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Volume 40, Number 10
ON THE COVER:
WE HAVE AN ISSUE:
BY Kimberley Jones
news
2020 Election Results
Coming Out of the Ashes
After Election 2020, it’s not right, but it’s OK
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Voters Opt for Status Quo in Statewide Races
Bluenami proves illusory in Texas stalemate
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Westside City Council Races Go to Polarized Run-Offs
Districts 6 and 10 head to another race
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Vanessa Fuentes Mounts a Surprising Landslide in District 2
Meanwhile Pool and Casar hold their seats at Council
BY BETH SULLIVAN
Austin Freshmen Survive in Unflipped House as the County Sees a Dem Landslide
The blueberry abides (barely)
BY LINA FISHER
Austin's Props A & B Score Easy Victories
The big engine that did
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
AISD Trustee Election Sees Highest Turnout Ever
Zapata, Foster to join board; two races set for run-off
BY CLARA ENCE MORSE
November 2020 General Election Results
Headlines / Quote of the Week
Civics 101
With Unrest a Possibility, Has APD Learned Its Lessons?
Law and disorder
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Face-to-Face Teaching Resumes at AISD Even as COVID-19 Cases Mount
It's back-to-school week (take 3)
BY CLARA ENCE MORSE
food
Texas Sees Its First Hemp Harvest in 80 Years
Entrepreneurial farmers navigate state regulations and unsteady market, but still sees a bright future
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Delysia’s Golden Chocolate, Texas French Bread’s Wheat, Cinful Sweets on the Food Network, and Mozart’s Lights Up Lake Austin
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 November 5, 2020
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
music
My Gear: Exhalants Max Out
Austin punk trio celebrates its Atonement with a very loud gear spread
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Faster Than Sound: Damn, Kathy Valentine Can Write!
Go-Go's local Kathy Valentine reflects on her memoir at three Austin fall events
BY RACHEL RASCOE
New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week
What we’re listening to
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ, DOUG FREEMAN, KEVIN CURTIN, GREG STITT, RACHEL RASCOE, ALEJANDRA RAMIREZ AND KAHRON SPEARMAN
Live Music / Livestream Listings
BY GREG STITT
screens
Music at the Movies With Sound Unseen
Sound Unseen Film + Music Festival becomes a virtual tale of two cities
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Revealing America’s Classroom Fetish in FX’s A Teacher
Hannah Fidell uncovers an abuse of trust
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Action U.S.A.
Action! From the U.S.A.! Like the title says! (Screams) Do you want aaaaaction?
The Antidote
New documentary examines the necessity of simple acts of kindness
Call Me Brother
Austin-made incest comedy is more Dogtooth than American Pie
City Hall
Frederick Wiseman's epic dive into Boston politics is your new West Wing
The Dark and the Wicked
Gone to Hell, gone to Texas in this intergenerational horror
18 to Party
Gen X coming-of-ager is an unfocused but endearing debut
The Informer
Joel Kinnaman heads undercover in the most deadly jail
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
Christmas is months away, but the first Christmas film is here
Jungleland
Underground boxing drama pits brother against brother
Kindred
Gaslighting horror adds racial tension to class dynamics
Let Him Go
Superman's parents get caught up in a Western noir
Recon
Under fire and torn apart by mistrust in World War II
True to the Game 2
Trust us, you'd be better off playing tiddlywinks
arts & culture
The Sword and the Shield Shows Malcolm X and MLK Were More Alike Than Different
Dr. Peniel E. Joseph's book argues that the civil rights leaders are two sides of the same revolutionary coin
BY SARA HUTCHINSON
FuturX Has a Labyrinth of Latinx Performance You Won't Want to Exit
Director and festival founder Rudy Ramirez has assembled exceptional artists into a maze of new and avant-garde Latinx performance
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: Welp.
Trying to wrap our heads around the election
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Qmmunity: Hello From the Other Side
Plus, Queerbomb launches its Queer History Series
BY BETH SULLIVAN
Day Trips: Geronimo the Longhorn, George West
Stuffed longhorn graces the courthouse lawn
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: A Motivated Electorate
The last vicious lunge of the cornered rat of white American hegemony
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, November 6-12
BY ROB BREZSNY
The Common Law
My neighbor takes “Keep Austin Weird” to the next level
BY LUKE ELLIS
Oops!
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
