Pease Park
Volume 36, Number 9
features
How to Assemble Your Donald Trump Mask
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER AND CHASE HOFFBERGER
news
Chronicle Endorsements
From local elections to the dreaded presidential race, here's who we recommend
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
The Odds on Mayor Adler’s $720 Million Mobility Bond
Is the plan just daring enough to work?
BY MICHAEL KING
Point Austin: Let Us Begin
The transportation bond represents useful and necessary progress
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Your Libraries at Work
Plus parties for the environment, and the Dead
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
BY THE NEWS STAFF
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Election Notes
District 6, mobility fits, and complaints of campaign thrift
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER, MARY TUMA AND MICHAEL KING
League of Left-Out Voters
In a busy election season, the Statesman grapples with space and its endorsements
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
CodeNEXT Is Coming
Special called CodeNEXT meeting signals new day forward for land development
BY CALEB PRITCHARD
APD: Suspensions and Demotions
Former Lieutenant Allen Hicks and Sergeant Scott Stanfield were disciplined for failing to properly review multiple cases of their officers' use of force
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Pushing Forward
LGBTQ orgs and APD gather for hate crime summit
BY SARAH MARLOFF
HACA Digital Inclusion Plan Hits Two-Year Mark
Three public housing properties are now connected to high-speed internet, with a fourth on the horizon
BY MARY TUMA
The Hightower Report: Four Questions for the Former Boss of the Wells Fargo Gang
Some stories of corporate villainy make me throw up my hands in astonishment. But this one makes me literally throw up.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Ghost Hunting at Austin’s Spookiest Bars and Restaurants
Our favorite haunts
BY BRANDON WATSON
Review: Forthright
Tiny cafe serves solid classics
BY BRANDON WATSON
Dear Glutton: Where to Eat Before a Halloween Party
In search of a respectable dinner before a night of costumed buffoonery
BY EMILY BEYDA
Food Events
music
Girl in a Coma's Nina Diaz Debuts Solo
Screaming without a sound
BY ALEJANDRA RAMIREZ
Why I Left Austin
Alejandro Escovedo's first-person account of leaving Austin last year after 35 years
BY TIM STEGALL
Playback: C3 in Talks to Co-Produce Levitation Fest
ACL Fest promoters partner with psych fest?
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Austin as Tech Hub: Myth or Reality?
Start-ups abound here in Bat City, but they rarely stick around
BY JOHNNY HOLDEN
Film Reviews
Antibirth
A party girl discovers she's pregnant
Certain Women
Wonderful performances imbue this subtle drama
El Jeremías
A boy genius searches for his destiny
The Handmaiden
A stylish and alluring love triangle
I'm Not Ashamed
The story of the first casualty in the Columbine school shooting
Inferno
Hanks tours the museums of Europe trying to save the world
Miss Hokusai
The life of an artist through the eyes of his daughter
Oasis: Supersonic
Britpop band looks back in anger
Tyler Perry's Boo! A Madea Halloween
Tricks and treats with Tyler Perry
We Are X
Japanese rockers are the best band you've never heard of
arts & culture
Leon and Stella Alesi: Love Conjures All
Leon and Stella Alesi provide ocular proof of a life in the arts
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Arts Reviews
"Painters Painting Painters" at Davis Gallery
With 10 artists making portraits of themselves and one another, it’s the variety of styles that provides the show’s strength
Hidden Room Theatre's Houdini Speaks to the Living
In this drama featuring Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle, a debate on the talking dead springs to dramatic life
The Institution Theater's It Came From Your Brain
This improvised retro sci-fi monster movie may pique your curiosity enough that you’ll want to visit the “drive-in” more than once
columns
Gay Place
Halloween is our fave holiday of the year
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Smither Park, Houston
Art garden turns old dishes into beautiful mosaics
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: A Real Pleasurecraft
Ambition is not an admirable quality, it's a tolerable neurosis at best
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
