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Volume 39, Number 29
ON THE COVER:
WE HAVE AN ISSUE:
BY Kimberley Jones
news
Health Care Needs Your Help to Slow COVID-19’s Spread
Keep your distance
BY MARGARET NICKLAS
Austin Hunkers Down and Waits as the Pandemic Grows
It’s closing time
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Local Students Face an Open-Ended Spring Break
School's out for ...
BY BETH SULLIVAN
Increased Pressure for “Vote-by-Mail”
Mail vote would expand franchise and public safety – but not without problems
BY MICHAEL KING
Social Justice Advocates Call for Big Moves to Ease the Blow of Coronavirus
The most at risk
BY MARY TUMA AND BRANT BINGAMON
People Experiencing Homelessness Brace for More Changes in Support Systems
Where are they supposed to go?
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Cap Metro Begins Modified Transit Schedule March 18
New boarding and cleaning protocols also announced
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Headlines
Quote of the Week
food
The Bon Appétit Test Kitchen Crew Has Answers
Nine pro chefs and YouTube personalities tackle our burning food Qs
BY JESSI CAPE AND LINA FISHER
The Faces Behind Your Restaurants and Bars
A hospitality professional reflects on what happens when there are no more guests
BY JILLIAN WHITLOW
Austin Restaurant Take-Out and Other Food Delivery Options During Coronavirus Quarantine
Support local business while maintaining your social distance
BY JESSI CAPE, WAYNE ALAN BRENNER, AND EMILY BEYDA
Central Texas Food Bank Needs Community Support More Than Ever Before
BY JESSI CAPE
music
Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Gets Political With the Chronicle
He should be a prime-time news analyst. Televisions would melt.
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Austin Music Awards Went Off Without a Hitch in a Show of Communal Strength and Support
The night everything cancelled in the capitol
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Faster Than Sound: Austin Musicians Brace for Public Shutdown
Dispatches from the week the music died
BY RACHEL RASCOE
Local Music to Livestream, Download, and Otherwise Enjoy Digitally
What we’re watching and listening to
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ, GREG STITT, KEVIN CURTIN, MICHAEL TOLAND, DOUG FREEMAN, TIM STEGALL, DEREK UDENSI AND RACHEL RASCOE
Livestreaming in the Age of Quarantine
Austin musicians “going live” instead of playing live
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Live From the Texas Film Awards
The party went on with remote tributes and hip bumps
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Coronavirus and Cinemas: Who's Open, Who's Closed, and What We're Doing
As most cinemas close, we’ll still be here for audiences and filmmakers
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Eight Unconventional Romantic Comedies You Can Stream Right Now
Not-so-cookie-cutter love stories willing to get a little weird
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Film Reviews
Big Time Adolescence
SNL’s Pete Davidson plays unlikely mentor
Blow the Man Down
Slick and smart New England noir shows the women run the show
arts & culture
Lizzie Skurnick on the Language Used Against Women
What women are doing to reclaim their power
BY SYDNEY GREENE
The Persistence of Vision Podcast Books Your Life Up Right
Austin-based audio series brings lively lit-talk from local lights
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Parallelogramophonograph Goes Virtual
Local improv troupe storms the internet with live yes-and comic relief
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Obey Giantess: Mega Mural of Feminist Proportions Pops Up Downtown
Artists Sandra Chevrier and Shepard Fairey give Austin a 12-story tribute to the centenary of the 19th Amendment
BY BARBARA PURCELL
Arts Events
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Arts Reviews
Sad Girls Productions' So Lucky
This world premiere from a brand-new company lacks polish, but it does honor its community’s stories
Jo Carol Pierce’s Bad Girls Upset by the Truth
This revival of Jo Carol Pierce’s one-woman show from the Eighties pays loving tribute to the author without really coming into its own
columns
We Have an Issue: Hang In There
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Opinion: AISD Is Perpetuating a Historic Racial Dividing Line
Annika Olson of UT-Austin’s Institute for Urban Policy Research & Analysis urges AISD to reconsider its School Changes plan for elementary school closures
BY ANNIKA OLSON
Qmmunity: Stay Strong, Y’all
Reminding ourselves of our resiliency in difficult times
BY BETH SULLIVAN
Day Trips: Rio Grande, Big Bend National Park
Paddling the Rio Grande
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: The Same Soft Consonants
The Luv Doc gives his two cents on a bunch of tiny goddamn freeloading chemical zombies
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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