Nov. 6, 2015

Volume 35, Number 10

Issue Supplement

Fun Fun Fun Fest 2015

news

Nowhere to Go

The struggles of homeless teenagers and young adults often go overlooked in Austin

BY MAKEDA EASTER

Point Austin: Accountable to No One

Killing a person for running away and then escaping culpability is indefensible

BY MICHAEL KING

Public Notice: One Ring to Rule Them All

There's much to dislike about the greater MoPac tollway plan

BY NICK BARBARO

Headlines

Quote of the Week

Civics 101

State and Local Elections

No new taxes!

BY RICHARD WHITTAKER AND MICHAEL KING

Council: Show Us Your Backside

No City Council meeting this week, but boards and committees offer proposals

BY MICHAEL KING

Mueller vs. TCAD: No Room for Affordability?

TCAD attorney says Mueller is placing blame on appraisal board

BY MICHAEL KING

Planned Parenthood Records Raided

Health provider vows to maintain patient privacy amid government crackdown

BY MARY TUMA

A Small Step

Texas Lege allows anyone to get a prescription for Naloxone

BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

A Matter of Intent

Attorney representing Jackson's family optimistic about civil trial

BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

ABIA Rebuilds After Flood

Flights continue to be delayed

BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

The Hightower Report

How much free speech can you buy?

BY JIM HIGHTOWER

food

FUN FUN FUN FEST 2015

Food Food Food Fest

Your guide to the best festival eating

BY BRANDON WATSON

Lunch Box Life

Seven Austin chefs dish on school lunch lessons

BY VERONICA MEEWES

Mix and Match

Stubborn Foodie reinvents the cake mix

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD

The Take-Out

All the same

BY BRANDON WATSON

Food Events

music

Playback – Fun Fun Fun Fest: A Decade of Aggression

Flashing back on 10 years of Fun Fun Fun Fest

BY KEVIN CURTIN

FUN FUN FUN FEST 2015

Shove

Fun Fun Fun Fest headliners L7 come roaring back on the lips of Donita Sparks

BY NEPH BASEDOW

Friday Fun Fun Fun Fest Interview: Babes in Toyland

The Babes are back in town

BY NEPH BASEDOW

Friday Fun Fun Fun Fest Album Reviews

Friday FFF platters

Friday Fun Fun Fun Fest Blurbs

Friday's top FFF picks

BY MICHAEL TOLAND, THOMAS FAWCETT, ABBY JOHNSTON AND TIM STEGALL

Saturday Fun Fun Fun Fest Interviews

Saturday's punk day for a pair of FFF interviews

Saturday Fun Fun Fun Fest Album Reviews

Saturday FFF platters

Saturday Fun Fun Fun Fest Blurbs

Saturday's top FFF picks

Sunday Fun Fun Fun Fest Interviews

Opposite spectrum, grand finale FFF headliners for Sunday

Sunday Fun Fun Fun Fest Blurbs

Sunday's top FFF picks

Fun Fun Fun Lists

FFF lists: Local, hip-hop, punk, and the return of the Nineties
screens

A Triptych Bathed in Blood

AFS Doc Nights enters the Kingdom of Shadows

BY KAHRON SPEARMAN

Disabilities Unltd.

Cinema Touching Disabilities fights misconceptions

BY JESSI CAPE

Film Reviews

All Things Must Pass

Spirited doc traces the rise and fall of Tower Records

Barista

Baristas compete for fame and glory, and the camera catches it all

Everyday I Love You

Filipino romance

Miss You Already

Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette co-star as best friends facing crises

The Peanuts Movie

Happiness is a warm animated cartoon called The Peanuts Movie

Room

Emma Donoghue's screen adaptation of her bestseller is a knockout

Spectre

Spectre brings the spectacle, but it lacks a soul

Suffragette

Carey Mulligan gets her Norma Rae on in this historical drama
arts & culture

FUN FUN FUN FEST 2015

Fun Fun Fun Fest Comedy

Comedy at FFF 2015 is one big, crazy party

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Hidden Room Theatre Resurrects King Lear

The once-popular but now obscure revision of Shakespeare's play by Nahum Tate is revived, complete with happy ending

BY STEPHANIE CARLL

Welcome to Night Vale The Novel

Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor move the strange little desert town of their wildly popular podcast to the printed page

BY MICHAEL BERRY

Arts Reviews

"Luz y Movimiento: Ender Martos"

A new space for Camiba Art allows for a playful, active relationship to Ender Martos' vibrant Op Art work

One Ounce Opera's There's Beauty in the Beast

The new operetta by Esther's Follies veterans Michael Nesline and Steve Saugey played Frankenstein for laughs but also found its heart
columns

Oops!

Page Two: Fictional Fiction According to John Irving

Louis Black interviews his former writing teacher about his latest novel, Avenue of Mysteries

BY LOUIS BLACK

Gay Place: Grit 'N Glitz

Heavy-hitting week in the LGBTQ with Christeene, Drew Riley, Eileen Myles, Peaches, and more

BY KATE X MESSER

Day Trips: Rohan Meadery, La Grange

From the laboratory of busy minds comes a honey of a wine

BY GERALD E. MCLEOD

The Luv Doc: Bad Bacon

Yes, processed red meat causes cancer. Which village idiots were still laboring under the assumption it doesn't?

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

BY MR. SMARTY PANTS

Feedback

Letters to the editor, published daily
sports

Soccer Watch

BY NICK BARBARO

comics

Maakies

BY TONY MILLIONAIRE

This Modern World

BY TOM TOMORROW

Eyebeam

BY SAM HURT

Why So Much?

BY LANCE MYERS

Peppermint Tears

BY RYAN HENNESSEE

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