Volume 35, Number 11
ON THE COVER:
news
Conservancy seeks radical makeover east of Downtown
BY ROBYN ROSS
Low voter turnout means that 6% of county residents decided the courthouse's fate
BY MICHAEL KING
If CodeNEXT staff want community input, they need to be more transparent
BY NICK BARBARO
How moving quickly on buyouts for the nearly 300 Onion Creek homeowners went unresolved
BY MICHAEL KING
YouTube video of arrests ignite controversy over APD force
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Roberts Resorts plans to replace the Eastside farmland with RV lots and manufactured homes
BY MAKEDA EASTER
Sound Check, a week of city development code-related events, kicks off Nov. 16
BY KATIE MATLACK
Name change issue punted to the board's policy committee
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Acevedo says HPD has arrested a "person of interest" on unrelated murder charges
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Immigration rights advocates say Abbott is merely pandering to his political base
BY TONY CANTÚ
BY MICHAEL KING
Killeen native implicated in SXSW crash sentenced to life in prison
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
U.S. Grand Prix might not be back next year
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Can craft beer drinkers defeat the beer monopolists?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Austin isn't a world-class beer destination, but it's close
BY ERIC PUGA
Food meets art at Make. Eat. Drink.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Does Austin need more restaurant reviews?
BY BRANDON WATSON
music
Sex, love, and nostalgia – recapping Fun Fun Fun Fest 2015
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Our take on 30 acts at FFFF 2015
screens
A master editor steps behind the camera
BY SEAN L. MALIN
My All American revisits UT Football legend Freddie Steinmark
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
The show may be canceled but the community is thriving
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Film Reviews
Telugu fantasy.
Instant midnight classic marries inspiration with sub-par technique
Gaspar Noé does the impossible: He gives us a boring, 3-D sex odyssey
A comedy gathering as dreary as your own family get-togethers
Longhorn legend Freddie Steinmark gets his due in this sports drama
Bollywood take on The Prince and the Pauper switch
Antonio Banderas stars in this story about the trapped Chilean miners
Tamil adaptation of the French thriller Sleepless Night
Tamil action comedy
arts & culture
Author Neil Gaiman brings his Dreamy self to Austin on Friday the 13th
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
What to do when you find a piece of art on the East Austin Studio Tour that you want to bring home
BY CAITLIN GREENWOOD AND SETH ORION SCHWAIGER
Arts Reviews
In Capital T's simple, elegant staging of the Pinter classic, it's what isn't said that matters
In Verdi's Egyptian tragedy, Austin Opera excavates from the pomp and pageantry the personal
Chorus Austin unearthed a vast repertoire of music – gorgeous, frightening, and comedic – that speaks to mortality and the dead
columns
Part two of Louis Black's interview with novelist John Irving
BY LOUIS BLACK
The Seattle sisters get called up
BY KATE X MESSER
Small-town meat market embraces German traditions and art of barbecue
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
In the end the mortality rate of bearded vs. non-bearded people is exactly the same
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
BY JEN SORENSEN
BY SAM HURT
BY LANCE MYERS