like, well, you know. This race’s outcome isn’t about brag-ging rights; winning may be the only way that Kama – not just any tortoise but leader of the tortoises – can preserve her culture, a way of life built around taking one’s time, being in harmony with the environment, and learning. Tortoises sing that the song of life goes on and on, but losing may mean it ends. In this telling of the old story, there’s so much more going on than a long-eared braggart getting his comeuppance from

a modest plodder. Cultures clash, raising questions about competition vs. coopera-tion, tradition vs. progress, majority rule, gender roles, natural selection, conserva-tion, education, whether surface appear-ances matter, respect for others, and

sacrifice for a greater good. Characters gamble their futures on bold actions:

Kama proposes the race because it’s the only chance to postpone the hares’ invasion, and the hare Harper turns tail, as it were, on her tribe

because aiding Kama is her one shot at improving herself. The risks are great, but Tortoise and Hare takes pains to show its audience how rich the rewards are. The slow life of the tortoises, recognizing the worth in

the natural world and community and books, is so enriching and joyful that we want it to survive, and we can see how knowledge fills an empty space in the spirited Harper, who yearns to be more than a pretty face. Ultimately, winning has less to do with per-sistence than with living a fulfilling life. Such an idea is natural in a work by Allen Robertson and Damon Brown, the “Best of Austin” award-winning duo that’s been creat-ing musicals for young audiences for years now (with Robertson, who’s been writing them since the Nineties, having as many to his

Who You Run WithZach Theatre’s delightful, inspiring Tortoise and Hare

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credit as Aesop has fables). Here, as in their takes on Robin Hood (Rob1n), “The Elves and the Shoemaker” (A Shoe Story), and “Stone Soup” (Stone Soup), the team treats a classic tale as a template for exploring contemporary issues that can pit one community against another and finding a resolution that speaks to the value of cooperation and togetherness. Even as the race between Kama and Jackson, president of the hares, looms larger, Tortoise and Hare pulls us to the friendship growing between Kama and Harper. “Our differences are fewer than our many similarities,” they sing in “Stretch,” a number in which they learn they want to “see if all the things that make us different are the things that make us better together than we are alone.” The message is delivered with exuberance and charm in Zach Theatre’s staging. Director Nat Miller capitalizes on the energy in Robertson’s genre-spanning score – bouncy pop anthems, tasty funk, and musical-theatre hip-hop rapped at light speed – to propel his

cast along like they’re in a race. But the brisk pace is never at the expense of character. The story is grounded in the humility and con-scientiousness of Leslie Ann Leal’s Kama, who we can see shoulders a burden heavier than the backpack-shell she wears; in the pluck and hunger of Megan Hudson’s Harper, who shows us how much she wants to break free of the image she’s been stuck with; in the cockiness of Austin Hyde’s Jackson, who wears his confidence as slickly as his suits. And in the enthusiasm and commitment of the ensemble members, whether they’re playing tortoises or hares. With delightfully imaginative costumes by Jaimee Garner and choreography by Sara Burke, these are two fully bonded communities whose competition is delightful to watch and whose union is inspiring. “It’s not what you’re running from. It’s not what you’re running to,” goes the finale. “It’s who you’re running with that’s all that matters.” Who are you running with?

THEATREOPENING

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GILBERT & SULLIVAN SING-ALONG The best way to start out the new year, the local Gilbert & Sullivan Society chapter insists, is by singing the songs of Gilbert & Sullivan. Here’s your chance to join other devotees celebrating the arrival of 2019 with classic choruses. Selections will include songs from The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, H.M.S.

Pinafore, Princess Ida, and more. Wand’ring Minstrels Director Robert Schneider will be there to lead the audience, with Jeanne Sasaki as piano accompa-nist. Sun., Jan. 6, 2pm. Genesis Presbyterian Church, 1507 Wilshire, 512/478-2565. Free. www.gilbertsullivan.org.

GRETEL! This is what our cover story’s talking about: The final play of Jason Tremblay, based on the tales of Vasilisa the Beautiful from Russia and the Grimm Brothers’ Hansel and Gretel. Presented by Theatre Heroes with projected scenic elements, three actors, and live music. Obviously, see p.18 for much more. Mon., Jan. 7, 7pm. Paramount Theatre, 713 Congress, 512/472-5470. $10-65. www.austintheatre.org.

CLOSINGA TUNA CHRISTMAS The City Theatre com-pany takes on Joe Sears and Jaston WIlliams’ classic about holiday antics in the third-smallest town in Texas, with Scot Friedman and Rick Smith handling the many roles and Robyn Conner directing. Through Jan. 5. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm. Trinity Street Theatre, 901 Trinity, 512/524-2870. $15-25 ($10, Thursdays). www.citythe-atreaustin.org.

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COLDTOWNE THEATER 4803-B Airport, 512/814-8696. www.coldtownetheater.com

TOP COMEDY SPOT ON AIRPORT Yes, there’s Sugar, Water, Purple on Wednesday nights. And this Thursday features Friends For Now, a daring supergroup of improv, and then the improvised PowerPoint stand-up of Spitballin’. Friday brings Movie Riot and the laugh-inducing ladies of Loverboy and that Live at ColdTowne stand-up showcase hosted by Carina Magyar. Then there’s Saturday, with the geezeriffic romances of Old Love and Katie Stone’s 30 Rockin’ One Hour ’Til Air ensemble, followed by a gathering of that mysterio-comedic Midnight Society. And Sunday’s got a Live Album Recording with Michael Priest for your sustained hilarity, and – see website for more!

ESTHER’S FOLLIES 525 E. Sixth, 512/320-0553. www.esthersfollies.com

ESTHER’S: BALLOTS & BREWSKIS Ah, the fun seldom pauses, with musical comedy skits, magic, and a political satirical revue with the bustling back-drop of Sixth Street on view through the stagefront window! Esther’s rolls out The Trump Musical that’s chock full of 45’s worst nightmares, the sweatin’-to-the-free-market aerobics of the Paul Ryan Workout, the classic Dysfunctional Family Holiday sketch, and much more. Bonus: That sexy magician Ray Anderson is going to … walk right through a mirror? See it hap-pen here tonight! Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $25-35.

FALLOUT THEATER 616 Lavaca, 616/676-7209. www.falloutcomedy.com

UNDERGROUND COMEDY This basement venue is dedicated to “bringing the best in alterna-tive comedy with shows seven nights a week.” For instance: Rob Gagnon’s unpredictable Sandbox on Tuesdays, the all-female comedy showcase called Garage on Wednesdays, the inarguable power of Sure Thing hosted by Duncan Carson and Brendan K. O’Grady every Friday night, and Arielle Norman’s Off-Script Comedy (where hecklers are rewarded) on the third Saturday of each month, and – see website for more!

Shit’s Golden A whole ’nother year of that golden, golden shit from hosts Chris Tellez and Pat Dean is on its way, comedy lover, with this first show of 2019 starting things off with the mighty likes of Danny Goodwin, Avery Moore, Mario Digorgio, Enzo Priesnitz, Rob Gagnon, Brett Vervoort, Jay Whitecotton, and Caleb Lush. Mon., Jan. 7, 9:30pm. Spider House Ballroom, 2906 Fruth, 512/480-9562. $2-5. www.spiderhouseaustin.com.



THE HIDEOUT THEATRE & COFFEE HOUSE 617 Congress, 512/476-1313. www.hideouttheatre.com

IT’S … HIDEOUTRAGEOUS! Two stages, more fun. This Thursday, it’s an early PGraph show, followed by the anything-goes Free Fringe. Friday’s got the Fancy-Pants Mashup, the all-star Big Bash shindig, and a Threefer, and that battle royale of TheatreDome to finish the night. And on Saturday night, after Maestro RAW, it’s Mischief Managed – which surely hasn’t anything to do with Hogwarts or even, ah, Pigfarts (on Mars), right? – and then the competitive improv donnybrook of Maestro! And – see website for more!

VELVEETA ROOM 521 E. Sixth, 512/766-8358. www.thevelveetaroom.com

TREY GALYON Yessirree, it’s NYC’s own comedic antihero, that loveable stoner of stand-up, starting off your Cheese Palace year after those McCuewans open with their comedy of biblical pro-portions. Jan. 4-5. Fri., 9pm; Sat., 9 & 11pm. $10.

BUT WAIT – THERE’S MORE!COMEDYSPORTZ Two teams of improvisers compete for points and laughter in this family-friendly show based on audience suggestions. Saturdays, 7:30pm. Zach North, 12129 Hwy. 620 N. $12. www.comedysportzaustin.com.

BUZZKILL AT THE BUZZ MILL Looking for a regular Wednesday night stand-up showcase? Tyler Groce and Angelina Martin are the new hosts of Buzzkill at the Buzz Mill, and they’re fixing to show you a laughing good time. Wednesdays, 9pm. Buzz Mill Coffee, 1505 Town Creek, 512/912-9221. Free. www.buzzmillcoffee.com.

DANCEBALLET AUSTIN Ballet Austin offers a wide variety of dance classes throughout the week all year long. Workshops for the absolute beginner adult include ballet, modern, classical Indian dance, samba, and hula. Also, they have an ongoing series of Videodance classes based on songs by Janet Jackson, Rihanna, and more. See website for details. Ballet Austin, 501 W. Third, 512/476-9151. www.balletaustin.org.

AUSTIN SWING SYNDICATE: SOCIAL DANCING You know that the Syndicate holds one of the longest running and best-attended weekly swing dances in the country, right? Make note! There’s an absolute beginner lesson which starts at 8pm, then social dancing to live music or DJs from 9pm until midnight. All ages are welcome. Thursdays, 8pm. Texas Federation of Women’s Clubs Ballroom, 2312 San Gabriel, 512/476-5845. $7. www.austinswingsyndicate.org.

ACC DANCE CLASSES The Dance Department of Austin Community College offers classes in modern, jazz, ballet, and improvisation techniques, with student work produced twice a year in the Choreographers’ Showcase. Teachers include Ellen Bartel, Jessica Cox, Kathy Dunn Hamrick, Roxanne Gage, Darla Johnson, Sunny Shen, Catherine Solaas, and Melissa Watt. Note: Classes can be taken for credit and applied toward your degree. ACC Highland Business Center, 5930 Middle Fiskville, 512/223-7198. Prices vary, scholarships available. www.austincc.edu/dance.

LOOKING FOR MORE DANCE CLASSES? Swing? Ballet? Tango? Pole dancing? We’ve got myriad classes listed online, with all manner of schools waiting to get your feet firmly on the floor – or soaring through the air – to joyful moves.

CLASSICAL MUSICLA FOLLIA: A WORLD TOUR OF BAROQUE ORCHESTRAL MASTERWORKS La Follia’s 23-piece Baroque orchestra performs masterworks from England, Italy, Germany, and France, includ-ing Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks, Vivaldi’s “Summer” from The Four Seasons, Bach’s Orchestral Suite in D major, and Charpentier’s march from the Te Deum. Jan. 5-6. Sat., 7pm; Sun., 3pm. Redeemer Presbyterian Church, 2111 Alexander. $10-30.

LINE UPON LINE: COMPOSER FESTIVAL What’s happening to glorify and intrigue your aural experi-ence of life at this festival from Austin’s most progressive percussive ensemble? Performances by line upon line and festival faculty (Sat., Jan. 5, 8pm); each of the seven festival composers plays a short set of their choosing (Sun., Jan. 6, 8pm); the line upon line group performs world premieres of new works by festival composers (Sat., Jan. 12, 8pm). Jan. 5-12. First Street Studio, 2410 E. Cesar Chavez #202. $10-18. www.lineuponlinepercussion.org.

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WANDER Austin’s innovative Art In Public Places project has conjured up an excellent choose-your-own-adventure sort of experience that incorporates actual sculpture on display around our urban hub. Roam the streets, roam the art, deep in the heart of Texas. All the time, any time. www.wanderatx.com.

ROHIT RECORDS: RELEASE PARTY FOR THE CLOSING Holy Mingering Mike, citizen! Here’s one hell of a fine immersive fantasy, in which a fellow named Rohitash Rao has conjured an entire a record store for bands that don’t exist – filled with album cov-ers, concert posters, and T-shirts manufactured from Rao’s own wild musical mythology. And now, on the closing night of the show, the artist is having a record release party for one of those bands that doesn’t exist, as performed by an actual band. Thu., Jan. 3, 6-9pm. Link & Pin, 2235 E. Sixth #102, 512/900-8952. www.linkpinart.com.

LANDMARKS GUIDED TOUR This is a themed walking tour exploring modern and contem-porary sculpture on the UT campus. See examples of Formalism and Conceptualism in the Landmarks collection, and learn how these movements evolved. Note: Meet in front of Joel Perlman’s Square Tilt in front of the Perry Castañeda Library. Sun., Jan. 6, 11am. 101 E. 21st. Free. www.landmarks.utexas.edu.

CLOSINGGALLERY LUCID: MINDSCAPES Elliot Rogers’ first solo show offers “hypnotic spaces and surreal mindscapes which reflect his inner meditative visions and explore the connection between the self and the alien other.” It’s all trippy AF, in other words – and the closing party will be awash with live music and fancy libations. Closing reception: Sat., Jan. 5, 6pm. Gallery Lucid, 7101 Easy Wind #3101, 512/969-9962. www.gallerylucid.com.

ICOSA: THE MATTER AT HAND This is a two-person exhibition featuring the work of Darcie Book and Sarah Hirneisen, in which the artists push the boundar-ies of traditional artmaking techniques. Book stretch-es the possibilities of painting by navigating between the two- and three-dimensional, while Hirneisen uses mold-making and casting to remake everyday objects into unexpected new forms. Through Jan. 5. ICOSA, 916 Springdale, 512/920-2062. www.icosacollective.com.

Having spent this past year engaging with theatre by (and for) marginalized groups, I’ve grown an appreciation for the fellowships these productions inspire. A platform for rep-resentation in the arts allows disenfranchised creatives to make meaningful connections with one another, providing unwavering sup-port in the faces of both success and failure. Unsurprisingly, this sort of fraternity makes for damn good improv – as evidenced by ColdTowne Theater’s weekly showcase Can We Kick It? This current residency in ColdTowne’s Wednesday, 8:30pm time slot is hosted by “Austin’s first marginalized improv troupe,” Sugar, Water, Purple. Assembled by creative Kenah Benefield, this group lends a unified voice to some of the city’s most prolific black improvisers, including the first graduate of Austin’s five major improv schools, Chris Villafano. The evening I attend-ed also featured a special guest performance by Y’all We Asian, the collective of enter-tainers of Asian descent that received the 2018 Ethel Hinkley Award for Outstanding New Improvisational Troupe from the B. Iden Payne Theatre Awards Council – an honor bestowed upon Sugar, Water, Purple one year prior. Kicking off this night’s showcase was ColdTowne’s own Kinkade, whose brief open-ing set featured side-splitting displays from community favorites Nathan Sowell and Emma Holder. They were followed by Y’all We Asian, who used the audience sugges-tion of “zoo” as the setting for bizarre tales of unscrupulous businessmen, tense family vacations, and freedom-hungry lions. The gracefulness with which the group’s mem-bers functioned as a crew was striking. Most apparent in scenes involving standouts Yola Lu and G-Su Paek, the chemistry these impro-visers shared allowed for the seizing of many unique comedic opportunities. One unusual aspect of this set, however, was how often the performers laughed at their own jokes. While this seems like a potential detraction, oddly enough, I found these occasional character breaks entertain-

ing in much the same way a movie’s blooper reel can inspire infectious laughter. A troupe having as much fun as their audience can be quite endearing. As Y’all We Asian left the stage, I found myself smiling as if I had spent an evening catching up with my funniest acquaintances. In closing the night, Sugar, Water, Purple’s six members built a set around the unique audience suggestion of “dementia.” Starting things off was a freestyle rap by Symply Courtney that, despite a gleefully off-color chorus (“When I say ‘dementia,’ you say ‘Huh!’”), showcased this affable comedian’s apt lyrical prowess, creating an energetic rhythm for the vignettes to come. Following Courtney’s rap, the full group returned to the stage and began their show from the top (as if the past 10 minutes were forgotten), intro-ducing themselves once more before spilling

into the crowd and hounding audience members for sug-gestions. To me, this fourth-wall breaking, improvised déjà vu encapsulates what makes Sugar, Water, Purple so captivating: a willingness to commit to ambitious ideas as

a group, no matter how unconventional they may seem. Rather than aiming for a cheap laugh every 30 seconds, these improvisers are willing to let comedic premises gestate, growing them as a unit until they either soar spectacularly or hit a dead end. Thanks to moments like these, the group earned the night’s biggest laughs by far but also deliv-ered a few of its rockiest moments. Still, the way that Sugar, Water, Purple’s members steadfastly stand behind each other, allowing one another to step off the beaten path and explore new comedic opportunities, makes this seasoned troupe well worth engaging. As I left my last theatre show of 2018, I felt a renewed appreciation for the human connections that create memorable impro-vised theatre. Not escaping me was the irony that two troupes historically denied repre-sentation in improv both exhibited a powerful understanding of what makes the art form so endearing. – Trey Gutierrez

SUGAR, WATER, PURPLE:

CAN WE KICK IT?ColdTowne Theater

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Ongoing

Light Wheel: VivekaThe acclaimed dancer Reshma Gajjar per-

forms an artistic expression of Light Wheel’s album See Through, further enhanced by visu-

als, lighting, and creative set design. Bonus: Oliver Rajamani, Nori, and Tyler Barber.

Fri.-Sat., Jan. 4-5, 7-10pm. Ground Floor Theatre, 979 Springdale, 512/840-1804. $15.

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Joterías“An action, saying, sentence, voice, accent, gesture, or posture that is perceived as gay or gender-nonconforming.” Tatiana Cholula returns with her hotter-than-hot showcase serving up the best of Austin’s Latinx performers, games, and food too. Bring those dollars and clap those hands for Papi Churro, Ruby Knight, and Banshee Rose, with extra-special guests Bulimianne Rhapsody and Chola Magnolia. Fri., Jan. 4, 10pm-1am. Hive Mind Hair Co., 3011 N. I-35. $7.

Lesbian Wedding: Twenty Nine Teen DreamLet’s ring in the new year with cake cake cake cake and more. Hey Jellie and Pelvis Wrestley lay down the sounds with DJs Trust the Wizard Danielle Norris from Chicago, Austin’s very own Chorizo Funk, and Jess Boom J Boom Mateik coming in from Provincetown. Feeling 2019 kinda fresh? Get yer pic snapped in the Teen Dream Lesbo Photo Booth. And while you’re living large, snag Homo Photo Club’s latest Butch Feelings calendar and a badge to the one and only OUTsider Fest. Sun., Jan. 6, 2-8pm. The Sahara Lounge, 1413 Webberville Rd.

I’VE NEVER BEEN ONE FOR RESOLUTIONS, but during my week away, I found myself making promises to myself. Maybe it’s age or the current political climate and the looming 86th Texas legislative session (which starts Tuesday, Jan. 8!), but I need 2019 to be better and easier than the last two years. Now I’m back at my desk, and I promise to y’all: Qmmunity 2019 will be bigger, badder (in the best way), and queerer than ever. From Austin’s explosive drag scene to pop-up parties, Pride celebrations, and our city’s plethora of queer festivals (did we mention OUTsider is coming up Feb. 20-24), you’ll be sure to find previews, highlights, spotlights, and more within our print and online pages. But because it’s not all fun and games and glitter, you’ll also be able to track what’s happening at the Capitol as it pertains to LGBTQ+ rights. For instance, did you know state Rep. Celia Israel has already filed a bill (House Bill 517) that – if passed – would allow state agencies to take disciplinary action against mental health care providers who practice conversion therapy on Texas youth? This bill puts Texas on track to join 14 other states (and D.C.) who’ve already banned the inhumane practice. HB 517, Israel said, is an “important step forward for the health and safety of our children, because LGBTQ Texans don’t need to be ‘fixed.’ We need love and support.” So let’s support what we can, fight wherever is needed, and continue to celebrate and support our beautiful qmmunity in 2019!


For all Qmmunity listings see austinchronicle.com/qmmunity and send yer queer’d events to [email protected].

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Q’ D UPSURVEY FOR QPOC COMMUNITIES To improve allgo’s health care provider trainings and ensure better care for QPOC patients. Deadline: Jan. 31, 2019. www.allgo.org.

CLASS TRANSITIONS An intimate strength training class for Austin’s trans community. Thursdays, 6:30-7:30pm. Transform, 1909 Wheless. $15. www.transformfitnessaustin.com.

UNBEARABLE: NEW YEAR, WHO DIS? CupCake, CisterWife, and special guest Fausto Fernós help Chique and Bulimianne usher in 2019. Thu., Jan. 3, 10:30pm. The Iron Bear, 121 W. Eighth.

QUEER TRANS NEW YEAR’S SOCIAL Chillax at the Q with music, merriment, and a sharing of 2019 resolutions. Sat., Jan. 5, 11am-3pm. The Q Austin, 1023 Springdale, Bldg. 14. www.theqaustin.org.

NEW YEAR, NEW VIBES A pre-Lege session meetup with the ATX DSA Queer Coalition. Sat., Jan. 5, 5-7pm. Full Circle, 1810 E. 12th. www.fb.com/queercoalition.

AUSTIN GEARS NIGHT A safe zone for all kinds of kink. Be cool, come as you like. Sat., Jan. 5, 10pm. The Iron Bear, 121 W. Eighth.

SUNDAYS AT BT2 Burgers and hot dogs at 4pm and Drag Bingo from 5-7pm, followed by Latin Night. Sundays, 5pm. Bout Time II, 6607 N. I-35.

SEASON 30 AUDITIONS Capital City Men’s Chorus is looking for fresh meat to join their choir. Email for a time slot. Mon.-Tue., Jan. 7-8, 6pm. Trinity United Methodist Church, 4001 Speedway. [email protected].

LEZBEYOND HAPPY HOUR! A lady, queer, questioning happy hour. Mon., Jan. 7, 4-7pm. St. Genevieve, 11500 Rock Rose Ave.

EQTX FUNDRAISER WITH NEW WATERLOO Gather yer crew for a fancy Monday dinner – 10% of dinner sales get donated to EQTX. Mon., Jan. 7, 5-11pm. La Condesa, 400-A W. Second. www.equalitytexas.org.

AUSTIN LGBTQ CHAMBER OF COMMERCE LUNCHEON A fancy lunch with Austin’s gayest chamber. Kick off the new year networking. Tue., Jan. 8, 11am-1pm. Truluck’s, 10225 Research #4000. www.austinlgbtchamber.com.

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MUSICAL DIRECTION BY ALLEN ROBERTSON

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“TAMMIE RUBIN: EVERYTHING YOU EVER”Women & Their Work, 1710 Lavaca, 512/477-1064www.womenandtheirwork.orgThrough Jan. 10

BLANTON MUSEUM’S MAKING AFRICA: A CONTINENT OF CONTEMPORARY DESIGN This new exhibition, organized by the Vitra Design Museum and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, presents the work of more than 120 artists and designers, displaying sculpture, prints, fashion, furniture, film, photography, apps, maps, digital com-ics, and more to show how African design generates innovative design approaches and solutions with worldwide relevance. Through Jan. 6. The Blanton Museum of Art, 200 E. MLK, 512/471-7324. www.blantonmuseum.org.

HARRY RANSOM CENTER: ARCHAEOLOGY AND ROMANCE Ed Ruscha, anyone? We’ll bet yes – we’re big fans ourselves – and now, here’s a diverse selection of the celebrated American artist’s books, photographs, drawings, and prints; with archi-val production materials, preliminary sketches, and studio notebooks; with more than 150 objects provid-ing visitors an unprecedented look into Ruscha’s cre-ative process. Through Jan. 6. Harry Ransom Center, 300 W. 21st, 512/471-8944. www.hrc.utexas.edu.

GUZU GALLERY: BINGE That Vince Torres and his astonishing cohort of creatives have garnered more graphic goodness for those Guzu walls, with 26 artists paying tribute to shows from the small screen via stylish renditions of characters and settings from television’s past and present. Featuring hom-ages by Chet Phillips, Tessa Morrison, Killian Glenn, Half-Human, Nina Sanchez, and more. Where’s your fandom at, baby? It’s probably right here, right now. Through Jan. 7. Guzu Gallery, 5000 N. Lamar, 512/454-4898. www.guzugallery.com.

MEXIC-ARTE MUSEUM: NEW HOLIDAY EXHIBITIONS “Chapel Shrine” showcases the paintings of Austin artist John Patrick Cobb, whose works of Biblical imagery are inspired by the religious paintings he encountered in European chapels. “Nacimientos” features traditional Nativity scenes from Mexico. Through Jan. 8. Mexic-Arte Museum, 419 Congress, 512/480-9373. www.mexic-artemuseum.org.

CREATIVE OPPORTUNITIESMACC: ART CLASSES Sculpting, working in clay and paper pulp, painting with acrylics: The Mexican American Cultural Center offers many oppor-tunities for learning a craft. See website for details. Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, 600 River, 478-6222. www.maccaustin.org.

HELIOS FUSED GLASS STUDIO Learn while they burn at this professional studio – a nationally recognized teaching facility and retailer of fusible glass and supplies. Helios Kiln Glass Studio, 10700 Anderson Mill Rd., 512/996-0960. www.heliosglass.com.

ATELIER DOJO This school of representational art is led by four world-class locals, teaches draw-ing and painting (both fundamental and advanced programs), has open studios with live modeling, a schedule of workshops featuring visiting artists from around the world, and is located in the heart of Big Medium’s Canopy complex. Need we paint you a better picture? Recommended. Canopy, 916 Springdale. www.atelierdojo.com.

There’s an occupation going on within the Women & Their Work gallery right now, an invasion of what seems to be static explo-sions of enhanced plant life, a midair ballet

of odd horticulture replicating the patterns of chaos embodied by the ball moss that grows on, that festoons, so many trees in this part of the country.

BUTRIDGE GALLERY: 2020 CALL FOR ARTISTS The Julia C. Butridge Gallery is now accepting exhibit proposals for 2020. Located at the Dougherty Arts Center in the heart of the arts district, the JCB Gallery is known for its diverse exhibitions of artists and their work. Deadline: Sun., Feb 17, 2019. Dougherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Rd., 512/974-4000. www.doughertyartscenter.submittable.com/submit.

BLUE MOON GLASSWORKS This Hyde Park epicenter of everything silica-based and lovely offers instruction on glass fusing, leaded glass, precious-metal clay, and much more. Blue Moon Glassworks, 108 W. 43rd, 512/380-0770. www.austinbluemoon.com.

SATURDAY MORNING DRAWING SALON Elisabet Ney’s magnificent sculptural works can be your models in her own historic artist studio, with each session hosted by museum educators and all of the required materials provided. Note: This is free and open to everyone, regardless of age or level of experience. Sat., Jan. 5, 10am-noon. Elisabet Ney Museum, 304 E. 44th, 512/974-1625. Free. www.austintexas.gov/elisabetney.

BOOKSXAVIER ATKINS: GRACE STREET ALLEY The New Orleans-based author presents his debut collection of 27 interlinked stories “that follow a char-acter named Levy Bahm as he navigates education, love, race, work, drink, and violence.” Mon., Jan. 7, 7pm. BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 512/472-5050. www.bookpeople.com.

PATRICIA SMILEY, MATT COYLE, AND PUJA GUHA Thrillers? International crime fiction? Yes – and these are three authors who make that happen. Smiley’s Second Goodbye, Coyle’s Wrong Light, and Guha’s Ahriman Legacy books will be pre-sented on this night. Wed., Jan. 9, 7pm. BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 512/472-5050. www.bookpeople.com.

TURK PIPKIN: A CHRISTMAS SONG The local author and actor and philanthropic mover-and-shaker presents this long-awaited sequel to his When Angels Sing (which ICYMI was made into a movie with Harry Connick Jr., Connie Britton, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson). Thu., Jan. 10, 7pm. BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 512/472-5050. www.bookpeople.com.

Austin’s own Tammie Rubin, an assistant professor of sculpture and ceramics at St. Edward’s University, is the general of this bromeliad army, the creative force behind its structured incursion. It’s called “Everything You Ever.” These fibrous and knotty sculptures are not just evocations of a naturally occur-ring phenomenon, though, but also a sort of commentary, I’m thinking, on how art – how the urge toward human mark-making – affects nature and human perceptions of nature, especially after those natural objects have been filtered through an acutely aware mind, a skilled hand, and the intentions of someone who will sometimes drench her complex mossifications with liquid clay “slip” or set them atop portions of small ceramic vessels built to hold them. That’s not just sculpting, that earthy coat-ing, but what you might call “ensculpturing.” What arch critique of the creative process, of the artistic sublimation of landscape ele-ments, is being conjured here? Conjured is definitely the word. As sure as there’s a Tumblr called “The Only Magic Left Is Art,” there’s a sort of modern witchery going on in this show, and it’s informed by local bits of our planet’s floral infrastructure – even though the plants in consideration here aren’t, say, mistletoe or belladonna. Here’s Rubin, updating the ancient druidic manipu-lation of plants by repurposing old rituals toward a display of modern, gallery-spiking

artifacts meant to cast a spell of contempla-tion on visitors – a protean sort of spell that’s as mild or powerful as the receptors within a viewer’s forest of memory will insist. The experience of “Everything You Ever” puts this reporter in mind of that episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker from the Seventies, “The Spanish Moss Murders,” where the myth of the Cajun boogeyman Père Malfait is modernized and used as horrific plot material to titillate TV viewers between commercial breaks. The underpinnings of Rubin’s show are not dissimilar, it seems to me – intima-tions of arcane lore reiterated for present-day exploration and consumption – though of course her creations are much more subtle, non-narrative, and not focused on galvaniz-ing the fear factor that accompanied fictional journo Carl Kolchak’s every adventure. (Note: Ball moss is not a parasite like mis-tletoe, but an epiphyte like its relative, Spanish moss. We sense a possible resonance, in that fact, with the relationship between artists and subjects, critics, and artists.) Darren McGavin’s dead, more’s the pity, and so we’re left without an intrepid Kolchak to help us investigate the deeper potentials of Rubin’s exhibition. But before the show closes, the artist will participate in the latest of Women & Their Work’s “TalkAbout” series – Sat., Jan. 5, 11:30am-12:30pm – where you, citizen journalist, can engage with and question this mossy story’s primary source. – Wayne Alan Brenner

“Everything You Ever” by Tammie Rubin, gallery view

Katherine Arden: Winter of the Witch

The Austin native returns briefly from Vermont to present the conclusion to her bestselling Winternight Trilogy.

Tue., Jan. 8, 7pm. BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 512/472-5050. www.bookpeople.com.

PRIZER ARTS & LETTERS: READING AND LAST CHANCE HOVEY Here’s a party for the last day of Karrie Hovey’s envi-ronmental installation at Prizer, featuring readings by Lize Burr, Dreux Carpenter, Charlotte Gullick, Donna Johnson, Robin Storey Dunn, and Kirk Wilson. Sat., Jan. 5, 2-5pm. Prizer Gallery, 2023 E. Cesar Chavez. Free. www.prizerartsandletters.org.


HUSTON-TILLOTSON WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Vs. Wiley College: Fri., Jan. 4, 5:30pm. Vs. Jarvis Christian: Sat., Jan. 5, 5:30pm. Delco Center, 4601 Pecan Brook, 512/841-8323. www.htu.edu/athletics.

TEXAS STARS Vs. Manitoba Moose: Fri. & Sat., Jan. 4 & 5, 7pm. Vs. Bakersfield Condors: Wed., Jan. 9, 7pm. H-E-B Center, 2100 Avenue of the Stars, Cedar Park, 512/600-5000. $22-50. www.texasstars.com.

HUSTON-TILLOTSON MEN’S BASKETBALL Vs. Wiley College: Fri., Jan. 4, 7:30pm. Vs. Jarvis Christian: Sat., Jan. 5, 7:30pm. Delco Center, 4601 Pecan Brook, 512/841-8323. www.htu.edu/athletics.

SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY MEN’S BASKETBALL Vs. Schreiner. Fri., Jan. 4, 7:30pm. Southwestern University, 1001 E. University Ave., Georgetown, 512/863-6511. www.southwestern.edu.

AUSTIN SPURS Vs. Memphis Hustle: Sat., Jan. 5, noon. Vs. Santa Cruz Warriors: Thu., Jan. 10, 7:30pm. H-E-B Center, 2100 Avenue of the Stars, Cedar Park, 512/236-8333. $6-79. www.austin.dleague.nba.com.

UT MEN’S BASKETBALL Vs. West Virginia. Sat., Jan. 5, 8pm. Frank Erwin Center, 1701 Red River, 512/471-7744. $10-80. www.uterwincenter.com.

ST. EDWARD’S MEN’S BASKETBALL Vs. Daemen College: Sun., Jan. 6, noon. Vs. Dallas Baptist University: Thu., Jan. 10, 7:30pm. Recreation and Convocation Center, 3001 S. Congress. $5. athletics.stedwards.edu.

UT WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Vs. Oklahoma. Wed., Jan. 9, 7pm. Frank Erwin Center, 1701 Red River, 512/471-7744. $6-14. www.uterwincenter.com.

ST. EDWARD’S WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Vs. St. Mary’s. Thu., Jan. 10, 5:30pm. Recreation and Convocation Center, 3001 S. Congress. athletics.stedwards.edu.

