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Volume 39, Number 46
ON THE COVER:
WE HAVE AN ISSUE:
BY Kimberley Jones
news
Record Turnout in Run-Off Election Pushes Democratic Party Toward Change
State and local races show the blue getting bluer
BY THE NEWS STAFF
Austin at Large: Polling and the Police
What we know, don't know, and need to know about the public's view of public safety
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Public Notice: Whose Streets?
Imagine if you can... No police, no cars...
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines / Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Mental Health Crisis Plan Still Lags Behind Austin’s Needs
Trying to change how the emergency response apparatus handles mental health calls
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
AISD News: COVID Delays On-Campus Classes, Supe Search Down to 6
Students will return to virtual learning for the first three weeks at minimum
BY KIMBERLEY JONES AND CLARA ENCE MORSE
As Budget Battles Begin, APD Takes a Minor Hit
Only a small change, for now
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON AND AUSTIN SANDERS
Advocacy Group Pushes Back at UT's Reopening Strategy
UT grad students: COVID-19 plans are "inadequate" and "dangerous"
BY BETH SULLIVAN
UT Commits to New Sex Discrimination Policies
Policy overhaul was spurred by protests organized by the student-led Coalition Against Sexual Misconduct
BY BETH SULLIVAN
University of Texas Announces Plan to Promote Diversity on Campus
Several student demands remain unfulfilled, including divesting from police and removing alma mater roots in minstrelsy
BY SELOME HAILU
food
JP’s Pancake Company Makes Tiny Cakes With Big Dreams
Meet the king of West Campus
BY SELOME HAILU
Austin's Growing Venezuelan Population Showcases Its Diverse Cuisine
Four food trucks prove to be more than arepas
BY VERONICA MEEWES
Food News Buffet
All the news that's fit to get your taste buds quivering
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of July 16, 2020
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
music
Sulfuric Songwriter David Ramirez Pens His “I’m in Love” Record – Breakup and All
Austinite goes through heavy self-reckoning on new LP
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Faster Than Sound – Relocations & Precautions: Austin Recording Studios During COVID-19
Big Orange and Cacophony engineers relocate as recording industry tiptoes back into the studio.
BY RACHEL RASCOE
New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week
What we’re playing
BY DOUG FREEMAN, GREG STITT, DEREK UDENSI, KAHRON SPEARMAN, KEVIN CURTIN, RACHEL RASCOE, RAOUL HERNANDEZ AND TIM STEGALL
Mobley Readies Enthralling Multimedia Pandemic Collaboration A Home Unfamiliar
Collaborative visual album (dis)connects 30 musicians & filmmakers
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Live Music / Livestream Listings
BY GREG STITT
screens
Stuck Between Worlds in Cine Las Americas' Feature Dear Homeland
Filmmaker Claudia Escobar finds musician Diana Gameros playing the waiting game
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Enlisting Robots in the Battle Against COVID
An Austin robotics company receives CARES Act funding to partially automate COVID-19 testing
BY NATALEAH SMALL
Film Reviews
Black Magic for White Boys
Sorcery and gentrification wrapped together by Onur Tukel, the Brueghel of Brooklyn
Flannery
The first lady of Southern Gothic letters on the cusp of the modern era
The Last Tree
British migrant coming-of-age drama empathetically explores what it is to belong
The Painted Bird
Jerzy Kosinski's brutal novel of Nazi-occupied Poland loses none of its inhumanity
arts & culture
"Ben Muñoz: Over My Head" at Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking
These bold new woodcuts capture the depth and bigness of life
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
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
We Have an Issue: 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
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Opinion: 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
BY MATT MOLLICA
Qmmunity: What Lies on the Queer Horizon
Plus, a voguing masterclass, digital drag, and more
BY BETH SULLIVAN
Day Trips: Potty Breaks
Alternatives to public restrooms when traveling
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Big, Dumb & Inexplicably Lucky
How about some empathy for the simpletons?
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, July 17-23
BY ROB BREZSNY
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
