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Discount Electronics only sells direct. discountelectronics.com 4.7 94% Positive (955 reviews) 2 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE JANUARY 17, 2020 austinchronicle.com austinchronicle.com JANUARY 17, 2020 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE 3 CONTENTS JaNuaRy 17, 2020 Volume 39, number 20 PUBLISHER Nick Barbaro aSSocIatE PUBLISHER Cassidy Frazier Reconnecting With Project Connect P.18 Climbing Everest P.24 Four Films to Watch For in 2020 P.38 50 cover story: EDITORIal EdItoR Kimberley Jones austin Punk NEwS EdItoR Mike Clark-Madison aSSocIatE NEwS & QmmUNIty EdItoR Sarah Marloff aRtS Robert Faires chronicles food Jessi Cape CHScRRmEUEwOSNEIScBN R RJiacaEmhoauVerlsd H E RWeerNhnnioattTvnaidtkSceehzr hair of the dogJVauOCCAsLAAtNUiCCHHnMcUUUhEHHr AAA3oSS9nR,RRiPP cNYTTlUePPOO .TTMc1IIoBAA7NNmEEENN,R RR2 RR 2II0PP0CCTT 2TTUU0 LLOOWWNNEENNSSKKOOEE,, ,, :: tsheaeb w meereawdoorlv (el)s ’ SPEcIaL ScREENINgS & commUNIty LIStINgS and krackerjack’s Beth Sullivan Kevin CurtinS, MaTRictahSa cLfeLIlSU fKtBWIi Nn LawIggyS,Sn tA eI&NuR AgfsoltSIaio nTnG d SrB EeEargvenR EndSNnetStiertSstr TTSSCCPPHHUUOOUUEEPPLL NNRREELLVKK2RROOAA01NNCCPP9OB-2OOKKSSY0 T TVV EEM&&IMUAADDS ES I RRCTTTII EPNNOOHH GONALTTLLAALL OOBLLLTTAO P L .L 5O0WT ON P.5!1 cJbiolrluviecaern b pbohawoiltleaoyn bdy CONTRIbuTINg wRITERS fILm Marjorie Baumgarten food Emily Beyda day tRIPS Gerald E. McLeod 6 Feedback faStER tHaN SoUNd Rachel Rascoe mR. SmaRty PaNtS R.U. Steinberg PRODuCTION aRt dIREctoR Jason Stout 8 news PRodUctIoN maNagER Zeke Barbaro 10 civics 101 22 wEB dIREctoR Brian Barry dIREctoR of dIgItaL StRatEgy Michael Bartnett 8 point austin 22 calendar gRaPHIc dESIgNERS Jeff Gammill, Sam Summerlin Staff PHotogRaPHERS John AnderDsoanvi,d J aBnrae nBdiarcnh Humal,l by michael king 25 Qmmunity by sarah marloFF PRoofREadERS JasminJae mLaens eS, cKoattt ,M GcrNege vSintistt, 10 public notice 26 arts events Austin Symphony Orchestra: “Rach Star” EVERYWHERE YOU WANT TO BE IN AUSTIN. aDVERTISINg & by nick barbaro 18 and “The Impossible Winterbourne: Alpha-Bots” austinchronicle.com/events maRkETINg 11 Naked City; Abbott to Refugees: Drop Dead; 32 community events advERtISINg dIREctoR Cassidy Frazier Paxton Bans State Employees From Donating to Planned @chronevents SENIoR accoCUaNrto lEyxnE cPUhtilIlivpEsS, JLeoriasl dR iCcohrwdienre, Parenthood; An End to Pot Busts?; more day trips by gerald e. mcleod acMcaorUisNat MExirEacbUatl,I vGElSo rDiaa vWidil lKialempspoen, 18 Get on board City, Cap Metro mull how to fund the transit 33 soccer watch by nick barbaro cLaSSIfIEdS/LEgaL NotIcES Bobby Leath Austin needs by austin sanders 35 Food events oPERatIoNS cooRdINatoR Trace Thurman EvENtS & PRomotIoNS maNagER Karena Rogers 39 movie listinGs Bad Boys for Life, Dolittle, Les cLIENt & PUBLIc RELatIoNS Emily Burns mULtImEdIa Tamar Price 24 arts & culture Misérables, The Song of Names, Underwater, VHYes, LUv doc/cIRcULatIoN/SPEcIaL EvENtS Dan Hardick Weathering With You StREEt tHEaumn tCera sBsairet lAertrte, dAonnddreoa, KDealsneey, ABsahkleery, 24 into thin aria Austin Opera scales the world’s tallest moun- 44 special screeninGs MorgGarne eMnesnteeinnd, eKza, tSiea vRaonsnea Gh uOrkpirne,, EAlniaash Hi Pueerretaz,, tain with Joby Talbot’s adventurous new opera, Everest 46 showtimes Alfredo Rios, Coka Trevino, Ally Warren by robert Faires NatIoNaL advERtISINg Voice Media Group 54 recommended this week Percussive jazz legend (888/278-9866, www.vmgadvertising.com) Andrew Cyrille fleshes his out his C.V.; plus Terry Allen; a OfcofNtIRCoLELE RS LiTz Faranfklfin 34 Food Dveorlslya rPya; rHtoi,n Hboirwth Adraey Yboaus hD;a Xy;T CLu hcoifoetr;; AStuapsehr’ss u2c0ktehr sa nannid- offIcE maNagER/SUBScRIPtIoNS Carrie Young Sabbath Crow; Carnage the Executioner; and more accoUNtINgc RaSEdSIISt tmaaNNt aCghEeRl sceinad Tya sylooor 34 review: ebisu 56 roadshows + live music INfo dESk Zach Pearce Japanese restaurant SyStEmS HaadSm aIN cISotaRt aotfo mR aBNrya ncdooLno RWSa Htkainnks North Austin boasts Austinchronicle.com/events woRkINg (It) 9 to 5 Smiley fresh modern sushi CIRCulaTION and a few tasty surprises Andrew PGeerrrfye rDsr, aBkrea,n Tdoomn GFaoinrczahlields,, RTrueby eGnu Ftileorrreesz,, by Jessi cape 48 music Brad Jander, Suzette Johnson, Brooks Lumpkin, Eric McKinney, Grant Melcher, James Meshbane, Norm Reed, Jonina Sims, Bill Smotrilla, 38 screens 48 Faster than sound Zeb Sommers, Bryan Zirkelbach by rachel rascoe Jillian BaileyC, ROobN BrTezRsnyI, bDouugT FrOeeRmaSn, 38 Four austin Films to 50 austin punk chronicles Part 1 of chapter 2 uncovers Ryan Hennessee, Sam Hurt, Josh Kupecki, watch in 2020 34 the micro Austin genre of glitter rock, which collapsed into Matthew Monagle, Lance Myers, Alejandra Ramirez, Marc Savlov, Tim Stegall, by richard Whittaker punk by tim stegall Tom Tomorrow, Mary Tuma, Derek Udensi 38 baCk 63 the luv doc comix mr. smarty pants The Austin Chronicle (ISSN: 1074-0740) is published by The Austin Chronicle Corporation weekly 52 times per year at 4000 N. I-35, Austin, TX 78751. 64 classiFieds 512/454-5766 ©2013 Austin Chronicle Corp. All rights reserved. Subscriptions: OHnea lfy-eyaera:r :$ 1$1600 22nndd ccllaassss.. 70 crossword Periodicals Postage Paid at Austin, TX. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Free will astroloGy The Austin Chronicle, PO Box 4189, Austin, TX 78765. Unsolicited submissions (including but not vote now! music Poll BAllot on P.51 limited to articles, artwork, photographs, and résumés) are not returned. 