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A Summer of Protests to Reclaim Power From the Police
“Whose streets? Our streets.”
Abbott Reopening Plan Allows Businesses, Including Restaurants, to Increase Capacity to 75%
Bars, except those adapted to be restaurants, remain closed
C3 Presents Thins Staff With Widespread Layoffs
ACL Fest, Lollapalooza producers mum on shrinking workforce
Music Workers Rally for Dedicated City Funding
Will Council reshape the SAVES Resolution at today’s meeting?
Rooster Teeth Announces RWBY Vol 8 Date
Plus new game with WayForward and Arc System Works
Local Musicians Perform Remotely for HAAM Day
A wide array of artists played for the health care nonprofit
Checking In: Juliet McConkey Goes Agrarian
Your new favorite folksinger and BF James Steinle leave town
Mobley Confronts “James Crow” in Visual Single
One-man-band also launches a Curbside Tour
Texas Book Festival 2020: The Full Line-Up
All 150 authors announced for the 25th anniversary lit celebration
Who Will Help the Hospitality Industry? And Who Else Has Closed?
Here’s what’s happening in the Austin culinary scene right now
I Luv Video Closes … So What Next?
Owner/founder Conrad Bejarano on saving Austin’s culture
Rooster Teeth Unleashes Red vs. Blue: Zero Release Date
Plus two new shows, and a new way to watch RT
Now Streaming in Austin: I’ve Got Issues
Steve Collins’ melancholic comedy comes home to VOD
How to Celebrate Austin Museum Day 2020
In person and virtual events abound on the city’ annual free museum day
Checking In: Marcia Ball Took Her First Summer Off Since 1984
“It gets hot in Austin in the summer, did you know?”
#notallstraws
Pasta Life brings a single-use straw that our planet will love
MugShots Bar Announces Permanent Closure
Beloved dive bar was a Downtown mainstay since 2002
AutFest Texas Changes the Narrative on Autism
Tonight’s online festival lets the community tell its own stories
The North Door Announces Permanent Closure
Home to Nerd Nite, Bedpost Confessions, and other events says goodbye
The Paramount Lights Up Tonight With the Classic Film Series
An Austin tradition returns with Casablanca
The U.S. Open and that Grey Goose Honey Deuce
Wetting your vodka whistle when it’s forty-forty again
Wilson Marks Finds Beauty in the Random
Seela serves up whimsical illustration in “Only a Train” clip
Tenet
Time goes backward and forward these days …
Critical Thinking
The true story of a chess team that rewrote the rules
The Broken Hearts Gallery
Clumsy meet-cute should have looked at the best friends instead
Vinyl Nation
Reports of death of physical media have been greatly exaggerated
Sicilia!
Restored Italian experiment is more form than substance
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
The 39th president’s belief in the healing power of music
You Cannot Kill David Arquette
Finding salvation in the squared circle
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.)
Blackbird
Susan Sarandon says goodbye to all this in deathbed remake
Austin Development Through a Barbecue Lens
Shane Stiles shares the location history and future of Stiles Switch BBQ
“Melanie Clemmons: Likes Charge”
This solo exhibition at Women & Their Work conjures digital comfort in troubled times
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
RTX at Home Rethinks the Fan Community Space
Rooster Teeth’s massive annual gathering moves to online
We Have an Issue: Fumbling Toward Fall
Looking back at a summer of protest and anticipating a (superspreading?) UT football season
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
Headlines / Quote of the Week
RISE Funds 2.0: Austin is offering a second round of Relief in a State of Emergency (RISE) funds for people impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. $9 million in funds will be distributed directly to residents in the form of $2,000 per household. Households can apply online (fund.uptogether.org/rise2) or by calling 512/714-6950; the last day to…
Austin’s Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers’ markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of September 10, 2020
Opinion: Time to Look in the Mirror on Housing
Builder David Whitworth asks, is protecting single family zoning a Republican or Democrat issue?
Austin at Large: ARIC, Meet ALICE
Two acronyms walk into an ongoing conversation about justice and equity
Arts Listings
Virtual galleries, streaming improv, and more
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
Public Notice: Which CAMP Are You In?
Privatizers launch new strategy for school board elections
Day Trips: Comanche Lookout Park, San Antonio
Climb the (fourth) highest mountain
The Luv Doc: Fear
The defining characteristic of all right wing nut jobs
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
“Hey Ya!” by Outkast was the No. 1 song on the last episode of American Top 40 with Casey Kasem, which aired on the weekend of January 3, 2004. Octopuses like to play with toys meant for human children. You have a second brain. Some call it “gut instinct,” and with good reason, because the…
Wood & Wire Hit a High Point in Uncertain Times
After garnering a Grammy nomination, the bluegrassers roll it forward
Soccer Watch
The UT Longhorns kick off their 2020 Big 12 Conference-only season this Friday, Sept. 11, hosting Kansas, who won the Big 12 Conference Tournament last year. There’s a whole new set of match-day protocols, of course, but free admission, plenty of room for social distancing, and beer and wine at happy hour prices all match,…
Wood & Wire Album Review
Wood & Wire earned a Grammy nod for 2018’s third LP North of Despair, but pressure seems light on their impressive follow-up. The local ‘grassers strike direct, with the easy roll and playfully lyric licks of “Can’t Keep Up With You” and “Paddlewheels” hearkening the late, great John Hartford. Billy Bright’s mandolin and Trevor Smith’s…
Alicia Garza Talks Civil Rights Solutions at TribFest
Black Lives Matter co-founder conversation now streaming free to public
ARIC: Black Marchers With Guns?
How the Huey P. Newton Gun Club got caught up in Austin Regional Intelligence Center’s snitching program
New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week
What we’re listening to
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
Faster Than Sound: HAAM Day Fundraises Onscreen
The Health Alliance for Austin Musicians’ biggest fundraising day of the year goes online
Council: Cash on Hand
City’s RISE and RENT funds ready to deliver relief
Qmmunity: Back to School and Bassackwardlandia
State Board of Education excludes queer and trans kids in sex ed overhaul
They Were the Storm: A Tragedy on Lake Travis
How will you remember the fallen? (Cue mournful solo violin music.) Whomst among us will e’er forget where we were on that baleful morn? It was a clear, warm Saturday, Sept. 5, when the Great White Fleet sailed from Emerald Point Marina in a show of force to laud President Trump. But all too soon…
Chatting With Camila Alves McConaughey About Her Women of Today Community
Living well takes a village
The Forces Drawing ACC Students Back to Campus Despite Pandemic Uncertainty
“We’re trying to juggle it all”
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, September 11-17
New Speed-Dating App Developed in Austin Doesn’t Want to Waste Your Time
The Round wants you to seize the date
Stay the COVID Course
Six months in, focus remains on Latinx health
Oysters and Milkshakes and Music and Smoke and – Dip! Dip! Dip!
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
Other Worlds Fires Up The Flux Capacitor For Retro Warm-Up Fest
SF film fest makes jump online, starting with weekend tease
