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Volume 37, Number 10
Issue Supplement
Best of Austin 2017
ON THE COVER:
features
The 28th Annual Austin Chronicle “Best of Austin” Awards
Readers Poll and Critics Picks
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
news
Chronicle Endorsements
Our endorsements on local bond packages and state constitutional amendments
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
Point Austin: Building Cathedrals
Public libraries and schools sustain a common culture
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Building Foundations
Good work on the sustainable design front
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week: Elizabeth Colvin
Open enrollment for the ACA runs through Dec. 15
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
SAFE Cares
Nonprofit announces program for young survivors of sex trafficking
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Harding Eyes 2018 A.G. Race
Outgoing Travis County Democratic Party chair would be a longshot
BY MARY TUMA
Adler Pulls Frank Rodriguez Nomination
Aide won’t serve on Charter Review Commission
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Halloween Shooter in Custody
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Council: Hush Please … We’re Hiring a City Manager
City requests A.G. ruling to keep search confidential
BY MICHAEL KING
CodeNEXT: Slogging Toward Draft Three
BY SARAH MARLOFF
CHIPs Are Down
Millions of children could lose their health care, thanks to Congress
BY MARY TUMA
EMS Contract Expires
Union hobbled after talks break down on Monday
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Who Wants to Take on Ken Casaday?
Elections underway at police union
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Death Watch: Forced Testimony Over Evidence?
No physical evidence implicates Cardenas in his cousin's murder
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Cap Metro Hangs Hopes on “Connections 2025”
High frequency bus lines attempt to increase commuter freedom
BY JACK CRAVER
food
Food Events
screens
With a History Like That …
The Austin Polish Film Festival delves into the country's complicated past
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
What’cha Watchin’?
If you ever dreamed of being Jane Goodall, Chronicle Controller Liz Franklin invites you to take a stroll through PBS' uncanny valley of robotic animal spies
Film Reviews
A Bad Moms Christmas
The raunchy moms are back with some Christmas spirit(s)
Dealt
The remarkable life of a blind card mechanic
Jane
The life of famed anthropologist Jane Goodall
Jigsaw
The Saw character returns
LBJ
Harrelson dons prosthetics for this complicated biopic
Singularity
A supercomputer determines that mankind is an infection that needs to be eradicated
Suburbicon
The dark side of Fifties middle America
Thor: Ragnarok
The Marvel Universe's funniest movie to date
Una
A woman confronts an older ex-lover with devastating results
Wonderstruck
Two lives intertwine across time in the latest from Todd Haynes
arts & culture
Texas Book Festival 2017
Lovers of the literary, you’re needed at the Capitol for this year’s TBF, stat!
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Capital T Theatre's The Brothers Size
In this staging of Tarell Alvin McCraney's drama, struggles with brotherhood and blackness play out against Yoruban ritual
Groundswell Theatre Company's Bear Eats Bear
This site-specific audio work puts the audience in a postapocalyptic world to show how central art is to the human experience
Butler Opera Center's Così fan tutte
This production brings Mozart's test of female fidelity into the modern world of Tinder and high finance
columns
Gay Place
Lots of worthy FUNdraisers this week
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Best of Texas
Here’s half a dozen of the best things about Texas travel in 2017
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Buttering Your Muffin
Never discount the sexual voraciousness of a pimply-faced teenager
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Front license plate – do I even need it?
BY LUKE ELLIS AND CAROLINE YOUNG
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
