In this week's issue: postmortem on the Ken Paxton impeachment trial, a profile of drag powerhouse Brigitte Bandit, and finalists revealed in the Best of Austin: Restaurants Readers Poll (get voting, y'all!)
The Ken Paxton impeachment trial sure ended in a wet fart, huh? Was there ever truly a chance justice would be served when the jury was stacked with MAGA Republicans unwilling to break with partisan politics and vote against one of their own? Now their claws are out for the House Republicans who decisively voted to impeach Paxton in May, and any other party members they deem insufficiently deferential to their extreme far-right agenda.
As discussed in these pages many times over, the most recent Texas legislative session was an exercise in"how low can you go" – how cruel, how repressive, how derelict in the duty to pass laws that better the lives of Texans.
Y'all have a lot of opinions about Austin restaurants! How do we know? Because you cast thousands of votes in the first round of the Best of Austin: Restaurants Readers Poll. Now we've whittled the ballot down to five finalists in each category, which you'll find on p.42 of this issue. The rest is up to you: Head toto choose your favorites. Voting in this last round ends October 2, and winners will be revealed in the Nov. 3 issue.
On the topic of farming the work out to our dear readers – who do you want to see on our Halloween mask cover this year? If you're new to the paper, you might not know we have a decades-long tradition every year of making a monster mask out of the most disreputable folks or trends of the past year – recent dishonorees include Alex Jones as a sad clown, an orange and bulbous Trump-kin, Greg Abbott...
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