4 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE JANUARY 17, 2020 austinchronicle.com #AustinMusicAwards Vot e now ! Voting ends January 28. Winners perform live at The Austin Music Awards, March 11. BALLOT On p.51 Or OnLine AT: AUStInCHRonICLe.CoM/ MUSICPoLL austinchronicle.com JANUARY 17, 2020 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE 5 above their back doors facing the alley behind 13]: If corporate money/donations are free the bar to water a large area of asphalt and speech then donations to Planned Parenthood recycling and trash dumpsters. They claim the are also free speech and cannot be prohibited by sprinklers go off for a minute straight every hour the Texas A.G. It is a violation of Citizens United. is This Who We Are noW? to soak homeless people in the alley IN THE Mark Weimer Dear Editor, WINTER. The awful, entitled door guy at the I’m trying so hard to not lose my faith in Library Bar would not entertain that their sprin- renAissAnCe WoMAn humanity. I know there are good people out kler installation was anything other than heroic. there, but in the last week I’ve seen two horrible Is this who we are now? I’m so sad to know Dear Editor, displays of inhumanity Downtown. The building that there are multiple people out there that I enjoyed your story on my dear friend, Gina housing Gold’s Gym on Sixth Street has some- were willing to agree to this type of harassment Lalli [“In Memoriam: Gina Lalli,” Daily Arts, Feb. how lost all sense of shame and installed out- and lacked the empathy and shame that would 19, 2019]. I wish you’d included Gina’s door speakers blasting an air horn sound every keep them from going through with it. And I’m Bhagavad Gita and chanting classes, and, as 30 seconds or so, next to several “No Loitering” worried that there are probably many more peo- well, her work as a local counseling astrologer. signs very clearly intended to run off homeless ple that are just fine with this. She was truly a “Renaissance woman.” people in the vicinity. After that brazen display Jackie Ahmad What you did include was very well-written. of assholery, I thought I had seen the worst Mark Clark anti-homeless harassment coordinated by a CiTizens UniTed business. But the Library Bar on Dirty Sixth said, “Hold my watery bottom-shelf cranberry Dear Editor, OOps! vodka.” They chose a truly disgusting and illegal Briefly regarding Ken Paxton’s barring In “Dark Clouds Over Travis plan to “eliminate the homeless” as they told employees from donating to Planned Parenthood County Expo Center?” (Dec. 27, 2019), me when I asked them about the new addition [“Paxton Bans State Employees From Donating we reported that the city’s remaining in the alley. The Library Bar installed sprinklers Pay to Planned Parenthood,” Daily News, Jan. debt from the 2002 Convention Center #AustinMusicAwards expansion “is expected to be cleared by 2021.” That should have read “was Letters to the editor must be signed with full name and include daytime phone number, full expected by the county to be cleared by address, or email address. Letters should be no longer than 300 words. We reserve the right to edit all submissions. Letters may not be edited, added to, or changed by sender once we receive them. 2021”; though Travis County cites a General email address: [email protected], Letters online: austinchronicle.com/feedback 2017 analysis to suggest that date is Mailing address: The Austin Chronicle, PO Box 4189, Austin, TX 78765 feasible, the official retirement date for those bonds isn’t until 2029. We appre- updated daily ciate the opportunity to clarify this. AUsTinChroniCle.CoM/PosTMArks Voting ends January 28. Winners perform live at The Austin Music Awards, March 11. BALLOT On p.51 Or OnLine AT: AUSTINCHRONICLE.COM/ MUSICPOLL This Week on The AusTin ChroniCle show on kooP 91.7FM Tune in Friday, 3pm, to KOOP Community Radio to hear Editor-in-Chief Kim Jones speak with staff writer Michael King about the governor’s attempts to ban refugees from resettling in Texas; plus, Tim Stegall talks about his ongoing history of Austin’s punk scene. Past episodes at austinchronicle.com/av. 6 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE JANUARY 17, 2020 austinchronicle.com IT’S GO TIME CapMetro’s Project Connect could change the way we move around our growing region, with a major expansion of our transit network and all-new options to better connect our communities. GET INVOLVED You can help improve Project Connect by sharing your ideas. Come by the Project Connect Community Office at 607 Congress Ave., attend a community meeting, call 512-369-6210 or email [email protected] Visit ProjectConnect.com for details. austinchronicle.com JANUARY 17, 2020 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE 7 NEWS QuOtE WEEk of the “We’ll open a dozen more offices throughout this entire wonderful state. I’m trying to get to know Texas in a way that I never did before. … I’m just telling you, we care about all parts of America.” – Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, bringing his 2020 presidential caravan to Austin this past weekend. heAdlines no music for ice A grassroots coalition of artists announced plans to protest Amazon- sponsored events during this year’s SXSW. A 2018 report from Mijente.net found that Amazon helps U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “track, detain, and deport immigrants.” The SXSW protest organizers behind No Music for ICE ask all artists, fans, and supporters of “basic human rights” to join in boycotting these events. DeAth by influenzA Austin Public Health reported Wednesday that health officials have confirmed eight Texas children have died from the flu so far this season. With the possibility of flu activity occurring as late as May, it’s not too late to get your flu shot. For more info, visit www.austintexas.gov/flu. hAte crimes 2019 saw a decline in reported hate crimes to Austin Police Department, new numbers show. Last year, APD documented a total of 12 incidents – including five assaults spurred on Michael Bloomberg, who’s pledged to spend as much as $1 by anti-gay