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Volume 40, Number 2
ON THE COVER:
WE HAVE AN ISSUE:
BY Kimberley Jones
news
A Summer of Protests to Reclaim Power From the Police
"Whose streets? Our streets."
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Austin at Large: ARIC, Meet ALICE
Two acronyms walk into an ongoing conversation about justice and equity
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Public Notice: Which CAMP Are You In?
Privatizers launch new strategy for school board elections
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines / Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Council: Cash on Hand
City's RISE and RENT funds ready to deliver relief
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
The Forces Drawing ACC Students Back to Campus Despite Pandemic Uncertainty
“We’re trying to juggle it all”
BY CLARA ENCE MORSE
UT Won’t Notify Entire Dorm of Positive COVID-19 Case
Officials cite CDC guidance and fear of "alarm fatigue" for decision to limit notifications
BY BETH SULLIVAN
Stay the COVID Course
Six months in, focus remains on Latinx health
BY MARGARET NICKLAS
They Were the Storm: A Tragedy on Lake Travis
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Aquifer Storage and Recovery Project Could Mitigate Effects of Climate Change
Council approves phase 1 of project that could store 60,000 acre-feet of water underground by 2040
BY LINA FISHER
ARIC: Black Marchers With Guns?
How the Huey P. Newton Gun Club got caught up in Austin Regional Intelligence Center's snitching program
BY JOHN ANDERSON
Alicia Garza Talks Civil Rights Solutions at TribFest
Black Lives Matter co-founder conversation now streaming free to public
BY LILLI HIME
Out of Work and Stretched Thin, Hospitality Workers Share What Resources They Can
In a national day of action, Austin's Restaurant Organizing Project and other activist groups highlight the service industry's unique plight
BY DAVID EVAN RODRIGUEZ
food
Austin Development Through a Barbecue Lens
Shane Stiles shares the location history and future of Stiles Switch BBQ
BY ROD MACHEN
Chatting With Camila Alves McConaughey About Her Women of Today Community
Living well takes a village
BY JESSI CAPE
Oysters and Milkshakes and Music and Smoke and – Dip! Dip! Dip!
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 September 10, 2020
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
music
Wood & Wire Hit a High Point in Uncertain Times
After garnering a Grammy nomination, the bluegrassers roll it forward
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Faster Than Sound: HAAM Day Fundraises Onscreen
The Health Alliance for Austin Musicians’ biggest fundraising day of the year goes online
BY RACHEL RASCOE
New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week
What we’re listening to
BY KEVIN CURTIN, KAHRON SPEARMAN, DOUG FREEMAN, RACHEL RASCOE, TIM STEGALL, GREG STITT AND RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Live Music / Livestream Listings
BY GREG STITT
screens
New Speed-Dating App Developed in Austin Doesn't Want to Waste Your Time
The Round wants you to seize the date
BY DAVID SOTELO
Other Worlds Fires Up The Flux Capacitor For Retro Warm-Up Fest
SF film fest makes jump online, starting with weekend tease
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
RTX at Home Rethinks the Fan Community Space
Rooster Teeth's massive annual gathering moves to online
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Blackbird
Susan Sarandon says goodbye to all this in deathbed remake
The Broken Hearts Gallery
Clumsy meet-cute should have looked at the best friends instead
Critical Thinking
The true story of a chess team that rewrote the rules
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
The 39th president's belief in the healing power of music
Our Time Machine
Stunning documentary about puppetry, art, Alzhiemer's, and a son's love
Rent-A-Pal
Who doesn't need a buddy? (Even if they're a tape.)
Sicilia!
Restored Italian experiment is more form than substance
Tenet
Time goes backward and forward these days …
Vinyl Nation
Reports of death of physical media have been greatly exaggerated
You Cannot Kill David Arquette
Finding salvation in the squared circle
arts & culture
Austin Theatres Are Moving the Stage Beyond Zoom
Companies thinking outside the boxes bring theatre to your radio, your mailbox, and your neighbor's yard
BY ROBERT FAIRES
"Melanie Clemmons: Likes Charge"
This solo exhibition at Women & Their Work conjures digital comfort in troubled times
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: Fumbling Toward Fall
Looking back at a summer of protest and anticipating a (superspreading?) UT football season
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Opinion: Time to Look in the Mirror on Housing
Builder David Whitworth asks, is protecting single family zoning a Republican or Democrat issue?
BY DAVID WHITWORTH
Qmmunity: Back to School and Bassackwardlandia
State Board of Education excludes queer and trans kids in sex ed overhaul
BY BETH SULLIVAN
Day Trips: Comanche Lookout Park, San Antonio
Climb the (fourth) highest mountain
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Fear
The defining characteristic of all right wing nut jobs
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, September 11-17
BY ROB BREZSNY
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
