Bates Recital Hall
Volume 36, Number 1
features
What We Talk About When We Talk About Weird
Defining Terms
Why the Chronicle's 35th anniversary is focused on That Word
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Letters to the Editor: Classic Cuts
35 years of "keeping it weird"
BY DANIELLE WHITE
news
What We Talk About When We Talk About Weird
The Spirit of the City and the Letter of the Law Collide at Sekrit Theater
Beau Reichert struggles with the city over his backyard arts complex
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Point Austin: Return on Investment
Austin Energy rate cuts are both a financial and political dividend
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Good City, Bad City
City staff does some things right, some things wrong
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Austin Energy: Rate Cuts Solve Everybody's Problems
Council votes to approve utility rate reduction
BY MICHAEL KING
Council Preview: Wildhorses, Salamanders, Elephants
Only 51 items on today's agenda – but plenty of potential land mines
BY MICHAEL KING
Patrick: Cut Costs for Rich Kids
Lt. gov. targets tuition credits, waivers
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
EMS Restructures Work Week for Medics
Shifting shifts
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
ACC Board Place 9 Race: Not a Snoozefest
Four candidates emerge from extended filing deadline
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Court Recognizes Legal Union of Planet K, Ron Paul Sign
Head shop wins five-year battle to display campaign sign on Bee Cave property
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
AISD Sees Uptick in Homeless Youth
Lack of affordability jeopardizes housing stability for Austin families
BY ANNAMARYA SCACCIA
APD's Lone Female Assistant Chief Retires
Jessica Robledo was the only woman at the executive level during her tenure
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Cop Suspended for Pepper Spraying Handcuffed Arrestee
APD patrol officer Caldwell benched for 45 days
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
The Hightower Report
When is daylight robbery not a crime?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
What We Talk About When We Talk About Weird
Preserving the Food and Beverage Industry With Fermentation
Jason White turns his science chops to gastronomy
BY VERONICA MEEWES
Review: L'oca d'oro
Italian concept brings luxury without the pomp
BY BRANDON WATSON
Dear Glutton: Where to Eat on a Rainy Austin Day
Stay dry and have a good meal
BY EMILY BEYDA
Food Events
music
What We Talk About When We Talk About Weird
10 Freaks and Geeks to Redefine Austin Music
Local passion projects with singular visions
BY GREG BEETS, TIM STEGALL, KEVIN CURTIN, ALEJANDRA RAMIREZ, DOUG FREEMAN, THOMAS FAWCETT, LIBBY WEBSTER AND JIM CALIGIURI
Playback: 35 Years of Chronicle Music Covers
We wade through the roughly 300 issues stamped with the mug of a musician
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
What We Talk About When We Talk About Weird
Casting Director Toni Brock on 30-Plus Years of Putting Texans Onscreen
The role of a lifetime
BY SEAN L. MALIN
I Like to Watch: Roadies
Showtime series becomes a summer favorite
BY JACOB CLIFTON
Film Reviews
Game of Aces
World War I thriller gets lost in the desert
Klown Forever
Danish comedy duo head to Hollywood
The Light Between Oceans
Gorgeous period melodrama fails to connect
Little Men
Friendships are tested in this bittersweet coming-of-age tale
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Werner Herzog goes down the internet rabbit hole
Mechanic: Resurrection
Jason Statham returns as the beleaguered assassin
Morgan
An AI experiment goes wrong in this forgettable genre exercise
The 9th Life of Louis Drax
A doctor unravels the mystery of a child in a coma
Nuts!
Stranger-than-fiction doc about an eccentric doctor
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Natalie Portman adapts Amos Oz's acclaimed memoir
Uncle Kent 2
Meta-sequel to the Joe Swanberg film
Yoga Hosers
Two teenagers battle an army of small sausages
arts & culture
What We Talk About When We Talk About Weird
Seeing Life’s Brevity in the Art Poles of South First
Street art goes vertical in South Austin
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Hand to God at Hyde Park Theatre
Capital T Theatre delivers a fast-paced, funny take on this tale of a demonic hand puppet in a church basement
"Goya: Mad Reason" at the Blanton Museum
The images of war in Goya's prints are brutal and immediate, and it is for this reason that we must look at them
columns
What We Talk About When We Talk About Weird
Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away
The Chronicle at 35
BY LOUIS BLACK
Gay Place
Post-Pride Week parties aplenty
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Taxidermy
Stuffed and mounted animals may have their place in museums, but they're kind of creepy
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Every Few Minutes
Far-fetched, hopelessly sad, and embarrassingly pathetic
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Eminent domain – the government made a low offer – what next?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