TEXAFRIQUE MAKITI MARKET FESTIVAL Shop clothing, home decor, wraps, hair accessories, and more. Through Jan. 5. Saturdays, 10am. 12th & Chicon.

MEXIC-ARTE MUSEUM: NEW HOLIDAY EXHIBITIONS “Chapel Shrine” showcases the paintings of Austin artist John Patrick Cobb, whose works of Biblical imagery are inspired by the religious paintings he encountered in European chapels. “Nacimientos” features traditional Nativity scenes from Mexico. Through Jan. 8. Mexic-Arte Museum, 419 Congress, 512/480-9373. www.mexic-artemuseum.org.

37TH STREET LIGHTS This is how Austin does holiday lights. This years-long tradition took a hiatus, but it’s back this year and it’s weirder than ever. Through Jan. 5. 505 W. 37th, across from Amy’s Ice Creams on Guadalupe. Free.

SOCIAL HOUR AT THE BUZZ MILL Join the Lumber Society for a night of games and trivia. Thu., Jan. 3, 6:30pm. Buzz Mill Coffee, 1505 Town Creek, 512/912-9221. Free. www.buzzmillcoffee.com.

BYOV Bring Your Own Vinyl night: Spin three favorite jams at a time. Get a free craft infusion or PBR. Fri., Jan. 4, 8pm. Buzz Mill Coffee, 1505 Town Creek, 512/912-9221. Free. www.buzzmillcoffee.com.

KOOP DJ NIGHT: NEW YEAR NEW WAVE A portion of bar sales goes to the radio station. Fri., Jan. 4, 8pm. Rio Rita, 1203 Chicon, 512/524-0384. Free. www.riorita.net.

AUSTIN BOAT AND TRAVEL TRAILER SHOW This is a can’t-miss event for boating enthu-siasts. Expect deals on jet boats, wake sports, pon-toons, and fishing boats, as well as kayaks. Sail & Ski, Austin Boats & Motors, and South Austin Marine will be exhibiting at the show. Other attractions include a 4,600-gallon kids’ fishing tank. Fri.-Sun., Jan. 4-6. Austin Convention Center, 500 E. Cesar Chavez, 512/494-1128. Adults, $10; children 7-12 & seniors, $6; children under 7, free. www.austinboatshow.com.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DAY: 360 CLEANUP Start the new year off right by volun-teering with Keep Austin Beautiful. Sat., Jan. 5, 9-11am. Meetup is at a parking lot near the Canyon Springs apartment complex. Free.

FREE FLEEK We Are All In Local presents a free, live, local hip-hop matinee showcase featuring Austin Alliance artists. Sat., Jan. 5, 4-8pm. Dozen Street, 1808 E. 12th, 512/507-9887. Free. www.weareallinlocal.com.

The Bryan Museum in Galveston captures the essence of Texas and the American West through rare artifacts and unique art. On three floors, the museum tells the story of the state and the people who tamed it with violence, hard work, and compassion. The museum is not all guns and saddles, although there is plenty of that, but there also are religious icons, tools of past eras, and stories of the people. One of the most interesting rooms is the gallery of Texas art-ists. Frank Reaugh, José Arpa y Perea, Elisabet Ney, and Robert and Julian Onderdonk captured more than images of Texas in their art. The early paintings of San Antonio by Theodore Gentilz depict a city on the frontier in its infancy. Housed in the former Galveston Orphans Home, Texas oilman J.P. Bryan assembled the collection over a lifetime. The great-great-grandson of Stephen F. Austin’s sister, Emily Austin Bryan Perry, Bryan began collecting historical artifacts as a pre-teen. Over nearly seven decades, he amassed one of the world’s largest private collections of items related to the history of Texas and the American West, spanning more than 12,000 years. A walk through the galleries is a stroll through the past with personal items telling the stories along the way. From Frank Reaugh’s art tools to a playing card signed by John Wesley Hardin, the museum is a unique telling of the story of Texas.

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MOOD BY MOSS AURA PHOTOGRAPHY Come in for brunch and stay for your aura photo. Sun., Jan. 6, 11am-4pm. Native Hostel, 807 E. Fourth, 512/551-9947. $46. www.nativehostels.com.

USING DATA TO DRIVE GROWTH BY GOOGLE Join Maria Elena Duron, a marketing coach and strategist helping businesses profitably harness their personal brand, content, and referral marketing. Tue., Jan. 8, 10am. Asian American Resource Center, 8401 Cameron, 512/407-8240. Free, but RSVP. www.austinasianchamber.org.

LET’S TALK: A NEW WAY TO NETWORK Roundtable discussion spanning a variety of topics, accompanied by light bites and drinks. Tue., Jan. 8, 5:30pm. UT Club, 2108 E. Robert Dedman.

CODE IN THE BREWERY Two-hour intro work-shop presented by General Assembly. Tue., Jan. 8, 6pm. Hops & Grain Brewery, 507 Calles, 512/537-9756. Free. www.hopsandgrain.com.

ROMANCE BOOK CLUB Meet with other lit-erature lovers to discuss romance novels, classic romances, young adult romance, and more. Tue., Jan. 8, 6:30pm. Central Library, 710 W. Cesar Chavez, 512/974-7400. Free. www.library.austintexas.gov/central-library.

APL BOOK CLUB Meet, mingle, and chat with other literature lovers. Read and discover new books, genres, and authors. Tue., Jan. 8, 7pm. Old Quarry Branch Library, 7051 Village Center Dr., 512/345-4435. Free.

NERD NITE Another month, another nerd-out with some of Austin’s geekiest. Wed., Jan. 9, 7pm. The North Door, 502 Brushy, 512/710-9765. www.ndvenue.com.

SPORTSTHE HOME TEAMS

TEXAS STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL Vs. Georgia Southern: Thu., Jan. 3, 7pm. Vs. Georgia State: Sat., Jan. 5, 4pm. Texas State Strahan Coliseum, 700 Aquarena, 512/245-2180. $10 ($6, kids). www.txstatebobcats.com.

SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Vs. Schreiner. Fri., Jan. 4, 5:30pm. Southwestern University, 1001 E. University Ave., Georgetown, 512/863-6511. www.southwestern.edu.


CONCORDIA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Vs. McMurry. Thu., Jan. 10, 5:30pm. Concordia Fieldhouse, 11400 Concordia University. athletics.concordia.edu.

TEXAS STATE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Vs. Coastal Carolina. Thu., Jan. 10, 7pm. Texas State Strahan Coliseum, 700 Aquarena, 512/245-2180. www.txstatebobcats.com.

CONCORDIA MEN’S BASKETBALL Vs. McMurry. Thu., Jan. 10, 7:30pm. Concordia Fieldhouse, 11400 Concordia University. athletics.concordia.edu.

RECREATION & FITNESSYOGA WITH BABY GOATS All proceeds from shirt sales go to SAFE. Sat., Jan. 5, 10am, 11am, and noon. GOGA Goat Yoga, 1100 S. Lamar. www.fb.com/gogagoatyoga.

WHAT THE FIT?! Pairing elements of resistance band movement, yoga, and Pilates to stabilize and stretch, What the Fit?! is adaptable to all ages, lev-els, and abilities. First Sundays, 7-8pm. Dancers Workshop, 11150 Research #107. Pricing is pay-what-you-can.

SUNDAY SWEAT: BARRE CODE AT FARE- GROUND Lengthen and strengthen your muscles dur-ing this 50-minute, full-body workout. Sun., Jan. 6, 11am. Fareground, 111 Congress. Free. www.faregroundaustin.com.

KIDSSNAPOLOGY AUSTIN WINTER BREAK CAMPS Snapology Austin uses LEGO bricks and other building tools to make STEM concepts fun and engaging for children ages 4-12. Wed.-Fri., Jan. 2-4, 9am-3pm. Snapology Austin, 1910 Fort View. $85. austin.snapology.com/discoverycenter.

AUSTIN FAIRYTALE BALL This event includes professional princess portraits for every child, a candy buffet, crafts, stories, songs, games, and more. Sat., Jan. 5, 9am-7pm. Palmer Events Center, 900 Barton Springs Rd. $25-45. www.palmereventscenter.com.

HOMESCHOOL SAFETY FAIR The Homeschool Safety Fair will feature games, identi-fications, and giveaways for children. Parents will enjoy vendors, information, and safety tips. Tue., Jan. 8, 10am-noon. Dittmar Recreation Center, 1009 W. Dittmar, 512/974-6090. Free. www.austintexas.gov/dittmar.

OUT OF TOWNFATE BELL PICTOGRAPH SHELTER WALKING TOUR Take a ranger-led hike into the canyon to see rock art from the middle Archaic peri-od, first excavated in 1933. Thu.-Sun., Jan. 3-6, 10am & 3pm. Seminole Canyon State Historic Site, Comstock. $8. www.tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/seminole-canyon.

FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK Visit participating galleries (open late) to see new works, talk with the artists, and enjoy special events. Fri., Jan. 4. Fredericksburg. www.fredericksburgtexas-online.com/firstfridayartwalk.

MASON COUNTY LIVESTOCK SHOW & EXPO See the projects that the students have been working on and enjoy the local cuisine. Fri.-Sat., Jan. 4-5. Mason. www.fb.com/masonstockshowexpo.

BIRD TOURS OF MITCHELL LAKE Expert guides take visitors around the 600-acre lake to see the enormous amount of birds and wildlife that call the park home. Sun., Jan. 6, 8-11am. Mitchell Lake Audubon Center, San Antonio. Free. www.mitchelllake.audubon.org.

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Spring Session Open House Potential students can meet teachers; learn about the curriculum and approach for French, Spanish and Italian classes; and get a registration deal (plus free swag to boot!). Thu., Jan. 10, 6-8pm. Freestyle Language Center, 801 Rio Grande St., 888/982-4652. Free. www.freestylelanguagecenter.com.


those things where the stars just sort of lined up,” said Michael Moyer, co-founder of Citizen Eatery. It was always an option on the table, he said, but when Hamby suggested a Planted event, they ran with the idea. With the recent release of the vegan product Just Egg, they were even able to keep serving “eggs” at their popular weekend brunches. Moyer admitted it was a tough decision, but the team decided to go for it anyway. Fortunately, the response has been positive and the vegan community came out to show their support, as per usual. While Planted has resulted in several veganifications, that’s not exactly what Hamby set out to do. “I think it turns off restaurants when they think your goal is to make them vegan. It’s not about that,” she said. It’s about increasing vegan options in Austin by bringing vegan food into non-vegan spaces. It’s about helping local busi-nesses succeed and simultaneously broad-en options for Austinites adhering to a plant-based diet. “In Austin, we’ve been able to create this critical mass of consumers saying what they want and restaurants being responsive,” Hamby said. “I think it’s indicative of the changing landscape of food.” And when restaurants are willing to adapt and change, everybody wins. n

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Turns out, they were. Because a month later, Fat Cats, known for their coffee and desserts, followed suit. They set aside dairy milk and conventional ice cream in lieu of strictly dairy-free versions, including some half-dozen varieties of barista series plant milks. “The idea of going vegan had been tossed around for quite a while. I think what it really came down to was the idea of making the jump,” General Manager Tyler Shaffer said. “Planted gave us helpful methods we could use for marketing with-out scaring people away.” Unlike Li’l Nonna’s, which more or less knew they were going to continue their vegan menu after the trial month was over, Fat Cats considered the month a pivotal step in convincing investors and upper manage-ment that it was doable. Since the switch-over, Shaffer admitted they’ve seen a few walkouts, but the vegan community has more than made up for the customers not willing to try something new. Many patrons didn’t realize almost all the baked goods were already vegan. The third participant in the hat trick of veganized restaurants was Citizen Eatery. They tested an all-vegan menu at the begin-ning of November and never looked back. They planned to try it for just a week, but that’s all it took to make the call. “It’s one of

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If you’re not in the local vegan scene, chances are good that this is the first you’ve heard of Planted, ATX Vegans, or Britty Hamby. Vegans love to eat, and they show up in force to support businesses that sup-port them, and with that in mind, this plant-based trio is on a mission. Hamby founded ATX Vegans, a nonprofit that emphasizes vegan food access and community over activism. She started Planted in 2016, but the concept went by the name Vegan Nights until this summer when she rebranded and turned it into a separate entity no longer under the ATX Vegans umbrella. The goals: bring vegan food into non-vegan spaces, help local restaurants increase sales by packing the restaurant with new diners, and encourage vegetarian-friendly restaurants to kick animal byprod-ucts to the curb for good. Here’s how it works: Hamby partners with restaurant owners to plan one night where they add a handful of vegan items to their normal menu. She takes a percentage of profits or a flat rate (whatever works for the business), and that money goes back to non-profit ATX Vegans to fund other events. (Currently, she’s work-ing to organize a number of local vegan chefs that will provide 200 free meals once a month to Austinites.) Then, after the details are set, she blows up every Austin vegan’s social media feed with news about the event. All that’s left is for them to show up in droves and stuff their faces with spe-cials they don’t usually get at restaurants they don’t usually patronize. And show up they do. The average event sees 150 guests that come just for the vegan food, with a record 450 new diners at one event. In addition to a boost in revenue on a slow night, it’s an opportunity for businesses to see that they can appeal to a wider range of customers who would normally drive right past and for vegans to discover new places to

dine. It’s a wonderfully symbiotic relation-ship. The best possible outcome? Restaurants can’t wait to do it again and invite vegans and their friends to keep returning by way of new menu items. Kicked Up Grub, for exam-ple, recently added vegan waffles, a tofu scramble bowl, and vegan biscuits and sau-sage gravy to their weekly Saturday brunch after a Planted event. Hamby says 100% of the restaurants that hosted Planted events asked her to plan a second one and about half added vegan dishes to their permanent menu. “Our goal is to change the food landscape in Austin,” Hamby says. That starts by changing menus, and in three cases, the change was much more than just a few new dishes. Li’l Nonna’s, the vegetarian pizza trailer located at Buzz Mill, was already known for its house-made vegan cheese and cre-ative topping options (beetaroni is as delightful to eat as it is to say), but it was also the first to work with Hamby on a

Planted event where the trailer offered an all-vegan menu for the entirety of August. Robbie Lordi, owner of Li’l Nonna’s, said he always wanted to transi-tion the trailer to an all-vegan menu, but he wasn’t sure how to make it happen. How would customers react? How would he spread the word? Would he lose business? Enter Planted. Hamby created graphics

and advertising, shared the event on social media platforms, and helped guide the business on its way. “It made the transition a lot smoother,” Lordi said. At the end of the month, there was no going back. Lordi ditched dairy cheese for good and the trailer is now all vegan, all the time. If you’re wondering whether they lost business, the answer is no: Not only has the trailer maintained their pre-Planted sales, they’ve increased them. “We hoped to be a role model for other businesses who were afraid to do the same thing,” Lordi said.

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Asiana Indian CuisineTHIS SOUTH AUSTIN SOUTH INDIAN FARE IS DELICIOUS AND NURTURING Tucked away in a South Austin strip mall, between a nail salon and a Cricket Wireless store, Asiana Indian Cuisine is never going to be mistaken for some kind of nouvelle cuisine hot spot. It appears exactly as it is: a neighborhood restaurant serving the kind of approachable South Indian cooking that offers something for every level of palate sophistication. Asiana Indian Cuisine is a restaurant where you can take your grandmother on her birthday and delight her with their exotic approach to the familiar flavors of rice pudding. And where you can wipe the spice off the cubes of paneer in the kadai paneer and give them to your toddler to gnaw on. And where you can order takeout tikka masala on a rainy night and make all your co-workers jealous with the scent of cumin and tomatoes and warm, onion-infused meat radiating from the leftovers the next afternoon. It’s a restaurant that can accommodate the needs of both your meat-obsessed father-in-law and vegetarian niece, the rare place where you can celebrate a group birthday with minimal fear of angst when the bill comes – after all, if you’re getting the lunch buffet, everybody is paying the same price, no matter what they did or didn’t eat. Asiana is a family restaurant, with the cheerful bootstraps attitude that label implies. Things can get chaotic, especially around lunchtime on the weekends, when the buffet

is crowded with folks getting out of church and clusters of shouting youth soccer teams celebrating their latest victory. That, of course, is part of the charm. If you’re the type of person who likes white tablecloth service and a dining room free of toddlers, you’re better off sticking to takeout here. But for the rest of us, it’s refreshing to be able to sit down to eat somewhere so winningly unpretentious. There are few better ways to start a weekend than rolling out of bed on a

Saturday around noon and heading to Asiana for a vat of headache-dispelling chana masala and some garlic naan. The menu, as you might expect, is a sort of greatest hits assemblage of the most popular Americanized Indian dishes, the culinary equivalent of a Traveling Wilburys album. The

tandoori chicken is bright red and butter-tender, with the meaty heft of the charred flesh balanced out by a tangle of barely cooked sweet, white onions. For a dish that’s often cursed to be dried to a chewy, wood-chip texture by the heat of the clay oven it’s cooked in, Asiana’s version is impressively moist, retaining a slight tanginess from the yogurt that marinated the meat. The saag paneer’s cheese cubes have a nice elastic bounce, the perfect foil to the creamy blanket of pureed spinach and onion that they float in, with a mild spiciness that cuts through the

fat, like a dressed-up version of the creamed spinach that used to be de rigueur in every high-class steakhouse. And the butter chicken is impossibly soft, pillowy meat absorbing the pool of creamy, buttery tomato sauce that tastes almost like a smokier penne alla vodka, the perfect accompaniment to their fresh-cooked, crispy-edged naan, whose spongy interior makes the ideal tool for sopping up all these saucy plates. There are a few quirks here – dishes that, while less familiar within the classic Americanized South Indian repertoire, embody the same spirit: indulgently layered, slow-cooked, and sweet, redolent of spices and cream. There’s the perennially popular cauliflower 65 (also available in a chicken iteration) – a sort of South Indian take on kung pao cauliflower, breaded and fried and served in a spicy sauce – or the Indian spring rolls, apparently modeled on a Kolkata street food classic. While there are opportunities to expand your understanding of South Indian cuisine, there’s nothing here that could threaten even the most cautious culinary sensibility. Asiana is a restaurant that takes your hand and gently guides diners through very bold flavors. But the real star of any Asiana experience is the buffet. The food here is almost beside the point, although it’s good – the same menu as dinner rolled out with unfailing plentitude and variety. If they run out of one dish, they might replace it with more of the same, or something entirely different might appear. The lunch buffet is a place to experience the lessons of nonattachment and discernment. There is no point in getting obsessed about whether the aloo gobi will run out, or whether, this time, there will be an appearance of the mythical tandoori buffalo wings, often whispered about but seldom seen, the Loch Ness monster of the steam tray. And that woman, elbowing in front of you to snap up the last piece of creamy chicken korma? A fellow sufferer, doing her best to fulfill her bodily desires while she briefly occupies this bright and shining plane of existence. After enough creamy calories, you’ll find yourself floating on a certain indulgent cloud of kindness, reinforced by a serving of the fabulous mango mousse. There’s a particular comfort in the abundance of a well-constructed buffet that you can’t really get with any other kind of restaurant. This is, I think, why buffets are a part of the childhood experience of most of the Americans I know. The promise of America is a promise of abundance. It should be a promise that you will never be turned away, that you can fill your plate as many times as you need to, eat whatever combination of weird flavors satisfies the murmurings of your soul without fear of surveillance or judgment. A buffet is the closest you can get as an adult to the experience of eating as a child – that endless abundance, food appearing magically before you without any visible sweat or effort, like magic, like a gift. And in a time of year when the responsibilities of adulthood loom in the form of post-holiday malaise and New Year’s resolutions – when we could all use a return to our child selves – Asiana is a restaurant that feels like home. n


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Elvis Lives and the Food Is Free! There’s a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin’ celebration of what would’ve been the King’s 84th birth-day at Chuy’s – and if you go to the restau-rant dressed as Elvis or Priscilla Presley, you get a free entrée. Also, there’ll be plen-ty of specials all around and live tribute per-formances by those who think they know a little something about proper Elvisceration on stage (some time between 5-8pm; check website for details). Bonus: that unique cock-tail, the Blue Hawaiian, tonight only. Thank you – thank you ver’ much. Tue., Jan. 8. All Chuy’s locations in town, uh-huh-huh. www.chuys.com.

ANTONELLI’S CHEESE SHOP: CLASSES & DATE NIGHTS We’re telling you about these fun and informative events at Austin’s favorite cheese shop early, because they tend to sell out way in advance. So start prepping your schedule for the likes of Cheese 101: The Seven Styles of Cheese (Jan. 8), Cheese Date Night (Jan. 10 & 24), Soft Cheeses and Bubbles (Jan. 11 & 22), and that much-buzzed-about Cheese-y Bus Tour (Jan. 26). Antonelli’s Cheese Shop, 4220 Duval St., 512/531-9610. $40-125. www.antonellischeese.com.

AUSTIN JAVA: MANCHACA GRAND OPENING PARTY Wanna start your year off right with coffee and cannabidiol? This event, inaugurat-ing the latest incarnation of Austin Java, features a pop-up with RESTART CBD, allowing you to add extra health benefits to your favorite brew. Bonus: live music from Aubrey Hays, and more. Sat., Jan. 5, 7am-10pm. Austin Java, 5404 Manchaca Rd., 512/580-2606. www.austinjava.com.

EL PATIO: 65TH ANNIVERSARY Listen: “In 1954, Paul and Maryann Joseph opened El Patio Restaurant at 2938 Guadalupe.” Yes, for real – and now you’re invited to help celebrate this grand occa-sion. They’ll be partying in one way or another all day long, with an outside bar, live music, KLBJ doing a live broadcast in the afternoon, and – 65 years, people! 1954! Oh! That’s, like, before some of the hippies who miss Les Amis so much were even born! Sat., Jan. 5, 11am-8:45pm. El Patio, 2938 Guadalupe, 512/476-5955. www.elpatioaustin.com.

SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER: OPEN HOUSE & CLASS PREVIEW Here’s a sweet culinary opp for your new year: Learn about the Sustainable Food Center, take guided tours through their four-star green energy building, and chat with SFC Farmers’ Market vendors and cooking class instruc-tors while tasting food samples – and you can sign up for classes at a 15% discount. Wed., Jan. 9, 6-8pm. Sustainable Food Center, 2921-C E. 17th, 512/236-0074.


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SCREENSFilm Rebates: The Sequel?THE FUTURE MAY FINALLY BE BRIGHTENING FOR THE TEXAS MOVING IMAGE INDUSTRY INCENTIVE PROGRAMby Richard Whittaker

The Texas Moving Image Industry Incentive Program (TMIIIP for not overly short) has been a kickball in legislative poli-tics since it was founded in 2005. An easy target for red meat conservatives who want to stick it to Hollyweird, the state’s economic support for the film, TV, commercial, and gam-ing industries has seen its financing rise and fall. Yet there may be some early signs that the rebate program might be facing a better future in the upcoming legislative session. The national scene for film, TV, and gaming incentives is undoubtedly in flux. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 31 states offer incentives, down from 44. However, in part that has been from some states realizing that they’re just not in the game: Others, like California and New York, reignited their programs because they saw how Georgia’s incentives turned Atlanta from a location afterthought into a filmmaking destination. Texas still has incentives, but the big fight is over how much lawmakers will appropriate to fund them. The last six years saw the pot plummet from $95 million to barely a third of that figure. That’s why lawmakers and content producers are waiting for Gov. Greg Abbott to issue his draft budget for the 2020-21 biennium, due in early January. Since the program is technically within Abbott’s office, if he puts in a big request, that could put pressure on lawmakers to re-invest in the fund. As is to be expected with incentive dollars on the line, the interested parties have already retained lobbyists (The Motion Picture Association of America, for exam-ple, has hired the prestigious lobby firm of Blackridge Rusty Kelley). However, accord-ing to Austin Film Commission Director Brian Gannon, what’s becoming clear is that there’s a unified push to increase the total funding, rather than groups or sectors push-ing for a bigger slice of the pie. He said, “Every discussion that’s been had so far, the video game folks and the film folks have clearly been working together. They see that it’s not a separate deal. It’s one deal for all.” Moreover, they’ll have support from towns and cities that benefited economically from film, TV, and game production. House

Appropriations Committee member Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, noted that the incentives, combined with Texas Film Commission initiatives like Film Friendly Texas (designed to attract productions to new and off-the-beaten-track locations) are making their own case. She said, “There’s enough going on around the state that this has the potential to have some strange bed-fellows in terms of folks from a variety of regions that could see this as beneficial to their community.” Incentives are rarely enough to make or break a production. However, they can be a key component in deciding where to shoot a film, or hire developers for a new game. Figures from the Texas Film Commission show that, by the end of 2016, spending $191 million in rebates resulted in $1.25 billion of in-state spending by 1,015 eligible applying projects. That’s a more than six-to-one return on investment for Texas, and that’s before including the impact of the nearly 143,000 production jobs created. But how much will Abbott request to keep the program going? His position on the pro-gram has always been quietly supportive (a little too quiet for boosters who would like a little push in the way that Gov. Rick Perry used to do). However, Abbott has often sent positive signals: For example, after lawmak-ers slashed funding in 2015, last session he initially proposed a half-restoration, to $70 million. Moreover, last September he appointed former incentive program manager Stephanie Whallon to be the new Texas

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MARCH8-17: SXSW Austin’s A-list festival, with

screenings and filmmaker conversations, and mentor sessions. www.sxsw.com

10: Films for the Forest Eco-nonprofit Rainforest Partnership’s one-day event. www.filmsfortheforest.org

APRIL14: Indie Meme Youth Teen-friendly warm-up to

the main fest. www.indiememe.org/imff-youth-2019

26-28: Indie Meme Film Festival Highlighting new voices from South Asia. www.indiememe.org

25-28: Hill Country Film Festival Indie cinema in scenic Fredericksburg. www.hillcountryff.com

MAY1-5: Cine Las Americas International Film

Festival The best of global Hispanic, Portugeuese, and indigenous cinema. www.cinelasamericas.org

JUNE6-9: ATX Television Festival The small screen

takes over with this celebration of all things episodic. www.atxfestival.com

13-16: Austin Asian American Film Festival Showcasing Asian cinema, back after a one-year hiatus. www.aaafilmfest.org

JULY18-21: Contrast Film Festival Female and queer

creator-friendly fest returns for year two. www.contrastfilmfest.com

SEPTEMBER5-9: All Genders, Lifestyles and Identities Film

Festival Celebrating LGBTQ+ cinema from around the world. www.agliff.org

3-7: Austin Revolution Film Festival Home to Austin’s off-the-grid indie filmmakers. www.austinrevolution.com

19-26: Fantastic Fest The celebration of global genre cinema – with a focus this year on Mexico. www.fantasticfest.com

OCTOBER24-31: Austin Film Festival Celebrating the art of

the screenwriter. www.austinfilmfestival.com

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Film Commission director – a sign that the program could be a high priority. Once Abbott has made his proposal, that’s when the House and Senate start their negotiations. Predictably, arch-con-servative Rep. Matt Shaheen, R-Plano, has filed House Bill 432. a measure to completely dismantle the Music, Film, Television, and Multimedia Office – and TMIIIP with it. Not that advocates should panic too much: Shaheen filed an identical bill in 2017, HB 779, and that died in the Economics & Small Business Development Committee without a hearing. In more rosy news for rebate backers, two of TMIIIP’s loudest opponents – state Sen. Konni Burton, R-Colleyville, and state Rep. Matt Rinaldi, R-Irving – lost their seats in November to Democrats. Not that the pro-gram is a simple red vs. blue issue. The original legislation was authored by state Sen. John Carona, R-Dallas, and champi-oned by former Governor Perry: However, both left office before the catastrophic 2015 session. At the same time, the program’s biggest advocate in the House, state Rep. Dawnna Dukes, D-Austin, was notoriously absent during vital Appropriations meetings, meaning TMIIIP had no vocal defenders. That may change this session. Howard said there have already been discussions this session about finding champions in both chambers, with names from both the Austin area and Dallas (two of the biggest production centers) regularly touted to finally pick up the banner. n


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12 MONKEYS (1995)Adapting Chris Marker’s seminal short “La Jetée” gives Terry Gilliam quite a heady sandbox to play in. Bruce Willis is a reluctant, amnesiac time traveler from a future decimated by a virus. Mad-eleine Stowe is the psychiatrist who falls into his whirlwind. Add Brad Pitt (in his best role), and you have a Möbius strip take on what it means to go back to the future. – Josh Kupecki

DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (1985)This East Village screwball comedy about a Real Housewife of Fort Lee, New Jersey (a quirkily fabulous Rosanna Arquette) who experiences amnesia after getting conked on the head at Battery Park and is mistaken for the bohemian free spirit she’s been stalking through the personals (a trashily fabulous Madonna) is a quintessential desert island movie – one you can watch over and over and over again. – Steve Davis

D.O.A. (1949)Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A man walks into a police station and says he wants to report a murder. A detective asks him who was murdered and the man replies “I was.” Turns out the poor sap was slipped a Mickey Finn and must finger the culprit in the meager hours before he succumbs. Endlessly remade (including in Austin in 1988), the original is a noir classic, an anxious nail-biter awash in nightmare chiaroscuro set to one of Dimi-tri Tiomkin’s best-ever scores. – Marc Savlov

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J ON THE BASIS OF SEX D: Mimi Leder; with Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux, Chris Mulkey, Sam Waterston, Kathy Bates. (PG-13, 120 min.) The second film about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in less than a year forgoes the traditional biopic formula for a tidy, well-acted courtroom drama centered on the case that kicked off her decades-long career fighting against gender-based discrimi-nation and for equal rights. The film opens to a sea of men marching toward Harvard Law School to the sound of an actual drum-roll, establishing the boys’ club atmosphere we are heading into in one single take. It doesn’t bother with any details that pre-date Ginsburg’s enrollment there in 1959; it sets up a few key points – marriage, children, and a move to NYC where she attended Columbia – and then skips ahead to 1970 where it can mine the material it really wants to: Moritz v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Charles Moritz (Mulkey) was a Colorado man who was denied a tax break on his payments to a caretaker for his mother, something he was refused because he was a bachelor and because he was a man. At the time, Ginsburg was working as a professor; she was unable to gain employment as a lawyer (though she finished first in her class) on the basis of her sex. With the help of hus-band Marty (Hammer), himself a tax attorney, and a friend at the ACLU, Legal Director Mel Wulf (Theroux), she argued the case before three (white, male) judges, and you can prob-ably guess what the outcome was. It’s obvious that first-time scriptwriter Daniel Stiepleman is keenly aware of the current #MeToo climate. As Ruth (Jones)

Nobody Knows. In reality, semi-families have been a recurrent theme in his work, whether thrust together or falling apart. Yet in many ways Shoplifters is an unlikely yet organic exten-sion of his last film, 2017’s crime drama The Third Murder. Less a whodunit than a whydidy-oudoit, that legal procedural was really a subtle assault on Japan’s judicial system, in which it’s more important that a case makes sense than

it reaches the truth. Shoplifters cuts close to the same marrow as The Third Murder, but with how Japan views families as his subject. The clan is composed of petty crooks and chancers, and there’s no chance this dysfunctional unit will survive in its unstable nuclear form, but Kore-eda paints them with incredible sympathy and nuance. Their sins are never washed away by the love they show for each other, but on

Is blood really thicker than water? “That’s just what mothers imagine,” Nobuyo Shibata (Sakura) tells the investigating officer after her life has unfurled. From the outside, it’s not much of a life. She works a low-paying job, sharing a tiny apartment with her husband Osamu (Franky), half-sister Aki (Matsuoka), son Shota (Jo- ), and grandma (Kiki). They’re on the outermost fringes of society: Osamu is teaching Shota to shoplift, Aki’s working as a hostess in a sleazy chat room, and granny con-stantly complains that they’re all just sponging off her. Yet there is love, and there is compassion, and this unwieldy collective is constantly there for each other, even if the bonds of blood may be a little more tenuous than they appear. They’re that family everyone knows, the ones down the block where there’s always some new face crashing, with a cousin you’ve never heard of before who moves in one day. So of course no one blinks twice when a new waif, Yuri (Sasaki), makes her way into their lives, and Osamu and Nobuyo decide that she’s best off becoming part of the family. The easy and most commonly made com-parison for writer/director Kore-eda’s latest is his 2004 tale of abandoned half-siblings,

the scales of justice, he seemingly suggests, it should count for a lot more than it does. Unlike the judicial system, Shoplifters is most interested in the truth of this fractured unit. Kore-eda was originally inspired by stories of families that hide the death of a loved one and keep claiming their benefits – the kind of headline-grabbing story that gets the middle classes tut-tutting. But by constructing the minutiae of how a family gets that desperate, he finds the beautiful dynamics. Moreover, he continues to be unequaled in bringing astound-ing and heartfelt performances, especially from his young actors. Shota’s begrudging acceptance of his new task as big brother, balancing his sense of making Yuri one of the family while knowing he should teach her to be better, is a tender delight. At the other end of life, grandma Hatsue (veteran character actress Kiki in her final role) embraces all her petty crimes with a hint of quiet guilt. It’s the perfect depiction of the line between being a good person and being law-abiding, and how that’s not a border, but a Venn diagram.

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SHOPLIFTERS D: Hirokazu Kore-eda; with Lily Franky, Ando Sakura, Mayu Matsuoka, Sosuke Ikematsu, Kairi Jō, Miyu Sasaki, Kirin Kiki. (R, 121 min.)

