🗞️ What Austin’s talking about

🏙️ Incoming: New City Manager

It looks like T.C. Broadnax will get the job as Austin’s next city manager. He’ll fill a void left 11 months ago, when City Council members fired Spencer Cronk after his handling of an ice storm in 2023. Broadnax recently resigned as city manager in Dallas, where his relationship with the Council was strained. [KUT News]

🐰 Better than Candy

Are you on the hunt for brunch on Easter Sunday? Austin’s full of tasty grazing options, and the pros at Eater Austin, Do512, and Austin Food Magazine put together some great lists to help you plan. [Eater Austin, Do512, Austin Food Magazine]

🏀 Lady Longhorns March On

The Texas Longhorns women's basketball team will tip off against Gonzaga on Friday night in the third round of the NCAA Tournament. This will be Texas’ 18th Sweet 16 appearance, but it’s the first year since 2004 that the Longhorns have earned a No. 1 seed. The winner of tonight’s matchup advances to the Elite Eight on Sunday. Hook ‘em! [Austin American-Statesman]

🤑 Ken Paxton, Texas Make a Deal

For nine years, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has fought felony securities fraud charges. This week, as he neared his trial date, Paxton made a deal with prosecutors to have the charges dropped. KXAN’s Monica Madden breaks it all down in a video on Instagram. [KUT News, KXAN/Instagram]

🐦 Goddess Gained, Girl Lost

Athena, a great horned owl that nests behind a sotol plant at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, joined the reality TV cast on Cornell Lab’s Bird Cams, just in time for hatching season. [Cornell Chronicle, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center]

• On another note, the screen has gone dark for the peregrine falcon known as Tower Girl, who nested atop The University of Texas at Austin’s Tower. "We believe Tower Girl died several years ago," a spokeswoman for the Biodiversity Center said, and the live falcon cam now shows views of UT and the area. [UT]