bias and three anti-Black crimes (other billion this year to defeat Donald Trump – whether or not he’s biases included anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim, and the Democratic nominee – drew a crowd of several hundred anti-Latino sentiments, as well as one act of crimi- supporters, party activists, and curious onlookers to East nal mischief due to anti-white bias). According to Austin’s Central Machine Works, on a one-day bus tour from APD’s numbers, Austin-based hate crimes spiked in San Antonio to Dallas. He shared the stage in Austin with City Manager Spencer Cronk, a former Bloomberg aide; Diana Earl, 2018 with 19 reported incidents. In 2017, there were a local activist against gun violence, a cause that Bloomberg 17 documented cases. n has generously supported; and his friend and high school o centex cArnAge There have been at least ders cwlaasrmsm-uapte a “cJtu fdogr eth Jeu ndeyx”t S phreeisniddleinnt, wofh toh de uUbnbiteedd h Setrasteelsf .“”the n 365 shootings in the Austin area since 2014: n A 166 people were killed; 291 people were injured. oh J The data, available for review from the Gun Punching Down in Our Names Violence Archive, has been mapped by TheTrace. org, which reports on gun issues. You can explore the national and local maps, linking a basic summa- ry and the consequences for those 365 shootings Abbott’s refugee rejection confirms the triumph of trumpism we’ve already forgotten. PresiDentiAl nAme hunt First immigrants, then those without new possibilities: foreigners, reporters, pro- founding the exhaustive vetting that refu- While state homes, now refugees. testers … with various persons of color gees receive with the desperation of asylum and local pols troll Democratic groups to land One might think Republican always ready at hand. seekers at the border (“Abbott to Refugees: endorsements, the presidential candidates are also officials would be running out Consider Gov. Greg Abbott’s Drop Dead,” p.14). in the hunt. Among Austin names joining the of vulnerable people to use as pOINt decision, announced last week, Wednesday morning, Abbott’s plans hit Elizabeth Warren campaign: state Reps. Sheryl symbolic punching bags, but it to refuse 2020 resettlement of a speed bump: In Maryland, U.S. District Cole and Erin Zwiener, and City Council Members austIN seems the candidates for tar- refugees in Texas, making it Judge Peter Messitte issued a preliminary Natasha Harper-Madison, Ann Kitchen, Leslie geting are endless. Perhaps by the first state to do so under a injunction to block the new policy, a few Pool, Paige Ellis, and Kathie Tovo. michAel they will eventually be reduced new Trump policy providing days before the deadline for states to noti- king imPeAchment unleAsheD to kicking puppies, but in the that option. Abbott’s letter to fy the feds of their decisions (most have On Wed nes- meantime there are plenty of the U.S. Department of State said they will continue to accept refu- day, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi named low-status human beings justified the decision by com- gees). The court ruled that the Trump seven House impeachment managers (including whose troubles can be blamed plaining of federal immigration policy, promulgated by executive order, is Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston), and the House voted to on themselves and employed for political enforcement – which has nothing to do with illegal (the federal law precludes any indi- forward the two articles of impeachment and docu- mentary evidence to the Senate for a potential trial grandstanding. Every Trump rally offers refugees or the State Department – con- continued on p.10 of President Donald Trump. ONLINE//Activists Decry retAliAtion in APD rAcism Probe | the lAtest from the cAmPAign trAil |austINchrONIcLE.cOm/NEws 8 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE JANUARY 17, 2020 austinchronicle.com REFORM “D.A. Margaret Moore has done more in three years than I’ve seen in my 19 years in Travis County.” Ending Cash Bail County Judge Sarah Eckhardt wone stays in jail in Travis County just because they are poor. She knows that the only people who should -Sarah Eckhardt, Travis County Judge be in our jail are those who are a threat to our safety or who have a high risk of failing to appear for court proceedings. Margaret has long stood for and supported Travis County’s commitment to the use of personal recogMnizaancre greleaaserse instte aMd of oforocingr feolk s cto rreesorat ted a special CIVIL RIGHTS UNIT to deal with police violence to cash bail. Counties all over Texas look to Travis Counaty nas dthe mdodiesl focr ernidming ciansh baaitl.ion in the justice system. Leading the “We can reform our criminal She formed a special FAMILY VIOLENCE UNIT to crack down on domestic abuse. Fight for Criminal justice system and make sure our community is safe. Let’s focus Justice Reform  “She has SUCCESSFULLY PROSECUTED MORE SEXUAL ASSAULT on violent crimes and not on CmiAnorS drEugS ch atrhgeas.”n the courts have sReE-EeLEnCT i n years.” — Margaret Moore, – SARAH ECKHARDT, TRAVIS COUNTY JUDGE Travis County District Attorney TRAVIS COUNTY For more information, please visit RE-ELECT Vote Early February 18 - 28  Election Day: Tuesday, March 3 MargaretForDA.com Email:[email protected]  Facebook.com/MargaretForDA    @MargaretForDA  | @ElectMargaret TRAVIS COUNTY Political ad paid by Margaret Moore Campaign POL. AD PD. FOR BY THE MARGARET MOORE CAMPAIGN austinchronicle.com JANUARY 17, 2020 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE 9 news arts & culture food screens music pOINt austIN continued from p.8 transit for art for transit vidual state rejection), likely unconstitutional, and frank- ly inexplicable. “One is left to wonder exactly what the rationale is for doing away entirely with a process that