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OPENINGSEscape Room (PG-13)On the Basis of Sex (PG-13)Second Act (PG-13)Shoplifters (R)

RATINGS★★★★★ As perfect as a movie can be ★★★★ Slightly flawed, but excellent nonetheless ★★★ Has its good points,

and its bad points ★★ Mediocre, but with one or two bright spots ★ Poor, without any saving graces La bomba

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is practicing for the courtroom, there’s a knowing wink to audiences as her male cohorts suggest that she smile at the judges. There’s humor in their imagined future as an absurd situation where things are more equal because they are describing our real-ity. They believe the American family is “at stake,” and then there’s a clever cut to the Ginsburgs happily making dinner together at home. Other scenes are a bit harder to read. As Ginsburg’s male opponents strategize how to destroy her in court, the Washington Monument looms in the background like a giant dick, and I wasn’t sure if that was meant to be outwardly funny (I found it a bit absurd). Jones makes a fine Ginsburg – especially in the mouth, lips pursed expec-tantly – but something in Hammer’s resigned manner paints a Marty that is more ineffec-tual than stoic, and the chemistry between them is pretty middle-of-the-road. On the Basis of Sex is in no way an all-encompassing, timelined portrait. (The documentary RBG provides much more detail while managing to convey the importance of the Ginsburgs’ partnership.) It’s a bit emo-tionally manipulative – though, to an extent, all cinema is – particularly in the chosen dialogue (which I assume was lifted directly from court transcripts) and a final scene switcheroo. It’s another effort to solidify her sainthood. However, it’s also an easily digest-ible outline of Ginsburg, her career, and why her work is so important. It’s a biting piece of herstory that we need right now.HHH – Danielle White

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SECOND ACT D: Peter Segal; with Jennifer Lopez, Leah Remini, Vanessa Hudgens, Treat Williams, Milo Ventimiglia. (PG-13, 103 min.) Inoffensive and unremarkable, Second Act is culled from the remainder bin of late-Nine-ties, early-Aughts hidden identity/wish fulfill-ment rom-coms along the lines of Lopez’s Maid in Manhattan. For a certain segment of the moviegoing audience this might well feel like cinematic comfort food, but for others it will bring to mind, older but far better films that have withstood the test of time, albeit with freakishly dated hairstyles. Working Girl is what came to my mind, but this mediocre mash-up of hoary genre tropes is about as far away from Mike Nichols, or Elaine May for that matter, as you can get. Granted, it’s breezy enough in a retro-chic kind of way, but the meh factor is too high to overcome for all but the hardiest of J-Lo die-hards. Here, she’s cast as Queens-to-the-core Maya, a street-wise Jenny from the block-cum-aspirational go-get-’em girl who’s passed over for promotion at her relatively lowly retail gig, but ends up falling into her dream job nonetheless. That’d be working in the upper echelon of Treat Williams’ high-end cosmetics conglomerate. This unlikely plot contrivance is set in motion when her godson sets her up with a faux background story chock-full o’ BS, photoshopping her into pics of the Obamas on her Facebook page and upgrading her GED into a Harvard MBA and a stint in the Peace Corps. Naturally, someone at corporate sens-es this new employee’s résumé is a bit too

perfect, especially after Maya comes up with an organic, ginkgo-based emollient that’s just too good to be true. As it turns out, a literal second-act revelation throws a spanner in the works of what otherwise might have been a trenchant and timely tale of shattered glass ceilings and female empowerment. Naturally, Maya has a secret in her Lifetime Movie of the Week past that threatens even more grrrl power emotional chaos. On the plus side, Lopez remains eminently watchable and her real-life bestie Remini, on hand to play Maya’s celluloid gal pal Joan, adds a certain zip and zing to an other-wise scattershot tale. Screenwriters Justin Zackham and Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas hit all of the patented Cinderella story beats with the subtlety of a sledgehammer hitting a makeup compact. That includes the req-uisite dance sequence, makeover montage, and “to thine own ’hood be true” message. Admittedly it’s a – just shoot me now – treat to see the underutilized Williams, former Prince of the City, off of the television and on the big screen again, but that’s cold com-fort for non-J-Lovers who aren’t particularly impressed by Second Act’s jerry-built storyline contortions. I’d almost go so far as to say you’d be better off renting epic fail Gigli for the sheer weirdness of it. Almost.H – Marc Savlov

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J AQUAMAN D: James Wan; with Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Nicole Kidman, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. (PG-13, 143 min.) Nobody could’ve expected that Aquaman would emerge as the most successful male character in the DC Cinematic Universe, but here we are. After saving the world during Justice League, Arthur (Momoa) reluctantly settles into the superhero business. However, when Atlantean princess Mera (Heard) informs Arthur of his

half-brother’s (Wilson) plan to conquer humanity, Arthur finds himself torn between his loyalty to the surface world and the noble birthright he turned his back on. Aquaman possesses an eclectic aesthetic that never gets boring, but with countless subplots, endless battle sequences, and plenty of secondary characters vying for screen time, Wan’s film feels less like a movie that overstays its wel-come and more like a giant swirl of ideas and locations. Even if the results aren’t there, Aquaman proves that Warner Bros. has decided to back the right (sea)horse. (12/28/2018)HHH – Matthew Monagle

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J AT ETERNITY’S GATE D: Julian Schnabel; with Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen, Emmanuelle Seigner, Niels Arestrup, Mathieu Amalric, Amira Casar. (R, 111 min.) The world was not crying out for another movie about the artist Vincent van Gogh when Julian Schnabel, the artist and filmmaker, chose to make this movie. But while most of the existing movies about the painter build on the mad-genius cliché, Schnabel instead focuses on the creative impulse, the urge to find the transcendent qualities of the everyday world. At Eternity’s Gate gifts us with the chance to see the world through the artist’s eyes, with a great deal of the movie from van Gogh’s point of view. Not enough can be said about Willem Dafoe’s amazing performance as van Gogh. His ability to switch on a dime between spiritual transcendence and physical suffering creates a character both venerable and pitiable. The Vincent van Gogh we experience in this film remains as anomalous as a sunflower glowing on a starry night. (12/07/2018)HHHH – Marjorie Baumgarten

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Highway Patrolman D: Alex Cox; with Roberto Sosa, Bruno Bichir, Vanessa Bauche, Zaide Silvia Gutierrez, Pedro Armendariz Jr., Malena Doria. (1991, NR, 105 min.) Newly Restored. The movie takes the whole police action drama as a form and turns it on its head. Set in Mexico, Pedro Rojas (Sosa) is the highway patrolman who goes from his idealistic notions of law enforcement to embittered disillusionment with the corruption he encounters. (*) @AFS Cinema, Saturday, 4:15pm; Tuesday, 7pm.

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J BEN IS BACK D: Peter Hedges; with Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges, Kathryn Newton, Courtney B. Vance. (R, 103 min.) Writer/director Peter Hedges (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Dan in Real Life) takes care with the subject of opioid addiction, placing blame where it is due without being heavy-handed (save that for the documentaries), while casting the addict in a kind yet realistic light. Ben (Lucas Hedges, the director’s son) is 19 years old and 77 days sober when he shows up at home unannounced on Christmas Eve. His mother Holly (Roberts) gives him 24 hours, but she’s on him like a parole officer the whole time. It doesn’t take long for Ben’s past and former mis-deeds to gurgle up like so much black bile. At times darkly comedic, there’s that old sense of despair too, as no scene in the movie is more heartbreaking than the mother asking her son where she should bury him. An impactful film, one that’s made for the season of giving. (12/21/2018)HHH – Danielle White

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BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY D: Bryan Singer; with Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello, Allen Leech. (PG-13, 134 min.) Queen were genre-defying pioneers: What a shame, then, that the long-gestating biopic of the band – or rath-er, the role of lead singer Freddie Mercury (Malek) in their success – is so prosaic, a fascinating story told by the rote conventions of the musical biopic: Mercury is the gifted young visionary whose family doesn’t understand him, who sends a workmanlike rock band to the heights, suffers his own ego-driven fall, and then reunites with his comrades for a swan song performance. But while the script is often less interesting than the truth, the performances are sensational. Malek catches the glittering contradictions of Mercury, a hedonist with a huge heart, a preening peacock who endeared himself to the world by being so honest. The closing re-enactment of almost all of their 20-minute Live Aid set may be Queen drag, but it’s all you could ever wish for, darlings. (11/02/2018)HHHn – Richard Whittaker

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J A BREAD FACTORY, PART ONE D: Patrick Wang; with Tyne Daly, Elisabeth Henry-Macari, James Marsters, Keaton Nigel Cooke, Trevor St. John. (NR, 122 min.) Where to begin with part one of Patrick Wang’s bifur-cated epic, a story that seeks to deconstruct a small town in upstate New York, the fictional Checkford, through the lens of an art space (the eponymous Bread Factory) run by Dorothea (Daly) and Greta (Henry-Macari)? Conflict appears in the form of a new art collective, May Ray, which has descended on Checkford, trafficking in a gimmicky aesthetic that makes for most of this film’s satire. It’s all a very heady stew, and the fact that this is just the beginning sometimes makes it feel like a slog. Yet there are moments that shine so bright – where you see what Wang is working at – they make the film hum. (12/28/2018)HHH – Josh Kupecki

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J A BREAD FACTORY, PART TWO D: Patrick Wang; with Tyne Daly, Elisabeth Henry-Macari, Zachary Sayle, James Marsters, Keaton Nigel Cooke. (NR, 120 min.) Part two of Patrick Wang’s dense but nimble story of an art collective begins with Upstate New York’s the Bread Factory staging a production of Euripides’ Hecuba, coupled with Max (Sayle) taking over the local newspaper staffed solely by children. Several elements from part one disappear (the upstart May Ray art collective, the bureaucratic machinations of the school arts board), but now Wang gifts us with wonderful sequences of people on social media tap dancing their glee (or wrath, as it were) and a revision of Euripides’ play that feels fresh. While not for everyone, those seeking a poignant satire on art will be continuously rewarded. (12/28/2018)HHHHn – Josh Kupecki

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J BUMBLEBEE D: Travis Knight; with Hailee Steinfeld, Dylan O’Brien, Megyn Price, John Cena, Justin Theroux. (PG-13, 113 min.) Continuing the battle between the peace-loving Autobots and the warmongering Decepticons, titular mecha-soldier B-127 has been sent to safeguard our planet. In short order, he’s relieved of both his voice and


memory by a trailing Decepticon, but not before running afoul of Sector 7 Agent Burns (Cena) and his gung-ho band of less-than-merry men, after which the wounded, yellow Autobot transforms himself into a ’69 Volkswagen Bug. Enter Steinfeld’s budding grease monkey Charlie, who gives her new pal his famous nickname and spends the rest of the film keeping him safe. After Michael Bay’s often incomprehensible run at the toy-backed franchise, director Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings) and script-writer Christina Hodson keep things lively, funny, and – perhaps most importantly – easy to follow. It’s a kinder, gentler Transformers movie for the holidays. Go figure. (12/21/2018)HHH – Marc Savlov

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DR. SEUSS’ THE GRINCH D: Yarrow Cheney, Scott Mosier; with the voices of Benedict Cumberbatch, Pharrell Williams, Rashida Jones. (PG, 90 min.) American literature’s favorite green-furred misanthrope is revived yet again for the screen. Kids will love the physi-cal comedy and the zoomy direction, slaloming up and down Whoville’s wintry slopes, and the film’s super-emo-tive, four-legged supporting parts – the Grinch’s devoted dog Max; a sweet, lardy reindeer named Fred – are kid-catnip, for sure. And while there’s no quibbling with the comedic timing and inflections of Benedict Cumberbatch’s voicework as the Grinch, his British accent, so deliciously withering, has been sanded into a flatter and more benign American one, in step with a larger campaign to soften the Grinch up well before he embraces the Christmas spirit. The soundtrack is fine (like Tyler, the Creator’s spin on “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch”) if impersonal, overpro-duced – a good match for a movie that’s been engineered to achieve adequacy, but not much more. (11/09/2018)HHHn – Kimberley Jones

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J THE FAVOURITE D: Yorgos Lanthimos; with Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult, Joe Alwyn, Mark Gatiss. (R, 119 min.) “You are mad,” Sarah Churchill (Weisz) says in one of her few moments. Confidante to Queen Anne of Great Britain (Colman), she has made herself the lens through which the increasingly crippled monarch sees affairs of state – until Sarah’s distant cousin Abigail (Stone) appears. Having fallen on hard times, this former noble-woman just wants a job, but her ambition is no less than Sarah’s steely determination. Weisz dances in her role as a woman always on the edge of power, and while Stone’s Abigail is inflexible in her aim, Sarah knows when to bend like a rapier and when to stiffen like the executioner’s axe blade. By contrast, Colman’s Anne is tragedy personified: Mercurial, babbling, a spoiled child in charge of a country.

An extraordinary historical drama with cunning modern resonances, The Favourite immediately lives up to its name. (11/30/2018)HHHHHn – Richard Whittaker

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J FREE SOLO D: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin. (PG-13, 100 min.) El Capitan may not be the highest point in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, but its unforgivably sheer facade of block granite has long dared humans to conquer it. In kickass documentary Free Solo, 33-year-old professional mountain climber Alex Honnold takes a little less than four hours to scramble up its face “free solo.” That is, alone and without the use of any ropes or other protective gear. You’re sure to fidget and squirm the higher he goes: Even the docu-mentary crew, comprised of seasoned climbers and longtime friends, can barely watch their buddy painstakingly move up the peak, anguished by the possibility (God forbid) they may be complicit participants in Honnold’s demise. You’ll feel the same way too, but it won’t stop you from bearing witness to this near-miracle of human physicality. (10/12/2018)HHHHn – Steve Davis

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J GREEN BOOK D: Peter Farrelly; with Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco, Dimiter D. Marinov. (PG-13, 130 min.) Green Book (the title coming from the “Negro Motorists Guide” which listed places that would rent to people of color who were on the road) is a historic piece set in 1962, based on the experiences of classically trained pianist, Dr. Don Shirley (Ali), being driven from gig to gig through the segregated South by temporarily laid-off Copacabana bouncer Tony Vallelonga (Mortensen). However, more than seeming like a reversely cast Driving Dr. Shirley, Green Book is more likely to remind the viewer of an Odd Couple reunion. Don and Tony bicker like a per-snickety Felix and earthy Oscar. The interplay between the two actors is the reason to see Green Book. Their pas de deux is a master class, and the twosome’s give and take provides good company for the road trip that comprises the heart of this narrative. (11/21/2018)HHH – Marjorie Baumgarten

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HOLMES & WATSON D: Etan Cohen; with Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Rebecca Hall, Rob Brydon, Kelly Macdonald, Ralph Fiennes. (PG-13, 91 min.) Far from the first (but possibly the last) comedic take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved consulting detective and his loyal friend, Holmes & Watson feels immediately dated and inconsequential. More to the point, it’s simply not terribly funny. The criminal responsible is director/writ-er Cohen, who packs the film with broad slapstick – some-thing Ferrell and Reilly conceivably do in their sleep at this point – and weirdly out-of-place contemporary references, combined with awfully lazy riffs on Holmes’ fondness for his “seven-per-cent solution.” Holmes & Watson is not so much a case of whodunit as it is a question of why bother. (12/28/2018)HHn – Marc Savlov

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Letterkenny (Hulu) How are you now? Welcome to the town of Letterkenny, population 5,000. There are hicks (the local farmers), skids (goth meth heads), hockey players (the local lunkhead jocks), and Christians (usually screech-ingly repressed), plus the sometimes volatile relationship with the local reser-vation. That sounds like Hee Haw meets Sons of Anarchy, but this Canadian gem is actually the most whip-smart, vulgar, scripted comedy doing the rounds today. As Wayne, the toughest guy in Letterkenny, series co-creator Jared Keeso – along with co-writer Jacob Tierney (who plays scarcely closeted Pastor Glen) – breaks every rule about how much dialogue you can cram into a half-hour, sin-gle-camera show and just trusts the audience to pick up on where the plot is going. Pitter patter, let’s get at ’er!Deadwax (Shudder) Vinyl collectors can be – shall we say – a little obsessive, but the lines they’ll transgress for 12 inches of vinyl in Deadwax are positively demonic. Graham Reznick, indie horror’s go-to sound engineer, is writer/director here, and he dives headlong into the realm of sinister sonics with his eight-part series about record hunter Etta Pryce (Mindhunter’s Hannah Gross) searching for a mysterious recording that should never, ever be played. This evil goes up to 11.Wrestle Kingdom 13 (New Japan Pro-Wrestling World/Fite TV) Every Jan. 4, New Japan Pro-Wrestling holds its biggest event of the year. Wrestle Kingdom is their WrestleMania – minus the stupid celebrity appearances and awful musi-cal acts; plus the greatest wrestlers working today. Last year saw matches so astounding that Dave Meltzer, the doyen of wrestling reporters, broke his five-star rating scale, and this year’s main event of “The Cleaner” Kenny Omega ver-sus NJPW legend Hiroshi Tanahashi will be one for the ages. – Screens Editor Richard Whittaker

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Repo Man D: Alex Cox; with Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez. (1984, R, 92 min.) Punk-rock sentiments amiably collide with a science-fiction scenario in this instant cult classic produced by former Monkee Mike Nesmith. @Alamo Ritz, Monday, 7pm; Tuesday, 9:45pm.

Charm City D: Marilyn Ness. (2018, NR, 108 min.) This powerful doc examines life in Baltimore following the police killing of Freddie Gray. @Alamo Mueller, Saturday, 12:15pm.


J IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK D: Barry Jenkins; with KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King, Aunjanue Ellis, Colman Domingo, Teyonah Parris, Brian Tyree Henry. (R, 117 min.) Following up on his Oscar-winning Moonlight, Barry Jenkins has adapted James Baldwin’s extraordinary novel of love and racism in 1970s Harlem. Fonny (James) is seemingly locked on the inevitable path that will trap all young black men of the era (and, sadly, ours as well). It doesn’t matter that he’s a talented young artist, or that Tish (Layne) is pregnant with their child. Institutional racism, an unfair legal system, and the raw injustice of the world will tear at them. While there is a sense of poetic grace, there’s also a stop-start chapter feel, as each significant charac-ter gets a remarkable space to explore those underlying themes. Yet in those scenes there is majesty and humanity. The lulls between these peaks rush by, and the elegance and heartbreak undoubtedly remain. (12/21/2018)HHHHn – Richard Whittaker

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J MARY POPPINS RETURNS D: Rob Marshall; with Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh, Joel Dawson, Julie Walters, Colin Firth, Meryl Streep, David Warner. (PG, 130 min.) A blustery wind blows from the east once again, to carry everyone’s favorite no-nonsense nanny to Cherry Tree Lane in this happy sequel to the beloved 1964 Walt Disney movie. The threadbare plot, set 20 years after the original, focuses on the effort to find the bank stock cer-tificates needed to avoid foreclosure on the Banks family’s cherished London home. Michael Banks (Whishaw) is now a widower with three young children to raise, while Jane Banks (Mortimer) is a single young woman follow-ing in her late mother’s progressive footsteps. And, of course, there’s the spit-spot Miss Poppins (Blunt, filling Julie Andrews’ out-turned shoes nicely), still pleasantly perfect in every way. Mary Poppins Returns shamelessly coddles those same baby boomers today with the memory of the earlier film. Is that a bad thing? Not really. For no matter how derivative, there’s still an undeniable magic. (12/21/2018)HHHHn – Steve Davis

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MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS D: Josie Rourke; with Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden, Joe Alwyn, Gemma Chan, Martin Compston, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Brendan Coyle, Ian Hart, Adrian Lester, James McArdle, David Tennant, Guy Pearce. (R, 112 min.) What’s the point of a historical drama when you learn none of the lessons of history? The retelling of the infight-ing between Mary Queen of Scots (Ronan) and Elizabeth I of England (Robbie) reduces the bloody fate of two nations to the intrafamily squabbles of two royal relatives, with the simplistic underpinning that everything would be fine if they could get along like sisters. Ronan’s Mary is a bundle of cliches about a benevolent monarch; Robbie at least embraces the material, even though her Elizabeth is reduced to a weak pastiche of the Virgin Queen, with added daddy issues. Lacking either the primal political brutality of Outlaw King or the delicious barbs of The Favourite, this Mary is a mere pretender. (12/14/2018)HH – Richard Whittaker

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THE MULE D: Clint Eastwood; with Eastwood, Taissa Farmiga, Bradley Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Peña, Dianne Wiest. (R, 116 min.) Octogenarian star/director Clint Eastwood plays Earl, just your average folk who basically stumbles into running millions of dollars worth of drugs for a Mexican cartel. How’d that happen? Well, as the film (based on a New York Times story) tells it, he basically fell into it. The need for income eventually outweighs the risks, but isn’t that how it often goes? With the requisite scenes of diners and Waffle Houses, the anticipation of his eventual fall is both something to look forward to, and yet something to lament. For all of the film’s gloss of cartel bad guys with their elaborate and menacing facial hair, and the inevi-table showdown that has to happen, this is a movie about people caught up in doing things for the wrong reasons. But Eastwood plays it cool, thankfully. It’s the best film about drug trafficking that you can take your grandparents to. (12/21/2018)HHHn – Josh Kupecki

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J NEVER-ENDING MAN: HAYAO MIYAZAKI D: Kaku Arakawa. (NR, 70 min., subtitled) As director of anime classics like My Neighbor Totoro and Princess Mononoke, and spiritual sensei of the Tokyo-based animation powerhouse Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki is matched only by Walt Disney for impact on animation. Yet Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki is hardly the hagiographic love letter to the creator of genre-defying, whimsically melancholy masterworks, as he comes out of retirement to work on a new short film, “Boro the Caterpillar.” By turns stern, borderline irascible, and deeply passionate about his new project, Miyazaki is as befuddled by the array of CGI tech as the young artists are by his artistry. For anyone new to his work, this inside-the-studio tour will be an exercise in tedium, but for those who adore his life’s work, it’s a precious and fascinating glimpse into the inner life of the world’s greatest living animator. (12/14/2018)HHH – Marc Savlov

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J RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET D: Phil Johnston, Rich Moore; with the voices of John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, Gal Gadot, Taraji P. Henson, Alfred Molina, Alan Tudyk, Ed O’Neill. (PG, 114 min.) Animated sequel Ralph Breaks the Internet remasters the original with a major upgrade: Litwak’s Arcade now has internet access. Donkey Kong-esque hick lunk Ralph (Reilly) and racer Vanellope (Silverman) are still best bud-dies, but when Ralph’s well-intentioned attempts to help mean her Sugar Rush cabinet is headed for the scrap heap, they head to the web to find a replacement control-ler. Annoyingly, the opening arc is an endless slog through online branding, but once those contractual obligations are fulfilled, Ralph becomes a solid addition to Disney’s library of sad-sweet animated comedies. It lacks a classic Disney villain, but then the script by co-director Johnston and Moana scribe Pamela Ribon is going for something a

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Eraserhead D: David Lynch; with Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart. (1977, NR, 90 min.) One of those movies that almost defines the term “cult film,” this is Lynch’s debut, which was made back when he could still be called an experimental filmmaker. All that means is that there are lots of truly repugnant images here. Are they human, or are they “other”? Not even their mutant baby knows for sure. @Alamo Ritz, Sunday, 9:30pm; Tuesday, 10pm.

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Prime.) Next up is his 2009 film Beeswax (Jan. 16), the first one he shot locally, about twin sisters (played by Tilly and Maggie Hatcher) navigating sticky legal and roman-tic entanglements. The film offers a great example of Bujalski’s talent for writing wom-en’s voices, with the sidelong entertainment of featuring a handful of Austin directors in supporting parts and catching Austin on the cusp of its arguably ruinous boom (R.I.P. Storyville). By contrast, there are very few

women in 2013’s Computer Chess (Jan. 23 & 28, with a new 35mm print), a nutty, bril-liant movie about nerds raging against the machine at an Eighties coding tournament. As a period piece, Computer Chess is an outlier in Bujalski’s filmography, but its unforced naturalism – the window on regular life, at a specific moment in time – falls right in line with the filmmaker’s ongoing pursuit of the human being, flawed and endlessly fascinating. n

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) Harry Potter Drive-In Fest 2019. @Blue Starlite Mueller II, 7:30pm.

J Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018) D: RaMell Ross. (NR, 76 min.) The story of two young African-American men in Alabama by photographer RaMell Ross. @Alamo Mueller, 9:10pm.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry Potter Drive-In Fest 2019. HP 2 & 3. @Blue Starlite Mueller II, 7pm.

J The Lady Eve (1941) Essential Cinema: Edith Head’s Hollywood. @AFS Cinema, 4pm. (See Thursday, 1/3.)

Legally Blonde (2001) In Brunch We Trust. (*) @Alamo Ritz, 12:30, 3:30pm.

Ritual of Death (1990) D: Fauzi Mansur. (R, 85 min.) Video Vortex. Brazilian horror about an acting company that unleashes an ancient, evil force. @Alamo S. Lamar, 7pm.

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) @Alamo Village, 1pm. (See Saturday.)

MONDAY 1/ 7Annihilation (2018) @Alamo Ritz, 10pm.

Blade Runner: The Final Cut (2007) @Alamo Ritz, 9:45pm.

Crime + Punishment (2018) D: Stephen Maing. (NR, 112 min.) Amidst a landmark class-action lawsuit over illegal policing quotas, this Hulu doc chronicles the remark-able efforts and struggles of a group of black and Latino NYC whistleblower cops and the young minorities they are pressured to arrest. @Alamo Mueller, 8pm.

Infinite Football (2018) D: Corneliu Porumboiu. (NR, 70 min.) Modern Masters. Romanian documentary focusing on an injured soccer player obsessed with revising the rules of the sport. @AFS Cinema, 7pm.

Repo Man (1984) See p.34.

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) @Alamo Lakeline, 7pm.

SPACESCartoon Night All Washed Up. Eps of Ren & Stimpy, The Simpsons, Futurama, and more along with cereal, milk, and booze. @The Electric Church, 8pm.

Transformers (2007) Monday Movies. (*) @Willie Mae Kirk Branch Library, 5pm.

THURSDAY 1/3Grease (1978) Sing-Along. @Blue Starlite Mueller II, 8pm.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001) Harry Potter Drive-In Fest 2019. (*) @Blue Starlite Mueller II, 7pm.

J The Lady Eve (1941) D: Preston Sturges. (NR, 94 min.) Essential Cinema: Edith Head’s Hollywood. Preston Sturges’ delirious humor sets up Henry Fonda’s wealthy dope to be taken by Barbara Stanwyck’s seductive con artistry. Stick around for a post-screening discussion with Susan Mickey, UT costume designer, as part of this January series focusing on the wardrobe magic of Edith Head. @AFS Cinema, 7pm.

The Rider (2018) D: Chloé Zhao. (R, 104 min.) This powerful docudrama about an injured bronc rider is one of the year’s best films. (*) @AFS Cinema, 4:15pm.

Shoplifters (2018) D: Hirokazu Kore-eda. (R, 121 min., subtitled) The Japanese master returns with this Palme d’Or-win-ning family drama. See Film Listings for review. @AFS Cinema, 7:30pm; Alamo S. Lamar, 7, 10:05pm.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 70mm Restoration. @Alamo Ritz, 6pm.

SPACESJ The Central Park Five (2012) D: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon. (NR, 120 min.) Controversy & Conversation. Documentary covering the case of five teen-agers wrongfully convicted for rape in 1989. @Terrazas Branch Library, 6:30pm.

Lion (2015) Thursday Matinee. @Terrazas Branch Library, 1pm.

FRIDAY 1/4Cage-a-thon Master Pancake. @Alamo Ritz, 7, 10pm.

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Evergreens. (*) @AFS Cinema, 8:30pm.

A Fine Wife (2018) D: Randall White. (NR) World Premiere. Locally made documentary chronicles a family torn apart by an undiagnosed mental illness. @Alamo S. Lamar, 1pm.

The Goonies (1985) @Blue Starlite Mueller II, 7:30pm.

Grease (1978) Sing-Along. @Blue Starlite Mueller II, 10pm.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter Drive-In Fest 2019. @Blue Starlite Mueller II, 7pm.

SPACESBlack Bodies (2018) D: Charlotte Moore. (NR, 82 min.) First Friday Film Screening. This film is a candid, thought-ful, and courageous exploration into what it means to be Black in America and in the world. Sixteen Black folks of different ages, backgrounds, religions, nationalities, and skin tones are featured, including Council Member Ora Houston. @Wildflower Church, 6:45pm.

Frozen (2013) Community Cinema. (*) @Community First! Village, 6:30pm.

SATURDAY 1/5Annihilation (2018) (*) @Alamo Ritz, 3:15pm.

Cage-a-thon Master Pancake. @Alamo Ritz, 7:30, 10:30pm.

Charm City (2018) See p.34.

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Evergreens. @AFS Cinema, 9pm. (See Friday.)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) Harry Potter Drive-In Fest 2019. (*) @Blue Starlite Mueller II, 7:30pm.

The Goonies (1985) @Blue Starlite Mueller II, 10:15pm.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter Drive-In Fest 2019. @Blue Starlite Mueller II, 7pm.

Highway Patrolman (1993) See p.33.

Mandy (2018) (*) @Alamo Ritz, 9:45pm.

Mob Psycho 100 Season 2 Premiere. A psychic middle schooler fights to suppress his abilities and lead a normal life. @Arbor, Metropolitan, Cinemark 20, CM Southpark Meadows, CM Cedar Park, 12:55pm.

My Cousin Vinny (1992) In Brunch We Trust. (*) @Alamo Ritz, 12:45pm.

She’s All That (1999) (*) @Flix Brewhouse, 7pm.

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) @Alamo Lakeline, 1pm; Alamo Ritz, 4pm.

SPACESHotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018) Saturday Family Movie. (*) @Windsor Park Branch Library, 2pm.

SUNDAY 1/6Aliens (1986) Flashback Cinema. @Highland, noon, 7pm.

Blade Runner: The Final Cut (2007) @Alamo Ritz, 10pm.

Eraserhead (1977) See p.35.

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Three From the HeartAFS SPOTLIGHTS THE EARLY WORK OF SUPPORT THE GIRLS DIRECTOR ANDREW BUJALSKI Andrew Bujalski isn’t exactly the kind of guy you’d expect to land on a clickbait-y listicle. Still, review aggregator Metacritic got it right last summer when it put the Austin-based filmmaker on a list of “30 Film Directors Who Have Never Made a Bad Movie.” The company’s great – see also: Noah Baumbach, Asghar Farhadi, Sofia Coppola, Bong Joon-ho, and Jeff Nichols – but the headline is underselling it. Bujalski hasn’t only not made a bad movie (yet!). More signifi-cantly, he’s made a half-dozen critically adored films that are about no less than the human condition – that is, the very relat-able human condition of struggling for the right words, and stressing about your job, and worrying over how to tell someone you love them when you’re not even sure you like yourself all that much. Bujalski got tagged early with “the voice of his generation” huzzahs, which could have been the kiss of death. (How many voices of their generation circled the drain once the next gen stormed the gates of culture?) Instead, his movies keep evolving, in a mirror of the way his generation has aged, borne out

in the subjects he explores – the post-colle-giate drift, first tangles with monogamy and grownup responsibilities, the heaviness of being fully adult and still, yeah, flailing – and in his own artistic progression from early Aughts microindies starring his college room-mates to more polished, marketable films gifting great parts to professional actors. (Regina Hall, the star of his 2018 feminist

workplace comedy Support the Girls, has so far earned year-end plaudits from multiple critics groups and an Independent Spirit Award nomination, while the film itself ended up on Barack Obama’s end-of-year list.)

The Austin Film Society’s new miniretro-spective samples the middle films from Bujalski’s career. The series kicks off Jan. 9 with a newly restored print of Mutual Appreciation (2005), shot in black and white and starring Bishop Allen singer Justin Rice as a musician trying to find a foothold in burgeoning Brooklyn, with Bujalski playing his best friend and rival. (If you want to go the extra mile, the film works even better as a companion piece to Bujalski’s 2002 debut Funny Ha Ha, streaming now on Amazon

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Tilly Hatcher in Beeswax, part of the “Three by Bujalski”

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TUESDAY 1/8Communion (2016) D: Anna Zamecka. (NR, 72 min.) This documentary focuses on 14-year-old Ola, who cares for her father and brother while longing for the mother whose absence is unexplained. @Alamo Mueller, 9:15pm.

Eraserhead (1977) See p.35.

Highway Patrolman (1993) See p.33.

Repo Man (1984) See p.34.

Sisters (1973) D: Brian De Palma. (R, 93 min.) Terror Tuesday. In addition to a score by Bernard Herrmann, the mystery thriller’s plot essentials include separated Siamese twins, nuns, and a crime inadvertently witnessed. @Alamo S. Lamar, 9:30pm.

Taxi Driver (1976) @Alamo Ritz, 7pm.

WE DNESDAY 1/9Aliens (1986) Flashback Cinema. @Highland, noon, 7pm.

Blade Runner: The Final Cut (2007) @Alamo Ritz, 7pm.

Deadly Class Presented by SYFY & ATX Festival. Based on the hit graphic novel by Rick Remender and Wes Craig, the series follows Marcus, a disillusioned teen recruited into an elite private academy where the world’s top crime families send their successors. @Alamo S. Lamar, 5pm.

