Zeke Barbaro
Volume 43, Number 7
ON THE COVER:
news
Saving body and soul
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Battle of the billionaire-funded Republicans
BY BRANT BINGAMON
We Musk ask you to follow the law
BY LINA FISHER
No strategy too small for tackling climate change
BY LINA FISHER
The monitors are coming. Let’s pay them $125 an hour.
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Chronicle named co-defendant in suit
BY MAGGIE Q. THOMPSON
APD misconduct lawsuits have cost the city more than $73 million over 10 years
BY MAGGIE Q. THOMPSON
food
Drinks Issue 2023
Top of the Hops VIII
BY ERIC PUGA
Elite coffee with zero attitude
BY TAYLOR TOBIN
This little trailer on the Eastside is brewing up big business
BY HANNAH UEBELE
Local queer women-owned coffee roaster brings new ideas to the classic coffee system
BY JAMES SCOTT
Recommended tipples from Garrison Brothers, Milam & Greene, Still Austin, and Desert Door Sotol
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Dinner parties, farmer's markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of October 12, 2023
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
music
ACL Fest 2023
For you to rewind this weekend at Zilker Park
BY KEVIN CURTIN, RAOUL HERNANDEZ, LAIKEN NEUMANN, ANGELA LIM AND GENEVIEVE WOOD
The propmaking punks bring their “mosh-quito” puppet to ACL Fest
BY KRISS CONKLIN
Lone Star acts to catch at Zilker, from Houston breakout d4vd to Austin’s Die Spitz
BY NAYELI PORTILLO, GENEVIEVE WOOD, DEREK UDENSI, DOUG FREEMAN, ABBY JOHNSTON, KRISS CONKLIN, MAGGIE Q. THOMPSON, RAOUL HERNANDEZ, KEVIN CURTIN AND RACHEL RASCOE
Next music picks from Large Brush Collection, Will Johnson, and more
BY CARYS ANDERSON, KEVIN CURTIN, ELIZABETH BRAATEN, DOUG FREEMAN AND GENEVIEVE WOOD
Ways to celebrate the annular eclipse, fundraise for Sarah Brown, and avoid ACL
BY GENEVIEVE WOOD, KEVIN CURTIN, DOUG FREEMAN, RAOUL HERNANDEZ, JULIAN TOWERS AND DEREK UDENSI
BY DEREK UDENSI
screens
Join the sisterhood of scares at the Roxy Horror Picture Show
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Tickled director sails into a true-life Cape Fear
arts & culture
Company’s inaugural production resurrects Del Shores’ queer Texas classic with gusto
BY JAMES SCOTT
Art galleries, theatre, comedy, dance, and more
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Local events, volunteer opportunities, kids' activities, and more
BY KATHERINE MCNEVINS
columns
Texas state Rep. Vikki Goodwin makes the case against public school vouchers
BY VIKKI GOODWIN
Keep up the tradition of great gay Halloween fun with these queer Austin events
BY JAMES SCOTT
Meet the newest patient in Texas’ Compassionate Use Program
BY KEVIN CURTIN
New winery brings old-world classic wines to south of Fredericksburg
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
There are some things for which ignorance is not a valid excuse
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Your weekly horoscope, October 13-19
BY ROB BREZSNY
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Borrell makes case for coach’s return after disastrous season
BY ERIC GOODMAN
comics
BY SAM HURT
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY JEN SORENSEN