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Volume 40, Number 5
ON THE COVER:
WE HAVE AN ISSUE:
BY Kimberley Jones
features
Stress Issue
Stressed Out? Let Your Freak-Out Flag Fly!
Making stress into a friend instead of a foe
BY NORA ANKRUM
Why Am I Crying? Spontaneous Tears Help the Brain Release Stress
Your body's trying to tell you something
BY SARAH MARLOFF
A Coronasomniac Explores the Link Between Stress and Insomnia
How to catch more restful ZZZs during a pandemic
BY BETH SULLIVAN
How Erika Thompson Keeps Her Cool While Scooping Up Bees
TikTok hit and Texas Beeworks owner stays meditative in viral videos
BY RACHEL RASCOE
Seeking Stress Relief at Austin’s Center for Music Therapy
What the opposite of anxiety sounds like
BY KEVIN CURTIN
How Digital Media Professionals Manage Stress in a Chaotic Online Environment
Don't let doomscrolling become a way of life
BY SYDNEY GREENE
Learning to Be in the Moment, Even When the Moment Sucks
Meditation isn't just for monks; center yourself and relieve stress
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Low-Cost Mental Health Services in Austin
Overwhelmed? Finding help doesn't have to be hard.
BY BETH SULLIVAN
A Well-Seasoned Consumer’s Guide to Marijuana Edibles
De-stress with Winnie the Pooh and cannabis
BY ALICE B. TOKER
Fighting Stress Through Fighting Sports
A Krav Maga devotee on the curative power of punching a bag
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
How I Won the War Against Stress With A Little Help From Vinyl & Tequila
Giving praise before the altar of the turntable
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Fantasy Sex Toy Shop Strange Bedfellas Knows How to Relieve Your Stress
There be monsters ... and therein lies the fun
BY JAMES SCOTT
news
Chronicle Endorsements for the November General Election
Our picks for the local, state, and national races you'll see on your ballot
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
Austin at Large: If We Make It ’Til November
How noisy, chaotic, incoherent, and unpleasant can this election cycle get?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Public Notice – Free Lunch: Yes or No?
A potpourri of virtual events and programs
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines / Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Council Preview: City Finds $15 Million to Help Struggling Businesses
Three programs designed to assist economic sectors forced to close early in the pandemic
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
For Many AISD Teachers, It's Career vs. Family
AISD forces reluctant teachers to return to campus
BY CLARA ENCE MORSE
Red Team Comeback?
Races south, west of town too close for Democrats' comfort
BY LINA FISHER
food
More Dope Chinese, Wheatsville Brings the Curbside, Kyoten Sushiko Shutters
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 October 1, 2020
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
music
Faster Than Sound: Select Live Music Reemerges
ACL Live reintroduces in-person audiences, alongside steady outdoor calendars at the Far Out Lounge and Sagebrush on South Congress.
BY RACHEL RASCOE
New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week
What we’re listening to
BY KEVIN CURTIN, RAOUL HERNANDEZ, RACHEL RASCOE, DEREK UDENSI, ALEJANDRA RAMIREZ AND GREG STITT
Live Music / Livestream Listings
BY GREG STITT
screens
Fantastic Fest Interview: Jim Cummings Hunts The Wolf of Snow Hollow
The actor and director talks bloody myths and drive-in premieres
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
A Call to Spy
Heroic women spies of World War II get a worthy, if prosaic, tribute
The Forty-Year-Old Version
Radha Blank busts expectations about middle-aged women as rapper RadhMUSPrime
Herb Alpert Is …
Too many filler tracks in this history of the Tijuana Brass guy
Jiang Ziya
Epic Chinese animation mimics Marvel, but not for the best
On the Rocks
Sofia Coppola heads to NYC for a slight but charming anti-rom-com
One Hour Outcall
Emotional, rather than physical, consent is tragically probed in this sex work drama
Possessor Uncut
Identity melts in this psychotropic assassination brainblender
Ready or Not
Campaign doc charts the gap between youthful enthusiasm and electability
Saul & Ruby's Holocaust Survivor Band
Survivors' story never finds its rhythm
Save Yourselves!
Affable alien invasion comedy is really a lightweight relationship story
The Swerve
Azura Skye captivates as a woman on the edge of full collapse
The Trump Prophecy
Did they foresee this week's debate performance?
12 Hour Shift
Raucous and wicked organ-theft comedy isn't afraid to get bloody
arts & culture
Let's Go Hide in the Delightful Designer Forts of Fortlandia
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center brings back its fancy forts right when we need them
BY ROBERT FAIRES
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: Welcome to the Stress Issue
Also, we bid farewell to Art Director Jason Stout
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Opinion: Even Post-COVID, A-F School Ranking System Should Get an F
We should take this moment to evaluate the utility of the A-F system as a whole, as it does not sufficiently capture the nuance of the work being done in our schools
BY ROLF STRAUBHAAR
Qmmunity: UT’s Gender Affirmation Project Is Back With Virtual Clinics
Plus, rainbow reading, queerlesque, and more to-do’s
BY BETH SULLIVAN
Day Trips: Millican Pecan Company, San Saba
Fall is the time to get cracking
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: A White Suit
You can never be underdressed.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, October 2-8
BY ROB BREZSNY
The Common Law
Can I get a hardship driver’s license for football practice?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Oops!
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
