Geraldine's
Illustration by Zeke Barbaro
Volume 39, Number 52
ON THE COVER:
news
Local Activists Call Out Police and Find Themselves Flagged as Threats
Doesn't take much to get on the watchlist
BY JOHN ANDERSON
Austin at Large: Truth and Reconciliation
“Reimagining” public safety will involve more than just technocratic change
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Public Notice: No Help for Public Schools
Why the PPP only works for charters
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines / Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Council Gets Surprised by APD's New State Grants
Refund the police?
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
’Horns Return; COVID to Follow?
The University of Texas community braces for impact as the fall semester gets underway
BY BETH SULLIVAN
Waterloo Counseling Center Will Become a Program of Texas Health Action Alongside Kind Clinic
THA announces vision to combine sexual and behavioral health services
BY BETH SULLIVAN
A Look at the City Council Races for Districts 2, 4, & 7
As Garza moves on, Pool and Casar seek to stay put
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Four Open Seats, and Many Demands for Change at AISD
School board shakeup
BY CLARA ENCE MORSE
Retailers Fighting Ban on Smokable Hemp
Plaintiffs argue Texas Department of State Health Services overstepped with consumable hemp prohibition
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Community Court Finds New Home at Terrazas Library
Temporary move allows greater number of people experiencing homelessness to access walk-in services per day
BY ANGELA BONILLA
food
2020 (Virtual) Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival
The 30th Anniversary of the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival Goes Virtual
Hot sauce and silver linings
BY JESSI CAPE
Hot Sauce Festival FAQ
Everything you need to know to keep it saucy
2020 Hot Sauce Festival Judges
Meet the tastemakers for this year's competition
BY JESSI CAPE
2020’s Hot Sauce Festival Music Acts
Get sweaty in the privacy of your home with these performers
30 Years of Hot Sauce Festival Creates Many Memories
Reminisce with event staff, judges, and fans during this year’s break from the heat
Cuantos Tacos Celebrates One Year of Mexico City-Style Street Tacos
Suadero y secret salsa
BY JESSI CAPE
Nixta Taqueria Slings Lacto-Fermented Hot Sauce
With bonus natural wine recos for Austin’s sweltering season
BY ALEXANDRA DETMAR
Hot Sauce: Your Lifestyle Is the Target
What does your favorite condiment reveal about who you are?
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
TABC-Thwarting Shenanigans, Smokin’ Beauty’s Vietnamese Brisket, Lenoir’s Sunday Suppers, and More
All the news that's fit to get your taste buds quivering
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Three Hours and 1,342 Families at the Central Texas Food Bank
Volunteering during a pandemic
BY ALI MONTAG
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of August 27, 2020
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
music
Jonathan Terrell, Too Rock & Roll for Country, Too Country for Rock & Roll
The inward-facing cowboy trims the fat and lets his second solo LP dictate itself
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Faster Than Sound: Austin Record Stores Hang On, Together
Online and curbside pivots support an altered Record Store Day for Austin vinyl emporiums this Saturday.
BY RACHEL RASCOE
New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week
The Hot Sauce Fest, a Love & Lightstream, and more sounds to check
BY DEREK UDENSI, DOUG FREEMAN, RAOUL HERNANDEZ, ALEJANDRA RAMIREZ, KEVIN CURTIN AND GREG STITT
Live Music / Livestream Listings
BY GREG STITT
screens
Exploring the Life and Death of Jennifer Cave in True Crime Podcast The Orange Tree
Former UT students Tinu Thomas and Haley Butler find a history of murder on campus
BY DAVID SOTELO
Austin Artist Brings Gamera to Vibrant Life in a New Box Set
Matt Frank builds the perfect monster
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
New Drive-In Cinemas Lighting Up Austin
The movies you want to see with the social distancing you demand
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Bill & Ted Face the Music
Can we all finally just be excellent to each other?
Bring the Soul: The Movie
BTS back on the stage
The Eight Hundred
Chinese retelling of the bloody battle for Shanghai
Fatima
Faith-based movie is better made and more frustrating than most
Feels Good, Man
The tragic story of Pepe the Frog
Get Duked!
Gloriously idiotic horror-comedy pits Scottish youth against aristocratic killers
House of Cardin
Biodoc of the fashion innovator is only sew-sew
Mr. Soul!
Putting spotlight on the TV host who brought Black celebrities into white homes
The New Mutants
The last of the X-Men finally get to the screen
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Herzog on Chatwin becomes Herzog exposed
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Dickens’ hero gets a lively and innovative new interpretation
arts & culture
The Many Worlds of Author Marshall Ryan Maresca
The Austin-based maestro of Maradaine writes and sells at a steady and impressive pace
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
ArmadilloCon 42 Blasts Off Into Cyberspace
Even on Planet COVID, the long-running Texas fan convention keeps celebrating science fiction and fantasy
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Listings
Virtual galleries, streaming improv, and more
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Community Listings
Donation and volunteer opportunities, job openings, online fitness classes, and more
BY KATHERINE MCNEVINS
columns
Opinion: The Importance of Feeling Heard
How do we motivate people to vote? By showing them their elected leaders are listening.
BY SANDRA NICOLAS
Qmmunity: Now That’s Real Magic
Guest columnist James Scott on why you can’t separate art from its problematic artist
BY JAMES SCOTT AND BETH SULLIVAN
Day Trips: Save the World Brewery, Marble Falls
A six-pack to-go for a good cause
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Outside of Austin
The Luv Doc is not going to throw Lampasas under the bus
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, August 28 - September 3
BY ROB BREZSNY
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
