Margaret Moore to lead the newly formed
Ci
vil Rights Division in 2017, will stay on as one of a small number of Moore hires who will continue working under Garza. (
Guillermo Gonzalez, Moore s Trial Division director, will also remain in his position.)
In some ways, the prosecution of two high-profile cases involving LEOs – the killings of
Michael Ramos on April 24, 2020, and of
Javier Ambler on March 28, 2019 – will serve as a test for Gilford. Garza s administration has faced pressure from the victims families in both cases to seek justice, and the public will be watching the outcome of each prosecution closely. How these cases are handled will help inform whether or not Gilford is a good fit for Garza s new vision for a D.A. office focused on improving accountability of law enforcement while decreasing the number of people entering the system.
Explosions in the Sky at Sound on Sound Fest in 2016 (Photo by David Brendan Hall)
During my teenage years in San Antonio, I had a much cooler best friend with a punk dad. As such, his children annually attended
Fun Fun Fun Fest, the cultish music and comedy festival held at Austin s
Auditorium Shores. I joined in at age 16, just months after returning from a 2012 summer mission trip with my church choir.
Upon entry, the singer of Chicago shock act the
Dwarves dislodged my sunglasses and told me to let my hair down as I bobbed nervously (and happily) before the heavy-genre Black Stage. I got properly high for the first time waiting for
(l-r) Elmer Ferro, Anissa del Rosario Schiek, José Tomás (JT) García, Suxxy Ramírez, Cole Evans, and Brian Almaraz (Photo by David Brendan Hall)
Arepas are not a mere livelihood to Anissa del Rosario Schiek and José Tomás García. They are South America; they are their grandmothers; they are community, evolution, and brightness in a dark time. Now, they are Austin, and Arepas Dealers are bringing their Venezuelan snacks to pair with fine coffee and a friendly DIY spirit to the Downtown area at Cuatro Gato Cafe. García says, This is our everyday food.
Arepa Dealers originated in 2016 by García, a Venezuelan asylum seeker trying to find a hustle in Madrid s Lavapiés neighborhood. As the diaspora is relatively young and still spreading globally, he seized his chance to market his national food to late-night snackers. Applying his photography degree and aesthetic eye to create a tangible catalog of his goods, and marketing his early transactions like a drug
Kenta Asazu (Photo by David Brendan Hall)
Kenta Asazu has been making onigiri for most of his 17-year-old life. Not just while working in the kitchen at his family s restaurant, Sa-Tén, but since he was a kindergartner, in fact. He describes onigiri as sort of a Japanese version of the American peanut butter and jelly – a comfort food that you learn to make very young. My great-grandmother and my grandparents would make them for me every day as a lunch when I would go to school in Japan every summer, Asazu says. The New Orleans-born and Austin-raised teen decided to channel that long-developed culinary skill into the small onigiri pickup and delivery service Samurice.