has worked so successfully for so long,” the judge asks. cAll to Artists: jump into the billion-dollAr pool “And why now?” Here’s a little­noted (as of yet) feature of the ambitious Carver Museum & Cultural Center, 1165 Angelina; and By A THoUSAND CUTS Project Connect mobility plan being floated this week by Saturday, Feb. 8, 11am­1pm at the Asian American Cultural Those are good questions that are unlikely to be answered the city and Capital Metro (see p.18): If the city and Capital Center, 11713 Jollyville Rd. in a court of law. Although there have been a few public Metro were to build out their wet dream of a $10 billion tran­ statements supporting Abbott (nearly all from other GOP sit system, as much as $200 million of that budget would Worth noting: The city’s Joint Sustainability Committee – with a officials), most have roundly condemned his decision as be dedicated to public art and artists through mission to “advise Council on matters related to conserva- both inhumane and counterproductive. Many objections the city Economic Development Department’s tion and sustainability,” and a membership appointed by have come from religious organizations, among the main Art in Public Places program, which funds proj­ each of 12 other city commissions – passed a unanimous facilitators of refugee resettlement. ects through a 2% share of the estimated bud­ puBLIc resolution at its final meeting of 2019 that “requests the The public backlash is welcome – but, to a great degree, gets for city capital improvement projects. NOtIcE Austin City Council to conduct an equity-impact analysis beside the point. Whatever the final outcome of the law- That money’s just a gleam in Steve Adler’s (which includes a displacement study) utilizing the Equity by suit or its eventual effect on Abbott’s decision, the Trump eye for now, but what’s for real is that same 2% nick Office and City Demographer. The study should be con- administration has largely accomplished what Abbott’s share of the $720 million in Corridor bArbAro ducted and available before third reading [of the revised letter to the State Department only emphasizes. That has Construction Program spending that voters Land Development Code] so City policymakers, taxpayers been done simply by steadily reducing the allowable approved in 2016. That funding stream is start­ and the public know and understand the impact of pro- annual number of refugees to historically (even laughably) ing to become available now. To manage the pro­ posed zoning revisions and up-zoning on Austin’s African low levels. cess, AIPP and the city Corridor Program Office American and Latino communities, which historically have For decades, under Republican as well as Democratic have created an artist pool for artists interested in getting been discriminated against by city policies and practices (including the administrations, the U.S. admitted more refugees than commissions for public art projects, in order to “provide a 1928 plan, redlining, restrictive covenants, school segregation and atten- the rest of the world combined; since Trump assumed the streamlined application and selection process.” Budgets for dance boundaries, etc.). Having such a tool, in addition to the September throne, he’s used refugee policy as one more weapon in each art project will range from $40,000 to $200,000. 2018 UT Austin ‘Uprooted’ study, could prove invaluable in helping the his war against the Other. He first froze admissions alto- Artists or artist teams applying have until Feb. 13 at 5pm to City Council to produce a zoning code that is fair, equitable and balanced. gether, then steadily reduced the annual ceiling – from submit a résumé, examples of work, a letter of interest, and Where burden of change may be felt, adequate policy should be pro- the 110,000 cap of Obama’s final year, to what will be more, at www.publicartist.org/austinaipp. The city has set up posed to help community mitigate impact and build resilience.” n 18,000 for fiscal year 2020. For Texas, a state of nearly 30 two information sessions to help guide artists through the Send gossip, dirt, innuendo, rumors, and other useful grist to million people, that would mean accepting fewer than a process: Tuesday, Jan. 21, 6­8pm at the George Washington [email protected]. couple of thousand people fleeing thoroughly document- ed persecution. cIvIcs 101 duty now for the future Why, asked the plaintiffs, is the U.S. “eviscerating a long-standing, smooth-functioning humane program, with disastrous consequences not only for Plaintiffs and eligible FriDay 1/17 SuNDay 1/19 tuESDay 1/21 thurSDay 1/23 refugees but for the image of the United States as the bea- DOwNtOwN cOm muN­ puBLIc affaIrs fOr um Join cIty cOuNcIL wOrk cIty cOuNcIL mEEtINg con of liberty?” Ity cOurt aDvIs Ory County Com mis sioner Jeff Travillion sEssION 9am. City Hall, Just like that, Council returns with BOarD mEEtINg 7:30am. for a presentation on “2020 for Travis 301 W. Second. a new agenda. 10am. City Hall, 301 W. No BEACoN HErE City Hall, 301 W. Second. County.” Noon. First Unitarian Universalist, thE wOrks II: graND Second. www.austintexas.gov/council. The answer, it seems to me, is hiding in plain sight. www.austintexas.gov. 4700 Grover. Free. OpENINg cELEBratION BLuEBONNEt LaNE OpEN cOOkIEs wIth cODE BLack & BLuEs: a pOLIt Ic­ Join LifeWorks to celebrate their hOusE Learn about proposed Abbott’s letter serves to confirm (if we needed any more Meet your local code inspec­ aL party Join Black Austin Dem­ new safe, affordable housing for safety projects for Bluebonnet Lane. evidence) the triumph of Trump and Trumpism over the tors! Ask about city code! ocrats for a party to motivate Black youth and young families exiting 6-7pm. Zilker Elementary, 1900 Bluebon- Republican Party, and indeed over much of the country. 