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Volume 43, Number 11
Issue Supplement
Texas Book Festival 2023 Guide
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news
Austin's Transportation Future: What Will It Look Like in 2033?
Highways, headless horsemen, and high-speed trains: The ghost of our transportation future
BY BENTON GRAHAM
Headlines / Quote of the Week
During Closing Arguments in Christopher Taylor Murder Trial, Attorneys Appeal to Sense of Fear, Justice Among Jurors
Jury deliberating as of Wednesday morning
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Texas ACLU Readies for Abortion Battle in Cities and Towns
The struggle starts at the local level
BY MAGGIE Q. THOMPSON
Election Results for Constitutional Amendments and County Propositions
Voters approve child care tax breaks, teacher retirement boost, gas plant subsidies, and more
BY THE NEWS TEAM
Greg Abbott’s Private School Voucher Plans Stay Dead
Promise not to promise this anymore, Guv?
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Prisoner With Cancer Received Delayed Treatment, Little Family Visitation, Then Died, Family Says
Tony Sendejo’s last days were painful, chaotic
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Hundreds Rally Against I-35 Expansion
TxDOT’s pricey project proving unpopular with Council members, congressmen, and regular Austinites
BY LINA FISHER
Council Slashes Parking Requirements, Ushering in New Era of Development Rules
City expresses optimism that eliminating parking minimums will lower the cost of building housing
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
food
The Only All-Woman-Owned-and-Brewed Beer in Austin Takes Root
Lass Haüs Ales is all woman
BY CHRISTINA GARCIA
Beerburg’s Beers Made by Walking Festival, Joel Taylor’s Little Nishi, Fierce Whiskers’ Bourbon Battle, the Quesoff’s Cheesy Splendor, and More
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmer's markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of November 9, 2023
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
music
"Finally I Sang": Progressive Cumbia Fires Up Como Las Movies’ Full-Length Debut
Como Las Singles finds Nelson Valente Aguilar in the driver’s seat
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
The Pharcyde and Brownout’s Special Fest Collaboration and More Crucial Concerts This Week
Find Nineties alt-hip-hop pioneers and Caroline Rose at two separate benefits
BY RACHEL RASCOE, DOUG FREEMAN, KRISS CONKLIN, RAOUL HERNANDEZ, MICHAEL TOLAND, ELIZABETH BRAATEN, CARYS ANDERSON AND DEREK UDENSI
Lawsuit Filed Against Diplo and 3Ten ACL Live Over Alleged Concert Injury, and More Music News
Plus free concerts to see during Austin Studio Tour this weekend
BY RACHEL RASCOE AND GENEVIEVE WOOD
A New Documentary Meditates on Texan Electronic Composer Pauline Oliveros
Celebrate the queer theorist behind Deep Listening this Sunday at AFS
BY RACHEL RASCOE
Residential Address: Africa Night's Food, Dance, and Storytelling at Sahara Lounge
Musician Ibrahim Aminou brings West Africa to East Austin every Saturday
BY GARY LINDSEY
Live Music in Austin
BY DEREK UDENSI
Screens
Film Reviews
The Delinquents
Argentine crime fable is tricksy and charming
It's a Wonderful Knife
Exactly the It's a Wonderful Life horror spoof the title implies
Manodrome
Jesse Eisenberg is haunting as a fractured victim of MRA nonsense
The Marvels
Lower, lesser, slower, baby
Rustin
Colman Domingo brings a lost mainstay of the Civil Rights Movement to life
Your Lucky Day
Angus Cloud grounds this twisty sealed bottle crime flick
arts & culture
A New Chapter for Austin’s Small Bookstores
From serving neighborhoods to serving wine, how innovative local booksellers are filling the shelves
BY JOE GROSS
Five Themes at This Year’s Texas Book Festival
What’s hot, what’s intriguing, and who’s gonna be at the annual literary bonanza
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Mr. Texas
Lawrence Wright’s newest novel isn’t just Mr. Smith Goes to Austin
BY JAY TRACHTENBERG
Arts Events
Art galleries, theatre, comedy, dance, and more
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Community Events
Local events, volunteer opportunities, kids' activities, and more
BY KATHERINE MCNEVINS
columns
Opinion: Public Transit Alone Won’t Fix Traffic Woes. Is Congestion Pricing the Solution?
This lesser-known traffic control strategy encourages the diversion of traffic through ulterior routes, means, or times
BY AARNAV CHITARI AND DAVID LI
Day Trips: Kennedy’s Sausage Hometown Market, Santo
New Orleans’ popular crawfish Monica sauce is made in a small North Texas town
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Qmmunity: Clowning Around
Queer embarrassment artist Andie Flores brings her show about "a clown idiot" to Crashbox
BY JAMES SCOTT
The Austin Chronic: Doc Unprescribed Explores How Cannabis Is Helping People Who’ve Experienced War Trauma
goodblend hosts special screening for Veterans Day
BY KEVIN CURTIN
The Luv Doc: Snippy Boyfriend
Staying healthy always involves some sort of movement
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, November 10-16
BY ROB BREZSNY
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