Oct. 14, 2016

Volume 36, Number 7

news

Rundberg Rising

How do you keep improving a neighborhood after $1 million in grant money runs out?

BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

Point Austin: American Horror Story

What can you say when you can't say "It's Only a Movie"?

BY MICHAEL KING

Public Notice: Which Comes First?

CodeNEXT or the transpo bond? Or both?

BY NICK BARBARO

Headlines

Quote of the Week

Civics 101

Groping Women, Ducking Questions, Fighting Lightweights, Bashing Bonds

Election notes from the city, state, country, and beyond

BY RICHARD WHITTAKER, CHASE HOFFBERGER, MARY TUMA, ANNAMARYA SCACCIA AND MICHAEL KING

City Council Endors-gasbord

Who's endorsing who for the five City Council seats up for grabs in November?

BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

30-Days-Out Reports from Campaign Finance Land

BY NINA HERNANDEZ

Prosecuting Sexual Assault

DOJ grant provides $650,000 to jump-start new sexual assault prosecution unit

BY SARAH MARLOFF

Fight for $15 Protests Fast Food Working Conditions

Rallies come on heels of negative labor report on Austin restaurants

BY MARY TUMA

Death Watch: Shuffling the Deck

Death row inmates see new execution dates

BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

The Hightower Report: Why Is Delivering "Mail by the Pail" Important?

It's part of our post office's amazing commitment to service

BY JIM HIGHTOWER

food

The Buzz on Local Bees

A swarm of local activity seeks to protect pollinators

BY JESSI CAPE

Cheap Eats: Austin Daily Press

Affordable decadence on the Eastside

BY MARY BRYCE

Dear Glutton: Where to Find Late-Night Eats

Food options for the post-festival crowd

BY EMILY BEYDA

Food Events

music

Inside Full Service Circus’ Musical Festival

Can’t get on the bill at ACL? Start your own backyard fest.

BY BRYAN ROLLI

Playback: ACL Fest Part II

ACL Fest isn't a pair of weekend-long sit-ins, it's one two-week-long campaign

BY KEVIN CURTIN

ACL Fest Weekend Two Live Shots

One final recap from two perfect weekends
screens

2016 Austin Film Festival Spotlights

AFF has some big names, but never loses sight of its hometown

BY JOSH KUPECKI

Film Reviews

The Accountant

Math, mayhem, and murder abound in this somewhat confusing thriller

Denial

Holocaust courtroom drama parallels contemporary issues

Desierto

A most dangerous game in the desert

Max Steel

A teen and an alien join forces in this superhero movie
arts & culture

Arts Reviews

Jarrott Productions' The Price

This staging of the Arthur Miller drama keenly appraises the worth of a life

UT Dept. of Theatre & Dance's In the Red and Brown Water

Multiple storytelling modes make Tarell Alvin McCraney's complex play operate as both theatre and ritual

"The First Horizons of Juno" at MASS Gallery

Within this smart and variable group show are three works that are muscular, robust, something to pump your fist to
columns

Page Two – BFI: Blaze Foley Inside

11 verses in search of a song

BY LOUIS BLACK

Gay Place

Plenty of spooktacular events in the weeks ahead

BY SARAH MARLOFF

Day Trips: Anheuser-Busch Brewery, Houston

With more than 25 beverages under their label, drinking the AB InBev brand is easy in their tap room

BY GERALD E. MCLEOD

The Luv Doc: How Clever You Are

Where everyone gets their three minutes to bomb

BY THE LUV DOC

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

BY MR. SMARTY PANTS

Feedback

Letters to the editor, published daily
sports

Soccer Watch

BY NICK BARBARO

comics

Why So Much?

BY LANCE MYERS

This Modern World

BY TOM TOMORROW

Jen Sorensen Comics

BY JEN SORENSEN

Eyebeam

BY SAM HURT

Maakies

BY TONY MILLIONAIRE

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