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Vol. 41, No. 4

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Without COVID-19 Checks, Two Artists Cancel at Frank Erwin Center After Michael Bublé dropout, Tame Impala relocates to COTA

Austin Film Festival Unleashes The Same Storm The French Dispatch, C’Mon C'Mon headed to fest

TinyFest Texas: Let’s Get Small Tiny houses on wheels, shipping container homes, and more

City Manager Names Interim Chief Joseph Chacon as Chief of Austin PD APD veteran awaits City Council confirmation next week

Austin Restaurant Weeks, Triumphant Tiki Freaks, Yellowbird's Milton Speaks, Mind the Top Chef Peeks All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

NEWS

New Districts Set the Stage for the Politics of the 2020s

The city and state begin to show their work

by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin at Large: Your House Is Our House

Reconnecting to a vision of an Austin where everyone can live, despite our failures

by Mike Clark-Madison

TinyFest Texas: Let’s Get Small Tiny houses on wheels, shipping container homes, and more

Civics 101
Event listings for the electorate

Public Notice: Our COVID Problem, in Two Charts Why we’re not leaving Stage 5 any time real soon

What Happened After Last Summer's Black Lives Matter Protests? APD Won't Say. City doesn't want to make after-action report reviewing APD's response public

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FOOD

Austin Restaurant Weeks, Triumphant Tiki Freaks, Yellowbird's Milton Speaks, Mind the Top Chef Peeks

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Restaurant Weeks Returns Oct. 1-10. Here's Where You Can Eat.

Get a dining deal, donate to Central Texas Food Bank

by Kimberley Jones

Austin Restaurant Weeks Returns Oct. 1-10. Here's Where You Can Eat. Get a dining deal, donate to Central Texas Food Bank

Vaquero Taquero Opens Second Location in Downtown Austin Saturday grand opening promises music and carne asada

Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week Dinner parties, farmer's markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of September 16, 2021

Sweet Ritual Weathers the Pandemic With More Products, More Sustainability Living the ice cream dream

Super Coffee Invades, Still Austin Celebrates, Trudy's Brings the THC, Bird Bird Almost, and More All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

MUSIC

Strand of Oaks and the Cadence of Joy

Overcoming grief and exploring sobriety, Tim Showalter finds himself In Heaven

by E. Ryan Ellis

Faster Than Sound: The Fall Music We Always Talked About

Music columnist returns to two major venues and a new one

by Rachel Rascoe

Without COVID-19 Checks, Two Artists Cancel at Frank Erwin Center After Michael Bublé dropout, Tame Impala relocates to COTA

Review: Shinyribs, Late Night TV Gold Austin's jolly purple joy-giver shines light into the midnight hour

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week Mélat, Ramsay Midwood, Quinn XCII, Tomás Ramírez, Hotmom, and Dawa's 2 Year Anniversary

Review: TC Superstar, As Seen on TV Toxic media consumption and deflated millennial aspirations inform synth-pop troupe’s third LP

Faster Than Sound: The Fall Music We Always Talked About Music columnist returns to two major venues and a new one

SCREENS

How Fantastic Fest Is Adapting to COVID (Again)

Tim League on doing business in Texas and upgrading FF's home viewing experience

by Matthew Monagle

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Austin Film Festival Unleashes The Same Storm The French Dispatch, C’Mon C'Mon headed to fest

Fantastic Fest: When a Bingo Hall Becomes Bingo Hell Granny get yer gun

Fantastic Fest: From Backyard Movies to Festivals With Hellbender The Adams family prove that tha family that films together stays together

Fantastic Fest: Behold! The Mad God, Phil Tippett The stop motion legend's most personal and bizarre movie yet

Fantastic Fest: Scumdogs of Eternity in This Is Gwar New documentary gets under the latex of the monster metalers

ARTS & CULTURE

Last Bow of an Accidental Critic

Lessons and surprises from a career that shouldn't have been

by Robert Faires

Finding the Funny in Bleak Times at Moontower Comedy

A Q&A with stand-ups Akaash Singh and Paul Varghese

by Neha Aziz

The Texas Book Festival Unveils Its List of Participating Authors In-person and virtual panels and discussions abound

Terror Tuesday, Weird Wednesday, Are Back! Sorry about that exclamation point, citizen, but we’re excited af

You Have to Be High to See This Mural There’s a new 30,000-square-foot artwork on a Domain NORTHSIDE roof

Texas Book Festival Scales Back In-Person Programming COVID puts the kibosh on State Capitol as a venue

9/11 Memorial: The 20th Anniversary Claude van Lingen honors those who died on Sept. 11, 2001

COLUMNS

Day Trips: Three Rivers Petroglyph Site, New Mexico

Ancient rock art displays Jornada Mogollon creativity

by Gerald E. McLeod

Qmmunity: Advocacy Orgs’ Toolkit Informs Trans Students of Their Rights

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by Beth Sullivan

The Luv Doc: A Secret Eye Roll

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