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Volume 40, Number 1
ON THE COVER:
WE HAVE AN ISSUE:
BY Kimberley Jones
news
So You Want to Vote
A flowchart to help guide you through mail-in ballots, voter registration
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Austin at Large: Voting From the Bottom Up
Take advantage of your downballot opportunities to create real change
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Public Notice: Where’s Our LDC Rewrite?
Back into the looking glass with your City Council
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines / Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Council: Too Little Affordable Housing, or Too Much?
Two southeast projects divide dais; APD's state grants OK'd
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Two UT-Austin Students Living on Campus Test Positive for COVID-19
31 students, faculty, and staff have tested positive or self-reported positive results since students started moving into dorms
BY BETH SULLIVAN
Planning Commission Leaders Step Down to Chart Housing Waters
Conor Kenny and Fayez Kazi look to bring more affordable housing to Austin
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Fight for Vote by Mail Continues at 5th Circuit
Texas Democrats argue age limits violate constitution
BY LINA FISHER
AISD Readies for School, Sports, Elections, and Red Ink
Students go back to class and sports Sept. 8 and more district news
BY CLARA ENCE MORSE
Turning Up to Talk About Low Voter Turnout
Get Out the Vote campaigns kick into high gear
BY MARGARET NICKLAS
food
A Trio of Mediterranean Dining
Just when you thought you couldn't possibly get any shawarma, right?
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
The Absinthe-minded Professors of Violet Crown Spirits
Three Austinites are producing the first Texas-made absinthe
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
30th Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival Contest Winners
The people and critics have chosen the best of the fest
Pueblo Viejo's New Location, Bishop Cidercade's Austin Debut, Pinballz Japanese Whiskey, 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, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of September 3, 2020
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
music
In a Previously Unpublished Interview Late Power Trip Frontman Riley Gale Talks SXSW, COVID, & American Health Care
“I’m having nightmares about what [COVID] is going to do to the status quo”
BY RACHEL RASCOE
Faster Than Sound: Remembering Chet Himes, Johnny Limón, and Riley Osbourn
Three Austin music scene stalwarts passed in late August
BY RACHEL RASCOE
New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week
What we’re listening to
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ, RACHEL RASCOE, GREG STITT, DOUG FREEMAN, KEVIN CURTIN, ALEJANDRA RAMIREZ AND TIM STEGALL
Live Music / Livestream Listings
BY GREG STITT
screens
How to Climb a Minnow Mountain
The Austin animation studio resurrecting Rotoscoping with Richard Linklater
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
A Lens on Queer Taiwan
AAAFF explores the Asian nation’s LGBTQIA cinematic legacy
BY LILLI HIME
Film Reviews
Centigrade
Snowbound horror is a situation tragedy
Class Action Park
The stunning tale of New Jersey's unfathomable Action Park
Dave Grusin: Not Enough Time
Musical bio-doc hits all the right notes, but with no feeling
Made in Bangladesh
Workers' rights under siege in this feminist Asian drama
Mulan
Forget the cartoon, Disney goes back to the source for the Chinese warrior legend
Murder in the Woods
The summer slasher is back!
arts & culture
Texas Performing Arts and Fusebox Make Space to Create
The two organizations partner on a residency program to support Austin artists making adventurous new work
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Good Citizens Need Not Fear by Maria Reva
Anything can happen in the wonderfully weird Ukraine of this short story collection
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Making New Friends an Old-Fashioned Way – Through Letter Writing
A collaboration between Austin Bat Cave, Foundation Communities, and Letterpress PLAY encourages pen pals to bridge generational divides
BY CLARA ENCE MORSE
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: Celebrating (Very Quietly) 39 Years in Print
This anniversary issue passes with not much fanfare, but a lot of gratitude
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Opinion – Protecting Texas Alone: The UT System Has Failed Our Community
Underpaid at UT, a graduate student worker advocacy group, urgently calls for COVID protections
BY UNDERPAID@UT
Qmmunity: Lessons From the Past for the Present
Plus, Gender Unbound and Austin Asian American Film Festival kick off virtual programming
BY BETH SULLIVAN
Day Trips: Stag Leap Country Cabins, Nacogdoches
Escape to a cabin in the Piney Woods
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: A Potentially Awkward Conversation
Vanilla is America’s favorite ice cream flavor!
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, September 4-10
BY ROB BREZSNY
The Common Law
COVID and paid time off to watch kids not in school
BY LUKE ELLIS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Are You a Guaraní Fan? You Are Now.
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