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Discount Electronics only sells direct. discountelectronics.com 4.7 94% Positive (955 reviews) 2 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE JANUARY 17, 2020 austinchronicle.com austinchronicle.com JANUARY 17, 2020 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE 3 CONTENTS JaNuaRy 17, 2020 Volume 39, number 20 PUBLISHER Nick Barbaro aSSocIatE PUBLISHER Cassidy Frazier Reconnecting With Project Connect P.18 Climbing Everest P.24 Four Films to Watch For in 2020 P.38 50 cover story: EDITORIal EdItoR Kimberley Jones austin Punk NEwS EdItoR Mike Clark-Madison aSSocIatE NEwS & QmmUNIty EdItoR Sarah Marloff aRtS Robert Faires chronicles food Jessi Cape CHScRRmEUEwOSNEIScBN R RJiacaEmhoauVerlsd H E RWeerNhnnioattTvnaidtkSceehzr hair of the dogJVauOCCAsLAAtNUiCCHHnMcUUUhEHHr AAA3oSS9nR,RRiPP cNYTTlUePPOO .TTMc1IIoBAA7NNmEEENN,R RR2 RR 2II0PP0CCTT 2TTUU0 LLOOWWNNEENNSSKKOOEE,, ,, :: tsheaeb w meereawdoorlv (el)s ’ SPEcIaL ScREENINgS & commUNIty LIStINgS and krackerjack’s Beth Sullivan Kevin CurtinS, MaTRictahSa cLfeLIlSU fKtBWIi Nn LawIggyS,Sn tA eI&NuR AgfsoltSIaio nTnG d SrB EeEargvenR EndSNnetStiertSstr TTSSCCPPHHUUOOUUEEPPLL NNRREELLVKK2RROOAA01NNCCPP9OB-2OOKKSSY0 T TVV EEM&&IMUAADDS ES I RRCTTTII EPNNOOHH GONALTTLLAALL OOBLLLTTAO P L .L 5O0WT ON P.5!1 cJbiolrluviecaern b pbohawoiltleaoyn bdy CONTRIbuTINg wRITERS fILm Marjorie Baumgarten food Emily Beyda day tRIPS Gerald E. McLeod 6 Feedback faStER tHaN SoUNd Rachel Rascoe mR. SmaRty PaNtS R.U. Steinberg PRODuCTION aRt dIREctoR Jason Stout 8 news PRodUctIoN maNagER Zeke Barbaro 10 civics 101 22 wEB dIREctoR Brian Barry dIREctoR of dIgItaL StRatEgy Michael Bartnett 8 point austin 22 calendar gRaPHIc dESIgNERS Jeff Gammill, Sam Summerlin Staff PHotogRaPHERS John AnderDsoanvi,d J aBnrae nBdiarcnh Humal,l by michael king 25 Qmmunity by sarah marloFF PRoofREadERS JasminJae mLaens eS, cKoattt ,M GcrNege vSintistt, 10 public notice 26 arts events Austin Symphony Orchestra: “Rach Star” EVERYWHERE YOU WANT TO BE IN AUSTIN. aDVERTISINg & by nick barbaro 18 and “The Impossible Winterbourne: Alpha-Bots” austinchronicle.com/events maRkETINg 11 Naked City; Abbott to Refugees: Drop Dead; 32 community events advERtISINg dIREctoR Cassidy Frazier Paxton Bans State Employees From Donating to Planned @chronevents SENIoR accoCUaNrto lEyxnE cPUhtilIlivpEsS, JLeoriasl dR iCcohrwdienre, Parenthood; An End to Pot Busts?; more day trips by gerald e. mcleod acMcaorUisNat MExirEacbUatl,I vGElSo rDiaa vWidil lKialempspoen, 18 Get on board City, Cap Metro mull how to fund the transit 33 soccer watch by nick barbaro cLaSSIfIEdS/LEgaL NotIcES Bobby Leath Austin needs by austin sanders 35 Food events oPERatIoNS cooRdINatoR Trace Thurman EvENtS & PRomotIoNS maNagER Karena Rogers 39 movie listinGs Bad Boys for Life, Dolittle, Les cLIENt & PUBLIc RELatIoNS Emily Burns mULtImEdIa Tamar Price 24 arts & culture Misérables, The Song of Names, Underwater, VHYes, LUv doc/cIRcULatIoN/SPEcIaL EvENtS Dan Hardick Weathering With You StREEt tHEaumn tCera sBsairet lAertrte, dAonnddreoa, KDealsneey, ABsahkleery, 24 into thin aria Austin Opera scales the world’s tallest moun- 44 special screeninGs MorgGarne eMnesnteeinnd, eKza, tSiea vRaonsnea Gh uOrkpirne,, EAlniaash Hi Pueerretaz,, tain with Joby Talbot’s adventurous new opera, Everest 46 showtimes Alfredo Rios, Coka Trevino, Ally Warren by robert Faires NatIoNaL advERtISINg Voice Media Group 54 recommended this week Percussive jazz legend (888/278-9866, www.vmgadvertising.com) Andrew Cyrille fleshes his out his C.V.; plus Terry Allen; a OfcofNtIRCoLELE RS LiTz Faranfklfin 34 Food Dveorlslya rPya; rHtoi,n Hboirwth Adraey Yboaus hD;a Xy;T CLu hcoifoetr;; AStuapsehr’ss u2c0ktehr sa nannid- offIcE maNagER/SUBScRIPtIoNS Carrie Young Sabbath Crow; Carnage the Executioner; and more accoUNtINgc RaSEdSIISt tmaaNNt aCghEeRl sceinad Tya sylooor 34 review: ebisu 56 roadshows + live music INfo dESk Zach Pearce Japanese restaurant SyStEmS HaadSm aIN cISotaRt aotfo mR aBNrya ncdooLno RWSa Htkainnks North Austin boasts Austinchronicle.com/events woRkINg (It) 9 to 5 Smiley fresh modern sushi CIRCulaTION and a few tasty surprises Andrew PGeerrrfye rDsr, aBkrea,n Tdoomn GFaoinrczahlields,, RTrueby eGnu Ftileorrreesz,, by Jessi cape 48 music Brad Jander, Suzette Johnson, Brooks Lumpkin, Eric McKinney, Grant Melcher, James Meshbane, Norm Reed, Jonina Sims, Bill Smotrilla, 38 screens 48 Faster than sound Zeb Sommers, Bryan Zirkelbach by rachel rascoe Jillian BaileyC, ROobN BrTezRsnyI, bDouugT FrOeeRmaSn, 38 Four austin Films to 50 austin punk chronicles Part 1 of chapter 2 uncovers Ryan Hennessee, Sam Hurt, Josh Kupecki, watch in 2020 34 the micro Austin genre of glitter rock, which collapsed into Matthew Monagle, Lance Myers, Alejandra Ramirez, Marc Savlov, Tim Stegall, by richard Whittaker punk by tim stegall Tom Tomorrow, Mary Tuma, Derek Udensi 38 baCk 63 the luv doc comix mr. smarty pants The Austin Chronicle (ISSN: 1074-0740) is published by The Austin Chronicle Corporation weekly 52 times per year at 4000 N. I-35, Austin, TX 78751. 64 classiFieds 512/454-5766 ©2013 Austin Chronicle Corp. All rights reserved. Subscriptions: OHnea lfy-eyaera:r :$ 1$1600 22nndd ccllaassss.. 70 crossword Periodicals Postage Paid at Austin, TX. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Free will astroloGy The Austin Chronicle, PO Box 4189, Austin, TX 78765. Unsolicited submissions (including but not vote now! music Poll BAllot on P.51 limited to articles, artwork, photographs, and résumés) are not returned. 