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Volume 40, Number 21
ON THE COVER:
WE HAVE AN ISSUE:
BY Kimberley Jones
news
Mayor Pro Tem Contest Kicks Off New Council Storylines
A leading role at City Hall?
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Austin at Large: Just Another Wednesday
Rejoice and be glad in these first calm hours of the rest of our democratic lives
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Public Notice: Wednesdays
All this news is sure getting in the way of the news.
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines / Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Travis County D.A. Updates Public on Many Probes Into Police Conduct
D.A. updates public on many probes into police conduct
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Local Officials Seek COVID Clarity as Surge Eases Slightly
Lost in vaccination
BY BETH SULLIVAN
At Dell Med, Fauci on What Comes Next: “A Serious Look” at Pandemic Preparedness
In virtual speech, coronavirus top doc offers "a serious look" at pandemic preparedness
BY BETH SULLIVAN
APD Chief and Austin Police Association Get Prickly Over Post-Sedition Suggestions
Good cop, mad cop
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Panel Slams Problematic APD Training Videos
Audit identifies in 112 videos clear patterns in how cops treat people of color
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
AISD's Stay-Home Stance Doesn't Extend to Sports
Come out and play!
BY CLARA ENCE MORSE
food
Austin's Latest Taco Craze Comes From Tijuana Via Instagram
Where to find birria tacos in Austin
BY VERONICA MEEWES
The Parlor Believes in Community, Artists, and Pizza
A daughter's plea
BY JESSI CAPE
LeRoy & Lewis x Huckleberry, Easy Tiger Returns to Downtown, Philanthropy Rules, OMG 4th Tap Brewing, and More
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, farmer's markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of January 21, 2020
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
music
Checking in With Area Musicians Yielded 80,000 Words of Pandemic Realness
Stay TF home
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Faster Than Sound: Girls Like Us Occupy Hotel Free TV
P1nkstar celebrates trans Texan artists on Hotel Vegas' virtual platform and Music Lab closes final location to make way for Tesla
BY RACHEL RASCOE
New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week
What we’re listening to
BY CARYS ANDERSON, DOUG FREEMAN, KEVIN CURTIN, TIM STEGALL, DEREK UDENSI AND MICHAEL TOLAND
Live Music / Livestream Listings
BY GREG STITT
screens
SUNDANCE AT AFS
Sundance Brings This Year's Hottest Movies to AFS's New Drive-in Screen
Time for a Sundance at Austin Film Society
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
At the Ready Gets in the Uniform Boots of Texas’ High School Cops
Sundance title comes to AFS's drive-in screen
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
How to Attend the Sundance Film Festival's Screenings at AFS
Indie film showcase brings this year's hottest titles to AFS's new drive-in screen
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
About Hope
Religious romantic drama about finding your moral core through love (natch)
Acasă, My Home
Extreme gentrification on the outskirts of Bucharest
American Skin
Payback for police shootings in this violent drama
Go/Don't Go
Enigmatic end-of-the-world story blossoms into quiet hope
Identifying Features
Mexico's "disappeared" given a voice in this cross-border drama
No Man's Land
Well-intentioned cross-border drama finds humanity on all sides
Our Friend
Jason Segel is the friend you'd want in this true story of facing death
PG: Psycho Goreman
Splattertastic creature feature flips the evil script on Power Rangers goody-goodies
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
Enigmatic Hungarian drama asks how much we invent our own worlds
Redemption Day
It's 2021, and terrorists in low-budget thrillers are still all foreign
arts & culture
The Blanton Museum Undertakes a $35 Million Makeover of Its Grounds
With the international architectural firm Snøhetta, the UT museum will add community spaces and art to its outdoor experience
BY ROBERT FAIRES
"Renee Lai: A Study of Fences" at grayDUCK Gallery
In her grayDUCK Gallery solo exhibition, the artist sees more than what these barriers keep out
BY BARBARA PURCELL
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: Check It Out
In this week's issue, Music Editor Raoul Hernandez reflects on Checking In, his Q&A series chronicle musicians' lives under COVID-19 lockdown
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Qmmunity: Embrace Austin Seeks to Build Bridges Between Queer People and Queer Initiatives
Qmmunity members organize to launch new LGBTQIA coalition
BY BETH SULLIVAN
Day Trips: Blind Lemon Memorial Cemetery, Wortham
Visiting the father of Texas blues
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Poo
Is not a rose nor does it smell like one
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, January 22-28
BY ROB BREZSNY
Oops!
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch: A Tiger in Austin FC’s Tank?
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
