Paramount Theatre
Volume 34, Number 7
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'CHRONICLE' ENDORSEMENTS:
NOVEMBER 4, 2014 GENERAL ELECTIONS
Chronicle Endorsements
For the Nov. 4 General Election
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
Partisan Races
Looking at the statewide, legislative, and county ballot
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
Austin City Election
Endorsements for mayor and Council
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
Proposition 1
Our endorsement for Local Prop. 1
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
ACC Propositions and Board of Trustees
Austin Community College bonds, tax rate increase, and board of trustees
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
AISD Board
Endorsements for AISD board of trustees
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
Point Austin: Look If You Like ...
What we do when we do endorsements
BY MICHAEL KING
Then There's This: Trying to Undo a "Witch Hunt"
Council tries to untangle a controversial ethics complaint
BY AMY SMITH
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
APD: Can We Please Buy Some Top-Secret "StingRays"?
Is APD trying to track your phone?
BY JOHN ANDERSON
Council: Third Try on Rides-for-Hire
Will the third time be a charm for Riley's TNC proposal?
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Council: Ridin' the (R)App
Council continues TNC debate
BY MICHAEL KING
South Austin Vigilante Homicide
Man takes matters into his own hands, kills alleged car thief
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Who Follows Bradley?
Austin ISD District 1
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
10-1 Ticker ... Election updates!
It's campaign video season
BY THE NEWS STAFF
Who Follows Torres?
Cowan vs. Flanagan in AISD District 4
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
SCOTUS Blocks Texas Abortion Law HB 2
Texas women claim rare victory
BY MARY TUMA
Fifth Circuit Lets Voter ID Stand
Claims it's too close to election to change rules
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Hightower Report
Buy local beer, books ... and why not seafood?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
In the Line of Fire
How a home remedy started a flame war
BY JESSI CAPE
A Farewell to Charms
Pleasant Storage Room only does one kind of jerk right
BY BRANDON WATSON
Film to Table
The Austin Film Festival celebrates two Austin obsessions
BY NADIA CHAUDHURY
Food-O-File
How the Southwest was won
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
music
Playback: Jon Pettis Rising
One man's life touches so many others
BY KEVIN CURTIN
ACL Fest Encore
Second weekend live shots
screens
On Polish Screens, the Past Stays in the Picture
Films from the past and present screen at the Austin Polish Film Festival
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Twu Luv
Cary Elwes on the enduring appeal of The Princess Bride
BY NEPH BASEDOW
Help Desk
What to do when an online mug shot messes with your romantic prospects
BY MICHAEL AGRESTA
Film Reviews
Addicted
This erotic thriller is based on the best-selling novel by Zane.
Art and Craft
Mark Landis is an expert forger who donates his work to museums, and this doc makes no judgments about this curious man.
The Best of Me
It's getting hard to tell one Nicholas Sparks adaptation from another amid all the dross.
The Book of Life
Dia de los Muertos provides a colorful and vivid background for this animated film.
Brush With Danger
The obvious martial arts skills of the brother and sister filmmakers, Ken and Livi Zheng, don't compensate for this film's wooden drama.
Fury
Brad Pitt commands a Sherman tank in the waning days of World War II, and teaches his men the simple algorithm of war: Kill or be killed.
Housebound
This New Zealand horror/comedy nimbly jumps through the tropes, and inventively subverts them along the way.
Men, Women & Children
We might be able to connect as human beings if we could just disconnect from from our wired lives, says this movie about our modern world.
The Overnighters
The fracking boom in Williston, N.D., has created hard times in the land of plenty as shown in this devastating doc.
St. Vincent
Bill Murray plays a hard-hearted grouch who warms to his new neighbors – Melissa McCarthy and her young son.
arts & culture
Head Over Meals
Get Jim Gaffigan talking about food, and he can fill a book
BY RUSS ESPINOZA
2014 TEXAS TEEN BOOK FESTIVAL
In Real Life in Real Life
Cory Doctorow brings his newest work to the Texas Teen Book Festival
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Love Is the Drug
It's a rare YA novel that combines entertainment and social commentary this gracefully
BY AMY KAMP
The Truth About Alice
This tale of slut-shaming in a tiny Texas town is entertaining, but doesn't leave a lasting impact
BY AMY KAMP
Arts Reviews
A Bright New Boise
Hyde Park Theatre's latest takes a compelling look at religious extremism through a glass, darkly
Am I White?
One man's twisted sense of racial identity unravels in Adrienne Dawes' brisk and tense new drama
"Dave Culpepper: Wake Me When It's Quitting Time"
Even as Dave Culpepper dreams about our future in space, he humorously points out our present decline
columns
Oops!
Letters at 3am: The Future Dot-Dot-Dot
Ellipses express exactly my sense of the future
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
The Good Eye: Killer Outfits – Anna's Blue Dress
Isabelle Adjani is a devil in a you-know-what
BY AMY GENTRY
The Gay Place
It's Coming Out Month big time in Austin this week
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips: Gonzales Jail Museum
Crime and punishment in Central Texas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Luv Doc: To Tell The Truth
If your GF actually cared what you thought, she would have asked you before she bought that dress
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
Hornography
BY ERIC SOLLENBERGER
comics