4 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE JANUARY 17, 2020 austinchronicle.com #AustinMusicAwards Vot e now ! Voting ends January 28. Winners perform live at The Austin Music Awards, March 11. BALLOT On p.51 Or OnLine AT: AUStInCHRonICLe.CoM/ MUSICPoLL austinchronicle.com JANUARY 17, 2020 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE 5 above their back doors facing the alley behind 13]: If corporate money/donations are free the bar to water a large area of asphalt and speech then donations to Planned Parenthood recycling and trash dumpsters. They claim the are also free speech and cannot be prohibited by sprinklers go off for a minute straight every hour the Texas A.G. It is a violation of Citizens United. is This Who We Are noW? to soak homeless people in the alley IN THE Mark Weimer Dear Editor, WINTER. The awful, entitled door guy at the I’m trying so hard to not lose my faith in Library Bar would not entertain that their sprin- renAissAnCe WoMAn humanity. I know there are good people out kler installation was anything other than heroic. there, but in the last week I’ve seen two horrible Is this who we are now? I’m so sad to know Dear Editor, displays of inhumanity Downtown. The building that there are multiple people out there that I enjoyed your story on my dear friend, Gina housing Gold’s Gym on Sixth Street has some- were willing to agree to this type of harassment Lalli [“In Memoriam: Gina Lalli,” Daily Arts, Feb. how lost all sense of shame and installed out- and lacked the empathy and shame that would 19, 2019]. I wish you’d included Gina’s door speakers blasting an air horn sound every keep them from going through with it. And I’m Bhagavad Gita and chanting classes, and, as 30 seconds or so, next to several “No Loitering” worried that there are probably many more peo- well, her work as a local counseling astrologer. signs very clearly intended to run off homeless ple that are just fine with this. She was truly a “Renaissance woman.” people in the vicinity. After that brazen display Jackie Ahmad What you did include was very well-written. of assholery, I thought I had seen the worst Mark Clark anti-homeless harassment coordinated by a CiTizens UniTed business. But the Library Bar on Dirty Sixth said, “Hold my watery bottom-shelf cranberry Dear Editor, OOps! vodka.” They chose a truly disgusting and illegal Briefly regarding Ken Paxton’s barring In “Dark Clouds Over Travis plan to “eliminate the homeless” as they told employees from donating to Planned Parenthood County Expo Center?” (Dec. 27, 2019), me when I asked them about the new addition [“Paxton Bans State Employees From Donating we reported that the city’s remaining in the alley. The Library Bar installed sprinklers Pay to Planned Parenthood,” Daily News, Jan. debt from the 2002 Convention Center #AustinMusicAwards expansion “is expected to be cleared by 2021.” That should have read “was Letters to the editor must be signed with full name and include daytime phone number, full expected by the county to be cleared by address, or email address. Letters should be no longer than 300 words. We reserve the right to edit all submissions. Letters may not be edited, added to, or changed by sender once we receive them. 2021”; though Travis County cites a General email address: [email protected], Letters online: austinchronicle.com/feedback 2017 analysis to suggest that date is Mailing address: The Austin Chronicle, PO Box 4189, Austin, TX 78765 feasible, the official retirement date for those bonds isn’t until 2029. We appre- updated daily ciate the opportunity to clarify this. AUsTinChroniCle.CoM/PosTMArks Voting ends January 28. Winners perform live at The Austin Music Awards, March 11. BALLOT On p.51 Or OnLine AT: AUSTINCHRONICLE.COM/ MUSICPOLL This Week on The AusTin ChroniCle show on kooP 91.7FM Tune in Friday, 3pm, to KOOP Community Radio to hear Editor-in-Chief Kim Jones speak with staff writer Michael King about the governor’s attempts to ban refugees from resettling in Texas; plus, Tim Stegall talks about his ongoing history of Austin’s punk scene. Past episodes at austinchronicle.com/av. 6 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE JANUARY 17, 2020 austinchronicle.com IT’S GO TIME CapMetro’s Project Connect could change the way we move around our growing region, with a major expansion of our transit network and all-new options to better connect our communities. GET INVOLVED You can help improve Project Connect by sharing your ideas. Come by the Project Connect Community Office at 607 Congress Ave., attend a community meeting, call 512-369-6210 or email [email protected] Visit ProjectConnect.com for details. austinchronicle.com JANUARY 17, 2020 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE 7 NEWS QuOtE WEEk of the “We’ll open a dozen more offices throughout this entire wonderful state. I’m trying to get to know Texas in a way that I never did before. … I’m just telling you, we care about all parts of America.” – Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, bringing his 2020 presidential caravan to Austin this past weekend. heAdlines no music for ice A grassroots coalition of artists announced plans to protest Amazon- sponsored events during this year’s SXSW. A 2018 report from Mijente.net found that Amazon helps U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “track, detain, and deport immigrants.” The SXSW protest organizers behind No Music for ICE ask all artists, fans, and supporters of “basic human rights” to join in boycotting these events. DeAth by influenzA Austin Public Health reported Wednesday that health officials have confirmed eight Texas children have died from the flu so far this season. With the possibility of flu activity occurring as late as May, it’s not too late to get your flu shot. For more info, visit www.austintexas.gov/flu. hAte crimes 2019 saw a decline in reported hate crimes to Austin Police Department, new numbers show. Last year, APD documented a total of 12 incidents – including five assaults spurred on Michael Bloomberg, who’s pledged to spend as much as $1 by anti-gay bias and three anti-Black