Jason Stout
Volume 38, Number 10
Issue Supplement
Best of Austin 2018
ON THE COVER:
features
news
Best of luck to all of us this coming Tuesday
BY NICK BARBARO
Recommendations for mayor, Council, school and college districts, bonds, and propositions
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
The mayor speaks on anti-Semitism after the Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh
Vote in memory of those who gave their lives for others
BY MICHAEL KING
NAKED CITY
Outgoing state rep seeks $7.8 million in damages
BY MARY TUMA
Detained mother requests release, fearing daughter's safety
BY MARY TUMA
Austin Police redefine nonviolent arrestable offenses
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
From 4,000 to zero
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Changes coming to the way AISD does sex ed?
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Vote-pocalypse now!
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON, NINA HERNANDEZ, CHASE HOFFBERGER, MICHAEL KING AND SARAH MARLOFF
Four struggling schools to see new plans for improved performance
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Adler stands up after synagogue shooting
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Commissioners to consider legislative role on Nov. 13
BY MICHAEL KING
Pepe the Frog gaffe costs anti-stadium drive big bucks
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
How long had Mikel Kane's beef been brewing?
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Another strange bedfellow
BY MICHAEL KING
Council member pushes efficiency audit after boil notice
BY MARY TUMA
Making the most of ACA enrollment for 2019
BY MICHAEL AGRESTA
food
music
UtopiaFest, November 2-3
Reveille Peak Ranch, Burnet
screens
Austin Asian American Film Festival celebrates women in cinema
BY SHALAVÉ CAWLEY
Film Reviews
Battle rap comedy takes no prisoners
True life forgery black comedy rings surprisingly true
Peter Bogdanovich sketches the outlines of the life of Buster Keaton
Sports doc finds the best of the best
High school anime is a bittersweet symphony
Franco-Japanese anime spoofs rap culture clumsily
Go see the actual ballet instead
A refugee's quiet advocacy is a tale of true heroism
Should Orson Welles' last film have stayed lost?
Giallo remake uses dark magic to give women their voices
Susan Sarandon and the murky world of paying kidnappers
Gyllenhaal and Mulligan burn in this period marriage drama
arts & culture
Arts Reviews
In Jonathan Christenson's musical, Edgar Allan Poe's life is imagined as a spooky, entrancing dance of the spirits
The first group show in the collective's new home shows its members stretching themselves and embracing change
In the way she transforms antique photographs of anonymous women, Turetzky elevates their subjects’ status to something holy and sacred
columns
Celebrate Intersex Awareness Day all year
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Five best things about daytrippin’ in 2018
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
If someone offers you a breath mint, you take the fucking breath mint
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Get out and vote – questions when you head to the polls
BY LUKE ELLIS AND HALEY HOLT
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY RYAN HENNESSEE
BY SAM HURT