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Volume 42, Number 5
ON THE COVER:
WE HAVE AN ISSUE:
BY Kimberley Jones
news
TRIBFEST 2022
TribFest Recap: Liz Cheney Chooses To Go Out the Hard Way
Scion of power learns the limits of 21st century politics
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
TribFest Recap: Red and Blue Teams Find Common Ground Before the 88th
Six points of agreement as the new Legislature coalesces
BY MAGGIE Q. THOMPSON
TribFest Recap: Can Texas Plan Properly for Droughts and Floods to Come?
Are we "thinking as preciously about water as we can"?
BY LINA FISHER
TribFest: Oil Terminal Protest Interrupts Buttigieg’s Q&A (But He Doesn’t Mind)
Transport secretary: "I hear you" about Gulf Coast project
BY LINA FISHER AND MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Austin at Large – Texas: Still Broken, Still Sad
Abbott stays one step ahead of the mob amid Lone Star and Uvalde fallout
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Public Notice: Mobility for All
Three visions for our transportation future
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines / Quote of the Week
Election Ticker: Southwest Council Races Illuminate Dual Political Divides
Things get partisan in this week's election news
BY THE NEWS TEAM
Council Takes on HealthSouth, Statesman PUD, and More
Council Preview: Is HealthSouth ready to roll?
BY MAGGIE Q. THOMPSON
Capital Metro’s Zero-Emission Buses Pass First Tests
Austin slowly rocks down to electric avenues
BY BENTON GRAHAM
Death Watch: Conveyor Belt to Lethal Injection Keeps Rolling
Ramirez will be prayed over as he dies
BY BRANT BINGAMON
In the Wake of COVID Seton Nurses Unionize
The new union wants reasonable shifts, cost-of-living wage adjustments
BY LINA FISHER
Oh, This $20 Electric Bill Hike?
It’s on top of the other one
BY LINA FISHER
food
Austin’s Oktoberfest Gets the Royal Treatment
Partying with the prince, per tradition, at Koko's Bavarian Biergarten
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmer's markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of September 29, 2022
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
music
Faster Than Sound: A Belated Introduction From Your Incoming Music Editor
Music columnist graduates to Music editor after four years
BY RACHEL RASCOE
Electronic Destination Kingdom Nightclub Rises Again
Dance music venue reopens off Red River after abrupt 2018 shutter
BY CHRISTINA GARCIA
What We're Listening To: The Pinky Rings
S/T
BY KRISS CONKLIN
What We're Listening To: Mobley
Cry Havoc! (Last Gang Records)
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
What We're Listening To: Moody Bank$
FEELING COLORS
BY LAIKEN NEUMANN
Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week
A BLK REVOLUTION, Channel Tres, Smashing Pumpkins, the Austin Record Convention, and more local music related shows worth seeing
BY CHRISTINA GARCIA, GARY LINDSEY, RAOUL HERNANDEZ, ABBY JOHNSTON, MICHAEL TOLAND, JULIAN TOWERS AND DEREK UDENSI
Live Music in Austin
BY DEREK UDENSI
screens
Talking Terror and Trauma in New Horror Smile
Director Parker Finn and star Sosie Bacon Smile, and the world screams with them
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Five Bizarro Films at Fantastic Fest @Home
The strangest and most fearless of the streaming selection at this year's Fantastic Fest
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Bros
Uproarious gay rom-com isn't just a straight rom-com in a different hat
God's Creatures
Stillness and violence in this startling tale of an Irish fishing community
The Good House
Sigourney Weaver drags this addiction drama out of comfortable numbness
The Greatest Beer Run Ever
It's 2022, and someone thought we need a pro-Vietnam War comedy
Smile
Cunning studio horror about a curse that grins you to death
Vesper
Enthralling eco-fable rewrites Snow White as a young Galileo
arts & culture
Five Perfect Scenes at Austin Sketch Fest
Because the best comedy always has a story to it
BY JAMES SCOTT
Review: Different Stages’ Shining City
As with all Conor McPherson plays, the Devil is in the details
BY BOB ABELMAN
Arts Events
Art galleries, theatre, comedy, dance, and more
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Community Events
Local events, volunteer opportunities, kids' activities, and more
BY KATHERINE MCNEVINS
columns
We Have an Issue: Signs of the Season Changing
Anticipating Oktoberfest, our Halloween costume contest, and the midterm election
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Opinion: How Los Verdes Helped Me Find a Community in the Sport I Love
Austin FC supporters group embodies "Y'all Means All" motto
BY HARLEY HIGHTOWER
Qmmunity: Revenge of the Homoscopes
Once more with feeling: It's your Austin queer events horoscope!
BY JAMES SCOTT
Day Trips: Rooftop Bars, San Antonio
Catch a bird’s-eye view of the Alamo City
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: No Questions, Just Answers
Two is plenty, thank you
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, September 30 - October 6
BY ROB BREZSNY
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Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
The Verde Report: U.S. National Team Limping Toward Qatar World Cup
BY ERIC GOODMAN
comics