crimes (other billion this year to defeat Donald Trump – whether or not he’s biases included anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim, and the Democratic nominee – drew a crowd of several hundred anti-Latino sentiments, as well as one act of crimi- supporters, party activists, and curious onlookers to East nal mischief due to anti-white bias). According to Austin’s Central Machine Works, on a one-day bus tour from APD’s numbers, Austin-based hate crimes spiked in San Antonio to Dallas. He shared the stage in Austin with City Manager Spencer Cronk, a former Bloomberg aide; Diana Earl, 2018 with 19 reported incidents. In 2017, there were a local activist against gun violence, a cause that Bloomberg 17 documented cases. n has generously supported; and his friend and high school o centex cArnAge There have been at least ders cwlaasrmsm-uapte a “cJtu fdogr eth Jeu ndeyx”t S phreeisniddleinnt, wofh toh de uUbnbiteedd h Setrasteelsf .“”the n 365 shootings in the Austin area since 2014: n A 166 people were killed; 291 people were injured. oh J The data, available for review from the Gun Punching Down in Our Names Violence Archive, has been mapped by TheTrace. org, which reports on gun issues. You can explore the national and local maps, linking a basic summa- ry and the consequences for those 365 shootings Abbott’s refugee rejection confirms the triumph of trumpism we’ve already forgotten. PresiDentiAl nAme hunt First immigrants, then those without new possibilities: foreigners, reporters, pro- founding the exhaustive vetting that refu- While state homes, now refugees. testers … with various persons of color gees receive with the desperation of asylum and local pols troll Democratic groups to land One might think Republican always ready at hand. seekers at the border (“Abbott to Refugees: endorsements, the presidential candidates are also officials would be running out Consider Gov. Greg Abbott’s Drop Dead,” p.14). in the hunt. Among Austin names joining the of vulnerable people to use as pOINt decision, announced last week, Wednesday morning, Abbott’s plans hit Elizabeth Warren campaign: state Reps. Sheryl symbolic punching bags, but it to refuse 2020 resettlement of a speed bump: In Maryland, U.S. District Cole and Erin Zwiener, and City Council Members austIN seems the candidates for tar- refugees in Texas, making it Judge Peter Messitte issued a preliminary Natasha Harper-Madison, Ann Kitchen, Leslie geting are endless. Perhaps by the first state to do so under a injunction to block the new policy, a few Pool, Paige Ellis, and Kathie Tovo. michAel they will eventually be reduced new Trump policy providing days before the deadline for states to noti- king imPeAchment unleAsheD to kicking puppies, but in the that option. Abbott’s letter to fy the feds of their decisions (most have On Wed nes- meantime there are plenty of the U.S. Department of State said they will continue to accept refu- day, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi named low-status human beings justified the decision by com- gees). The court ruled that the Trump seven House impeachment managers (including whose troubles can be blamed plaining of federal immigration policy, promulgated by executive order, is Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston), and the House voted to on themselves and employed for political enforcement – which has nothing to do with illegal (the federal law precludes any indi- forward the two articles of impeachment and docu- mentary evidence to the Senate for a potential trial grandstanding. Every Trump rally offers refugees or the State Department – con- continued on p.10 of President Donald Trump. ONLINE//Activists Decry retAliAtion in APD rAcism Probe | the lAtest from the cAmPAign trAil |austINchrONIcLE.cOm/NEws 8 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE JANUARY 17, 2020 austinchronicle.com REFORM “D.A. Margaret Moore has done more in three years than I’ve seen in my 19 years in Travis County.” Ending Cash Bail County Judge Sarah Eckhardt wone stays in jail in Travis County just because they are poor. She knows that the only people who should -Sarah Eckhardt, Travis County Judge be in our jail are those who are a threat to our safety or who have a high risk of failing to appear for court proceedings. Margaret has long stood for and supported Travis County’s commitment to the use of personal recogMnizaancre greleaaserse instte aMd of oforocingr feolk s cto rreesorat ted a special CIVIL RIGHTS UNIT to deal with police violence to cash bail. Counties all over Texas look to Travis Counaty nas dthe mdodiesl focr ernidming ciansh baaitl.ion in the justice system. Leading the “We can reform our criminal She formed a special FAMILY VIOLENCE UNIT to crack down on domestic abuse. Fight for Criminal justice system and make sure our community is safe. Let’s focus Justice Reform  “She has SUCCESSFULLY PROSECUTED MORE SEXUAL ASSAULT on violent crimes and not on CmiAnorS drEugS ch atrhgeas.”n the courts have sReE-EeLEnCT i n years.” — Margaret Moore, – SARAH ECKHARDT, TRAVIS COUNTY JUDGE Travis County District Attorney TRAVIS COUNTY For more information, please visit RE-ELECT Vote Early February 18 - 28  Election Day: Tuesday, March 3 MargaretForDA.com Email:[email protected]  Facebook.com/MargaretForDA    @MargaretForDA  | @ElectMargaret TRAVIS COUNTY Political ad paid by Margaret Moore Campaign POL. AD PD. FOR BY THE MARGARET MOORE CAMPAIGN austinchronicle.com JANUARY 17, 2020 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE 9 news arts & culture food screens music pOINt austIN continued from p.8 transit for art for transit vidual state rejection), likely unconstitutional, and frank- ly inexplicable. “One is left to wonder exactly what the rationale is for doing away entirely with a process that has worked so successfully