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Volume 34, Number 8
news
Austin's Sustainable Secret
Student-founded Green Is the New Black makes renewable energy at Huston-Tillotson
BY NORA ANKRUM
Point Austin: Premature Deaths
It's not Ebola that's killing Texans – it's ruthless politics
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Endorsements (Ouch)
How could we be so stupid?
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
HB 2: A SCOTUS Pause Before the Next Storm
Patients, clinics struggle with the impact of legal rulings
BY MARY TUMA
Council: The Next Code is CodeNEXT
A relatively sedate agenda
BY MICHAEL KING
Trans Mother Honored
Local LGBT advocate sets an example
BY AMY KAMP
10-1 Ticker... Election Updates!
What's Laura Pressley taking credit for now?
BY THE NEWS STAFF
Buy Yourselves a Ride – Legally!
Council approves TNC ordinance
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
"EcoNetwork" Launches Online Enviro Voters' Guide
Environmentalists can see where candidates stand
BY GREG HARMAN
WilCo Pot Baker Takes a Plea
Lavoro might avoid jail time
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Death Watch: San Antonio Gun Brother
Appeals denied for Paredes and two others
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Shine a Little Light
Remembering Chronicle contributor and HIV / AIDS activist Sandy Bartlett
BY SARAH MARLOFF
The Hightower Report
Big Beer deceivers and bullies
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
A New Comfort Zone
Kristine Kittrell's culinary juggling act
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Ready to Roll
Garbo's brings the yeehaw to New England
BY BRANDON WATSON
How Sweet It Is
Sugar Mama's Bakeshop East moves beyond the cupcake
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
New life at the old Tamale House
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
music
HOUSECORE HORROR 2014
Playback: Phil Anselmo's Housecore Horror
Phil Anselmo returns with Housecore Horror, Marc and Elijah Ford jam family style, and Keith Ferguson gets his inked in new book
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Houses of the Unholy
Housecore Horror by the blurb
Voivod
Fri., 10:50pm, Emo's
BY ADAM GANDERSON
Randy Blythe
As the Palaces Burn
screening: Fri., 11pm, Emo's Grindhouse Tent
Interview: Sun., 5:30pm, Emo's
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Eyehategod
Sun., 9:15pm, Emo's
BY MICHAEL TOLAND
Aussie Pie
A trio of Australian detonations
BY ADAM GANDERSON
Decapitated
Blood Mantra (Deluxe)
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Rigor Mortis
Slaves to the Grave
BY MICHAEL TOLAND
Origin
Omnipresent
BY MICHAEL TOLAND
Ringworm
Hammer of the Witch
BY MICHAEL TOLAND
TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL 2014
The Flatlanders: Now It's Now Again
West Texas Beatles finally have their tale told
BY JIM CALIGIURI
2am at the Cat's Pajamas
Jazz in the life and night of a 9-year-old
BY NEPH BASEDOW
I Love You Too
Reggae scion’s call and response
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
screens
2014 AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL
School for Scandal
In Scandals of Classic Hollywood, UT grad Anne Helen Petersen analyzes the machinery of celebrity gossip
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Game On Austin
The Austin Chronicle and SXSW Gaming show off Austin's gaming bounty
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Film Reviews
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
A Hollywood star falls to earth with mad, exhilarating results.
The Blue Room
Mathieu Amalric directs and stars in this Hitchcockian story of l'amour four.
Dear White People
This idea-packed comedy pokes holes in the notion of a post-racial America.
Exists
This found-footage horror film shot in Austin finds a Bigfoot chased from its home by the Bastrop fires.
The Green Prince
The son of a Hamas leader becomes an Israeli spy and searches for a moral center.
Happy New Year
Bollywood action comedy about a jewel heist.
Harmontown
Mad genius TV writer Dan Harmon (Community) embarks on a 20-city tour taping his popular podcast in front of live audiences.
John Wick
Keanu Reeves and the filmmakers deliver the goods in this well-constructed revenge picture.
Karthikeya
Telugu thriller.
Kaththi
Tamil action thriller.
Oka Laila Kosam
Telugu romance.
23 Blast
Actor Dylan Baker debuts as a director with this inspirational film about a blind, young football player.
arts & culture
All Over Creation: Identity Crisis
Two concurrent stage productions show what happens when we define ourselves too narrowly
BY ROBERT FAIRES
TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL 2014
By The Book
In the midst of autumn festivals aimed at lovers of music and film, here's one for the readers
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Exceeding Themselves
Lawrence Wright's Thirteen Days in September tells how Carter, Sadat, and Begin made an impossible peace
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Self Service
Merritt Tierce drew on her own time waiting tables for the provocative restaurant world in her novel Love Me Back
BY AMY GENTRY
Perfidia
The first book in this new L.A. Quartet shows new depth, scope, and craftsmanship in James Ellroy's canon
BY TIM STEGALL
The Zone of Interest
Martin Amis revisits the Holocaust in this new novel, which is eloquent and yet lacks depth
BY AMY KAMP
Love Me Back
Merritt's Tierce's novel isn't for the faint of heart, but it tells of a young woman's survival with boldness and power
BY JESSI CAPE
Arts Reviews
Cock
This Theatre en Bloc show depicts love as a fight and is as exhilarating and aggressive as a contact sport
The Tempest
Faraway-feeling Rain Lily Farm proves a perfect setting for the enchanted isle in Shakespeare's late romance
From Hell to High Estate
This new chamber group's look at the dark side of Romantic music offered some fresh takes on iconic works
columns
The Good Eye: A Woman Possessed
Was she wrong to go all Isabelle Adjani on New Yorker book critic James Wood?
BY AMY GENTRY
Gay Place: FEARBOMB!
Don't fear the creepers: That's just the Weird City Sisters
Day Trips: Goldthwaite's Texas Botanical Garden
Re-creating a slice of the Texas Hill Country
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Oops!
The Luv Doc: Something Vaguely Comprehensible
Sometimes what you believe to be your strength is actually a weakness
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
Hornography
BY ERIC SOLLENBERGER
comics
