Austin FC's gorgeous new Q2 Stadium. At a press conference Monday morning (May 24), local officials including Mayor Steve Adler, Travis County Judge Andy Brown, Interim Health Authority Dr. Mark Escott, and ATXFC President Andy Loughnane delivered the news fans had been hoping for: The stadium will be able to safely open at full capacity on opening night, Saturday, June 19, and "near full capacity" for the U.S. women's national team game three nights earlier against Nigeria. The mood was celebratory, and rightly so. The stadium news is great of course – one of the team's last big hurdles was that no one knew for sure if Q2 was going to get to have a full game-day experience, and now we do – but it seemed like more than that as well: a watershed moment, really, when life itself seemed to be largely back to normal. Everyone wore masks, of course (except at the podium), and masks will be required at the games as well. And all the speakers thanked the Austin public at large for continuing to get vaccinated in the kind of numbers that make this sort of event possible. But given that, the vibe seemed to be that we're just about out of the woods – if we can yell and scream in a semi-enclosed building with 20,000-plus strangers, we can probably go back to music venues, theatres, stores, whatever, pretty soon thereafter.