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Volume 43, Number 15
ON THE COVER:
WE HAVE AN ISSUE:
BY Kimberley Jones
news
Gift Guide 2023
A Very Merry List of Junk to Gift to News Junkies
For loved ones in the good fight and those you’ve yet to indoctrinate
BY THE NEWS TEAM
Headlines / Quote of the Week
How ERCOT and the City Are Preparing for the Next Winter Storm
Mayor: "We should anticipate that we will have a big weather event"
BY LINA FISHER
State Health Care Agency Urging 55-Hour Christmas-Themed Work Weeks
The request is an effort to address Medicaid and SNAP backlogs
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Authors of Police Oversight Act Sue City for Failing to Fully Implement Ordinance
Suit names interim police chief and city manager as defendants
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
5th Circuit Court Hears Case Against “Incomprehensible” Book Ban
Law makes booksellers deem books "sexually explicit" with vague standards
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Death Watch: As Execution Falls Out of Favor Nationwide, Texas Accelerates
State continues to execute priests and the intellectually disabled
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Your Guide to Charitable Giving
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
food
Gift Guide 2023
Foodie Field Trips and More Edible Experiences to Gift This Season
Austin Chronicle Gift Guide 2023
BY ROD MACHEN
Food-Adjacent Gifts for Drinking, Cooking, and Entertaining
Stylish textiles, cutting boards, Austin bar guide, and more
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Gift This: Iconic Austin Wearable Merch
These bars and restaurants keep Austinites well fed, well quaffed, and well dressed
BY TAYLOR TOBIN
Soup to Nuts for the Holidays
Gift your besties some soupy and/or nutty goodness this year
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
NADC Burger Goes Brick-and-Mortar, Birdie’s Reprises Bistro Remy, Luminaire Gets Spanish with Wines, the Oyster Is (Part of) épicerie’s World, 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 December 7, 2023
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
music
Gift Guide 2023
A Gift Guide for the Austin Music Fan in Your Life
Try a Nineties Austin oral history, Willie birthday LP, or BLK ODYSSY ashtray
BY CARYS ANDERSON AND RACHEL RASCOE
Me Nd Adam’s Keep Austin Cheer’d and More Crucial Concerts This Week
Get in the holiday spirit with Spaceflight Records or Spiritualized
BY RACHEL RASCOE, RAOUL HERNANDEZ, GENEVIEVE WOOD, CARYS ANDERSON, MICHAEL TOLAND, DOUG FREEMAN AND DEREK UDENSI
Texas State Professors’ New Book Recontextualizes Paul McCartney’s “Blackbird”
To explore “how Black musicians sang the Beatles into being”
BY OSCAR RODRIGUEZ
Live Music in Austin
Live Music in Austin
BY DEREK UDENSI
screens
From Revolution to Entertainment in We Are Fugazi From Washington, D.C.
Chronicle writer Joe Gross goes documentarian for the hardcore pioneers
BY TIM STEGALL
Film Reviews
The Boy and the Heron
Miyazaki's gorgeous but oddly obtuse return to animation
Maestro
Truly moving biopic of musical leviathan Leonard Bernstein
Poor Things
Emma Stone thrills in this Frankenstein-inspired satire of self-actualization
arts & culture
Gift Guide 2023
Gift Guide: The Movie of the Book
Five page-turners for the film fan in your life who wants the whole story
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Gift Guide: Tabletop Gaming From Austin
Rolling the dice on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is just one way to kill some time over the holidays
BY MATTHEW MONAGLE
Review: Broadway in Austin’s My Fair Lady
Sharp-tongued classic musical still needs to fix its modern ending
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Review: “The Dog Show”
Hiromi Stringer curates a fictitious, dog-obsessed museum in her current solo show
BY MEHER QAZILBASH
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
We Have an Issue: “Free Wrapping Paper Since 1981”
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Opinion: No Home Sweet HOME for Austin’s Black and Latino Communities
A member of the Planning Commission argues that Austin’s proposed new land use plan would result in another major forced relocation of Austin’s Latino community and its dwindling Black community
BY ALBERTA PHILLIPS
The Austin Chronic: Meet the Stoner Who Puts Plants Onstage at Concerts
Zak Peters and Play to the Plants bring greenery to Austin music
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Gift Guide 2023
Qmmunity: Stop, Drop, and Shop
Qmmunity advises on what local places are best for gay gift shopping this year
BY JAMES SCOTT
Day Trips: Buffalo Bayou Cistern, Houston
Cistern Illuminated sends a tsunami of light through the former underground drinking water reservoir
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Dark Days
A full glass of water? Who has time for that?
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Neighborhood parking battles
BY LUKE ELLIS
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, December 8-14
BY ROB BREZSNY
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
With Playoff Selection, Texas Is Back to College Football’s Elite Status
No. 3 seed Longhorns meet No. 2 seed Washington in the Sugar Bowl on New Year’s Day
BY ERIC GOODMAN
comics
