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PHOTO GALLERIES

Black Lives Matter Protest at the Garrett Foster Memorial

The News Is Always Breaking It’s our Back to School issue... but what does “Back to School” even mean in pandemic time?

Guns Among Us In this week’s issue, we report on a deadly confrontation Downtown, and the newly released footage of the Michael Ramos shooting

We Have an Issue: Welcome to the Drinks Issue Who needs a drink?

Up Close With Our East Austin Neighbors Pick up this week’s issue to see the “Where Is Here” portrait series of East Austinites aged 100 to newborn

Meet the Interns COVID may have robbed our summer interns of the hands-on experience of putting out a paper, but they're making the most out of their virtual internship

Opinion

The Impossible Choice for Parents and Caregivers at the Border The inhumane treatment of adults and children migrants must stop

The Argument for Approval Voting Don’t call them spoilers: These former Senate District 14 candidates think there’s a better alternative to run-offs

We Need Leaders: Austin's Proposed Budget Misses the Mark Politicians are offering empty and symbolic gestures but no real and substantial change

Decriminalizing Homelessness is Working. Now Austin Needs Investment to Take the Next Step. The ordinance changes in Austin, designed a year ago to decriminalize the basic human need of having somewhere safe to sleep, have done exactly what they were crafted to do

A Crisis of Leadership in the D.A.'s Office The women behind the sexual assault class action litigation are still waiting for meaningful change

Faster Than Sound

August 7, 2020

Live Music Capital flagships await aid as costs pile up.

July 31, 2020

Black Live Music Fund garners support, Bill Callahan previews Gold Record, and DJ Jester the Filipino Fist harassed in North Campus.

July 24, 2020 The stories behind three timely tracks by local artists Pussy Gillette, Kydd Jones, and Njune

July 17, 2020 Big Orange and Cacophony engineers relocate as recording industry tiptoes back into the studio.

July 10, 2020 Envisioning a Black Live Music Fund and fixing the Broken Spoke

July 3, 2020 Run by former Scoot Inn and Longbranch owner James Stockbauer, Birdie Num Nums maintains the outdoor stage.

June 26, 2020 Following high school breakout, 20-year-old Georgetown crooner sticks a jazzy bedroom pop debut

Day Trips

Sebastopol House Historic Site, Seguin

Historic limecrete mansion honors Black entrepreneurship

Fri., Aug. 7, 2020

Fort McKavett State Historic Site, Menard

Frontier fort was home to Buffalo Soldiers

Fri., July 31, 2020

Stonehenge Replicas, Ingram and Odessa The allure of Stonehenge comes to Texas

Potty Breaks Alternatives to public restrooms when traveling

Matagorda Beach A seashore with social distancing

The Grotto, San Antonio Man-made cave part of “Art on the River”

Port Isabel Lighthouse The lighthouse guided ships through the channel between Padre Island and the mainland

Qmmunity

Fri., Aug. 7, 2020

Fri., July 31, 2020

Sometimes you want to shop where everything’s made by queers

July 23, 2020 Die Felicia, Fat Bottom Cabaret, and Bulimianne Rhapsody make magic with digital showcases

July 16, 2020 Plus, a voguing masterclass, digital drag, and more

July 9, 2020 How a little-known legal case may have shaped the LGBTQIA movement

July 2, 2020 In praise of our queer elders

June 25, 2020 Local orgs hold Queer Weekend of Action for Black Lives

The Luv Doc

Normally a Dog Lover

The personal grooming equivalent of buying a crotch rocket

Fri., July 31, 2020

The Man Bar

The best advice the Luv Doc can give is to not take his advice

Fri., July 24, 2020

Demon Sperm Or the danger of a couple of bucketfuls of errant, herpetic, demon ejaculate

Big, Dumb & Inexplicably Lucky How about some empathy for the simpletons?

Attitude is Everything The fundamentally trite platitude at the crux of eternal recurrence

Undecided Waiting for an answer that may never come.

Trump Derangement Syndrome This woman is hot AF

Soccer Watch

August 7, 2020

I wish I had better news for the Back to School issue, but at press time, the fall soccer...

July 31, 2020

Bold Next Moves With both of last week's games postponed and two more players reportedly testing positive for COVID-19...

July 24, 2020 Even as other major league sports prepare to restart, soccer leagues here and abroad are reaching their climax. This...

July 17, 2020 Live Soccer Is Back in Austin! Beer Hall!! Austin Bold resume their USL Championship season this Friday, July 17,...

July 10, 2020 Rodney Redes Becomes Austin FC’s First Signing

July 3, 2020 The USL Championship announced their restart plans July 26: a 16-game season, with teams split into geographical groups to...

June 26, 2020 Are We Ready for Kickoff? The National Women's Soccer League becomes the first U.S. sports league to restart play...

The Common Law

August 7, 2020 Mask up, Austin (and stop bridge jumping into Lady Bird Lake)

July 3, 2020 Child custody & COVID-19

June 5, 2020 The stay at home order vs. the right to assembly (protest) and free speech

May 8, 2020 COVID-19 and Austin – answering your legal questions (part 6)

May 1, 2020 COVID-19 and Austin – answering your legal questions (part 5)

Smarty Pants

August 7, 2020 Orlando Bloom used to work at a skeet shooting range as a clay pigeon trapper. Jackie Robinson was stationed...

July 31, 2020 A rongeur is heavy-duty surgical instrument used for cutting out bone. Rongeur is also a French word meaning rodent...

July 24, 2020 Soupy Sales' real name was Milton Supman. He got the nickname "Soup Bone" from his family, and his brothers...

July 17, 2020 Figs are technically inverted flowers, not fruits. Ludwig van Beethoven wrote "Elegy on the Death of a Poodle," but...

July 10, 2020 The current N95 mask was invented by Dr. Peter Tsai, a Taiwanese American. Twenty-five percent of all hazelnuts end...

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