The Distant Barking of Dogs (2017) D: Simon Lereng Wilmont. (NR, 90 min.) Ukrainian documentary focuses on 10-year-old Oleg to examine the consequences of war. @Alamo Mueller, 9:15pm.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter Drive-In Fest 2019. @Blue Starlite Mueller II, 7pm. (See Friday.)

Mandy (2018) @Alamo Ritz, 9:45pm. (See Saturday.)

The Matrix (1999) (*) @Flix Brewhouse, 7pm.

Mutual Appreciation (2007) Three by Andrew Bujalski. See left. (*) @AFS Cinema, 8:30pm.

Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki (2018) (*) @AFS Cinema, 4:10pm.

Rachel Hollis Presents: Made for More (120 min.) A behind-the-scenes look into the production of Hollis’ two-day RISE conference, a motivational event series. @Metropolitan, Arbor, CM Southpark Meadows, CM Hill Country Galleria, Cinemark 20, CM Stone Hill Town Center, CM Cedar Park, 7:30pm.

Reefer Madness (1936) See p.37.

Taxi Driver (1976) @Alamo Ritz, 10pm. (See Tuesday.)

SPACESJ Footnote (2011) D: Joseph Cedar. (PG, 103 min., subtitled) Howson Foreign Film Series. The usual strife between fathers and sons charts an uncommon course through academia in this laceratingly comic and award-winning Israeli film. (*) @Howson Branch Library, 6:30pm.

THURSDAY 1/10Clue (1985) Movie Party. @Alamo Ritz, 7pm.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter Drive-In Fest 2019. HP 3 & 4. @Blue Starlite Mueller II, 7pm.

The Heiress (1949) D: William Wyler. (NR, 115 min.) Essential Cinema: Edith Head’s Hollywood. Based on Henry James’ novella Washington Square, the film tells the story of a young woman whose charms are belittled by her father, who views her as but a pale imitation of his deceased wife. He dismisses her suitor (Montgomery Clift in his third film role) as a gold digger, but will the couple survive? @AFS Cinema, 7pm.

The Matrix (1999) @Flix Brewhouse, 7pm.

Modest Heroes (PG, 70 min.) Ponoc Short Films Theatre, Volume 1. An ambitious anthology of three thrill-ing tales created by some of the greatest talents working in Japanese animation today. @Gateway, Arbor, Metropolitan, Cinemark 20, 7pm.

SPACESDunkirk (2017) Thursday Matinee. (*) @Terrazas Branch Library, 1pm.

OFFSCRE E NHyperreal Film Club: Call for Video Submissions The experimental art collective is seeking original videos of 4 minutes or less to be included in the latest volume of their zine, Dream Dates Reloaded. There will be a screening and release party in February. Deadline: Jan. 15. [email protected].

little subtler, about the damage we do by being too clingy. If only you could cheat code past those early expositional sequences. For an interview with scriptwriter and former Austinite Pamela Ribon, read “Exploring Friendship in Ralph Breaks the Internet,” Nov. 23. (11/21/2018)HHH – Richard Whittaker

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J ROMA D: Alfonso Cuarón; with Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Nancy García García, Carlos Peralta, Marco Graf, Daniela Demesa, Fernando Grediaga. (R, 135 min., subtitled) Best known for a certain type of bravado filmmak-ing (Children of Men, the Oscar-winning Gravity), for Alfonso Cuarón’s latest film, the autobiographical Roma, the writer/director has cast his gaze on his childhood, but seen through the lens of a working-class maid, Cleo (Aparicio). Cuarón makes it quite easy to fall in love with Cleo, as she goes about her day, providing meals for the family, doing the laundry, and gently rousing awake the young children in her care. But all is not well, as the matriarch Sofía (de Tavira) and her husband Antonio (Grediaga) fight over his infidelities, eventually leading to his departure, and when a tryst with a young martial arts enthusiast leaves Cleo pregnant, this idyllic world begins to fray. This is a film that alternatively shows humanity in all its ugly glory as well is its quiet moments of beauty. (12/07/2018)HHHH – Josh Kupecki

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J SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE D: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman; with the voic-es of Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry, Lily Tomlin, Luna Lauren Velez, Zoë Kravitz, John Mulaney, Kimiko Glenn, Nicolas Cage, Kathryn Hahn, Liev Schreiber, Chris Pine. (PG, 100 min.) Exit Peter Parker, the original Spider-Man. Enter his successor, Miles Morales, a 13-year-old kid from Brooklyn with an African-American father and a Puerto Rican moth-er. Just as Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man II caught the classic 1960s Spidey, so Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is exactly the Spider-Man movie we need now. The New York of Miles (Moore) is vibrant, splashed with color and dominated by the Kingpin (Schreiber). He’s busy ripping a hole in the space-time continuum for his own reasons, but fortunately that same rift provides Miles with the allies he needs: the Spider-persons (and, in one case, pig) of other dimensions. Directors Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman have shepherded an extraordinary ani-mated take on the Marvel universe that’s gritty and lush, shadowy and colorful, epic and intimate – kind of like Miles Morales’ NYC. (12/14/2018)HHHH – Richard Whittaker

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WELCOME TO MARWEN D: Robert Zemeckis; with Steve Carell, Leslie Mann, Diane Kruger, Merritt Wever, Janelle Monáe, Eiza González, Gwendoline Christie, Leslie Zemeckis, Falk Hentschel. (PG-13, 116 min.) Outsider artist Mark Hogancamp became famous after documentary Marwencol explored how he created a min-iature World War II Belgian town in his backyard and used the dolls that inhabit as a kind of therapy to get over his brain damage from a hideous beating. However, Zemeckis doesn’t just stick with the human narrative. Instead, he takes a doll’s-eye view of the world: The effect – coating characters with a plastic sheen, then adding ball sockets and jointed limbs – becomes less off-putting over time, and Zemeckis executes it all seamlessly, but it’s always noticeable. Ultimately, this is the best version of this story that the CG-obsessed Zemeckis could have possibly produced. But just because he could make it, that doesn’t mean he should. (12/21/2018)HHHn – Richard Whittaker

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J WIDOWS D: Steve McQueen; with Viola Davis, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya, Jacki Weaver, Robert Duvall, Liam Neeson, Lukas Haas, Carrie Coon, Jon Bernthal. (R, 129 min.) For his first film since 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen takes a more commercial route with this heist thriller with an irresistible premise – the widows of three men who died during a high-stakes robbery commit a theft of their own to pay back the angry men from whom their husbands stole. Adapted from Lynda La Plante’s British crime drama by McQueen and Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl), the film’s tone keeps us on edge. The performances are all taut and terrific, as is the direction, but Widows bogs down a bit once the heist gets going. There may be no honor amongst thieves, but at least one thing is true: The phenomenal Viola Davis knows a thing or two about getting away with murder. (11/16/2018)HHHHn – Marjorie Baumgarten

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J A STAR IS BORN D: Bradley Cooper; with Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott, Andrew Dice Clay, Michael Harney. (R, 135 min.) This fourth rendition of A Star Is Born oozes with romantic chemistry between Cooper and Gaga. If it isn’t fully love at first sight, then the first time they sing togeth-er surely is, and everything is tinted with magical fairy dust until the dream turns sooty. Thankfully, the 2018 ver-sion of the film downplays the older man’s jealousy of his young starlet’s rising fame, and gives it a more contempo-rary (and less macho) flourish by having Jackson (Cooper) become worried that Ally (Gaga) will lose her soul and creativity to the voracious starmaking machine. A Star Is Born retains the bones of the original story (first brought to the screen in 1937), but its adaptability to the needs of each era shows us why the tale is such a Hollywood perennial. (10/05/2018)HHHHn – Marjorie Baumgarten

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J VICE D: Adam McKay; with Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Jesse Plemons, Alison Pill, Lily Rabe, Eddie Marsan, Tyler Perry, Shea Whigham. (R, 132 min.) Can you blame Adam McKay for turning from antic comedies like Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy to a savage political tract like 2015’s The Big Short? He surely isn’t the only one of us whose sense of humor has soured since Trump took office. In Vice, as he details Dick Cheney’s shadow reign inside the 43rd president’s admin-istration, and the American people’s willingness to turn a blind eye – everything is heavier: the stakes, and the film-maker’s hand. Christian Bale makes an asset of his ten-dency toward remoteness to play the cipher-like Cheney, capturing him in a way that feels almost molecular. It’s one of the few subtle elements here, but McKay makes it clear that the time for a light touch is well behind us. Maybe the moment really does call for a bludgeon. (12/21/2018)HHHHn – Kimberley Jones

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Reefer Madness D: Louis Gasnier; with Dave O’Brien, Dorothy Short, Warren McCollum. (1936, NR, 76 min.) Weird Wednesday. Thirties propa-ganda film proposes that weed-smoking will most definitely lead to heroin addiction. The new 2K preservation from AGFA is complete with vintage ads and trailers to replicate a “midnight movie” experi-ence. @Alamo S. Lamar, Wednesday, 9:45pm.

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Sat, 4:15; Tue, 7:00MODERN MASTERS: INFINITE FOOTBALL:

Mon, 7:00ESSENTIAL CINEMA: EDITH HEAD’S

HOLLYWOOD: THE LADY EVE: Sun, 4:00THREE BY ANDREW BUJALSKI: MUTUAL

APPRECIATION: Wed, 8:30*NEVER-ENDING MAN: HAYAO MIYAZAKI

(DIGITAL): Wed, 4:10*SHOPLIFTERS (DIGITAL): Fri, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45;

Sat, 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30; Sun, 1:00, 3:45, 6:30; Mon, 3:45, 6:30; Tue, 3:45, 4:15; Wed-Thu (1/10), 4:45, 7:30

ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE AT THE RITZ

320 E. SIXTH, 512/861-7020.

ANNIHILATION: Sat, 3:15; Mon, 10:00 BEYONCE VIDEO DANCE PARTY:

Thu (1/10), 10:00BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT: Sun, 10:00;

Mon, 9:45; Wed, 7:00MASTER PANCAKE: CAGE-A-THON: Fri, 7:00,

10:00; Sat, 7:30, 10:30 MOVIE PARTY: CLUE: Thu (1/10), 7:00ERASERHEAD: Sun, 9:30; Tue, 10:00IN BRUNCH WE TRUST: LEGALLY BLONDE:

Sun, 12:30, 3:30MANDY: Sat-Wed, 9:45IN BRUNCH WE TRUST: MY COUSIN VINNY:

Sat, 12:45REPO MAN: Mon, 7:00; Tue, 9:45SUSPIRIA: Fri, 9:30TAXI DRIVER: Tue, 7:00; Wed, 10:00TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: Sat, 4:00

ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE LAKELINE14028 U.S. HWY. 183 N., BLDG. F,

512/861-7070.

*AQUAMAN: Fri-Sun, 10:40am, 2:20, 6:00, 9:50pm; Mon, 11:55am, 3:30, 7:20, 10:55pm; Tue, 2:35, 6:00, 9:50; Wed, 10:50am, 2:20, 6:00, 9:50pm; Thu (1/10), 11:10am, 2:35, 6:00, 9:50pm

*AQUAMAN (AFA): Tue, 11:10am*BUMBLEBEE: Fri, 11:10am, 2:10, 5:35, 8:35,

11:10pm; Sat, 11:10am, 2:10, 5:35, 8:35pm; Sun, 11:10am, 2:10, 5:35, 8:35, 11:10pm; Mon, 11:05am, 2:15, 5:10, 8:10, 11:10pm; Tue, 2:25, 5:35, 8:35, 11:10; Wed, 11:15am, 2:10, 5:35, 8:35, 11:10pm; Thu (1/10), 12:50

*BUMBLEBEE (AFA): Tue, 11:25am*GREEN BOOK: Fri, 11:40am, 3:00,

6:25pm; Sat-Sun, 11:30am, 2:45, 6:25pm; Mon, 11:40am, 2:55, 6:25pm; Tue, 3:10, 6:25; Wed, 11:40am, 3:00, 6:25pm; Thu (1/10), 11:40am, 3:00pm

*GREEN BOOK (AFA): Tue, 11:55am*HOLMES & WATSON: Fri, 11:25am, 2:00, 5:40,

8:35, 11:30pm; Sat, 11:00am, 2:25, 6:25, 9:50, 11:30pm; Sun, 11:00am, 2:25, 5:40, 8:35, 11:30pm; Mon, 11:05am, 2:15, 4:10, 8:10, 11:45pm; Tue, 3:00, 5:40, 8:35, 11:30; Wed, noon, 2:40, 5:40, 8:35, 11:30; Thu (1/10), noon, 2:40

*HOLMES & WATSON (AFA): Tue, 12:25*IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK:

Fri-Sun, 10:20am, 1:30, 4:40, 7:55, 11:10pm; Mon, 11:20am, 3:10, 6:40, 9:50pm; Tue, 4:50, 7:55, 11:10; Wed, 10:40am, 1:40, 4:40, 7:55, 11:10pm; Thu (1/10), 10:35am, 1:35, 4:45, 7:55, 10:50pm

*IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (AFA): Tue, 10:50am, 1:50pm

*MARY POPPINS RETURNS: Fri, 11:50am, 3:15, 6:40, 10:05pm; Sat, 3:15, 6:40, 10:05; Sun, 11:50am, 3:15, 6:40, 10:05pm; Mon, 10:45am, 2:30, 6:00, 9:30pm; Tue, 3:25, 6:40, 10:05; Wed-Thu (1/10), 11:50am, 3:15, 6:40, 10:05pm

*MARY POPPINS RETURNS (AFA): Sat, 11:50am; Tue, 12:05

*THE MULE: Fri, 11:25am, 2:40, 5:05, 8:15, 11:20pm; Sat, 12:25, 3:25, 5:00, 8:15, 11:20; Sun, 11:25am, 2:30, 5:30, 8:15, 11:20pm; Mon, 12:20, 3:55, 5:05, 8:10, 10:10; Tue, 2:05, 5:05, 8:15, 11:20; Wed, 11:00am, 2:05, 5:05, 8:15, 11:20pm; Thu (1/10), 11:00am, 2:05, 5:05, 6:25, 9:30pm

*THE MULE (AFA): Tue, 11:00am*ON THE BASIS OF SEX: Thu (1/10), 7:05, 10:25*RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET:

Fri-Sun, 12:05, 3:00; Mon, 11:40am, 2:55pm; Tue, 3:00; Wed-Thu (1/10), 12:05, 3:00

*RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET (AFA): Tue, 12:05

*SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE: Fri-Sun, 12:15, 3:40, 7:05, 10:25; Mon, 10:25am, 1:50, 5:25, 8:35, 11:15pm; Tue, 3:55, 7:05, 10:25; Wed, 12:15, 3:40, 7:05, 10:25; Thu (1/10), 12:15, 3:40, 5:25, 8:35, 11:55

*SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (AFA): Tue, 12:40

*A STAR IS BORN: 6:25, 9:40TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: Sat, 1:00; Mon, 7:00*WIDOWS: Fri, 9:40; Sat-Sun, 10:05;

Mon-Wed, 9:40

ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE MUELLER

1911 ALDRICH #120, 512/572-1425.

*AQUAMAN: Fri, 12:45, 3:30, 6:00, 10:00; Sat, noon, 3:40, 7:05, 10:35; Sun, 11:45am, 3:20, 6:45, 10:25pm; Mon, 12:40, 3:30, 6:00, 10:00; Tue, 4:15, 6:55, 10:30; Wed, 12:40, 4:05, 7:05, 10:30

*AQUAMAN (AFA): Tue, 12:50CHARM CITY: Sat, 12:15COMMUNION: Tue, 9:15CRIME + PUNISHMENT: Mon, 8:00THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS: Wed, 9:15HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING:

Sun, 9:10*MARY POPPINS RETURNS: Fri, noon, 3:15,

6:30, 10:30; Sat, 2:50, 6:10, 9:05; Sun, 4:00, 7:50, 10:10; Mon, noon, 3:15, 6:30, 10:30; Tue, 3:05, 6:00, 10:00; Wed, 11:40am, 3:00, 6:40, 10:40pm

*MARY POPPINS RETURNS (AFA): Sat, 11:30am; Sun, 1:35; Tue, 11:45am

*ON THE BASIS OF SEX: Fri, 11:45am, 3:00, 7:00, 9:30pm; Sat, 12:30, 3:25, 7:25, 10:30; Sun, 1:45, 4:50, 8:00, 11:00; Mon, 11:55am, 3:00, 7:00, 9:30pm; Tue, 2:20, 6:20, 9:30; Wed, 12:35, 3:35, 6:10, 9:25

*ON THE BASIS OF SEX (AFA): Tue, 11:15am*SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE:

Fri, 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 9:45; Sat, 1:45, 4:50, 6:00, 9:25; Sun, 3:10, 7:10, 11:00; Mon, 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 9:45; Tue, 4:15, 7:20, 10:20; Wed, 11:55am, 3:00, 6:00, 9:55pm

*SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (AFA): Tue, 1:15

*SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (OC): Sun, 1:00

ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE SLAUGHTER LANE

5701 W. SLAUGHTER, 512/861-7060.

*AQUAMAN: Fri-Sat, 12:20, 3:55, 7:30, 10:55; Sun, 11:55am, 3:30, 6:55pm; Mon, 11:55am, 3:25, 7:00, 10:30pm; Tue, 3:25, 7:00, 10:30; Wed, 11:55am, 3:25, 7:00, 10:30pm

*AQUAMAN (AFA): Tue, 11:55am*GREEN BOOK: Fri-Sat, 1:05, 4:25, 7:45, 11:00;

Sun, 12:50, 4:10, 7:30*MARY POPPINS RETURNS: Fri-Sat, 11:30am,

2:50, 6:35, 9:50pm; Sun, 11:20am, 2:45, 6:35pm; Mon, 11:45am, 3:05, 6:30, 9:45pm; Tue, 3:05, 6:30, 9:45; Wed, 11:45am, 3:05, 6:30, 9:45pm

*MARY POPPINS RETURNS (AFA): Tue, 11:45am

*THE MULE: Fri-Sat, 11:55am, 3:10, 6:15, 9:25pm; Sun, 1:20, 4:50, 6:15

*RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET: Fri-Sat, 12:30, 4:00; Sun, 12:05, 3:10

*SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE: Fri-Sat, 11:35am, 2:45, 6:00, 9:10pm; Sun, 11:30am, 2:50, 6:00pm; Mon, 11:35am, 2:50, 6:15, 9:25pm; Tue, 2:50, 6:15, 9:25; Wed, 11:35am, 2:50, 6:15, 9:25pm

*SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (AFA): Tue, 11:35am

*A STAR IS BORN: Fri-Sat, 7:15, 10:35; Sun, 7:55

ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE SOUTH LAMAR

1120 S. LAMAR, 512/861-7040.

*AQUAMAN: Fri, 11:30am, 2:55, 6:20, 9:45pm; Sat, 12:05, 3:40, 7:00, 10:25; Sun, 12:05, 3:40, 7:15, 9:55; Mon, 11:30am, 3:00, 6:25, 9:50pm; Tue, 7:05, 10:30; Wed, 12:25, 3:55, 7:20, 10:10

*AQUAMAN (AFA): Tue, 12:20, 3:35PRESENTED BY SYFY & ATX FESTIVAL: DEADLY

CLASS: Wed, 5:00*THE FAVOURITE: Fri, 1:05, 4:45, 7:50, 10:35;

Sat, 10:20am, 1:30, 4:45, 7:45, 10:40pm; Sun, 10:20am, 1:30, 4:45, 7:45, 10:35pm; Mon, 1:35, 4:45, 7:50, 10:40; Tue, 4:30, 7:40, 10:45; Wed, 12:30, 3:40, 6:15, 9:20

*THE FAVOURITE (AFA): Tue, 1:20WORLD PREMIERE: A FINE WIFE: Fri, 1:00*IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK: Fri, 12:05, 3:15,

6:15, 9:15; Sat, 12:15, 3:30, 6:50, 10:00; Sun, 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 9:50; Mon, 12:05, 3:15, 6:15, 9:15; Tue, 3:20, 6:20, 9:30; Wed, 12:05, 3:15, 10:45

*IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (AFA): Tue, 12:10

*MARY POPPINS RETURNS: Fri, 11:40am, 2:50, 6:00, 9:10pm; Sat, 11:55am, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45pm; Sun, 11:55am, 3:15, 6:30, 9:40pm; Mon, 11:40am, 2:50, 6:00, 9:10pm; Tue, 2:50, 6:00, 9:10; Wed, 11:40am, 2:50, 6:00, 9:10pm

*MARY POPPINS RETURNS (AFA): Tue, 11:40am*MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS: Fri, 12:10, 4:10,

7:15, 10:50; Sat, 10:05am, 1:00, 4:40, 7:50, 10:20pm; Sun, 10:05am, 1:00, 4:30, 10:40pm; Mon, 1:00, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20; Tue, noon, 3:50, 7:40, 10:00; Wed, 4:10, 7:25, 9:55

*ON THE BASIS OF SEX: Fri, 12:45, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15; Sat-Sun, 10:50am, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00pm; Mon, 12:45, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20; Tue, 4:20, 7:30, 10:30; Wed, 12:45, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20

*ON THE BASIS OF SEX (AFA): Tue, 1:25WEIRD WEDNESDAY: REEFER MADNESS:

Wed, 9:45VIDEO VORTEX: RITUAL OF DEATH: Sun, 7:00*SHOPLIFTERS: Fri, 1:00, 4:15, 7:30, 10:25;

Sat, 10:35am, 1:40, 4:20, 7:30, 10:55pm; Sun, 10:25am, 1:30, 4:20, 7:30, 10:50pm; Mon, 1:00, 4:15, 7:30, 10:50; Tue, 3:45, 6:45, 10:40; Wed, 1:00, 4:30, 7:45, 10:45

*SHOPLIFTERS (AFA): Tue, 12:40TERROR TUESDAY: SISTERS: Tue, 9:30*SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE:

Fri, 12:05, 3:15, 6:10, 9:20; Sat, 10:00am, 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:45pm; Sun, 10:00am, 1:10, 4:10, 7:50, 10:45pm; Mon, 12:05, 3:15, 6:10, 9:20; Tue, 3:00, 6:10, 9:20; Wed, 12:05, 3:15, 6:10, 9:35

*SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (AFA): Tue, 11:50am

*A STAR IS BORN: Wed, 1:15

ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE VILLAGE2700 W. ANDERSON #701, 512/861-7030.

*AQUAMAN: Fri-Sat, 11:50am, 3:50, 6:30, 10:00pm; Sun, 11:40am, 2:30, 6:00, 9:30pm; Mon, 11:50am, 3:50, 6:30, 10:00pm; Tue, 2:30, 6:00; Wed, 6:00, 9:30; Thu (1/10), 11:50am, 3:50pm

*AQUAMAN (AFA): Tue, 11:00am*THE FAVOURITE: Fri, 12:50, 3:20, 7:15, 10:25;

Sat, 12:45, 3:20, 7:15, 10:25; Sun, 12:35, 4:20, 7:30, 10:30; Mon, 12:50, 3:20, 7:15, 10:25; Tue, 3:50, 7:00; Wed, 7:30, 10:30; Thu (1/10), 12:50, 3:20

*THE FAVOURITE (AFA): Tue, 12:40*MARY POPPINS RETURNS: Fri, 11:30am,

2:45, 6:00, 9:20pm; Sat, 11:25am, 2:45, 6:00, 9:20pm; Sun, 11:20am, 3:10, 6:30, 9:45pm; Mon, 11:30am, 2:45, 6:00, 9:20pm; Tue, 3:15, 6:30; Wed, 6:30, 9:45; Thu (1/10), 11:30am, 2:45pm

*MARY POPPINS RETURNS (AFA): Tue, noon*SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE:

Fri-Sat, 1:30, 4:35, 7:45, 10:45; Sun, 12:35, 3:45, 7:00, 10:00; Mon, 1:30, 4:35, 7:45, 10:45; Tue, 12:50, 4:50, 7:45; Wed, 7:00, 10:00; Thu (1/10), 1:30, 4:35

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: Sun, 1:00

ARBOR CINEMA @ GREAT HILLS9828 GREAT HILLS TRAIL (AT JOLLYVILLE),

512/231-9742.

BEN IS BACK (CC/DVS): Fri, 12:50, 4:20, 7:30, 9:55; Sat, 4:20, 7:30, 9:55; Sun-Thu (1/10), 12:50, 4:20, 7:30, 9:55

THE FAVOURITE (CC/DVS): 12:10, 3:15, 6:15, 9:20

FREE SOLO (CC): Fri, 1:10, 4:30, 7:40, 10:05; Sat-Sun, 4:30, 7:40, 10:05; Mon-Tue, 1:10, 4:30; Wed-Thu (1/10), 1:10, 4:30, 10:05

GREEN BOOK (CC/DVS): 12:20, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (CC/DVS): noon,

3:00, 6:05, 9:10MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS (CC): 1:00, 4:10, 7:15,

10:00SEASON 2 PREMIERE: MOB PSYCHO 100:

Sat, 12:55PONOC SHORT FILMS THEATRE, VOLUME 1:

MODEST HEROES: Thu (1/10), 7:00ON THE BASIS OF SEX (CC): 12:30, 3:45,

6:45, 9:40RACHEL HOLLIS PRESENTS: MADE FOR MORE:

Wed, 7:30SHOPLIFTERS: 12:40, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50

BARTON CREEK SQUARE (AMC)BARTON CREEK SQUARE MALL,

MOPAC & HIGHWAY 360, 512/306-1991.

AQUAMAN (3-D, CC/DVS): Fri-Wed, 2:50AQUAMAN (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 11:10am, 6:10,

9:40pm; Mon, 11:10am, 6:10pm; Tue, 11:10am, 6:10, 9:40pm; Wed, 11:10am, 6:10pm

AQUAMAN (CC/DVS, IMAX): Fri-Sun, noon, 3:30, 7:00, 10:30; Mon, noon, 3:30, 7:00; Tue, noon, 3:30, 7:00, 10:30; Wed, noon, 3:30, 7:00

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 7:40, 10:50; Mon, 7:40; Tue, 7:40, 10:50; Wed, 7:40

BUMBLEBEE (3-D, CC/DVS): Fri-Tue, 10:50BUMBLEBEE (CC/DVS): Fri-Mon, 11:00am, 2:00,

5:00, 8:00pm; Tue, 11:00am, 2:00, 5:00pm; Wed, 11:00am, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00pm

BUMBLEBEE (SENSORY FRIENDLY): Tue, 8:00DR. SEUSS’ THE GRINCH (CC/DVS):

Fri-Wed, 11:00am, 1:20, 3:40pmESCAPE ROOM (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 12:30, 3:20,

6:20, 9:20; Mon, 12:30, 3:20, 6:20; Tue, 12:30, 3:20, 6:20, 9:20; Wed, 12:30, 3:20, 6:20

HOLMES & WATSON (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 11:40am, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50pm; Mon, 11:40am, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20pm; Tue, 11:40am, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50pm; Wed, 11:40am, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20pm

MARY POPPINS RETURNS (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 11:50am, 12:50, 4:00, 6:05, 7:10, 9:10, 10:20pm; Mon, 11:50am, 12:50, 4:00, 6:05, 7:10pm; Tue, 11:50am, 12:50, 4:00, 6:05, 7:10, 9:10, 10:20pm; Wed, 11:50am, 12:50, 4:00, 6:05, 7:10pm

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00; Mon, 12:40, 3:40, 6:50; Tue, 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00; Wed, 12:40, 3:40, 6:50

THE MULE (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:30; Mon, 12:40, 3:40, 6:30; Tue, 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:30; Wed, 12:40, 3:40, 6:30

RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET (CC/DVS): Fri-Wed, 11:30am, 2:00, 4:50pm

SECOND ACT (CC/DVS): Fri-Wed, 11:20am, 2:00, 4:40, 7:20pm

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (AMC DOLBY, CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 11:00; Mon, 1:50, 4:50, 7:50; Tue, 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 11:00; Wed, 1:50, 4:50, 7:50

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (CC/DVS): Fri-Tue, 10:10

A STAR IS BORN (AMC DOLBY, CC/DVS): Thu (1/10), 7:00

VICE (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 11:50am, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30pm; Mon, 11:50am, 3:10, 6:20pm; Tue, 11:50am, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30pm; Wed, 11:50am, 3:10, 6:20pm

WELCOME TO MARWEN (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00; Mon, 3:00, 6:00; Tue, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00; Wed, 3:00, 6:00

BLUE STARLITE MUELLER II2103 E M. FRANKLIN AVE., 512/850-6127.

HARRY POTTER DRIVE-IN FEST 2019: FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM: Sat-Sun, 7:30

THE GOONIES: Fri, 7:30; Sat, 10:15SING-ALONG: GREASE: Fri, 10:00HARRY POTTER DRIVE-IN FEST 2019: HARRY

POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS AND HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN: Sun, 7:00

HARRY POTTER DRIVE-IN FEST 2019: HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN AND HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE: Thu (1/10), 7:00

HARRY POTTER DRIVE-IN FEST 2019: HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE AND HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS: Fri-Wed, 7:00

BULLOCK MUSEUM IMAX1800 CONGRESS, 512/936-4629.

LASER IMAX 3D: AMAZON ADVENTURE: Fri, 10:00am, noon; Sat, 10:00am; Mon-Thu (1/10), 10:00am, noon

AQUAMAN (3-D, IMAX): 1:30AQUAMAN (IMAX): 4:30, 7:30IMAX 2D EXPERIENCE: PANDAS: Sat, noon;

Sun, 12:20LASER IMAX 3D: WILD FLIGHT: CONQUEST OF

THE SKIES: Fri-Thu (1/10), 11:00am

CINEMARK 20 AND XDN. I-35 & FM 1825, 512/989-8535.

AQUAMAN: Fri, 9:45am, 8:10pmAQUAMAN (3-D): Fri, 1:10, 4:40AQUAMAN (DIGITAL): Fri, 9:45am, 10:55, 2:25,

6:00, 8:10, 9:30pmAQUAMAN (XD): Fri, 12:10, 3:30, 7:00, 10:20BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (DIGITAL):

Fri, 1:20, 10:25BUMBLEBEE (DIGITAL): Fri, 10:45am, 1:40, 3:00,

4:30, 6:05, 7:30, 9:00, 10:30pmDR. SEUSS’ THE GRINCH (DIGITAL):

Fri, 10:05am, 4:35, 7:50pmESCAPE ROOM: Fri-Wed, 12:15, 2:55, 5:35,

8:15, 10:55ESCAPE ROOM (DIGITAL): Fri, 12:15, 1:35,

2:55, 4:20, 5:35, 6:55, 8:15, 9:35, 10:55; Sat-Wed, 12:15, 2:55, 5:35, 8:15, 10:55

FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD (DIGITAL): Fri, 11:10am

THE FAVOURITE (DIGITAL): Fri, 10:00am, 12:55, 3:55, 6:50, 9:55pm

HOLMES & WATSON (DIGITAL): Fri, 9:45am, 12:05, 2:45, 5:20, 8:05, 10:45pm

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (DIGITAL): Fri, 10:55am, 2:00, 5:00, 8:05, 10:55pm

INSTANT FAMILY (DIGITAL): Fri, 11:40am, 5:40pmMARY POPPINS RETURNS (DIGITAL): Fri, 12:55,

4:05, 7:15, 10:25MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS (DIGITAL): Fri, 9:50am,

12:50, 4:00, 7:05, 10:05pmSEASON 2 PREMIERE: MOB PSYCHO 100:


MODEST HEROES: Thu (1/10), 7:00THE MULE (DIGITAL): Fri, 10:20am, 1:15, 4:15,

7:20, 10:15pmRACHEL HOLLIS PRESENTS: MADE FOR MORE:

Wed, 7:30RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET (DIGITAL):

Fri, 10:30am, 1:25, 4:25, 7:25pmSECOND ACT (DIGITAL): Fri, 11:30am, 2:15, 5:05,

7:45, 10:40pmSPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE

(DIGITAL): Fri, 10:05am, 1:20, 2:45, 4:15, 7:05, 8:40, 10:10pm

VICE (DIGITAL): Fri, 9:55am, 1:10, 4:25, 7:35, 10:50pm

WELCOME TO MARWEN (DIGITAL): Fri, noon

CINEMARK HILL COUNTRYGALLERIA 14

12812 HILL COUNTRY BLVD., 800/326-3264.

AQUAMAN (3-D): Fri-Mon, 2:55AQUAMAN (DIGITAL): Fri-Mon, 11:25am, 6:20,

8:00, 9:45pmBOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (DIGITAL):

Fri-Mon, 3:55, 7:10, 10:25BUMBLEBEE (DIGITAL): Fri-Mon, 10:05am, 1:00,

4:00, 6:55, 10:00pmDR. SEUSS’ THE GRINCH (DIGITAL):

Fri-Mon, 1:25ESCAPE ROOM (DIGITAL): Fri-Mon, 11:00am,

1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40pmTHE FAVOURITE (DIGITAL): Fri-Mon, 10:15am,

1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:20pmHOLMES & WATSON (DIGITAL):

Fri-Mon, 11:50am, 2:20, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10pmMARY POPPINS RETURNS (DIGITAL):

Fri-Mon, 10:10am, 12:15, 1:30, 3:30, 4:50, 6:45, 9:55pm

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS (DIGITAL): Fri-Mon, 10:05am, 1:05, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20pm

THE MULE (DIGITAL): Fri-Mon, 10:20am, 1:20, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25pm

RACHEL HOLLIS PRESENTS: MADE FOR MORE: Wed, 7:30

RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET (DIGITAL): Fri-Mon, 11:05am, 2:00, 4:55, 7:50, 10:35pm

SECOND ACT (DIGITAL): Fri-Mon, 10:55am, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:05pm

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (DIGITAL): Fri-Mon, 10:30am, 1:35, 4:45, 7:45, 10:40pm

VICE (DIGITAL): Fri-Mon, 11:55am, 3:05, 6:15, 9:35pm

WELCOME TO MARWEN (DIGITAL): Fri-Mon, 10:25am

CINEMARK STONE HILL TOWN CENTER

18820 HILLTOP COMMERCIAL DR. (SOUTHWEST CORNER OF HIGHWAYS

130 & 45), 512/251-0938.

