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Who Applied for School Vouchers?

Preliminary data on the state’s school voucher program shows mostly white families and students who attended private school or home-school applied. Thousands of people applied for the program, which uses taxpayer funds to pay for private and home-schools. [The Texas Tribune]

Rain Expected Through Easter Sunday

The Austin area will see chances of rain through Sunday evening. Saturday has a 100% chance of precipitation, National Weather Service forecasters say. [City Cast Austin 🎧]

• Here’s a list of what’s open and closed on Sunday. [KVUE]

James Beard Awards Skip Austin

No Austin restaurants or chefs made it to the finals for this year’s James Beard Awards, despite having nine semi-finalist nominations. Awards will be announced on June 15. [KXAN]

‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Run Extended at Zach Theater

Due to popular demand, Zach Theater is extending its run of the musical “Dear Evan Hansen” by two weeks through May 31. Tickets are available online. [Zach Theater]

“The Truth and Tragedy of Moriah Wilson” is out today on Netflix and the documentary does what true crime media should: It actually centers the victim.

Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson was an accomplished, 25-year-old cyclist visiting a friend in Austin in 2022 when she was fatally shot by a local cyclist, Kaitlin Armstrong. Armstrong was found guilty of first-degree murder in November 2023 and sentenced to 90 years in prison, a ruling that was recently upheld by Texas Third Court of Appeals.

The case has the trappings of a true crime podcast or splashy TV show. Armstrong was released from police custody, took her sister’s passport, and made her way to Costa Rica where she got a nose job and started teaching yoga. After she was found and brought back to Texas, she managed to escape police and even got 1 mile away before being apprehended again.

But despite the bizarre story, Wilson’s murder remained largely untouched, save for local reporting as the case unfolded, until now.

Director Marina Zenovich and Producer Evan Hayes never made a true crime film before this one, and it shows. While the documentary includes details on the case told through police recordings and emotional interviews, you come away from watching with Wilson top of mind. That’s unusual in a world where true crime media seems to focus on things like the looks of a killer or the goriness of an incident.

“I love that you mentioned that the crime is the subplot (of the documentary), because that's really what we were trying to do. We were showing who she was, what she worked to become, how she was on the cusp of becoming,” Zenovich told City Cast Austin.