for so long,” the judge asks. cAll to Artists: jump into the billion-dollAr pool “And why now?” Here’s a little­noted (as of yet) feature of the ambitious Carver Museum & Cultural Center, 1165 Angelina; and By A THoUSAND CUTS Project Connect mobility plan being floated this week by Saturday, Feb. 8, 11am­1pm at the Asian American Cultural Those are good questions that are unlikely to be answered the city and Capital Metro (see p.18): If the city and Capital Center, 11713 Jollyville Rd. in a court of law. Although there have been a few public Metro were to build out their wet dream of a $10 billion tran­ statements supporting Abbott (nearly all from other GOP sit system, as much as $200 million of that budget would Worth noting: The city’s Joint Sustainability Committee – with a officials), most have roundly condemned his decision as be dedicated to public art and artists through mission to “advise Council on matters related to conserva- both inhumane and counterproductive. Many objections the city Economic Development Department’s tion and sustainability,” and a membership appointed by have come from religious organizations, among the main Art in Public Places program, which funds proj­ each of 12 other city commissions – passed a unanimous facilitators of refugee resettlement. ects through a 2% share of the estimated bud­ puBLIc resolution at its final meeting of 2019 that “requests the The public backlash is welcome – but, to a great degree, gets for city capital improvement projects. NOtIcE Austin City Council to conduct an equity-impact analysis beside the point. Whatever the final outcome of the law- That money’s just a gleam in Steve Adler’s (which includes a displacement study) utilizing the Equity by suit or its eventual effect on Abbott’s decision, the Trump eye for now, but what’s for real is that same 2% nick Office and City Demographer. The study should be con- administration has largely accomplished what Abbott’s share of the $720 million in Corridor bArbAro ducted and available before third reading [of the revised letter to the State Department only emphasizes. That has Construction Program spending that voters Land Development Code] so City policymakers, taxpayers been done simply by steadily reducing the allowable approved in 2016. That funding stream is start­ and the public know and understand the impact of pro- annual number of refugees to historically (even laughably) ing to become available now. To manage the pro­ posed zoning revisions and up-zoning on Austin’s African low levels. cess, AIPP and the city Corridor Program Office American and Latino communities, which historically have For decades, under Republican as well as Democratic have created an artist pool for artists interested in getting been discriminated against by city policies and practices (including the administrations, the U.S. admitted more refugees than commissions for public art projects, in order to “provide a 1928 plan, redlining, restrictive covenants, school segregation and atten- the rest of the world combined; since Trump assumed the streamlined application and selection process.” Budgets for dance boundaries, etc.). Having such a tool, in addition to the September throne, he’s used refugee policy as one more weapon in each art project will range from $40,000 to $200,000. 2018 UT Austin ‘Uprooted’ study, could prove invaluable in helping the his war against the Other. He first froze admissions alto- Artists or artist teams applying have until Feb. 13 at 5pm to City Council to produce a zoning code that is fair, equitable and balanced. gether, then steadily reduced the annual ceiling – from submit a résumé, examples of work, a letter of interest, and Where burden of change may be felt, adequate policy should be pro- the 110,000 cap of Obama’s final year, to what will be more, at www.publicartist.org/austinaipp. The city has set up posed to help community mitigate impact and build resilience.” n 18,000 for fiscal year 2020. For Texas, a state of nearly 30 two information sessions to help guide artists through the Send gossip, dirt, innuendo, rumors, and other useful grist to million people, that would mean accepting fewer than a process: Tuesday, Jan. 21, 6­8pm at the George Washington [email protected]. couple of thousand people fleeing thoroughly document- ed persecution. cIvIcs 101 duty now for the future Why, asked the plaintiffs, is the U.S. “eviscerating a long-standing, smooth-functioning humane program, with disastrous consequences not only for Plaintiffs and eligible FriDay 1/17 SuNDay 1/19 tuESDay 1/21 thurSDay 1/23 refugees but for the image of the United States as the bea- DOwNtOwN cOm muN­ puBLIc affaIrs fOr um Join cIty cOuNcIL wOrk cIty cOuNcIL mEEtINg con of liberty?” Ity cOurt aDvIs Ory County Com mis sioner Jeff Travillion sEssION 9am. City Hall, Just like that, Council returns with BOarD mEEtINg 7:30am. for a presentation on “2020 for Travis 301 W. Second. a new agenda. 10am. City Hall, 301 W. No BEACoN HErE City Hall, 301 W. Second. County.” Noon. First Unitarian Universalist, thE wOrks II: graND Second. www.austintexas.gov/council. The answer, it seems to me, is hiding in plain sight. www.austintexas.gov. 4700 Grover. Free. OpENINg cELEBratION BLuEBONNEt LaNE OpEN cOOkIEs wIth cODE BLack & BLuEs: a pOLIt Ic­ Join LifeWorks to celebrate their hOusE Learn about proposed Abbott’s letter serves to confirm (if we needed any more Meet your local code inspec­ aL party Join Black Austin Dem­ new safe, affordable housing for safety projects for Bluebonnet Lane. evidence) the triumph of Trump and Trumpism over the tors! Ask about city code! ocrats for a party to motivate Black youth and young families exiting 6-7pm. Zilker Elementary, 1900 Bluebon- Republican Party, and indeed over much of the country. 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