AQUAMAN (DIGITAL): Fri-Sat, 10:45am, 2:30, 6:00, 9:30pm; Sun, 10:45am, 2:30, 6:40pm; Mon-Wed, noon, 3:30, 7:00

BUMBLEBEE (DIGITAL): Fri-Sat, 10:00am, 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 9:15pm; Sun, 10:00am, 12:45, 3:30, 6:20pm; Mon-Wed, 12:45, 3:30, 6:20

DR. SEUSS’ THE GRINCH (DIGITAL): Fri-Sun, 10:10am, 3:15pm; Mon-Wed, 3:15

ESCAPE ROOM (DIGITAL): Fri-Sat, 10:45am, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15pm; Sun, 10:45am, 1:50, 4:20, 7:50pm; Mon-Wed, 12:10, 4:20, 7:50

HOLMES & WATSON (DIGITAL): Fri-Sat, 10:30am, 1:00, 4:40, 7:15, 10:00pm; Sun, 10:30am, 1:00, 4:10, 8:00pm; Mon-Wed, 12:50, 4:10, 8:00

MARY POPPINS RETURNS (DIGITAL): Fri-Sat, 11:00am, 3:00, 6:30, 9:30pm; Sun, 11:00am, 3:00, 7:00pm; Mon-Wed, 12:20, 3:00, 7:00

THE MULE (DIGITAL): Fri-Sat, 10:00am, 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45pm; Sun, 10:00am, 1:00, 4:00, 7:30pm; Mon-Wed, 12:10, 4:00, 7:30

RACHEL HOLLIS PRESENTS: MADE FOR MORE: Wed, 7:30

RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET (DIGITAL): Fri-Sat, 12:30, 6:00, 9:00; Sun-Tue, 12:30, 6:00; Wed, 12:30

SECOND ACT (DIGITAL): Fri-Sat, 10:00am, 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 9:40pm; Sun, 10:00am, 1:10, 4:05, 7:40pm; Mon-Wed, 12:40, 4:05, 7:40

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (DIGI-TAL): Fri-Sat, 10:15am, 1:05, 4:00, 6:50, 9:55pm; Sun, 10:15am, 1:05, 4:00, 7:20pm; Mon-Wed, 12:30, 4:00, 7:20

GALAXY HIGHLAND 10N. I-35 & MIDDLE FISKVILLE, 512/467-7305.

FLASHBACK CINEMA: ALIENS: Sun-Wed, noon, 7:00

*AQUAMAN (CC): Fri, 12:15, 12:45, 3:40, 7:00, 7:45, 10:15; Sat, 12:15, 3:40, 7:00, 7:50, 10:15; Sun, 12:15, 12:45, 3:40, 7:00, 7:45, 10:15; Mon-Thu (1/10), 12:15, 3:40, 7:00, 10:15

*BUMBLEBEE (CC): Fri-Sat, 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:15, 11:50; Sun-Thu (1/10), 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:15

*ESCAPE ROOM (CC): Fri-Sat, noon, 2:30, 5:00, 7:35, 10:20, 11:50; Sun-Tue, noon, 2:30, 5:00, 7:35, 10:20; Wed, noon, 2:30, 5:25, 7:50, 10:25; Thu (1/10), noon, 2:30, 5:00, 7:35, 10:20

*HOLMES & WATSON (CC): Fri-Sat, noon, 2:20, 4:40, 7:05, 9:25, 11:40; Sun, noon, 2:20, 4:40, 7:05, 9:25

*MARY POPPINS RETURNS (CC): Fri-Tue, noon, 3:00, 6:30, 9:30; Wed, 3:20, 10:15; Thu (1/10), noon, 3:00, 6:30, 9:30

*THE MULE (CC): Fri-Sun, 12:10, 3:15, 6:15, 9:20*SECOND ACT (CC): Fri-Sun, noon, 2:40, 5:15,

7:50, 10:30*SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (CC):

Fri, 1:00, 4:15, 4:45, 7:30, 10:30, 11:55; Sat, 1:00, 4:15, 5:00, 7:30, 10:30, 11:55; Sun, 1:00, 4:15, 4:45, 7:30, 10:30; Mon-Tue, 1:00, 4:15, 7:30, 10:30; Wed, noon, 2:35; Thu (1/10), 1:00, 4:15, 7:30, 10:30

*VICE (CC): Fri-Sat, 12:20, 3:30, 7:00, 10:00; Sun, 3:30, 10:00

GATEWAY THEATRE9700 STONELAKE, 512/416-5700.

AQUAMAN (3-D, CC/DVS): Fri-Wed, 3:45AQUAMAN (3-D, CC/DVS, IMAX):

Fri-Wed, 3:15, 9:45AQUAMAN (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 12:30, 6:00, 7:00,

9:15, 10:10; Mon-Wed, 12:30, 7:00, 10:10AQUAMAN (CC/DVS, IMAX): Fri-Wed, noon, 6:30AT ETERNITY’S GATE (CC): Fri-Wed, 1:05, 4:25,

7:30, 10:20BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (CC/DVS):

Fri-Wed, noon, 3:25, 6:50, 10:15BUMBLEBEE (CC/DVS): Fri-Wed, 12:20, 3:05,

7:30, 10:25ESCAPE ROOM (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 12:05,

2:35, 5:05, 7:05, 7:35, 9:35, 10:05; Mon-Thu (1/10), 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05

HOLMES & WATSON (CC): Fri, noon, 2:20, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00

SHOWTIMES An asterisk (*) before a title means that no passes or special admission discounts will be accepted. Changes may sometimes occur; viewers are encouraged to call theatres to confirm showtimes. For updated showtimes, see austinchronicle.com/events.


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HOLMES & WATSON (CC/DVS): Sat-Wed, noon, 2:20, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00

MARY POPPINS RETURNS (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 12:05, 12:45, 3:20, 3:50, 7:15, 10:15; Mon-Wed, 12:05, 12:45, 3:20, 3:50, 6:35, 7:15, 9:50, 10:20

PONOC SHORT FILMS THEATRE, VOLUME 1: MODEST HEROES: Thu (1/10), 7:00

THE MULE (CC/DVS): Fri-Wed, 12:35, 4:20, 7:25, 10:20

RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET (CC): Fri, 12:25, 3:40, 6:45, 9:30

RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET (CC/DVS): Sat-Wed, 12:25, 3:40, 6:45, 9:30

SECOND ACT (CC): Fri, 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25SECOND ACT (CC/DVS): Sat-Wed, 12:10, 2:40,

5:15, 7:50, 10:25SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE

(CC): Fri, 12:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE

(CC/DVS): Sat-Wed, 12:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55A STAR IS BORN (CC/DVS): Fri-Wed, 12:10,

3:30, 6:40, 9:50VICE (CC/DVS): Fri-Wed, 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00WELCOME TO MARWEN (CC/DVS):

Fri-Sun, 12:15, 3:00; Mon-Wed, 7:00, 10:00

IPIC THEATERS AUSTIN3225 AMY DONOVAN PLAZA

(AT THE DOMAIN), 512/568-3400.

*AQUAMAN: Fri-Sat, 10:30am, 2:15, 6:15, 10:15pm; Sun, 10:30am, 2:15, 10:15pm; Mon-Wed, 10:30am, 2:15, 6:15, 10:15pm

*BUMBLEBEE: Fri-Wed, 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 10:00*ESCAPE ROOM: Fri-Wed, 1:15, 4:15, 7:30, 10:50;

Thu (1/10), 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45*MARY POPPINS RETURNS: Fri-Wed, 11:00am,

2:30, 6:00, 9:30pmTHE MULE: Fri-Wed, 12:45, 4:00, 7:15, 10:40*SECOND ACT: Fri-Wed, 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 11:00*SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE:

Fri-Wed, 11:30am, 3:00, 6:30, 9:45pm*VICE: Fri-Wed, 11:45am, 3:15, 7:00, 10:30pm

AMC LAKELINE 9LAKELINE MALL AT HIGHWAY 183 & RR

620, 512/335-4793.

AQUAMAN (3-D, CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, noon, 3:45, 6:30, 10:00; Mon, noon, 3:45, 6:30; Tue, 1:20, 4:30

AQUAMAN (CC/DVS): Fri-Mon, 10:00am, 1:15, 7:30pm; Tue, 7:00

BUMBLEBEE (3-D, CC/DVS): Fri-Mon, 2:00, 8:00; Tue, 7:30

BUMBLEBEE (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 11:00am, 5:00, 10:45pm; Mon, 11:00am, 5:00pm; Tue, 1:30, 4:10

ESCAPE ROOM (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 10:45am, 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15pm; Mon, 10:45am, 1:30, 4:15, 7:15pm; Tue, 2:15, 5:00, 7:50

HOLMES & WATSON (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 10:15am, 1:45, 3:30, 6:45, 9:00pm; Mon, 10:15am, 1:45, 3:30, 6:45pm; Tue, 2:00, 4:45, 7:10

MARY POPPINS RETURNS (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 9:45am, 12:45, 4:30, 7:00, 10:45pm; Mon, 9:45am, 12:45, 4:30, 7:00pm; Tue, 1:00, 4:00, 8:00

THE MULE (CC/DVS): Fri, 10:30am, 12:30, 4:00, 6:00, 9:15pm; Sat, 10:30am, 12:30, 4:00, 6:00, 9:45pm; Sun, 10:30am, 12:30, 4:00, 6:00, 9:15pm; Mon, 10:30am, 12:30, 4:00, 6:00pm; Tue, 1:10, 3:50, 6:30

SECOND ACT (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 11:45am, 2:30, 5:15, 7:45, 10:30pm; Mon, 11:45am, 2:30, 5:15, 7:45pm; Tue, 1:00, 3:40, 6:45

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (3-D, CC/DVS): Fri-Mon, 12:15, 6:15; Tue, 1:45, 7:40

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 3:00, 9:30; Mon, 3:00; Tue, 4:45

VICE (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 3:15, 9:45; Mon, 3:15; Tue, 1:20, 4:20, 7:20

METROPOLITANS. I-35 & STASSNEY, 512/447-0101.

AQUAMAN (CC/DVS): 12:30, 2:10, 4:05, 7:30, 9:30

BUMBLEBEE (CC/DVS): Fri-Tue, 1:50, 4:45, 6:30, 7:40, 9:20, 10:30; Wed, 1:50, 4:45, 6:30, 7:40, 10:15, 10:30; Thu (1/10), 1:50, 4:45, 7:40, 10:30

DR. SEUSS’ THE GRINCH (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 11:50am, 4:50pm; Mon-Wed, 11:50am, 4:50, 7:15, 9:45pm; Thu (1/10), 11:50am, 4:50pm

ESCAPE ROOM (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, noon, 2:40, 3:40, 5:20, 6:20, 7:00, 8:00, 9:40, 10:40; Mon-Thu (1/10), noon, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40

THE FAVOURITE (CC/DVS): 2:00, 4:05, 7:00, 10:05HOLMES & WATSON (CC/DVS): 11:50am, 1:40,

5:30, 7:55, 10:25pmMARY POPPINS RETURNS (CC/DVS): 12:20,

3:30, 6:40, 9:50MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS (CC): 12:15, 3:30,

6:40, 9:50SEASON 2 PREMIERE: MOB PSYCHO 100:


MODEST HEROES: Thu (1/10), 7:00THE MULE (CC/DVS): 12:40, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50ON THE BASIS OF SEX (CC): Thu (1/10), 9:30RACHEL HOLLIS PRESENTS: MADE FOR MORE:

Wed, 7:30RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET (CC/DVS):

Fri, 12:50, 3:45; Sat, 3:45; Sun-Thu (1/10), 12:50, 3:45

SECOND ACT (CC/DVS): noon, 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (CC/DVS): 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10

VICE (CC/DVS): 12:45, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20WELCOME TO MARWEN (CC/DVS):

Fri-Sun, 12:45, 10:45; Mon-Tue, 12:45, 3:45, 6:35, 10:45; Wed, 12:45, 3:45, 10:45; Thu (1/10), 12:45, 3:45

MOVIEHOUSE & EATERY8300 N. FM 620, BLDG. B, 512/501-3520.

AQUAMAN: 10:45am, 11:45, 2:50, 3:20, 6:30, 7:00, 9:25, 10:10pm

BUMBLEBEE: 11:45am, 2:20, 5:30, 8:40pmHOLMES & WATSON: Fri-Mon, 9:30am, 2:30,

5:15, 8:00, 10:55pm; Tue-Wed, 11:45am, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:55pm; Thu (1/10), 11:45am, 2:20, 8:00, 10:55pm

MARY POPPINS RETURNS: Fri-Mon, 11:05am, 11:30, 12:35, 2:30, 3:00, 6:00, 7:00, 10:25pm; Tue-Wed, 11:30am, 12:35, 2:30, 3:00, 6:00, 7:00, 10:25pm; Thu (1/10), 11:30am, 12:35, 2:30, 3:00, 6:00pm

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS: Fri-Wed, 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20; Thu (1/10), noon, 3:15, 6:30, 9:50

THE MULE: Fri-Wed, 10:00am, 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:40pm; Thu (1/10), 10:00am, 1:00, 4:10, 10:35pm

ON THE BASIS OF SEX: Thu (1/10), 7:00, 10:15SECOND ACT: 10:45am, 1:45, 4:45,

7:45, 10:45pmSPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE:

Fri-Mon, 9:30am, 11:15, 3:55, 6:30, 9:40pm; Tue-Thu (1/10), 11:15am, 3:55, 6:30, 9:40pm

VICE: 11:00am, 2:30, 6:00, 9:30, 10:35pm

MOVIEHOUSE & EATERY - LANTANA PLACE

7415 SOUTHWEST PARKWAY, BUILDING 7, 512/572-0770.

AQUAMAN: Fri-Wed, 11:00am, 11:45, 2:10, 2:40, 5:45, 6:20, 9:10, 10:00pm; Thu (1/10), 11:00am, 12:10, 2:10, 2:40, 5:45, 6:20, 9:10, 10:00pm

BUMBLEBEE: 11:40am, 2:50, 6:00, 9:25pmHOLMES & WATSON: Fri-Wed, 10:45am, 2:15,

5:00, 7:45, 9:30pm; Thu (1/10), 10:45am, 2:10, 9:30pm

MARY POPPINS RETURNS: Fri-Wed, 11:10am, 12:30, 1:40, 3:55, 5:05, 7:20, 8:30pm; Thu (1/10), 10:25am, 11:10, 12:30, 1:40, 3:55, 5:05, 7:20, 10:40pm

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS: Fri-Wed, 10:55am, 2:40, 6:00, 10:30, 10:45pm; Thu (1/10), 10:55am, 2:40, 6:00, 10:45pm

THE MULE: Fri-Wed, 11:00am, 3:30, 6:35, 10:30pm; Thu (1/10), 11:00am, 3:50, 8:30pm

ON THE BASIS OF SEX: Thu (1/10), 7:00, 10:15RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET:

Fri-Wed, 10:30amSECOND ACT: Fri-Wed, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:40;

Thu (1/10), 1:30, 4:30SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE: noon,

3:15, 6:45, 10:05

SKY CINEMAS13201 US-290, 512/457-0700.

AQUAMAN: Fri-Sat, 10:50am, noon, 1:00, 3:15, 5:00, 6:30, 8:15, 9:25pm; Sun, 10:50am, 12:20, 1:15, 3:35, 5:00, 6:50, 8:15, 9:25pm; Mon-Thu (1/10), 12:30, 1:15, 3:45, 4:45, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY: Fri-Sat, 4:10, 6:50, 9:10; Sun, 4:10, 6:35, 9:10; Mon-Thu (1/10), 3:05, 5:10, 7:45

BUMBLEBEE: Fri-Sat, 10:45am, 12:30, 2:15, 4:30, 7:15, 8:50, 10:00pm; Sun, 11:05am, 12:30, 2:35, 4:50, 7:35, 8:50pm; Mon-Thu (1/10), 11:45am, 2:40, 5:10, 7:25, 8:40pm

GREEN BOOK: Fri-Sun, 1:15, 6:15, 9:30; Mon-Thu (1/10), 12:05, 5:45, 8:15

HOLMES & WATSON: Fri-Sat, 10:45am, 3:50, 7:15, 10:00pm; Sun, 11:00am, 3:50, 7:15pm; Mon-Thu (1/10), 3:25, 6:00

MARY POPPINS RETURNS: Fri-Sat, 11:00am, noon, 1:25, 2:00, 3:10, 4:15, 5:15, 6:15, 8:20pm; Sun, 11:00am, noon, 1:45, 2:00, 3:10, 4:30, 5:15, 6:15, 8:20pm; Mon-Thu (1/10), 11:50am, 1:45, 2:55, 4:30, 5:25, 6:00, 7:35pm

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS: Fri-Sat, 11:20am, 2:20, 5:00, 7:00, 9:20pm; Sun, 11:40am, 2:20, 5:20, 7:20, 9:20pm; Mon-Thu (1/10), 11:45am, 2:30, 5:25, 7:20, 9:00pm

THE MULE: Fri-Sat, 11:00am, 1:50, 4:20, 7:15, 9:50pm; Sun, 11:00am, 2:10, 4:40, 7:30pm; Mon-Thu (1/10), 2:30, 4:40, 8:15

RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET (3-D): Fri-Sat, 11:05am, 1:40, 4:15pm; Sun, 10:50am, 1:25, 4:00pm; Mon-Thu (1/10), noon, 2:35

SECOND ACT: Fri-Sat, 10:50am, 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:45pm; Sun, 10:50am, 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:30pm; Mon-Thu (1/10), 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 8:10

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE: Fri-Sun, 11:30am, 1:05, 3:15, 6:00, 8:20pm; Mon-Thu (1/10), 11:45am, 12:35, 3:30, 6:15, 8:25pm

VICE: Fri-Sat, 10:50am, 2:10, 5:15, 7:50, 9:45pm; Sun, 11:10am, 2:10, 5:15, 8:10pm; Mon-Thu (1/10), 12:35, 1:45, 4:40, 7:50

SOUTHWEST THEATERS AT LAKE CREEK 7

13729 RESEARCH #1500, 512/291-3158.

CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? (CC): 10:50amCREED II (CC, OC): 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:15FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF

GRINDELWALD (3-D, CC): 12:30, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS (CC):

Fri-Tue, 11:20am, 2:00, 4:20, 6:40pm; Wed, 11:20am, 1:50, 4:40pm; Thu (1/10), 4:40

ROBIN HOOD (CC): Fri-Tue, 4:40, 10:10SMALLFOOT (CC): 10:40am, 1:20pmA STAR IS BORN (CC): Fri-Tue, 11:00am, 12:50,

4:00, 7:10, 9:10pm; Wed-Thu (1/10), 11:00am, 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 9:50pm

VENOM (CC): Fri, 1:50, 7:30; Sat-Tue, 1:50, 7:30, 10:15; Wed-Thu (1/10), 2:00, 7:20, 10:15

WIDOWS (CC): Fri-Tue, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50; Wed-Thu (1/10), 3:40, 6:50, 10:00

VIOLET CROWN CINEMA434 W. SECOND, 512/495-9600.

THE FAVOURITE: Fri-Wed, 1:45, 3:40, 6:35; Thu (1/10), 1:35, 3:40, 6:35

FREE SOLO: 10:50amON THE BASIS OF SEX: noon, 1:30, 2:30, 5:00,

7:30, 9:45ROMA: 8:45SHOPLIFTERS: 11:00am, 4:00, 6:10, 9:10pmVICE: Fri-Wed, 11:05am, 1:00, 4:15, 7:00, 10:00pm;

Thu (1/10), 10:45am, 1:00, 4:05, 10:00pm

WESTGATE 11S. LAMAR & BEN WHITE, 512/899-2717.

AQUAMAN (3-D, CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 9:50; Mon-Thu (1/10), noon, 3:15, 6:30, 9:35

AQUAMAN (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 11:30am, 2:40, 6:00, 9:15pm; Mon-Thu (1/10), 11:30am, 2:40, 6:00, 9:05pm

BUMBLEBEE (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 11:30am, 2:15, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10pm; Mon-Thu (1/10), 11:00am, 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40pm

ESCAPE ROOM (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 11:00am, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 7:55, 9:00, 10:30pm; Mon-Thu (1/10), noon, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00

HOLMES & WATSON (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 11:00am, 2:20, 3:50, 8:00, 10:30pm; Mon-Wed, 11:30am, 2:20, 4:20, 8:00, 10:15pm; Thu (1/10), 11:30am, 2:20, 4:20pm

MARY POPPINS RETURNS (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 11:00am, 2:00, 5:00, 6:45, 9:45pm; Mon-Thu (1/10), 11:00am, 2:00, 5:00, 6:30, 9:30pm

THE MULE (CC/DVS): Fri-Wed, 11:15am, 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55pm; Thu (1/10), 11:00am, 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50pm

ON THE BASIS OF SEX (CC): Thu (1/10), 8:00RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET (CC/

DVS): Fri-Sun, 11:45am, 1:15, 4:35pm; Mon-Wed, 11:45am, 1:45, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45pm; Thu (1/10), 11:45am, 1:45, 4:35pm

SECOND ACT (CC/DVS): noon, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 11:45am, 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25pm; Mon-Thu (1/10), 11:15am, 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55pm

VICE (CC/DVS): Fri-Sun, 12:15, 3:15, 6:05, 9:15; Mon-Thu (1/10), 12:15, 3:15, 6:35, 9:30


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and Hole in the Wall are free to host events using the “Free Week” brand. Meanwhile, in 2017, Juan-Carlos Silva started This Is Austin to ease the void left by beloved punk conglomeration Chaos in Tejas. Silva used to book day shows for the fest, which spanned 2004-13. “I opened up some credit lines and decided to buy flights, cross my fingers, and pray to Allah that I’d make the money back,” shares Silva via email. “I [shouldn’t] be sink-ing money into endeavors that aren’t focused on making a profit, but it’s all for the love.” Luckily, the promoter managed to break even, barely, allowing for this year’s high-energy assemblage to include frenetic

SoCal hardcores Tozcos and Rashomon’s D.C.-based Japanese punk. Not far off from Free Week’s sponsorship provisions, Silva pays tour-ing bands around $200. The founder estimates that half his audience travels from out-side the state, flocking to a fest that includes aftershows at 523 Thompson and an accompanying art show. He adds that the all-ages

environment has “nothing to gain” from alco-hol sponsorships. And civic grant money? “I doubt the city would want anything to do with a fest that’s promo video explicitly says ‘Fuck Ted Cruz,’” writes Silva.

Rapping Red River Abhi the Nomad pulls hundreds of thou-sands of monthly listeners. The local rapper’s label, Tommy Boy Entertainment, devel-oped legends like De La Soul. My Music column predecessor Kevin Curtin deemed his Marbled the best local album of 2018. Despite the early success, 25-year-old Abhi Sridharan Vaidehi has never played a

MUSICA Tale of Two Red River FestsDIY or Subsidize Amid the treacherous landscape of Texas music festival profitability, two multi-venue events share square footage this week in the Red River Cultural District. Long-running tradition Free Week, spanning Jan. 1-6 at nine Downtown locales, divvies up sponsor-ship funds among cooperating district venues to book largely local, unticketed showcases. DIY punk festival This Is Austin, Not That Great, split between Barracuda and Beerland Jan. 3-6, draws on an established underground following to attract out-of-town artists and fans for a third year. Squeezing out the last dead days of winter before college classes start up, these con-current gatherings manage to make lemonade. Margin Walker Presents Founder Graham Williams unofficially launched Free Week in 2002, attempting to spike business at Emo’s during a lull in touring acts. Following the formation of the Red River Merchants Association in 2016, Free Week now acts as a shared spotlight for participating district venues. Owners also collabora-tively launched the event’s July twin, Hot Summer Nights. “[Free Week] is no longer just about surviv-ing,” says Cody Cowan, executive director of the Red River Cultural District. “It’s about equity. There’s enough programming diversity and creative ideas in the district that we’ve realized, ‘Oh, we should stop trying to find ways of undermining each other, and instead do rad shit together.’” The citywide tradition drew complaints for offering artists little to no pay for their play, but the Red River Cultural District now raises funds through business sponsorships – pri-marily from drink companies. The group’s money is divided among area venues to book Free Week artists, with nightly budgets based on capacity. Participating venues pay every act somewhere between the recommended mini-mum, $100, and a strict upper limit of $500. “The old competition model between bars and venues was: Let me see what the neighbors are doing, and then find a way to undercut that by paying the same band more or making our beer cheaper,” adds Cowan. “That was a zero-sum game.” Outside the Red River Merchants Association, other venues like Hotel Vegas MORE ON AUSTIN’S RETIRING TANGO MASTER AND DUCK PROLIFERATOR GLOVER GILL | AUSTINCHRONICLE.COM/MUSIC

show in our city’s designated live music epi-center, the Red River Cultural District. Now, the melodic rapper/singer makes his debut tonight, Thu., Jan. 3, on Stubb’s indoor stage following local sibling trio the Bishops. Both acts join a youthful crop of local hip-hop art-ists booked for Free Week’s most exciting showcases. “I can’t really have a hometown audience, because I’m from so many different places,” says India-born Vaidehi, who has played fewer than 10 Austin shows since moving here in 2017. “It’s about putting on the best live show I can, while also rallying [fans] from all over who are online. It’s a balancing act.” Hip-hop topped national streaming stats in 2018, and that dominance comes well represented in the online takeoff of Austin’s rising rap stars. Seventeen-year-old Quinlan McAfee, who performs as Quin NFN, joins Vaidehi atop the Free Week poster. After his Chronicle cover in August, McAfee’s rapid-fire delivery fronted a Pitchfork feature. The teen has since racked up over 3.5 million views on the video for the bass-busting “Talkin’ My Shit.” Expanding on past genre crossover, This Is Austin kicks off Thursday with bilingual Miami rapper La Goony Chonga. The night at Barracuda also pulls Austin rap figure the Teeta alongside the smooth delivery of Ladi Earth. Fest organizer Silva, who helps promote Texas runs for buzzy online acts like Lil Ugly Mane, says alternative punk and rap fans largely overlap.

“Because of racism and the social stigma of rap music, the underground rap scene had become isolated from downtown venues,” writes Silva via email. “[It] has become more present in the Red River area, but we could be doing better.” Ladi Earth, rap pseudonym of Austin-based Michaela Taylor, impulsively posted her first song, “Water,” on SoundCloud a year ago. The track will appear on Natasha Lyonne’s new Netflix show Russian Doll. A bubbling online presence allowed Taylor to open for large acts such as Cupcakke during her first year. Still, the 23-year-old Austinite says there wasn’t a go-to place to practice her hazy, Princess Nokia-inspired sound. “There’s a venue for everything else except rap music,” Taylor shares. “You know you’re going to hear hella rock bands at Mohawk, but for rap, you have to know where to look.” The closest she’s found is Scratchouse, where Austin rhymer Shirt Off Fe arranged Taylor’s first-ever show. The Seventh Street venue, previously home to Beauty Bar and Holy Mountain, joins Free Week for the first time following a change in ownership. As for Vaidehi, the rising star says he’s not overly concerned about limited local hip-hop audi-ences. He chose the city as a home base, rather than a source of hype. “It’s not like I want to prove everything here,” he shares. “This is my home, so if I have to do something hip-hop-related or stuff that’s important to the culture elsewhere, I can fly out for it. Then I can come back [to Austin], where I’m most comfortable.” n

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M A R G I N W A L K E R P R E S E N T S has launched a live music subscription service. The Fan Club offered two guest spots at one show a month, so 100 Austinites sold out membership in under 15 minutes. The offer breaks down to just $6.25 per person for every gig – quite a deal considering I pay more monthly to melt my brain on Netflix.

T A N G O P I A N I S T G L OV E R G I L L ended his legendary performance career Dec. 29 at the Continental Club, accompanied by his gypsy swing band 8 1/2 Souvenirs. Head to our Daily Music page online for the full story on Gill’s retirement.


