We Have an Issue: Some Stories: Mama Duke on the cover, plus an in-depth look at what went wrong at Front Steps – Columns

Some tales just tumble in our laps. That was the circumstance with this week’s go over tale, courtesy of Kriss Conklin, who wrote an early draft in previous Tunes Editor Raoul Hernandez’s journalism class at the College of Texas – a trusted expertise pipeline we’ve been making the most of at any time since Raoul expanded his repertoire to instructing. Present-day Music Editor Kevin Curtin was impressed with what he noticed, and he tells me Kriss set a ton of function into increasing the authentic piece into this really insightful profile of Austin rapper Mama Duke. You can expect to come across it listed here.

Some tales we sweat over – a good deal. That was the circumstance with this week’s news characteristic, which staff members author Austin Sanders has been doing work on all-around the clock to get into this issue. Austin first documented on July 15 the city’s decision to terminate its agreement with Entrance Actions, the operator of Downtown’s ARCH. As he relates in this week’s in-depth look at what went improper, some Front Techniques staff members discovered of the agreement termination from the Chronicle‘s story, not from their bosses, and which is just a trace of the interior mismanagement and deep frustrations in depth in his piece. We are nonetheless in the middle of the story, by the way: There are a great deal of elevated eyebrows over who the town has elected to hand the reins to, and as our problem hits stands, Council will be voting on people proposed new contracts. Adhere to Austin on Twitter – @daustinsanders – for serious-time updates.

---

The Chronicle arrived back again from past week’s Affiliation of Option Newsmedia conference and awards ceremony in Chicago with three 1st-area finishes (for Rachel Rascoe’s tunes writing, the 2020-21 “Winners Wagon” Austin Songs Awards, and the 2021 Very best of Austin situation) one circumstance of COVID (so far) a total lotta suggestions for long run tasks and a total lotta really like for our alt-weekly comrades. I know media’s intended to be cutthroat, but the spirit of collaboration, of hey this worked for us, you ought to completely steal it!, is a single of my beloved matters about AAN. I are unable to hold out to get cooking on all these new concepts.

---

On the net THIS Week

Very good Vibes at Viva La Vida Fest: Qmmunity Editor James Scott recaps the Frida Friday ATX-hosted celebration celebrating Kahlo’s everyday living, do the job, and activism.

Chats With Actors-Turned-Administrators: Tradition Editor Richard Whittaker speaks with Rebecca Hall (Passing) about acting in new psychothriller Resurrection and with first-time author/director B.J. Novak (The Workplace) about using on the stories Texas tells about alone in Vengeance.

Austin FC Streak Ends: Regardless of some outstanding participate in from midfielder Sebastián Driussi, the Verde fell to New York Purple Bulls, 4-3, at dwelling on Sunday.

aGLIFF Gets in the Ring: Austin’s lengthy-managing queer movie pageant (35 several years and counting!) declared 6 titles for its August fest, like LGBTQ wrestling documentary Out in the Ring.

Now Accepting Intern Apps: At any time puzzled what it is like to work at an alternative weekly? The Chronicle is now accepting apps for the fall internship application. Obtain out much more at austinchronicle.com/work.