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BEST AUSTIN BANDO Black PumasO HovvdyO ShinyribsO SuperfónicosO White Denim

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NOLAN POTTER’S NIGHTMARE BANDBarracuda, Fri. 4; Hotel Vegas, Sun. 6 Atypical from any angle, NPNB’s perfor-mances commence with a flute-wielding front-man facing away from the audience, conduct-ing his seven-member ensemble through an escalating overture like Leonard Bernstein on LSD. The ensuing ritual finds the double-drum unit firing fast fuzz riffs to the rally cry “Dosing the President,” then summoning the Age of Aquarius via 12-string guitars and compounded time signatures on “Pity in the City.” The 11-month-old ATX project strings together prog, psych, and cloud pop with dark whimsy reminiscent of Alice Cooper outlier Pretties for You or early Mothers of Invention, minus the satire. – Kevin Curtin

SHERRY Hole in the Wall, Thu. 3 On 2017’s Not Brandy, Not Whiskey, John Michael Sherry muses on the passage of time while painting landscapes in Ram and Rundgren country. Less dreary than Stephin Merritt, less cloying than Wayne Coyne, the singer balances melancholy leisure with charged sentiment, using the right brushes, colors, and brush-strokes to mark measures and arrange embel-lishments. Honest reflections fed through shaky harmonies ground the moonglow piano magic of elegant tracks like “Each Day” and “Enough,” making them mortal without breaking the spell. Live, daylight arrives when Sean Lochridge, Declan Murtagh, Austin Perriraz, and Sherry bomb that alchemy with surf-pop psych and amp rock delight. – Rick Weaver

BORZOIHole in the Wall, Sat. 5; Hotel Vegas, Sun. 6 Most post-punk looks down its nose at the genre’s last syllable. Not singer/guitarist Zach Woods, singer/drummer Rhys Woodruff, nor bassist Taylor Browne. Their recent 12XU full-length A Prayer for War showcases a local unit trading in punk’s loud/hard/fast aspects, but at obtuse angles. Noisy Eighties L.A. DIY intros and choruses give way to clipped funk verses on opener “The South Is Risen,” while the title track screams feedback and “Lizard Men of the Third Reich” sounds like Motörhead playing math rock. And that’s sim-ply the first three songs! This is high-speed, brainy brutality designed for your dancing pleasure. – Tim Stegall

MARFA CRUSH Scoot Inn, Sat. 5 Marlon Sexton was born with a rock star aura accentuated by a cruel onstage swagger and lanky lean into the microphone. The frontman of this young quintet comes by it naturally as scion of ATX musical MVP Charlie Sexton, with the sharp-cut jaw and breakout talent to match his father’s own Eighties emergence as an L.A. teen idol. Hunter Pierce, Colton Kincaid, Matt Erlandson, and Residual Kid guitarist Deven Ivy combine with Sexton in mellow but forceful rock above a bed of heavy beats and effects, the singer moaning breathless and poetic angst into first singles “Nights” and “Bloomer” at the end of 2018. – Doug Freeman

ABHI THE NOMAD Stubb’s, Thu. 3 For the next three years, Austin hopefully holds on to Abhi Sridharan Vaidehi. Credible assurance arises from the Indian rapper’s receipt of an O-1B visa for extraordinary artistic abilities, as well as his deep love for the capital. Approval from Homeland Security followed standout 2018 sophomore LP Marbled, out on esteemed hip-hop imprint Tommy Boy Entertainment. Vaidehi’s sweet, wonky wordplay now extends into a four-pack of snappy singles. The 25-year-old calls them an experiment in “just completely rapping my ass off.” Catch his premiere on Red River, because our city needs to nail down this nomad. – Rachel Rascoe

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WHY BONNIE Barracuda, Sat. 5 Why Bonnie’s pearly dream-rock teeters between gauzy simplicity and the shadowy ache of plunging into the darkest parts of yourself. Helmed by guitarist/vocalist/founder Blair Howerton, the Austin group’s excellent 2018 EPs, debut In Water and Nightgown, swim through a haze of memories and longing: cerebral, subtle, and tender studies of grief and love. Howerton’s vocals simmer, veering from angelic to cavernous wail. Why Bonnie’s Free Week set precedes their return to opening for guitar wunderkind Snail Mail at her sold-out Mohawk show January 19, and a debut LP slated for later in 2019. – Libby Webster


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SINGLE LASH Elysium, Fri. 4 Disintegration? Substance? Power, cor-ruption and lies? If these words trigger visions of gloomy British accents and angu-lar Eighties hairstyles, then Single Lash is for you. The local trio’s 2018 Holodeck Records release Providence may be 20 years late to the Cure/Joy Division/New Order canon, but frontman Nicolas Nadeau looks and sounds like a Texan Robert Smith, barking bedroom lyrics over a My Bloody Valentine of noise. Despite the bath of guitar textures, expect a wire-tight live show, anchored by multi-instrumental-ist Neil Lord of Thousand Foot Whale Claw and Future Museums. – Dan Gentile

SUN JUNE Beerland, Sun. 6 On last year’s debut full-length Years from local imprint Keeled Scales, Sun June defined its self-described brand of regret pop with a gorgeously soothing melancholy. Laura Colwell’s lonely trill leads the quintet through cinematic dreamscapes, patiently swirling guitar, and rhythmic waves that pulse a beau-tifully reflective, understated shoegaze folk-pop. Echoes of Chan Marshall’s distressed and earnest hymns ripple across their ethereally textured sound and warm reverb, youthful nostalgia and yearning mixed in with Colwell’s soft, swelling chants. The band capped a breakout 2018 by complementing L.A. songstress Bedouine back at her UT stomping grounds. – Doug Freeman

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QUIN NFN Empire Control Room, Sat. 5 A 17-year-old rapping with Danny Brown’s blitz and

Kodak Black’s menace, Quinlan McAfee’s been primed since birth. The local’s mother soundtracked his child-hood with classic R&B while he and his older brother

spent their days tucked inside East Austin’s Beat Kitchen soaking up the MC mentality. The acronym standing for

No Friends Needed comes alive within Quin’s breathless flow, stacking rhymes into hookless hits popping with vulgar wit. Boosted from cosigns by SayCheese TV and Elevator Mag, the Austinite released Stain or Starve in

November and its video for “Numbers” already has some 300,000 views. – Jeremy Steinberger

PR NEWMAN Hotel Vegas, Thu. 3 Longtime fixture of the Austin music scene and former co-leader of the Berkshire Hounds, multi-instrumentalist Spencer Garland’s solo project, PR Newman (Punkrock Randy Newman), swaggers with candid intensity. Debut 2018 LP Turn Out weaves through a smart, unpredictable amalgamation of genre. From pure bluegrass twang on “Damn, I Miss That Guy” and jangling bop in “Everything” to the winking, brutal takedown of hipster Austinites’ obsessions with rural living (“Let’s Go Meet in a Small Town”), Garland’s sharp lyrics string together brassy funk and soul grooves with Americana and classic rock riffs, all awash in punk-meets-honky-tonk ’tude. – Libby Webster


SOUL SUPPORT-ERS, MAYEUX & BROUSSARDWhite Horse, Friday 4 Lauren Cervantes and Angela Miller pack a double punch of retro soul and R&B as the Soul Supporters, with oft-gritty harmonies rising and falling in a perfectly smooth, bluesy sway. Mayeux & Broussard, meanwhile, kick High Times & Good Rhymes with guitar-ripped honky-tonk and swampy boogie. Hard twangers J.D. Clark and Cory Johnson warm up the dance floor. – Doug Freeman

UME, CALLIOPE MUSICALS, A. SINCLAIRScoot Inn, Saturday 5 Ume frontwoman Lauren Larson practices rock calisthenics in a tornado of post-hardcore with shoegaze vocals in a three-man band. Calliope Musicals’ psychedelic party folk casts a protective shield of truly good vibes in rainbow-hued pop. Duo Teddy Glass sets the stage with soulful, doo-wop rock. ATX fivesome A. Sinclair contributes fertile indie rock. – Christina Garcia

RINGO DEATH-STARR, MOVING PANORAMASBarracuda, Saturday 5 Prepping a Japanese tour, hard Austin shoegazers Ringo Deathstarr celebrate the 10th anniversary of debut Sparkler. Having dropped “Baby Blues” in October, shimmery rock sextet Moving Panoramas previews its sophomore LP. Dreamy indie-pop quintet Why Bonnie revisits 2018 EP Nightgown and long-running guitar popsters the Sour Notes mix-and-match originals with covers from this year’s This Is Not Our Music. Rocking newcomers High Heavens open. – Michael Toland

NIGHT GLITTER, DEEP TIME, PATAPHYSICSCheer Up Charlies, Saturday 5 Thievery Corporation’s LouLou Ghelichkhani and multi-instrumentalist John Michael Schoepf swim through cosmic, velveteen fuzz as Night Glitter. On the heavier end of the shoegaze spectrum, Blushing churn out deafen-ing, lush sonics. Duo Deep Time’s tightly wound, minimalist post-punk and Pataphysics’ frenetic, weirdo-experimental rock are both the foil to Moist Flesh’s Lynchian slow burn. TV’s Daniel, the new project from Bad Sports/Video’s Daniel Fried, also plays: a snotty, glam wall-of-sound sprawl. – Libby Webster

ANASTASIA, INTERROBANGSwan Dive, Saturday 5 Openers Distinguished Soundz dose R&B, funk, Motown, and anything in between, while show midpoint Anastasia (Smith) – rap artist and founder of women empowerment group

CAKE – waxed romantic on bedroom burner Born to Love You (2017) and philosophically introspective on The Unkind Summer (2012). Brass octet Interrobang closes by coalescing neo-soul and hip-hop. – Alejandra Ramirez

TAMECA JONES, COMO LAS MOVIESEmpire Control Room, Saturday 5 Dubbed “Queen of Austin Soul,” Tameca Jones shifts from doe-eyed falsetto to raspy vibrato runs on recent romp-shaking single “Hot and Bothered.” For its part, Shy Beast offers electro-pop with kaleidoscopic guitar flourishes in “Leave Me Be” and moon bounce bass on “Flowers Grow” off debut EP Leave Me/Let Me. Como Las Movies blends cumbia dance rhythms with UK New Wave for debut EP Nuevo Wave. – Alejandra Ramirez

WHISKEY SHIVERS, MADISONS, OYSTERSParish, Saturday 5 Alternative string band Whiskey Shivers posted another must-see video in “Fuck You,” which portrays the popular Austin quintet as puppets and stars banjoist James Bookert as a bitter, brown-felted Kermit the Frog. Saturday’s Do512 bash also showcas-es local Cake tribute Icing, rowdy folk gang the Madisons, psych-gaze outfit Desilu, and the Oysters, a scrappy rock trio with strong songwriting. – Kevin Curtin

CHRISTIAN BLAND & THE REVELATORS, ROTTEN MAN-GOS, GO FEVERHotel Vegas, Saturday 5 Headlining: the solo vehicle for Black Angels guitarist Bland, which sounds like his shelves are brim-ming with Jesus & Mary Chain vinyl. Preceding, in descending order: Rotten Mangos’ lo-fi fuzz-pop, Go Fever’s surf-drenched jangle, the Stacks’ intricate sunshine pop, and openers Mean Jolene, who trade scratchy old 45s with the latter two bands while hanging on to their cherished Buzzcocks singles. – Tim Stegall

VAMPYRE, BORZOI, PLEASURE VENOMHole in the Wall, Saturday 5 Vampyre’s noisy, metallic post-core resembles what the Fall might have sounded like had Mark E. Smith swallowed a load of Venom records. Borzoi’s loud, vicious, art-punk assault, meanwhile, is one of alternative Austin’s true treasures. Pleasure Venom’s attack isn’t dis-similar to Borzoi’s, albeit more tempered by early Wire and featuring Audrey Campbell’s charismatic vocals. Chromagnus is the evening’s most straight-up punk act, a supercharged garage offensive. – Tim Stegall

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JOHNNY NICHOLAS & CINDY CASHDOLLAR Saxon Pub, Friday 4 Recent Grammy nominee for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package, Austin blues guitarist Johnny Nicholas duets with onetime ATX steel siren.

KYM WARNERTownsend, Friday 4 Greencards mandolin virtuoso.

ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDOParamount Theatre, Saturday 5 Austin’s Lou Reed returns with Italian rockers Don Antonio, guitarists from the MC5 (Wayne Kramer) and Stooges (James Williamson), and Joe Ely.

THOR & FRIENDSRio Rita, Sunday 6 Percussion beast hosts Cooper McBean (Devil Makes Three), Jordan O’Jordan, and Little Mazarn.

MONDO GENERATORCome & Take It Live, Sunday 6 QOTSA alum Nick Oliveri stars, but don’t miss pioneering desert rockers Yawning Man.

CRACKER, CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN3ten ACL Live, Thursday 10 David “Low” Lowery for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!

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FUTURE MUSEUMS, SUN JUNE, DAPHNE TUNESBeerland, Sunday 6 Organic electronics expert Neil Lord crafts immersive ambience as Future Museums, lately in two-part meditation Rosewater Ceremony. Austin quintet Sun June turned heads in 2018 on debut Years, a heart-wrenching work of spacious pop. Santiago Dietche’s sweetly worn songwriting joins as Daphne Tunes, alongside neo-folk strummers Oak Sun from Monterrey, Mexico. Familiar town voices Alex Dupree (now in L.A.) and Lizzie Buckley begin with modern country ruminations. – Rachel Rascoe

HARVEST THIEVES, BEN BALLINGERMohawk, Sunday 6 Songwriters take center stage inside Mohawk to close out Free Week. Harvest Thieves leads the pack of Austin’s alt.country revival behind frontman Cory Reinisch’s hard-edged barroom anthems. Ben Ballinger returns from the Northwest sparking both the political and poetic, and Otis the Destroyer primary Otis Wilkins mines the emotional pull of last year’s debut solo EP Strangest Place. – Doug Freeman

RECOMMENDED THIS WEEKEDITED BY KEVIN CURTIN & RAOUL HERNANDEZLIVE MUSIC

“My favorite part about performing live is when I let it all go: When I don’t have anything left and I put my feelings into the microphone.” Raised in the Texas revolution stronghold of La Porte, an industrial town roughly 35 minutes outside of Houston, 31-year-old hip-hop punk Michael LaCour (aka Blackie) employs the boisterous nature of his “Chemical City” back-yard as inspiration for a discography that exemplifies the beauty of raw emotion. He juxtaposes an assemblage of noise, with early works rumbling like a Cici’s arcade and rattling as if Player One brought his piggy bank with him. Now, harmonious piano keys serve as backdrop for passionate yelps of rebellious independence and aggressive saxophone blowing as nervy as Champagne-laced Red Bull.

“I was like, ‘My dad played the saxophone, I’ma play the saxophone.’ A bunch of things hit me at once, so I just went for it and started playing the instruments,” explained the singer. His Houston accent often comes to the

forefront of his songs regardless of the instrumental canvas behind him.

While he didn’t realize the power of his voice initially, LaCour credits a friend for hearing the power in his baritone pitch: “He gave me a big

compliment, saying my voice cut through any track. He was like, ‘You’ve

got a voice like Pimp C. It’s gonna cut through everything.’” As a persona, Blackie creates music for the voiceless due to his unique position as a black noise artist. “I want it to be everybody in the mosh pit,” he maintains. – Derek Udensi

TIARRA GIRLS, LOS NAHUATLATOSStubb’s, Friday 4 Sister trio Tiarra Girls swept the Austin Music Awards’ U-18 slot two years running with a buoyant, bilin-gual blend of reggae and rock. Latest flare “Leave It to the People” pushed for Beto O’Rourke. Vibrant San Antonio fusionists Los Nahuatlatos provide Chicano soul with a dance-floor-friendly slant. Local nihilists Hans Gruber & the Die Hards endorse ska-punk funk following Huerta Culture’s crossover cumbia. – Rachel Rascoe

ZETTAJOULE, TROUBLE IN THE STREETS, SMIILESwan Dive, Friday 4 As Zettajoule, Meggan Carney and Matthew Sheffer groove through dysto-pian dance via glitching, darkwave pop. Trouble in the Streets builds whacked-out trio theatrics via electro-epics, while Smiile’s sanguine art-pop glows Dirty Projectors eccentricity. Lolita Lynne’s swaying indie-pop and Ali Holder’s coun-try-folk skew introspective, while Calliope Musicals’ booming leader Carrie Fussell solos behind understated, exploratory, guitar spaciness. – Libby Webster

AMERICAN SHARKS, NOT IN THE FACE, AMPLIFIED HEATMohawk, Friday 4 Fresh off opening for three-ring metal circus Gwar, local weed ’n’ roll power trio American Sharks gnash new material from long-awaited sophomore LP 11:11, pitting divine determinism against free will. Bruising rock quartet Not in the Face surges with 2018 single “XXX$$$,” Amplified Heat amal-gamates Hendrix/MC5/Motörhead, and Billy King & the Bad Bad Bad slay psych, rock, and surf. – Kevin Curtin

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SQUARERUT KAVA BAR The Blues Bank (9:00)

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FLAMINGO CANTINA Reggae jamdown (9:00)

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THE NORTH DOOR Black Taffy, Botany, Lungfulls (9:00) R

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SAXON PUB Dustin Schaefer (10:00), Patrice Pike (8:00), Love & Chaos (6:00)

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SKYLARK LOUNGE Sweet Tone’s Harp Jam (9:00), Happy Hour w/ the Legendary Margaret Wright (6:00)

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SWAN DIVE Free Week: Pelvis Wrestley, Chill Bill, the Naked Tungs, the Boleys (9:00)

THE TOWNSEND Red on Yellow (10:00), McFarland (7:30) R

VOLSTEAD LOUNGE Créma hip-hop & cumbia night w/ ulovei (10:00)

THE WHITE HORSE Wilkinson’s Quartet (8:00), Aaron McDonnell (12mid), Christy Hays (10:00)

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523 THOMPSON This Is Austin, Not That Great aftershow w/ Enemy One, Army, Sex Pill, Green Jag, DJ Donald Jugg, DJ Thong Song (1:30am)

THE ABGB Sour Bridges (9:00)ANTONE’S Jason Boland & the

Stragglers, Vincent Neil Emerson (9:00) R

THE BARN Steel Standing (8:00)

BARRACUDA This Is Austin, Not That Great w/ the Dark, Nueva Fuerza, Criaturas, Khiss, Red Delicious, Altar Duata, Smut, Ninth Circle, Stagger (8:00) R , Free Week: Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band, the Rotten Mangos, Leather Girls, Hidden Ritual, Nevil (7:00)

B.D. RILEY’S The Chancers (7:00), Daithi Arwine (6:00)

BEERLAND Free Week: Ringo Deathstarr, Narrow Head, Burnt Skull, Chronophage (9:00) R , This Is Austin, Not That Great w/ Bib, Pink Thing, Hologram, Boofin Tylenol, the Unit, F.O.L. (3:30) R

BELMONT Free Week: Blackillac, Kydd Jones, Tone Royal, Ben Buck Beatbox (7:00) R

THE BRIXTON Free Week: Economy Island, Apopka, the Gary (8:30)

BROKEN SPOKE Billy Mata (9:00), Tracie Lynn (6:00)

C-BOY’S HEART & SOUL Mike Flanigin Trio w/ Jimmie Vaughan & George Rains (10:30), Rosie Flores Revue (6:30)

THE CAPITAL GRILLE Tara Williamson

CHEER UP CHARLIES Free Week: Grape St., My Golden Calf, Rachel Mallin & the Wild Type, Walker Lukens, Grand Child, Caterpillar, Housewarming (9:00) R

COME & TAKE IT LIVE The Anchor, Apothica, Koningsor, Insights, Spectral Sea, Venustra (8:00) R

CONTINENTAL CLUB The Reverent Few (12mid), South Austin Moonlighters (10:00), the Blues Specialists (6:30)

CONTINENTAL CLUB GALLERY The Lost Counts (10:30), Robert Kraft Trio (8:30)

DONN’S DEPOT Donn & the Station Masters

DOZEN STREET Free Week: Last Chance Riders, King Warbler, Batty Jr., Jade & the Foxtones, Mardez (6:00) R

THE ELECTRIC CHURCH The Cuckoos, Dayeater, Dream Eater, Bali Yaaah, Tired (9:00) R

ELYSIUM Free Week: Adoration Destroyed, Single Lash, the I Rock Thy Experience (10:00)

EMO’S Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular (8:00) A

EMPIRE CONTROL ROOM Free Week: Worm Suicide, TrumpCard, the Swishbucklers, Lechuza, the Lewd Dudes [control room] (9:00), Free Week: Clyde & Clem’s Whiskey Business, Harvest Thieves, Dr. Joe, the Cover Letter [garage] (8:30) R

FLAMINGO CANTINA Free Week: Collective Thought, Afrofreque, Kelly Hafner (9:00)


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CONTINENTAL CLUB GALLERY The Lost Counts (10:30)

CRAFT PRIDE Bo Depeña, Ben Levy (3:00) R

DIRTY DOG BAR No Years Resolution Fest w/ Christine Renner, Fertility House, No Clue Whatsoever, the Mackenzie Toys, the Banisters, Soroche (6:00)

DONN’S DEPOT Danny Britt & Red Dawg

DOZEN STREET Free Week: SoulXchange, JaRon Marshall, Loonar, John Wayne & the Possee, 80Rounds, App Juke, MJ Eazy, Deezy LG, Timmy Thraxx, Cabrini Green (4:00)

THE ELECTRIC CHURCH Fools, the Hermits, Prom Threat (9:00)

ELYSIUM Free Week: Primo, the Nimbus, Inseclude (9:30)

EMPIRE CONTROL ROOM Free Week: Quin NFN, the Bishops, Infrared, Loony, Ben Buck [control room] (9:00) R , Free Week: Tameca Jones, Shy Beast, Como Las Movies, Drint [garage] (8:30) Ñ

EXPLODED RECORDS Hip-Hop Lounge (8:00)

GERALDINE’S Soul Soul Saturday brunch (11:00am)

GIDDY UPS Pearl Snaps (8:30), Michael Dart & the Skyline Wranglers (8:30)

GÜERO’S The Electron Donors (6:30), the Brew (2:30)

HOLE IN THE WALL Free Week: Vampyre, Borzoi, Pleasure Venom, Chromagnus (8:00) Ñ

HOTEL VEGAS Free Week: Christian Bland & the Revelators, the Rotten Mangos, Go Fever, the Stacks, Mean Jolene (9:30) Ñ, Free Week: The Ripe, Loteria (7:00)

KICK BUTT COFFEE Ese, Nekrobrigade, Burn Ban, Oklahomos, Destructive Guerrilla Force, Confused (8:00) RA

KNOMAD BAR Karaoke Underground (11:12)

LONE STAR COURT Jenifer & Jacob (9:00)

THE LOST WELL Gary Lindsey & the Pleasure Tide (5:00)

SATU R DAY 1/5

3TEN ACL LIVE Strangelove, Dead Love Club (9:00) R

523 THOMPSON This Is Austin, Not That Great aftershow w/ Total Twit (DJ set), GSS (DJ set), Temple of Angels, ELIX-R (1:30am) R

THE ABGB Cilantro Boombox (9:00)

ANDERSON MILL PUB ATX Old School (6:00)

ANTONE’S W.C. Clark Blues Revue (10:00), Red on Yellow (7:00)

AUSTIN JAVA Aubrey HayesTHE BARN Howlin’ Waters

(8:00)BARRACUDA Free Week:

Ringo Deathstarr, Moving Panoramas, Why Bonnie, the Sour Notes, High Heavens (8:00) Ñ, This Is Austin, Not That Great w/ Tozcos, Rashomon, Perverts Again, Strutter, Druj, Judy & the Jerks, Asesinato, Vittna, Choir Cherry (8:00) R

BEERLAND Free Week: Exhalants, Hoaries, Bulls, Easy Prey (10:00) R , This Is Austin, Not That Great w/ Program, Daggerhead, Cupid, Penis Boys, Lassie, Medussa (3:30) R

BELMONT Free Week: Eric Tessmer, Sam Pace, Canvas People, Hour Band (7:00)

BROKEN SPOKE Two Tons of Steel (9:00), Ben Rodgers (noon)

C-BOY’S HEART & SOUL Mike Flanigin Trio w/ Jimmie Vaughan & George Rains (10:30), Kathy & the Kilowatts (8:00)

CHEER UP CHARLIES Free Week: Night Glitter, Deep Time, Blushing, Pataphysics, Moist Flesh, TV’s Daniel (9:00) ÑR

COME & TAKE IT LIVE Astrixion, Residue, XIII, Unwritten, Mirages (8:00) R

CONTINENTAL CLUB Colton Turner (12mid), Horton Brothers (10:00), Ted Roddy & the King Conjure Orchestra’s tribute to the King w/ Roger Wallace & the New Blue Moon Boys (7:00)

MOHAWK Free Week: Scorpion Child, the Well, Eagle Claw, Greenbeard [outside] (9:00) A , Free Week: Communion, Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol, Heavy Chills, Monte Luna [inside] (8:00) A

MOONTOWER SALOON Hideous Pink (8:00)

MUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT Modular on the Spot w/ cruush, Thomas Echols, TheCoug, Joel Laviolette, Roy Hughes, Grainger Weston, modekt (1:00)

NATE’S Eastside Kings (8:00)NEWORLDELI Byrd & Street

(7:00)THE NORTH DOOR Free

Week: Blackie, Black Mercy, Doula, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Blk Ops, Private Service (8:00) ÑR

ONE-2-ONE BAR Andy MacIntyre (11:45), Texas KGB (10:00), Pike & Sutton (7:30), Dave Scher Trio (5:30)

PARAMOUNT Alejandro Escovedo (8:00) ÑA

PARISH Free Week: Whiskey Shivers, Icing (Cake tribute), Madisons, the Oysters, Desilu (9:00) Ñ

POODIES Aaron McDonnell (10:30), the Greers (8:00)

RADIO COFFEE & BEER Jack & the Hacks, Eden (9:00)

RILEY’S TAVERN Robert Kline Jr. & the Austin A-Team (9:00)

SAHARA LOUNGE Aicha Wambaya (12mid), Hail Marley (10:00), Antares feat. Mohammad Firoozi (8:00)

SAXON PUB Oscar Ornelas (11:59), Porterdavis (10:00), Jeff Plankenhorn (8:00), the Belle Sounds (6:00)

THE SCOOT INN Free Week: Ume, Calliope Musicals, Teddy Glass, A. Sinclair, BLXPLTN, Glaze, Fanclub, Marfa Crush (7:00) ÑR

SCRATCHOUSE Free Week: Knifight, Black Books, Hours Quiet (9:00)

SHOOTERS CEDAR PARK Rock Hard (9:00)


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DOZEN STREET Wolf/Claus, East Side Blues Syndicate blues jam (7:00)

EL MERCADO Mystery Monday w/ Christine Albert & Bill Kirchen (5:30) A

ELEPHANT ROOM Michael Mordecai’s Jazz Jam (9:30)

EVANGELINE CAFE Charles Thibodeaux & the Austin Cajun Aces (6:30) A

FRIENDS Lucas Johnson (10:30)

GIDDY UPS Bob Appel (7:00)GRUENE HALL Bret Graham

(6:00) AHIGHBALL Motown Monday w/

Matchmaker Band (9:00)HILTON HOTEL

DOWNTOWN Barbara Nesbitt (5:00)

HOLE IN THE WALL Randall Conrad Olinger, Ryan Seiler, Ghostwriter (9:00)

HOTEL VEGAS Booher, Austin Leonard Jones, David Israel (9:00)

NEWORLDELI Open mic host-ed by Heather Miller (7:00)

ONE-2-ONE BAR McMeta, Slow Cooked (7:30), Rochelle & the Sidewinders (6:00)

POODIES Songwriters’ show-case (6:30)

RADIO COFFEE & BEER Bluegrass night (8:00)

SAXON PUB Lonelyland (8:30), Hoody & the Wolves (6:00)

SKYLARK LOUNGE Skylark Social Club w/ Brian Scartocci (9:00)

STAY GOLD Tragic Mondays w/ Bonnie Whitmore & the Sad Girls (9:30)

THE TOWNSEND Monday Night Mashup w/ Arielle Laguette & guests (7:00)

THE WHITE HORSE Texas Tycoons (8:00)

TU E S DAY 1/8

ANTONE’S Lindsay Beaver (10:00), Antone’s Big Trio (6:30)

BEERLAND Uncle Jesus, True Self, Doofus (9:00) R

BROKEN SPOKE Two-Step Tuesdays w/ Weldon Henson (8:15), The Golden Roses (6:00)

BUZZ MILL Tuegrass w/ Nate Guthrie & friends (8:00)

C-BOY’S HEART & SOUL Night of the Cadillacs (11:30), Dylan Bishop (10:00), 8 ½ Souvenirs (6:30)

CONTINENTAL CLUB Mike Stinson (10:00), Whitney Rose (6:30)

CONTINENTAL CLUB GALLERY Ephraim Owens Experience (10:30), James McMurtry (8:30)

DOZEN STREET Tom Crail Trio (9:00)

DRISKILL BAR Brian Kremer (8:00)

SKYLARK LOUNGE Miss Lavelle White (10:00)

STUBB’S Free Week: Swells, Night Cap [inside] (10:00)

SWAN DIVE Free Week: Interrobang, Anastasia, Distinguished Soundz (10:30) Ñ

TEXAS MIST Reptoid, Sons of the Hanged Man, Aeon Nova, Capture Orbit (9:00) R

THE TOWNSEND Jim Scarborough Band (7:30)

VOLSTEAD LOUNGE Orión García (9:00)

THE WHITE HORSE Dave Insley’s Careless Smokers (8:00)

SU N DAY 1/6

THE ABGB Georgia Parker (4:00)

ANTONE’S Michael Milligan & the Texiana Bluez (10:00), Miss Lavelle’s Dance Party & Potluck w/ Mike Keller (6:30)

ANTONE’S RECORDS Rebel Flesh (3:00) RA

THE BARN Celtic Song Circle (2:00)

BARRACUDA This Is Austin, Not That Great w/ Nosferatu, Kaleidoscope, Twisted Thing, Subversive Rite, Obstruction, Damak, Electric Chair, Adderall, Eye Jammy (8:00) R

B.D. RILEY’S Traditional Irish Tune Session (7:30)

BEERLAND Free Week: Future Museums, Sun June, Daphne Tunes, Oak Sun, Alex Dupree, Lizzie Buckley (9:00) ÑR , This Is Austin, Not That Great w/ T.A.Z., Fuckin Lovers, Daydream, Inhalant, Gutz, Erupt (3:30) R

C-BOY’S HEART & SOUL Hilary York (10:00), Chicken $#!+ Sunday w/ Summer Dean (3:30)

CHEER UP CHARLIES Darja, Emme, Torre Blake, Lyta, DJ Ella Ella (8:00) R

COME & TAKE IT LIVE Mondo Generator, Yawning Man, Forebode (8:00) ÑR

CONTINENTAL CLUB Willie Pipkin & friends (10:30), Heybale! (7:00), Jimmie Dreams & friends (3:30)

CRAFT PRIDE Funky Sunday w/ Lil’ Britches (6:30)

DIRTY DOG BAR Relent, the Beautiful Exchange (6:00) R

DOZEN STREET Love You Bunches series w/ guests (3:00)

DRISKILL BAR Antone’s Blues Brunch (11:00am)

EL MERCADO Purgatory Players (10:00am) A

THE ELECTRIC CHURCH The Irons, HYAH, Chief Perch, Mu (9:00) R

FRIENDS The Austones (5:30)GÜERO’S 3 Chord Rodeo

(3:00), McLemore Avenue (noon)

HILTON HOTEL DOWNTOWN Blues brunch w/ Jay Moeller (11:00am)

HOLE IN THE WALL Will Maxwell, Mad Whitaker, Christelle Miller, Jack Van Norman (9:00)

HOTEL VEGAS Free Week: Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band, Temple of Angels, Hidden Ritual, Borzoi, Ancient River (9:00)

MOHAWK Free Week: Harvest Thieves, Ben Ballinger, Otis Wilkins [inside] (7:00) ÑA

NEWORLDELI Katya, Nancy Scott, & Malinda Brooks (2:00)

THE NORTH DOOR Free Week: Party Wolfe, Guacamole Police, AlexAlco, Zinda (7:00) R

ONE-2-ONE BAR Oviedo Family Benefit w/ Kis Kis Maca, Jade & the Foxtones, Kev Bev & the Woodland Creatures (5:30)

OPAL DIVINE’S AUSTIN GRILL Gospel brunch w/ George Ensle & Groove Angels (noon)

POODIES Lucas Johnson (10:00), Jeff Warren Johnston (10:00), Tessy Lou & the Shotgun Stars (4:00)

RADIO COFFEE & BEER Jaimee Harris, Paige Renée Berry (8:00)

RIO RITA Thor & Friends, Cooper McBean, Little Mazarn, Jordan O’Jordan (8:00) ÑRA

SAHARA LOUNGE Lesbian Wedding w/ Hey Jellie, Pelvis Wrestley, Trust the Wizard, Chorizo Funk, Jess Boom (2:00)

SAXON PUB The Resentments (7:30), John Gaar (5:30), Deann Rene (3:00)

SKULL MECHANIX BREWING Skullwriter Series w/ Julie Nolen & friends (3:00)

STUBB’S Free Week: Kathryn Legendre, Sour Bridges, Jomo & the Possum Posse [inside] (9:00)

VOLSTEAD LOUNGE DJs No Kid$ & Diggy Dutch (8:00)

THE WHITE HORSE Armadillo Road, Silo Road (9:00), Jordan Matthew Young (7:00)

MON DAY 1/ 7

ANTONE’S Brad Stivers (10:00), Blue Monday w/ Erin Jaimes, James Bullard (6:30)

B.D. RILEY’S Monday open mic (7:00)

C-BOY’S HEART & SOUL Jonesin’ (10:00), Presto Chango (6:30)

CONTINENTAL CLUB Two Tons of Steel (10:00), Soul Man Sam Evans (6:30)

CONTINENTAL CLUB GALLERY Michael Hale Organ Trio w/ Mac McIntosh (10:30), Church on Monday w/ Elias Haslanger feat. Dr. James Polk (8:30)

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BROKEN SPOKE Derailers (9:00), Lynette Wolfe (6:00)

BUZZ MILL The Hills & the Rivers (8:00) R

C-BOY’S HEART & SOUL Flyjack’s Funk & Soul Revival (10:00), Beat Root Revival (6:30)

COME & TAKE IT LIVE Yvng Flex (7:00) R

CONTINENTAL CLUB Barfield the Tyrant (10:00), Casper Rawls (6:30)

CONTINENTAL CLUB GALLERY Bonnie Whitmore (10:30), Monte Warden & the Dangerous Few (8:30)

DONN’S DEPOT Murphy’s Inlaws

FLAMINGO CANTINA Reggae jamdown (9:00)

GIDDY UPS Open mic w/ Dewey Lyon (7:00)

GÜERO’S Teddy & the Tall Tops (6:00)

HOLE IN THE WALL Mountebank, Whole Milk, Christian Sparks & the Beatnik Bandits (9:00) R

LONE STAR COURT Greg Harkins (7:00)

MOHAWK Dream Eater, Hex Boyfriend, Black Basements, the Dead Coats [inside] (9:00) A

NEWORLDELI Bluegrass open mic w/ Eddie Collins (7:00)

THE NORTH DOOR Tone Royal, Branchside, Lil Boodang, Aggie, Phranykh P, Yung Lady, DJ Cold Sweat (7:30) R

ONE-2-ONE BAR RLTVS, Nether Hour, Nick Swift & the Vibe Raiders, Dry Sky, Kyote (6:30)

PARISH Boys Noize (10:00) RPOODIES Appa-George-Ty

(8:00), George Devore (6:00)RADIO COFFEE & BEER

Erik Hokkanen (9:00)REALE’S Richard Patnaude

(6:00)RILEY’S TAVERN Mark

Stuart, Brian Duarte (8:00)ROSS’ OLD AUSTIN T.R.

Sterzing (6:30)SAHARA LOUNGE The

Azmaris, Jon Londbom Power Trio, Hard Proof DJs (8:00)

SAM’S TOWN POINT Jimmie Dreams & Crescent Soul Revue (9:00), Guitar Grady (7:30)

SAXON PUB Marcus Morales (10:00), Patrice Pike (8:00)

SKYLARK LOUNGE D-Soul Davis feat. Art of Soul (9:00), Happy Hour w/ the Legendary Margaret Wright (6:00)

SPEAKEASY Star Six Nine (9:30)

STUBB’S Brody Price, Sara Davis Regan [inside] (9:00) R

THE TOWNSEND Red on Yellow (10:00), Amy Atchley (7:30)

VOLSTEAD LOUNGE Créma hip-hop & cumbia night w/ ulovei (10:00)

GIDDY UPS Blues jam (7:45)HALF STEP The Michael Hale

Trio (9:30)HOLE IN THE WALL

Matthew Squires (9:00), Timothy Abdnour, Billy Broome, Evan Charles (6:00) R

HOTEL VEGAS Naan Violence, Hartle Road, Angry Beige (9:00) R

MOHAWK Forever Starts Today, Casino AM, Offended by Everything, Rare Bloom [inside] (9:00) RA

NEWORLDELI Beatle Bash w/ the Eggmen (6:30)

ONE-2-ONE BAR Mike Dillon & Earl Harvin Duo, the Jay Stiles Trio (7:30)

PARKER JAZZ CLUB Wasabi Big Band (8:00)

PERRY’S STEAKHOUSE James Speer (6:00) A

POODIES Jimmie Dreams (7:30), Louis Long Band (5:00)

ROSS’ OLD AUSTIN Billy Dee (6:30)

SAXON PUB Wes Paul (10:00), Sue Foley Acoustic Trio (8:00), David Grissom (6:00)

SKYLARK LOUNGE Dickie Lee Erwin (8:30)

SPEAKEASY Kevin Taylor (9:30)

STAY GOLD Jazz jam night w/ Daniel Dufour (9:00)

THE WHITE HORSE Devan Jones & the Uptown Stomp (7:00)

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THE ABGB Warren Hood (6:30)ANDERSON MILL PUB Open

mic hosted by Michael Ryan & Corky Groat (8:00)

ANTONE’S Eve Monsees & friends, Nate Boff (9:00), Guy Forsyth Blues Band, Bill Carter (6:30)

BEERLAND Riffs & Riffs w/ Paperback, Boyd, Kidlat (9:00)

BROKEN SPOKE Bob Appel (9:00), Lynette Wolfe (6:00)

C-BOY’S HEART & SOUL Trube, Farrell & Snizz (11:00), Matt Hubbard Trio (9:30), Cheatin’ Hearts (6:30)

CHEATHAM ST. Kent Finlay’s Songwriter Circle (8:00)

CHEER UP CHARLIES Mamalarky, Being Dead, Lolita Lynne, Indoor Creature (9:00)

CONTINENTAL CLUB James McMurtry (11:59), Jon Dee Graham (10:30), William Harries Graham (9:45), Hot Club of Cowtown (6:30)

CONTINENTAL CLUB GALLERY The Brannen & Red Show (10:30), Blue Moon Jazz Quartet feat. Rosie Flores (8:30)

DONN’S DEPOT Frank & the Honky-Tonk Doctors

DOZEN STREET Open Mic Wednesdays (5:30)

DRISKILL BAR Bruce Smith (8:00)

EL MERCADO Chris Gage & friends (6:30) A

THE ELECTRIC CHURCH Crystal Voyager, Hey Cowboy, Merry Jane & the Fondas, Manifest Destiny’s Child (9:00) R

EVANGELINE CAFE The Peacemakers (10:00) A

FLAMINGO CANTINA Dreadneck Night w/ the Mau Mau Chaplains (9:00)

GÜERO’S The Sun Radio Show (6:00)

HALF STEP Canned Beats (10:00)

HILTON HOTEL DOWNTOWN Redd Volkaert (5:00)

HOLE IN THE WALL Samantha Lee & the Family Tree (9:00)

HOTEL VEGAS A Vulture Wake, Bobgoblin, Already Dead (9:00) R

MOHAWK Cheap Wave, Hippo (single release), Space Tan, Motion Planet [inside] (9:00) A

NEWORLDELI David Pulkingham (7:00)

ONE-2-ONE BAR La Moña Loca Salsa Wednesdays (9:00), Seela & special guests (6:00)

POODIES No Bad WednesDays open mic (8:00)

RILEY’S TAVERN Juliet McConkey (8:00)

ROSS’ OLD AUSTIN Herschel McFarland & John Driver (6:30)

SAHARA LOUNGE The Seventh Circuit (10:00), Zinda (9:00), Electric Mushrooms (7:30)

SAM’S TOWN POINT Marghi Allen (7:00)

SAXON PUB Parker Chapin (10:00), Lola & the Huntsman (8:00), Wagoneers (6:00)

SKYLARK LOUNGE Jazz Wednesday w/ Paul Klemperer (8:30)

SPEAKEASY Salsa night w/ Salero (8:00)

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3TEN ACL LIVE Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven (8:30) ÑR

ANTONE’S Soul Man Sam & the SMS Band (10:00), Miss Lavelle White (6:30)

BARRACUDA The Freakiest Show (David Bowie tribute) (8:00)

B.D. RILEY’S Kristen Gibbs Band (8:00)

BEERLAND Cortége, Desilu, Whole Milk, Hand-Me-Down Adventure (9:00) R



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The polio vaccine was developed using cells unknowingly donated by Henrietta Lacks, a black woman from Baltimore.

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Dear Luv Doc, Every year around this time, I make New Year’s resolutions that never seem to last. Lose weight. Get back on Tinder. Find a boyfriend. Travel more. Go see more

live shows. Make new friends. January is always a real barn burner, but then by Valentine’s day, I am back on my couch smoking pot, eating queso, and watching reruns of The Office. Any suggestion on how I can make my resolve last longer than a month? – Lump I’d say if you’re smoking pot and eating queso, you’re pretty much crushing it. How much more self-improvement do you really need to do? The Office is a really solid comedy as well, and I haven’t even watched it stoned. I don’t want to get too esoteric here, but I feel like The Office may be a bit too nuanced and cerebral to appreciate baked. It’s no Chappelle’s Show, but it’s at least a few notches up from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, a show that sledgehammers you with stupidity for a solid 25 minutes … but … I mean … in a good, Simpsons/South Park kind of way. So you want a new you for all of 2019? I like your ambition! Far be it from me to naysay that project. Just know that to storm that hill, you will have to run past the corpses of not only your own failed ambitions, but the failed ambitions of thousands of others as well. All that carnage can be … well … discouraging seems a bit of an understatement. Since I have my own mile-high stack of personal failures, I am going to have to go to the experts on this one (and by that, I mean I Googled some shit on New Year’s resolutions) and the reigning wisdom seems to be that if you want to actually achieve goals, you have to set them. Sounds reasonable, right? There is a process here. You set goals, and then you achieve them. Eureka! Here’s the big secret, however (and I wish I had thought of this myself): You have to set very realistic goals, and more importantly, small goals that are easily achievable. This revelation was pretty exciting to me because it’s right up my slacker alley. Instead of “losing weight” or “getting thin,” you can just do a small tweak – like not eating queso after midnight or maybe limit binge-drinking to one night a week. The idea is that from these smaller successes you will go on to bigger ones. Eventually, “no queso after midnight” becomes “no queso except on the weekends,” which turns into “no queso except on Super Bowl Sunday” because we’re not vegan fucking monks, are we? Ideally, from there, you drop three dress sizes and Chris Pine hits you up on Tinder because of your mutual love of The Office and pretty soon the new you is planting a glorious victory flag atop Mount Self-Improvement. As ever, the devil is in the details, but this seems like a pretty good plan to me.

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Application has been made with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission for aMixed beverage Permit and Food and beverage Certificate by Fourteen 3 Zero 1Enterprises Inc. d.b.a Wiches Waffles and Wings, to be located at 11200 LakelineMall Drive #F-18 Austin, Williamson County, Texas. Officers

of said corporation areReginald Curry, President

Application has been made with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission for a Food & Beverage Per-mit by CH LEE INC dba Tsukimi, to be located at 12400 N. Interstate 35, A111, Austin, Travis County, Texas. The owner is Chang

Lee, the president.

Application has been made with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission for a Mixed Beverage (MB), Mixed Beverage Late Hours (LB), and Beverage Cartage (PE) Permit by 409 MPTOUBAR LLC d/b/a Toulouse to be located at 409 East 6th Street, Austin, Travis County,

Texas, Managing Member is McKenzie J. Prudhomme.

Application has been made with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission for a P Package store permit and BF Beer Retail Dealer’s Off Premise License Permit by Hakeem Eqabsaed, dba Ross Liquor, to be located at 5200

Ross Rd, Ste 200 Del Valle, Travis County, Texas 78617. Owner- Hakeem Eqabsaed

Application has been made with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission for a Wine andBeer Retailer’s Permit by Nervous Charlie’s to be located at 5501 N Lamar STE B101 Austin, Travis County,

Texas. Owners of said LLC are Chris Cun-ningham (Managing Member) and Alexa White (Managing Member).

Application has been made with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission for a Wine and Beer Retailer’s Permit with Food and Beverage Certificate by R. F. United LLC,

dba Russo’s New York Pizza located at 10721 Research Blvd. Suite B110, Austin, Travis County, TX 78759. Officers are Annie Rupani- Managing Member and Dominic Farino- Managing Member.

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Commission for A Wine and Beer Retailer’s Off-Premise Permit By ZAIB 16 Enterprise Inc DBA Cavalier Food Mart to be located at 509 RR 620 South, Lakeway, Travis Co., Texas. Offi-cer of said Corporation Is Zaib A. Momin – Pres/Sec

Application has been made with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission for a Wine and Beer Retailer’s Permit by Melecio Rios dba Mi Sxula Restaurant and Bar, 249 McDonald Lane West, Bastrop, Texas 78612. Owners of said corporation are Melecio Rios, Partner; Melecio Rios Garza, Partner.CITATION BY PUBLICATIONTHE STATE OF TEXASCAUSE NO: D-1-FM-13-000082To: DEANDRA RAYCINE THOMPSONand to all who it may concern, Respondent(s); GREETINGS:YOU HAVE BEEN SUED. You may employ an attorney. If you or your attorney do not file a written answer with the clerk who issued this citation by 10:00 A.M. on the Monday next following the expiration of twenty days after you were served this citation and peti-tion, a default judgment may be taken against you.YOU ARE HEREBY COMMAND-ED to appear and answer before the Honorable District Court, 419TH JUDICIAL DIS-TRICT COURT, Travis County, Texas, at the Courthouse of said County in Austin, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A.M. of the Monday next after expiration of twenty days from the date of service of this citation, then and there to answer the PETITION TO MODIFY THE PARENT-CHILD RELATION-SHIP ofFELICIA LAGUAN WATSON Petitioner(s), filed in said court on JULY-02-2018, againstDEANDRA RAYCINE THOMP-SON Respondent (s),and said suit being number D-1-FM-13-000082 the docket of said Court, and entitled “IN THE INTEREST OF JOSIAH MALIK KELLY, A MINOR CHILD”, the nature of which suit is a request to change the current court order.The Court has authority in this suit to enter any judgment or decree in the CHILD’S interest which will be binding on you, including the termination of the parent-child relationship, the determination of paternity and the appointment of a conserva-tor with authority to consent to the CHILD’S adoption.Issued and given under my

hand and the seal of said court at Austin, Texas, December 19, 2018.REQUESTED BY:FELICA LAGUAN WATSON5902 PARMA STREETROUND ROCK, TEXAS 78665Velva L. PriceTravis County District ClerkTravis County Courthouse1000 Guadalupe,P.O. Box 679003 (78767)Austin, Texas 78701PREPARED BY:_____

CITATION BY PUBLICATIONTHE STATE OF TEXASCAUSE NO: D-1-FM-17-006114TO: JOSE ROBERTO BARRERA HUERTAS, the Presumed Father of the subject child, Noelani Barrera, and to all whom it may concern, Respondents; GREETINGS: YOU HAVE BEEN SUED. You may employ an attorney. If you or your attorney do not file a written answer with the clerk who issued this citation by 10:00 a.m. on the Monday next following the expiration of twenty days after you were served this citation and petition, a default judg-ment may be taken against you.YOU ARE HEREBY COM-MANDED to appear and answer before the Honorable District Court, 53rd Judicial District, Travis County, Texas, at the Courthouse of said County in Austin, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock a.m. of the Monday next after expiration of twenty days from the date of service of this citation, then and there to answer the Original Petition in Suit Affecting the Parent Child-Relationship-TERM. filed in said Court on the 5th day of October, 2017 and the Affidavit of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Petitioner, filed in said Court on the 5th day of October, 2017, against the Presumed Father JOSE ROBERTO BARRERA HUERTAS, and said suit being number D-1-FM-17-006114, on the docket of said Court, and entitled “In the Interest of Noelani Barrera, Child,” the nature of which suit is a request to terminate the parent-child relationship and/or name the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services or a suitable, competent adult recommended by the Texas De-partment of Family and Protec-tive Services, or an authorized agency recommended by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services as Managing Conservator of the child, whose name, date and place of birth are as follows:Noelani Barrera August 21, 2008 Place of Birth: Austin, Travis County, Texas The Court has authority in this suit to enter any judgment or decree in the Child’s interest, which will be binding upon you, including the termination of the parent-child relationship, the determination of paternity and the appointment of a managing conservator with the authority to consent to the Children’s adoption.Issued and given under my hand and the seal of said Court at Austin, Texas, this ___________ day of November, 2018.Velva L. PriceTravis County District ClerkTravis County Courthouse1000 Guadalupe,P.O. Box 679003 (78767)Austin, Texas 78701PREPARED BY:_____REQUESTED BY:Erika HimeASSISTANT DISTRICT AT-TORNEY

P.O. BOX 1748AUSTIN, TEXAS 78767(512) 854-9447State Bar No. 24072899FOR TRAVIS COUNTY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICESATTN: Amanda Rendon (512) 854-3626

CITATION BY PUBLICATIONTHE STATE OF TEXAS CAUSE NO: D-1-FM-17-005424 TO: JOSHUA WARREN, SR. and to all who it may concern, Respondent(s);GREETINGS: YOU HAVE BEEN SUED. You may employ an attorney. If you or your attorney do not file a written answer with the clerk who issued this citation by 10:00 A.M. on the Monday next following the expiration of twenty days after you were served this citation and petition, a default judg-ment may be taken against you.YOU ARE HEREBY COMMAND-ED to appear and answer before the Honorable District Court, 201ST JUDICIAL DIS-TRICT COURT, Travis County, Texas, at the Courthouse of said County in Austin, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A.M. of the Monday next after expiration of twenty days from the date of service of this citation, then and there to answer the ORIGINAL PETITION IN SUIT AFFECTING THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP, with TRAVIS COUNTY STANDING ORDER, of CHRISTINA GUMNS, Petitioner, filed in said court on AUGUST 31, 2017, against JOSHUA WARREN SR., Respondent, and said suit being number D-l-FM-17-005424 on the docket of said Court, and entitled “IN THE INTERESTOF JOE ROBLEDO III, JEREMIAH WARREN, AND JOSHUA WARREN JR, and the nature of which suit is SUIT AFFECTING PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP”. The Court has authority in this suit to enter any judgment or decree in the CHILD’S interest which will be binding on you, includ-ing the termination of the parent-child relationship, the determination of paternity and the appointment of a conserva-tor with authority to consent to the CHILD’S adoption. REQUESTED BY DONALD P. MOREHART, ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER, 201 UNIVERSITY OAKS BLVD., STE 540 BOX 133, ROUND ROCK, TEXAS 78665, TELEPHONE 512.551.0404, FAX 512.551.0405. ISSUED AND GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND THE SEAL OF SAID COURT at Austin, Texas, May 29, 2018. Velva L. Price, Travis County District Clerk, Travis County Courthouse, 1000 Guadalupe Street, PO Box 679003 Austin, Texas 78701

CITATION BY PUBLICATIONTHE STATE OF TEXAS CAUSE NO: D-1-GN-18-003748 To: MARY ANN BROWN, TAMMIE BROWN, MICHAEL FOSTER AND THE HEIRS OF BILLY RAY BROWN Defendant (s), in the hereinafter styled and num-bered cause: YOU (AND EACH OF YOU) HAVE BEEN SUED. You may employ an attorney. If you or your attorney do not file a written answer with the clerk who issued this citation by 10:00 A.M. on the Monday next following the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance hereof, that is to say at or be-fore 10 o’clock A.M. of Monday February 4, 2019, and answer for the ORIGINAL PETITION FOR DECLARATORY JUDG-MENT of Plaintiff(s), filled in the 250th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT of Travis County, Texas, on JULY 19, 2018, a default judgment may be taken against you. Said suit being

number D-1-GN-18-003748, in which IN RE: LA TISHA RENAE BROWN plaintiff(s), and the nature of which said suit is as follows: NATURE OF THE SUIT: DECLARATORY JUDGMENT CONCERNING MARITAL STATUS OF THE PETITIONER ALL OF WHICH MORE FULLY APPEARS FROM THE PLAINTIFF’S ORIGINAL PETITION FOR DECLARATORY JUDGMENT ON FILE IN THIS OFFICE, AND WHICH REFER-ENCE IS HERE MADE FOR ALL INTENTS PURPOSES. Issued and given under my hand and the seal of said court at Austin, Texas, December 19, 2018.Velva L. PriceTravis County District ClerkTravis County Courthouse1000 Guadalupe,P.O. Box 679003 (78767)Austin, Texas 78701PREPARED BY: JIMENEZ CHLOEREQUESTED BY: CHRISTO-PHER B. KELLER608 B W OLTORF STAUSTIN, TX 78704BUSINESS PHONE: (512)371-0609FAX: (512)371-7935

CITATION BY PUBLICATIONThe State of Texas To unknown heirs of CLARA MAE HOLT BELL, Deceased Cause No. C-1-PB-18-002440, in Probate Court Number 1, Travis County, Texas. ERMA HOLT filed an Application for Probate of Holo-graphic Will, for Determination of Heirship, and for Issuance of Letters of Independent Ad-ministration with Will Annexed in the above-numbered and -entitled estate on December 21, 2018, requesting that the Court determine who are the heirs and only heirs of CLARA MAE HOLT BELL, Deceased, and their respective shares and interests in such estate. All unknown heirs and any other persons interested in this estate are cited to appear before this Court by filing a written contest or answer to this application if they want to do so. The Court may act on this application at any time at the Travis County Courthouse, 1000 Guadalupe St., Room 217, Austin Texas 78701, on or after 10:00 a.m. on the first Monday after the expiration of ten days from the publication date of this citation. Therefore, to ensure consideration, any contest, answer, or other response must be filed with the Travis County Clerk in cause number C-1-PB-18-002440, styled CLARA MAE HOLT BELL on or before the above-noted date and time. If this citation is not served within 90 days after it is issued, it must be returned unserved. Given under my hand and seal on December 21, 2018.Dana DeBeauvoirCounty Clerk,Travis County, TexasP.O. Box 149325, Austin, Texas 78714-9325By Deputy: /s/ O. RUIZ

CITATION BY PUBLICATIONThe State of Texas To unknown heirs of MICHAEL LEWIS DEBBS, Deceased Cause No. C-1-PB-18-002413, in Probate Court Number 1, Travis County, Texas. PATRICK MICHAEL DEBBS filed an APPLICATION TO DETERMINE HERISHIP AND FOR LETTERS OF INDE-PENDENT ADMINISTRATION in the above-numbered and -en-titled estate on December 17, 2018, requesting that the Court determine who are the heirs and only heirs of MICHAEL LEWIS DEBBS, Deceased, and their respective shares and interests in such estate.All unknown heirs and any other persons interested in

this estate are cited to appear before this Court by filing a written contest or answer to this application if they want to do so. The Court may act on this application at any time at the Travis County Courthouse, 1000 Guadalupe St., Room 217, Austin Texas 78701, on or after 10:00 a.m. on the first Monday after the expiration of ten days from the publication date of this citation. Therefore, to ensure consideration, any contest, answer, or other response must be filed with the Travis County Clerk in cause number C-1-PB-18-002413, styled MICHAEL LEWIS DEBBS on or before the above-noted date and time. If this citation is not served within 90 days after it is issued, it must be returned unserved. Given under my hand and seal on December 18, 2018.Dana DeBeauvoirCounty Clerk,Travis County, TexasP.O. Box 149325, Austin, Texas 78714-9325By Deputy: /s/ GLORIA CANTU

CITATION BY PUBLICATIONThe State of Texas To unknown heirs of RONALD KINCHELOE AKA RON KINCHELOE, Deceased Cause No. C-1-PB-18-002336, in Probate Court Number 1, Travis County, Texas. STEPHANIE KINCHE-LOE filed an Application to Determine Heirship and for Appointment of Dependent Administrator and Issuance of Letters of Dependent Adminis-tration in the above-numbered and -entitled estate on December 20, 2018, requesting that the Court determine who are the heirs and only heirs of RONALD KINCHELOE AKA RON KINCHELOE, Deceased, and their respective shares and interests in such estate. All unknown heirs and any other persons interested in this estate are cited to appear before this Court by filing a written contest or answer to this application if they want to do so. The Court may act on this application at any time at the Travis County Courthouse, 1000 Guadalupe St., Room 217, Austin Texas 78701, on or after 10:00 a.m. on the first Monday after the expiration of ten days from the publication date of this citation. Therefore, to ensure consideration, any con-test, answer, or other response must be filed with the Travis County Clerk in cause number C-1-PB-18-002336, styled RON-ALD KINCHELOE AKA RON KINCHELOE on or before the above-noted date and time.If this citation is not served within 90 days after it is issued, it must be returned unserved.Given under my hand and seal on December 20, 2018.Dana DeBeauvoirCounty Clerk,Travis County, TexasP.O. Box 149325, Austin, Texas 78714-9325By Deputy: /s/ G. DALESSIO

DEPARTMENT OF HOME-LAND SECURITYFEDERAL EMERGENCY MAN-AGEMENT AGENCYProposed Flood Hazard Determinations for the City of Pflugerville and Unincorpo-rated Areas of Travis County, Texas, Case No. 18-06-2107P. The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) solicits technical information or comments on proposed flood hazard determinations for the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), and where applicable, the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report for your community. These flood hazard determina-tions may include the . The

FIRM and, if applicable, the FIS report have been revised to reflect these flood hazard de-terminations through issuance of a Letter of Map Revision (LOMR), in accordance with Title 44, Part 65 of the Code of Federal Regulations. These determinations are the basis for the floodplain management measures that your community is required to adopt or show evidence of having in effect to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program. For more information on the proposed flood hazard determinations and information on the statutory 90-day period provided for appeals, please visit FEMA’s website at www.fema.gov/plan/prevent/fhm/bfe, or call the FEMA Map Information eXchange (FMIX) toll free at 1-877-FEMA MAP (1-877-336-2627).

LETTERS OF INTEREST FROM DBE FIRMSMV Transportation, Inc. would appreciate letters of interest from DBE firms currently certified with the Texas Unified Certification Program (TUCP) for the following services:Office Supplies, Janitorial, Vehicle Maintenance, Printing Services, Building Mainte-nance Parts & Services, Vehicle Washing and Detail, Uniforms, Employee Leasing and Staffing Services, Vehicles, Radios and Installation, Vehicle Parts and Supplies, Oils and Lubricants, and a variety of other services. Please contact [email protected] for additional information.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE TEXAS ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CODE THAT: Mexcor Texas, LLC d/b/a Mexcor / MPWS HAS FILED APPLICATION FOR A: Wholesaler’s Permit, Private Car-rier’s Permit, Private Storage Permit, General Distributor’s License and Im-porter’s License. SAID BUSINESS TO BE CONDUCTED AT: 5812 Trade Center Drive Building 2 Suite 500, Austin, Travis County, Texas 78744 Owner: Mexcor Texas, LLC Eduardo J. Morales, ManagerNOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLESA & A Wrecker and Recovery, LLC (512) 670-75782905 W Howard Ln, 0653350VSF:FIRST PUBLICATION: VSF5539, Gray Toyota Camry. Total charg-es as of 12/29/18 is $308.25. FIRST PUBLICATION: VSF5560,

White Trailer. Total charges as of 12/29/18 is $286.60. FIRST PUBLICATION: VSF5563, White Trailer. Total charges as of 12/29/18 is $286.60. FIRST PUBLICATION: VSF5569, Blue Honda Civic. Total charges as of 12/29/18 is $331.60. FINAL PUBLICATION: VSF5112, Blue Ford Mustang. Total charges as of 12/29/18 is $849.50. FINAL PUBLICATION: VSF5133, Green Lime Scooter. Total charges as of 12/29/18 is $802.85.2963 Manor Rd, 0568645VSF:FIRST PUBLICATION: VSF5574, Beige Nissan Altima. Total charges as of 12/29/18 is $286.60.

NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLESPURSUANT OF TEXAS ABANDONED MOTOR VE-HICLE ACT, THE FOLLOWING WILL BE SOLD AT PUBLIC SALE UNLESS CHARGES ARE SATISFIED WITHIN 30 DAYS – GARAGE KEEPER: AUS-TEX TOWING 0650246VSF, 205 FARLEY DR. AUSTIN, TX 78753 – 1997 GMC YUKON 1GKEK13R5VJ715359 940ETJ, OR TOWED FROM 12535 N IH 35 AUSTIN 10/30/18. BOAT TRAILER 07XCYG TOWED FROM 908 E 56TH ST. AUSTIN 12/27/18. CALL 512-452-2222 FOR MORE INFO.

NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLESPURSUANT OF TEXAS ABANDONED MOTOR VE-HICLE ACT, THE FOLLOWING WILL BE SOLD AT PUBLIC SALE UNLESS CHARGES ARE SATISFIED WITHIN 30 DAYS - GARAGE KEEPER: ATX TOWING 0653548VSF, 1013 W. SLAUGHTER LN., AUSTIN, TX 78748 –2006 BLACK VOLKSWAGEN JETTA VIN:3VWSF71K26M790971 TOWED FROM BEXLEY 3FIVE APTS, 8003 S. I-H 35 AUSTIN 10/10/18. CALL - 512-400-8655 FOR MORE INFO.

NOTICE OF ABANDONED VESSELNOTICE OF ABANDONED VESSEL PURSUANT OF TEXAS ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLE ACT, THE FOL-LOWING WILL BE SOLD AT PUBLIC SALE ON FEBRUARY 13, 2019 at 10AM. AT STOR-AGE FACILITY: SOUTHSIDE WRECKER 0615801VSF, 8200 S CONGRESS, AUSTIN, TX. 78745. 512-441-7094.1984 CONROY BOAT CN002704H485

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUC-TION“In accordance with the provi-sions of State Law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner and/or manager’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at the Life Storage location(s) listed below. And, due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold at public auction at the below stated location(s) to the highest bidder for cash or otherwise disposed of onJanuary 16, 2019 at 9:30AM starting at the 1341 W. Mary St. location, immediately thereafter, auction proceeds to the next listed location.”Life Storage #6241341 W. Mary St, Austin, TX 78704512-373-8688Zachary Hunt-Clothes, FilesJose La Placa Amigo-Hsld Gds/Furn, Off Furn/Mach/EquipLife Storage #942

4515 S. Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78745512-443-1100Jose Torres-Hsld Gds/Furn, Tools/ApplncesJohn Garza-Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo EquipJohn Middleton-Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo Equip, Tools/ApplncesMadeline Casas-Hsld Gds/FurnDuran Boyce-Hsld Gds/FurnErik Tavares-Hsld Gds/FurnErik Tavares-Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo Equip, Tools/ApplncesDanny Wing-Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo Equip, Tools/ApplncesTalaifa Gilford-Hsld Gds/FurnJosh Mackay-Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo Equip, Tools/ApplncesJordan English-Hsld Gds/FurnRaymond Medina-Hsld Gds/Furn, Tools/ApplncesErnest Gatica-Hsld Gds/Furn, Tools/ApplncesMaria Espinoza-Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo Equip, Tools/ApplncesKaren D Black-Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo EquipIan M Schwall-Hsld Gds/Furn, Tools/ApplncesLife Storage #2876509 S. 1st St, Austin, TX 78745512-326-3131Danny Contreras- Hsld Gds/FurnAmy Davenport-Hsld Gds/FurnFrank M Campos-Hsld Gds/FurnMichael Gentry-Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo Equip, Tools/ApplncesJames Marquez-Hsld Gds/FurnRodney Riojas-Hsld Gds/FurnDon Arias-Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo EquipJoel Reyes-Hsld Gds/FurnJonathan Flanigan-Hsld Gds/FurnLife Storage #4459706 Manchaca Rd. Austin, TX 78748512-291-1037Alex Diaz-Hsld gds/FurnCynthia TELT Myers- Hsld gds/Furn

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUC-TION“In accordance with the provi-sions of State Law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner and/or manager’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at the Life Storage location(s) listed below. And, due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold at public auction at the below stated location(s) to the highest bidder for cash or otherwise disposed of on January 15, 2019 at 9:30AM starting at the 309 S. Bell Blvd.location, immediately there-after, auction proceeds to the next listed location.”Life Storage #4742440 W. Whitestone Blvd., Cedar Park, TX. 78613512-267-4422Jocelyn Franklin-Hsld Gds/FurnDarren A Thompson-Hsld Gds/Furn, PianoLindsey Richarte-Hsld Gds/FurnSavannah Wright-Hsld Gds/Furn, Tools/ApplncesDiane Lucero-Hsld Gds/FurnNell Middleton-Hsld Gds/FurnAudra L Behrens-Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo Equip, Tools/Applnces, Lndscpng/Constctn EquipAudra L Behrens-Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo Equip, Tools/Applnces, Lndscpng/Constctn EquipStephany Gutierrez-Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo Equip, Tools/


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Applnces, Off Furn/Mach/Equip, Disability EquipLife Storage #382309 S. Bell Blvd, Cedar Park, TX 78613512-336-2463Eunice Tanco-School MaterialsCarolyn Waugh- Hsld Gds/Furn, Off Furn/Mach/Equip, Vehicle, Tools/Applnces, BoxesNadine Mikkelson-Hsld Gds/FurnErica Lewis-Hsld Gds/FurnRobert Howell-Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo EquipShannon Barrs-Hsld Gds/FurnLife Storage #1975547 McNeil Dr, Austin, TX 78729512-336-8390Life Storage #39012835 Pond Springs Rd, Austin, TX 78729512-250-5152Jason Turner-Hsld Gds/Furn, Tools/ApplncesTommy Bahama Co.- Business Inv/SuppliesRyan Schroeder - Hsld Gds/Furn,Jessica Tezeno Hsld Gds/FurnAnthony Blake-Hsld Gds/FurnLife Storage #19810307 FM 2222, Austin, TX 78730512-372-9046Elisa “Lisa” Delarosa-Hsld Gds/FurnLife Storage #54310800 US Hwy 290 W. Austin, TX 78736512-301-4994Kelli Shofstall-Hsld Gds/Furn

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUC-TION“In accordance with the provi-sions of State Law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner and/or manager’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at the Life Storage location(s) listed below. And, due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold at public auction at the below stated location(s) to the highest bidder for cash or otherwise disposed of onJanuary 14,2019 at 9:30AM starting at the 550 S. IH35 location, immediately thereafter, auction proceeds to the next listed location.”Life Storage #392550 S IH 35, Round Rock, TX 78681512-238-6648Laura Garza-Hsld Gds/FurnTrever King-Hsld Gds/Furn,Tools/ApplncesTritia Duncan:Hsld Gds/FurnLife Storage #545506 McNeil Rd, Round Rock, TX 78681512-255-7939Christopher Barnett- Hsld Gds/FurnKeia Shaw- Hsld Gds/FurnRoderick Seymour- Hsld Gds/FurnWendell Woods-Hsld Gds/FurnJames Maxwell- Hsld Gds/FurnAdonis Hill-Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo EquipMary Hernandez-Hsld Gds/FurnAnthony Ratkus-Hsld Gds/FurnLuis Hernandez-Lndscpng/Cnstrctn EquipPatrick Smith-Hsld Gds/FurnJeannie Schneider-Hsld Gds/FurnLife Storage #2762830 South A.W. Grimes Boulevard, Round Rock, TX 78664512-310-0279Mary Gonzales - Hsld Gds/FurnJason McCaffery - Hsld Gds/FurnPatricia Falavolito-Hsld Gds/Furn,TV/Stereo Equip, Tool/Applnces, Boxes

Johnny Brown-Hsld Gds/FurnSharon Johnson- Hsld Gds/FurnClifton Beam- Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo Equip, Tools/Applnces, Acctng Rcrds/Sales Sampls, BoxesEric Guerrero- Hsld Gds/FurnKerry Gray-Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo Equip, Tools/Applnces, Off Furn/Mach/Equip, Boxes, Sprtng Gds, Personal PossJeremiah Leamer-Hsld Gds/FurnNichole Hernandez-Hsld Gds/Furn, Tools/Applnces, Clothing and personal belongings from homeVictoria Garcia-Hsld Gds/FurnBernard Blake-Hsld Gds/Furn, BoxesStephanie Munoz-Hsld Gds/FurnVirginia Shankle-Hsld Gds/FurnPatricia Miick-Hsld Gds/FurnNatasha Jackson-Hsld Gds/FurnKim Perez-Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo Equip, Tools/Applnces, Boxes, Sprtng GdsLife Storage #4302101 Double Creek Dr., Round Rock, TX. 78664512-733-1203Sheena White-Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo EquipJennifer Hugunin-Hsld Gds/FurnJohn Chaffee-Hsld Gds/Furn, Tools/Applnces, Boxes, Sprtng GdsJohn Stadtmiller-Hsld Gds/Furn, Off Furn/Mach/EquipLife Storage #54720217 FM 685, Pflugerville, TX. 78660512-989-2667Life Storage #4461515 North AW Grimes, Round Rock, TX 78665512-310-2224Phillip Simpson- Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo Equip,Tools/ApplncesTim Acuna-BoxesRicky Stinnett- Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo EquipMark Ruble- Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo Equip, Tools/Applnces, Lndscpng/Cnstrctn EquipCindy Ross- Hsld Gds/FurnMark Ruble-Tools/Applnces, Lndscpng/Cnstrctn EquipTim Acuna-Hsld Gds/FurnChristopher Perry-Hsld Gds/FurnGabriella Johnson-Hsld Gds/FurnThomas G. Bias, Jr.-Hsld Gds/FurnTerrance Daniels-Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo EquipEdmundos Cisneros Ibarra-Hsld Gds/FurnLisa Wells-Hsld Gds/Furn, BoxesRonny Parks-Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo EquipLatoya Thomas-Hsld Gds/Furn, Clothes, ToysJustin Porter-Hsld Gds/Furn, TV/Stereo Equip

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUC-TIONAustin Self Storage located at 1409 West Oltorf Austin Tx will hold a online auction on January 23rd 8AM thru Jan 30th 5PM. Auction is to satisfy landlords lien pursuant to Chapter 59. All units will be sold to the highest bidder. Terms are Credit card and a $100 refundable cleanup deposit. Owners can reclaim property until the unit is auc-tioned terms are cash. The fol-lowing units contain household goods, furniture, tools, building or remodel material, and ,misc goods. The following units are to be auctionedKay KeeneGossett Jones HomesChris GriffithEugene ShawDarrell Harris

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TIONStor Self Storage, in ac-cordance with the provisions of Chapter 59 of the Texas Property Code, will hold a public auction to satisfy a land-lord’s lien on property located at the self storage facilities listed below. All auctions will take place online at www.StorageAuctions.com and will end on 1/24/19 at 1:00 pm. Sale to highest bidder. Seller reserves the right to withdraw the property at any time before the sale. Storage unit includes the contents of the tenant(s) named belowStor Self Storage2211 S. Lakeline BlvdCedar Park, TX 78613Devan J. SeguraMonitor, desk, chairs, vizio monitor, printer, trunk, guitar case, mattress, bed frame, records, tub & boxesStor Self Storage2508 W. Pecan StPflugerville, Tx 78660David HouseBed & box spring, boxes, totes, desk, chairs, key board, dolly, bags of clothes, tool box, fan & furniture

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUC-TIONUnder the provisions of Chapter 59 of the Texas Property code (Chapter 576 Acts of the 68th Legislature Regular Session 1983), Devon Self Storage will hold a public sale of delinquent units in order to satisfy a landlord’s lien. Sale will be conducted onsite on January 17, 2019 at 1:00 pm at the 8008 South Congress Avenue Austin, TX 78745 site. Sold to the high-est bidder for CASH. Units and locations are listed below:Devon Self Storage 512-282-8224 1:00 PM8008 South Congress Ave.Austin, TX 78745Eric Perez-Tool box,Assorted tools,bicycle, Andy Flournoy-Clothing,Scrap metal,totes, Rose MarieCortinas-Clothing,kids items,totes

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEAR-INGON PETITION FOR THE CRE-ATION OF AN EMERGENCY SERVICES DISTRICT This notice of a petition for creation of an emergency services district is pursuant to section 775.015 of the Texas Health and Safety Code. A Public Hearing to consider the petition will be held on Tuesday, January 29, 2019, at 9:00 a.m. in the Travis County Commissioners Court-room, First Floor, 700 Lavaca Street, Austin, Texas.Commissioners Court will consider the petition and each issue related to the creation of the district. More than 100 qualified voters who own taxable real property in the pro-posed district have requested the creation of an emergency services district. The petition stated that: The district is to be created and is to operate under Article III, Section 48-e, of the Texas Constitution, as proposed by S.J.R. No. 27, Acts of the 70th Legislature, Regular Session, 1987, and adopted by the voters at an election held November 3, 1987. The name of the proposed district is “Travis County Emergency Services District No. 16”. The boundaries of the proposed district are “coterminous with the boundaries of the existing Travis County Emergency Services District No. 8. Each person who has an interest in the creation of the district may attend the hearing and present grounds for or against creation of the district.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE-of property to satisfy land-lord’s lien. The sale will be conducted on StorageAuctions.com and will be sold to the highest bidder for cash on January 18th, 2019 at 9 AM. Seller reserves the right to withdraw property from sale. Property includes contents of spaces at St. Elmo Self Storage, 405 E. Saint Elmo Rd, Austin, TX 78745: Household and other goods-construction equipment, furniture, and/or office furniture. Dent Smith, Ashley Montgomery, Kaylee Griffin, Leslie Myers III, Dean Vinella, Elizabeth Zeibot, Clifford Murray, Leonel Garcia, Keith Kocher. Questions can be addressed to the property manager @ 512-502-5335.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALEIMPOUNDED BY ORDER OF THE CHIEF OF POLICEIN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 683.011 ET SEQ., TEXAS TRANSPORTATION CODE, REGULATING THE IMPOUNDING AND SALE OF ABANDONED VEHICLES BY DELEGATE OR PERSONALLY. THE PURCHASER SHALL TAKE TITLE TO THE MOTOR VEHICLE FREE AND CLEAR OF ALL LIENS AND CLAIMS OFOWNERSHIP AND IS ENTITLED TO REGISTER THE PURCHASED MOTOR VEHICLE AND RECIEVE A CERTIFICATE OF TITLE. I WILL PROCEED TO SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN, TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, THE FOL-LOWING DESCRIBED MOTOR VEHICLES WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN REDEEMED BY THE OWNERS, THEREOF TO WIT; JANUARY 30, 2019 @ 10:00 AM @ SOUTHSIDE WRECKER, 8200 S. CONGRESS, AUSTIN, TX 787451. 183520733 2005 HOND 4DR BRJ7412 TX 2HGES16525H5452882. 183530441 2013 HAUL TRL 778390J TX 16HCB-1013DT0265593. 183530523 1987 NISS PK AY41892 TX JN6ND-16S2HW0168764. 183530600 2003 KIA 4DR BM8X541 TX KNAFB1215352498525. 183530600 1984 LINC cp WA 1MRBP98F1EY7563636. 183530706 2000 CHRY VN 2C4FJ25B8YR6678037. 183540656 2004 DODG PK FZH0215 TX 1D7GL32K24S5896388. 183540675 2003 MAZD 4DR TX JM1BJ2258301519099. 183540739 2004 NISS 4DR JRT6922 TX 1N4BL11D34C18278010. 183540698 2002 BUIC 4DR CY6N790 TX 1G4HP54K42414570411. 183540698 2007 MAZD 4DR FVY4845 TX JM1B-K12G071728330

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALEPursuant to Chapter 59, Texas Property Code, an online public auction to satisfy a landlord’s lien will be held at storagetreasures.com. Sale by competitive bid ending on Wed 01/09/2019 at 2:00 pm. Property will be sold by the unit to the highest bidder for cash. $100 clean-out deposit per unit will be required. All purchases are sold as is and must be removed within 48 hours of the time of sale. Sale is subject to cancel-lation up to the time of sale. Company reserves the right to refuse any online bid. Property sold includes the following contents:Susan Nichols – household items, furnitureGreat Value Storage, 16905

Indian Chief, Cedar Park, TX 78613, 512-518-5644Samuel Ramos – boxes, toolsGeorge Gordon – gun safe, furniture, tools, lumberGreat Value Storage, 2407 S-183, Leander, TX 78641, 512-872-2270

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALESecurity Self Storage, under Chapter 59 of the Texas Prop-erty Code, hereby gives Notice of Sale under Said Act, to wit: On FEBRUARY 12, 2019 at 2 P.M. at 10210 N Lamar, Austin, TX 78753, Security Self Storage will conduct a sale by sealed bids for each unit in its entirety to the highest bidder for cash, of the contents of the following units to satisfy a landlord’s lien, Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid and to withdraw any property from sale. The public is invited to bid on said units. Gisela Garcia: totes, sofa, mattress, table, misc. Charles F Streightoff: boxes, dresser, bookshelf, misc.Edmond Francois: boxes, totes, bags, speaker box, misc. Regina Shepherd: chair, boxes, bags, shelves, totes, misc. Eliza Sanchez: rug, boxes, toys, misc. Luis Sanroman: ceramic tile, bag, box, tools, misc. Breigh Schoen: bag, misc. Rene Benitez-Espinoza: mattress, box spring, totes, TV stand, bags, TV, tool box, misc. Daniel Perez: TV, fridge, treadmill, totes, tool box, table, chairs, misc. Gabriela Fernanda Pereira: bags, pictures, tote, misc. Amber Lawrence: totes, scooter, clothes, bags, misc. William StrotherJr: sofa, dresser, mattress, box spring, boxes, totes, misc. Christy Thompson: clothes, totes, table, clothes rack, misc. James Alexander III: bags, boxes, totes, suitcase, misc. James Alexander III: boxes, ladder, chest of drawers, end table, boxes, bags, misc. Denise Horton: chairs, table leaf, box, misc. Destiny Wright: tote. Paul Sedillo: trailer- VIN # 1L9FC1122EC041088.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALETo satisfy a landlord’s lien, PS Orange Co. Inc. will sell at public lien sale on January 22, 2019, the personal property in the below-listed units, which may include but are not limited to: household and personal items, office and other equip-ment. The public sale of these items will begin at 09:00 AM and continue until all units are sold. PUBLIC STORAGE # 25790, 9420 Spectrum Dr, Aus-tin, TX 78717, (512) 364-0620Time:09:00 AM TAUSEND, JENNIFER; Yarusso, Doug; Simpson, Phillip; Copsey, Kay; Young, Yulia; Hernandez, Dayamanti; Dugas, Shayla; Taylor, Dennis; Gonzales, Charles; Vaughn, Shannon; Picou, KennethPUBLIC STORAGE # 08415, 1517 Round Rock Ave, Round Rock, TX 78681, (512) 298-3648Time:09:30 AM Moffett, Donna; Almogabar, Rebekah; Heaston, Nick; Santos, La-quinta; Jimenez, Ricardo; Luna, Annette; JONES,TIMOTHY; Uribe, Marivel; Ham-ilton, James; Sommer, Michael; Washburn, Cari; Carrico, Rod-ney; Rutledge, Naveen; Marek, Brandon; Hinkel, Roy; Salinas, Rudy; Anderson, MichelePUBLIC STORAGE # 29225, 1501 Louis Henna Blvd, Round Rock, TX 78664, (512) 277-3236 Time:10:00 AM Duncan, Bobbi; Carson, Han-nah; smith, todd; Loya, Denise; Bennett, Shemeka; Bashara, Caleb; Carter, Solomon;Perez, Yeli; Peebles, Lyndsey; Horton, Dennis; Marquez,

Brandon; Friar, Patrick; Graves, Nakiyah; Brown, Sekina; Brea, Iesha; Johnson, Joshua; Taylor, Kaikeithia; Libby, Ross; Grim, Downie; Bentley, Tonya; Mccormick, April; Sifuentes, Marissa; Edwards, Theresa; James, Jomari; Harris, Marcel-lus; braxton, donna; Benavides, Beatriz; Perez, Michael; King, Curt; WEBB, KRISTA; Eddings, Nelda; Cardona, Maria; Evans, Lisa; Comeaux, Akira; Denton, Marcus; Sifuentes, Marissa; Arias, Brett; Madden, JuliannaPUBLIC STORAGE # 25875, 19339 Wilke Lane, Pfluger-ville, TX 78660, (512) 354-1259Time:10:30 AM moore, leixe; Clark, Thomas; Whitehead Jr., Michael; Montalvo, Rhonda; Lewis, Kevin; Moreland, Joe; Rios, Desirae;Mccleod, Ericka; Toten, Tyler; macharia, Peter; Tukes, Santarius; Scott, John; Gray, Tametria; Walker, Clover; Si-fuentes, Marissa; Price, Ninia; Gums, Barbara; Williams, Susy; Marquez, Maritza; Smith, Darrel; Star Stream Capital Mann, Scott;Martinez, Paul; Jackson, Mau-rice; Mccleod, Ericka; Hughes, Yolonda; Elliott, William; milton, melaniePUBLIC STORAGE # 29218, 2300 S Interstate 35, George-town, TX 78626, (512) 591-0842Time:11:00 AM McCoy-Bobo, Patricia; Gilchrist, Michelle; Mireles, Susan; Flores, Erbin; Shaw, Ellen; Ebertowski, Donna; Shaw, EllenPUBLIC STORAGE # 77501, 2100 S Interstate 35, George-town, TX 78626, (512) 763-5817Time:11:30 AM Beach, Jennifer; Martin, Crystal; Cravy, Michael; DeLuna, Erica; Ramirez, Edgar; Perez, Jona-than; Rodriguez, Nora;Dickens, Corey; Young, PatiencePUBLIC STORAGE # 29223, 14002 Owen Tech Blvd, Aus-tin, TX 78728, (512) 402-8182Time:12:00 PM Bagrich, James; Chalambaga, Aldo; Hall, Israel; Lofton, Dwain; Garza, James; Rajan, Arun; Wilson, Waynell; Escobar, Ronal; Londono, Cynthia; Redmon, Arthur D.; Loyola, Romelia; Nelson, Kevin; zavala, janie; DELAO, PRISCILLA; PATTEN, IMANI; Flores, Billy; Ward, Stephanie; Mino, Oscar; Henderson, Michael; Harrison, Kayla; Hines, Chelsea; Barlow, Arthur; Green, Kabrisha; Hauser Hirsch, Craig; Coleman, Devon; Armstrong, China; Mcfarlin, ShamyraPUBLIC STORAGE # 28224, 12318 N MoPac Expy, Austin, TX 78758, (512) 643-1785Time:12:30 PM morgan, pat-rick; Salazar, Nathan; Guilbeau, Stephen; Rister, Robert; Ruth, Beverly; Rodriguez, Marissa; Ochoa, Mary;Stevens, Dawn; Jones, EricPUBLIC STORAGE # 07002, 12915 Research Blvd, Austin, TX 78750, (512) 649-5152Time:01:00 PM Terry, KevinPUBLIC STORAGE # 08428, 13675 N US Highway 183, Austin, TX 78750, (512) 643-4289Time:01:30 PM Michaud, Stephen; Parham, Jessie; SO-DEXO Duet, Cheryl; Robinson, Carissa; Blasingame, Carl; Zebrowksi, Ryanne; Parham, Jessie; Holmes, Michele; Habbit, Susanne; Sudhop, Dawn; johnson, kirk; Thomas, Keshoun; Reiss, Paul; Gilbert, Karina; Popham, Dakota; Ech-everria, Dawn; Spiller, Amber; Wilson, Margaret; Black, Liliana; Champagne, Ron;Carmona, Luis; Williams, Breanna; Kendziora, Jennifer; Delavina, Arthur; Booth, Ste-ven; Etienne, Leo; kuhn, garren; Oliver, Rachel; Booth, Steven

PUBLIC STORAGE # 26538, 12342 Ranch Rd 620 N, Austin, TX 78750, (512) 593-5286Time:02:00 PM Garcia Gallegos, Maria; Zwolenski, Wryanne; Dixson, Miles; Law, Kaleb; HENDERSON, JOSEPH; Johnson, Shavar; Sherrill, Ethan; SMITH, MICHAEL; Jimenez, Juan Public sale terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. All sales are subject to cancellation. We reserve the right to refuse any bid. Pay-ment must be in cash or credit card-no checks. Buyers must secure the units with their own personal locks. To claim tax-exempt status, original RESALE certificates for each space purchased is required. By PS Orangeco, Inc., 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201. (818) 244-8080.

NOTICE OF SALESecurity Self Storage, under Chapter 59 of the Texas Property Code, hereby gives Notice of Sale under Said Act, to wit: On JANUARY 15, 2019 at 2 P.M. at 10210 N Lamar, Austin, TX 78753, Security Self Storage will conduct a sale by sealed bids for each unit in its entirety to the highest bidder for cash, of the contents of the following units to satisfy a landlord’s lien, Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid and to withdraw any property from sale. The public is invited to bid on said units.Laura Roy: clothes, bags, totes, TV, table, misc.

NOTICE TO ALL PERSON HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF PHILLIP FRANKS RICKETTSNotice is hereby given that orig-

inal Letters Testamentary for the Estate of PHILLIP FRANKS RICKETTS were issued on December 20, 2018, in Cause No. C-1-PB-18-002257, pending in Probate Court One of Travis County, Texas to: NANCY O. RICKETTS Representative of the Estate of PHILLIP FRANKS RICKETTS c/o Nancy Scherer Scherer & Scherer 602 West 13th Street Austin, Texas All persons having claims against this Estate which is cur-rently being administered are required to present them with in the time and manner pre-scribed by law. DATED this 20th day of December, 2018 NANCY N. SCHERER SCHERER & SCHERER 602 WEST 13TH STREET AUSTIN, TEXAS 78701 ATTORNEYS FOR THE INDE-PENDENT EXECUTOR

NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS HAVING CLAIMSAGAINST THE ESTATE OF DOROTHY B. BROWNAdministration of the Estate of DOROTHY B. BROWN, deceased, has been com-menced by the issuance of original Letters Testamentary to the undersigned on December 20, 2018, by the Probate Court No. 1, of Travis County, Texas, acting in Cause No. C-1-PB-18-002183, styled Estate of DOROTHY B. BROWN, Deceased, in which Court the matter is pending.All persons having claims against the Es-tate are hereby notified to pres-ent them to the undersigned at the address shown below within the time prescribed by law. Dated December 20, 2018. /S/JACQUELYN L. BROWN,

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AV130 POUND SALENOTICE OF SALE OF MOTOR VEHICLES IMPOUNDED BY ORDER OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 683.011 ET SEQ., TEXAS TRANSPOR-TATION CODE, REGULATING THE IMPOUNDING AND SALE OF ABANDONED VEHICLES BY DELEGATE OR PERSONALLY.

THE PURCHASER SHALL TAKE TITLE TO THE MO-TOR VEHICLE FREE AND CLEAR OF ALL LIENS AND CLAIMS OF OWNERSHIP AND IS ENTITLED TO REGIS-TER THE PURCHASED MOTOR VEHICLE AND RECIEVE A CERTIFICATE OF TITLE.

I WILL PROCEED TO SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH IN THE CITY OF AUS-TIN, TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, THE FOLLOWING DE-SCRIBED MOTOR VEHICLES WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN REDEEMED BY THE OWNERS, THEREOF TO WIT;

JANUARY 30, 2019 @ 10:00 AM SOUTHSIDE WRECKER,

8200 S. CONGRESS, AUSTIN, TX 78745

183520733 2005 HOND 4DR BRJ7412 TX 2HGES16525H545288

183530441 2013 HAUL TRL 778390J TX 16HCB1013DT026559

183530523 1987 NISS PK AY41892 TX JN6ND16S2HW016876

183530600 2003 KIA 4DR BM8X541 TX KNAFB121535249852

183530600 1984 LINC CP WA 1MRBP98F1EY756363

183530706 2000 CHRY VN 2C4FJ25B8YR667803

183540656 2004 DODG PK FZH0215 TX 1D7GL32K24S589638

183540675 2003 MAZD 4DR TX JM1BJ225830151909

183540739 2004 NISS 4DR JRT6922 TX 1N4BL11D34C182780

183540698 2002 BUIC 4DR CY6N790 TX 1G4HP54K424145704

183540698 2007 MAZD 4DR FVY4845 TX JM1BK12G071728330


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CONTINUED FROM P.57LEGAL NOTICES

Independent Executor of the Estate of DOROTHY B. BROWNc/o LAW OFFICES OF GARY W. GREIF, P.C.5316 W. Hwy. 290, Suite 210Austin, Texas 78735(512) [email protected]

NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS HAVING CLAIMSAGAINST THE ESTATE OF WARREN S. PARGAMANOn December 18, 2018, letters testamentary as Independent Executor for the Estate wereissued to Patrice J. Arnold by the Probate Court No. 1 of Travis County, Texas, in Cause Number C-1-PB-18-002265 pending upon the Probate Docket of said Court. All per-

sons having claims against the Estate, which is currently being administered, should present those claims within the time prescribed by law to: Patrice J. Arnold, Independent Executor 406 Sterzing Street, Suite 300 Austin, Texas 78704

NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF DORIS CENTER, DECEASEDNotice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary in the Estate of Doris Center, Deceased, were issued on December 28, 2018, in Cause No. C-1-PB-18-002309 pending in Probate Court No. One of Travis County, Texas, to Vernon Clay Carathers. Claims may

be presented to the Executor, Addressed as follows: Vernon Clay Carathers Executor, Estate of Doris Center c/o Don E. Walden 8310-1 N. Capital of Texas Highway, Suite 305 Austin, Texas 78731 All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them within the time and the manner prescribed by law. Dated the 28th day of December, 2018/s/ Don E. WaldenState Bar No. 206728008310-1 N. Capital of Texas Highway, Suite 305 Austin, Texas 78731 (512)349-9595 fax: (512)795-8079

NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS

HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF LAZARA R. RAMOS, DECEASEDThe administration of the Estate of Lazara R. Ramos, De-ceased, has been commenced by the issuance of original Let-ters Testamentary to Manuel A. Ramos, on December 28, 2018 by the Probate Court Number One, Travis County, Texas, acting in Cause Number C-1-PB-18-002282, styled IN RE: ESTATE OF LAZARA R. RAMOS, DECEASED, in which Court the matter is pending. All persons having claims against the estate are hereby notified to present them to MANUEL A. RAMOS c/o ROBERT E. BLACK, 2499 S. Capital of Texas Hwy, Ste. A-205, Austin,

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What themes and instruments do people least want to hear in a piece of music? Composer Dave Soldier determined that the worst song ever made would contain bagpipes, cowboy music, tubas, advertising jingles, operatic rapping, and children crooning about holidays. Then he collaborated with other musicians to record such a song. I suspect that as you head into 2019, it’ll be helpful to imagine a metaphorically com-parable monstrosity: a fantastic mess that sums up all the influences you’d like to avoid. With that as a vivid symbol, you’ll hopefully be inspired to avoid allowing any of it to sneak into your life in the coming months.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In Canada, it’s illegal to pretend to practice witchcraft. It’s fine to actually do witchcraft, however. With that as our inspiration, I advise you to be rigorous about embodying your authentic self in 2019. Make sure you never lapse into merely imitating who you are or who you used to be. Don’t fall into the trap of caring more about your image than about your actual out-put. Focus on standing up for what you really mean rather than what you imagine people expect from you. The coming months will be a time when you can summon pure and authoritative expressions of your kaleidoscopic soul.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the 18th century, Benja-min Franklin was a Founding Father who played a key role in getting the United States up and running. He wasn’t happy that the fledgling nation chose the bald eagle as its animal symbol. The supposedly majestic raptor is lazy, he wrote. It doesn’t hunt for its own food, but steals grub obtained by smaller birds of prey. Furthermore, bald eagles are cowardly, Franklin believed. Even sparrows may intimidate them. With that as our theme, Pisces, I invite you to select a proper creature to be your symbolic ally in 2019. Since you will be building a new system and establishing a fresh power base, you shouldn’t pick a critter that’s merely glamorous. Choose one that excites your ambition and animates your willpower.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): No one has resisted the force of gravity with more focus than businessman Roger Babson (1875–1967). He wrote an essay titled “Gravity – Our Enemy Number One” and sought to develop anti-gravity technology. His Gravity Research Foundation gave awards to authentic scientists who advanced the understanding of gravity. If that organization still existed and offered prizes, I’m sure that researchers of the Aries persuasion would win them all in 2019. For your tribe, the coming months should feature lots of escapes from heaviness, including soaring flights and playful levity and lofty epiphanies.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The night parrots of Austra-lia are so elusive that there was a nearly six-decade stretch when no human saw a single member of the species. But in 2013, after searching for 15 years, photographer John Young spotted one and recorded a 17-second video. Since then, more sightings have occurred. According to my as-trological vision, your life in 2019 will feature experiences akin to the story of the night parrot’s reappearance. A major riddle will be at least partially solved. Hidden beauty will materialize. Long-secret phenomena will no longer be se-cret. A missing link will re-emerge.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Millions of years ago, Eu-rope, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, and North and South America were smushed together. Earth had a single land mass, the supercontinent Pangea. Stretching across its breadth was a colossal feature, the Central Pangean Moun-tains. Eventually, though, Europe and America split apart, making room for the Atlantic Ocean and dividing the Central Pangean range. Today the Scottish Highlands and the Appa-lachian Mountains are thousands of miles apart, but once upon a time they were joined. In 2019, Gemini, I propose that you look for metaphorical equivalents in your own life. What disparate parts of your world had the same origin? What elements that are now divided used to be together? Re-establish their connection. Get them back in touch with each other. Be a specialist in cultivating unity.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): 2019 will be an excellent time to swim in unpolluted rivers, utter sacred oaths near beautiful fountains, and enjoy leisurely saunas that help purify your mind and body. You are also likely to attract cosmic favor if you cry more than usual, seek experiences that enhance your emotional intelligence, and ensure that your head respectfully consults with your heart before mak-ing decisions. Here’s another way to get on life’s good side: cultivate duties that consistently encourage you to act out of love and joy rather than out of guilt and obligation.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Here are four key questions I hope you’ll meditate on throughout 2019: 1) What is love? 2) What kind of love do you want to receive? 3) What kind of love do you want to give? 4) How could you transform yourself in order to give and receive more of the love you value most? To spur your efforts, I offer you these thoughts from teacher David R. Hawkins: “Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Most living things begin in the absence of light,” writes Virgo author Nancy Holder. “The vine is rooted in the earth; the fawn takes form in the womb of the doe.” I’ll remind you that your original gestation also took place in the dark. And I foresee a metaphorically comparable process unfolding for you in 2019. You’ll undergo an incubation period that may feel cloaked and mysterious. That’s just as it should be: the best possible circumstances for the vital new part of your life that will be growing. So be patient. You’ll see the tan-gible results in 2020.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Many plants that modern Americans regard as weeds were regarded as tasty food by Native Americans. A prime example is the cattail, which grows wild in wetlands. Indigenous people ate the root-stock, stem, leaves, and flower spike. I propose that we use this scenario to serve as a metaphor for some of your potential opportunities in 2019. Things you’ve regarded as useless or irrelevant or inconvenient could be revealed as assets. Be alert for the possibility of such shifts. Here’s advice from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The slow, gradual, incre-mental approach will be your magic strategy in 2019. Being persistent and thorough as you take one step at a time will provide you with the power to accomplish won-ders. Now and then, you may be tempted to seek dra-matic breakthroughs or flashy leaps of faith; and there may indeed be one or two such events mixed in with your steady rhythms. But for the most part, your glory will come through tenacity. Now study this advice from mystic Meis-ter Eckhart: “Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian poly-math Piet Hein wrote a poem in which he named the central riddle of his existence. “A bit beyond perception’s reach/ I sometimes believe I see/ That life is two locked boxes/ Each containing the other’s key.” I propose that we adopt this scenario to symbolize one of the central riddles of your existence. I’ll go further and speculate that in 2019 one of those boxes will open as if through a magical fluke, without a need for the key. This mysteri-ous blessing won’t really be a magical fluke, but rather a stroke of well-deserved and hard-earned luck that is the result of the work you’ve been doing to transform and improve yourself.

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NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF MARICA JANETTE BUCHANAN, DECEASEDNotice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary in the Estate of Marcia Janette Buchanan, Deceased, were issued on December 28, 2018, in Cause No. C-1-PB-18-002215 pending in Probate Court No. One of Travis County, Texas, to Vernon Clay Carathers. Claims may be presented to the Executor, Addressed as follows: James Andrew Buchanan Executor, Estate of Marcia Janette Buchanan c/o Don E. Walden 8310-1 N. Capital of Texas Highway, Suite 305 Austin, Texas 78731 All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them within the time and the manner prescribed by law. Dated the 28th day of December, 2018/s/ Don E. WaldenState Bar No. 206728008310-1 N. Capital of Texas Highway, Suite 305 Austin, Texas 78731 (512)349-9595 fax: (512)795-8079

NOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given that original Letters of Independent Administration for the Estate of William Austin Baker, Deceased were issued on December 21, 2018 in Cause No. C-1-PB-18-001447, pending in the Probate Court Number One of Travis County, Texas, to Josh Brooks Baker of Tampa, Florida.All persons having claims against this Estate, which is currently being administered, are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. All claims should be addressed in care of the Independent Admin-istrator’s attorney, Elizabeth A. Sabol, at 301 Congress Avenue, Suite 1910, Austin, Texas 78701.DATED this the 4th day of Janu-

ary, 2019.Very truly yours,Osborne, Helman,Knebel & SCOTT, LLPBy: Elizabeth A. SabolATTORNEYS FOR JOSH BROOKS BAKER, INDEPEN-DENT ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM AUSTIN BAKER, DECEASED

NOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given that original Letters of Independent Administration with Will An-nexed for the Estate of BOBBIE A. NIXON a/k/d BOBBIE ANN CROSBY, Deceased, were issued on December 27, 2018 under C-1-PB-18-000681, Pending in Probate Court No.1 of Travis County, Texas, to DOROTHY KATHLEEN NIXON. Claims may be presented in care of the attorney for the Estate addressed as follows: DOROTHY KATHLEEN NIXON Independent Administrator of the Estate of Bobbie A. Nixon a/k/a Bobby Ann Crosby C/O Fleur A. Christensen Attorney for the Estate Blazier, Chris-tensen, Browder and Virr, P.C. 901 S. Mopac, Bldg. V, Suite 200Austin, Texas 78746 All persons having claims agains the Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them within the time and manner prescribed by law. DATED the 27th day of December, 2018/s/ Fleur Christensen Attorney for the Estate

NOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given that original Letters of Testamentary were issued on December 28,2018, for the Estate of MAGDA-LINE L. SCHILLER, Deceased, in Cause No. C-1-PB-18- 002260, pending in Probate Court No. One of Travis County, Texas, to RENEE D. SCHILLER CLARK, as Independent Executor. The residence of the Independent Executor is in Williamson County, Texas, and her mailing address is 2107 Aaron Ross Way, Round Rock, TX 78665.

All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them within the time and in the man-ner prescribed by law. Dated: December 28, 2018.STUMP & STUMPBY: Randall C. StumpState Bar No. 19445900803 Main StreetGeorgetown, Texas 78626Phone: (512) 863-5594Fax: (512) 863-9350Email: [email protected]

NOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Alice B. Garza, Deceased, were issued on December 28, 2018, in Docket No. C-1-PB-18-002289 pending in the Probate Court No. 1 of Travis County, Texas to OSCAR OMAR LOPEZ, Independent Executor. The address of the Independent Executor is in Austin, Travis County, Texas and the mailing address is c/o Richard I. Clark, Attorney, 2629 University Club Drive, Austin, Texas 78732. All persons hav-ing claims against this Estate which is currently being admin-istered are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. Dated: December 31, 2018Richard I. Clark, Attorney for the Estate.

NOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given that original Letters Testamen-tary for the Estate of Joella G. Knapp, Deceased, were issued on December 20, 2018, in Cause No. C-1-PB-18-002274, pending in the Probate Court No. 1, Travis County, Texas, to: Robert T. Knapp. All persons having claims against this Estate that is currently being administered are required to present them to the undersigned within the time and in the manner pre-scribed by law. c/o: Ellen MartinAttorney at Law3624 North Hills Drive, Suite A-105

Austin, Texas 78731 DATED the 24th day of December, 2018./S/Ellen MartinEllen MartinAttorney for Robert T. KnappState Bar No.: 007845313624 North Hills Drive, Suite A-105Austin, Texas 78731Telephone: (512) 258-0500E-mail: [email protected]

NOTICE TO CREDITORSNOTICE is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of William JerryHoweth, A/K/A Jerry William Howeth, Deceased, were issued on December 20, 2018, in CauseNo. C-1-PB-18-002170, pending in Probate Court No. 1 of Travis County, Texas, to: KristinaAnn Davis-Jones The notice to the Independent Executor may be delivered at the following address: c/o Kristin F. Baird, Attorney at Law9600 Escarpment Blvd., Suite 745, #159 Austin, Texas 78749 All persons having claims against this Estate which is cur-rently being administered are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. Dated the 26th day of December, 2018./s/ Kristin F. BairdKristin F. BairdAttorney for Independent Executor

NOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice to all persons having claims against the Estate of Betty D. Setz, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that original Letters of Independent Admin-istration with Will Annexed upon the Estate of Betty D. Setz, Deceased, were issued to Susan Gregg Fox on December 18, 2018, in Cause No. C-1-PB-18-002165, in the Probate Court Number One of Travis County, Texas, which matter is still pending. All persons hav-ing claims against said Estate are required to present same within the time prescribed by

law to: Susan Gregg Fox 4545 N. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60625.

NOTICE TO CREDITORSOn December 28, 2018, Jona-than Rathke was issued Letters of Independent Administration for the Estate of James David Rathke, Deceased, in Cause No. C-1-PB-18-002055 pending in Probate Court No. 1, Travis County, Texas. The address of Jonathan Rathke, Independent Administrator, is c/o Madeline Schlesinger, Hopper Mikeska, PLLC, 901 South MoPac Expressway, Barton Oaks Plaza Building 2, Suite 570, Austin, Texas, 78746, and all persons having claims against this estate are required to present them to such address in the manner and time required by law. Jonathan Rathke, Independent Administrator of the Estate of James David Rathke, Deceased By: Madeline Schlesinger, Attorney for the Independent Administrator, Jonathan Rathke

NOTICE TO CREDITORSOriginal Letters Testamentary for the Estate of JOHN PARKS FISHER, Deceased, were

issued to Darci Beth Fisher on December 28, 2018, under Cause No. C-1-PB-18-002338, pending in Probate Court No. 1 of Travis County, Texas. All persons having claims against this estate must present them within the time and in the man-ner prescribed by law and may present them to therepresentative’s attorney, addressed to Estate of John Parks Fisher, LAW OFFICE OF CHARLES SMAISTRLA, 8140 N Mo Pac Expy, Ste 2-140, Austin, TX 78759.

NOTICE TO CREDITORSOriginal Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Rodney L. Hoesman, Deceased, were is-sued on December 28, 2018, in Cause No. C-1-PB-18-002237, pending in the Probate Court No. 1, Travis County, Texas, to Diana S. Hoesman, as Indepen-dent Executor. All persons hav-ing claims against this Estate which is currently being admin-istered are required to present them to the undersigned within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. c/o: Gabriel G. Gallas Attorney at Law7800 N. Mopac Suite 200 Aus-

tin, TX 78759 DATED the 28th day of December, 2018.Gabriel G. GallasState Bar No.: 24069750Attorney for Diana S. Hoesman

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