Congress Avenue between Ninth & 11th streets
Volume 36, Number 15
news
Give 'Til It Helps
A guide to giving
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Chronicle Endorsements
Recommendations for the city and school district
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
Standing Rock’s Civil Disobedience Reaches West Texas
“It’s the Rio Grande. It’s sacred to many people."
BY GREG HARMAN AND MARISOL CORTEZ
Point Austin: Down in the Grove
Agreement on latest PUD portends … a little progress?
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Angry Hornets
Happy ending to Grove saga leaves questions
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Council: Not Only the Grove
Does anybody speak Zimmerman-ese?
BY MICHAEL KING
Interpretations of Grove Mediations
How is everybody feeling after the Grove goes through second reading?
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
NAKED CITY
Mapping Prop. 1
BY MICHAEL KING
D10 Campaign Finance
Who's got the money? Who's got the endorsements?
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Sheri Gallo's Long Campaign
Mapping a path to the Gallo's poll
BY ANNAMARYA SCACCIA
Detention Is Not Child Care
"The conditions at Karnes and Dilley are equivalent to prisons," said Bob Libal
BY MARY TUMA
What’s Bad for Queers Is Also Bad for Texas
Local businesses show support for LGBTQ community
BY MARY TUMA
Zim: Right-Wing Radio Star?
What comes after Council for the talking head?
BY MARY TUMA AND CHASE HOFFBERGER
AISD Board Considers Futures for Underused Facilities
The district’s property portfolio has become an increasingly pressing matter
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Overturning Overtime
Obama's plan to fix overtime wage pay in America appears over before it could get started
BY JACK CRAVER
Incoming D.A. Margaret Moore Continues Her Restructure of Office
Would you like to hire a prosecutor?
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
The Hightower Report: How Many Working-Class Populists are in Trump’s New Government?
If you're not at the table, you're on the menu
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
A New Generation Opens Up to Global Cuisine
Local tastemakers think outside America's borders
BY VERONICA MEEWES
The Take-Out
Giving back to the hospitality industry
BY BRANDON WATSON
Food Events
music
Did Shearwater Cut the Best Protest Album of 2016?
Jonathan Meiburg calls out new America's scary monsters
BY ABBY JOHNSTON
Playback: Mother Falcon’s Major Label Deal That Wasn’t
Mother Falcon signs to Universal and seconds later terminates the contract
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Rock & Roll Books
Seduced by Sound: Austin
Carley Wolf
I Am Brian Wilson / Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy
Brian Wilson, Ben Greenman, Mike Love and James S. Hirsch
Ramones at 40 / Slash: A Punk Magazine From Los Angeles, 1977-80
Martin Popoff, Brian Roettinger and J.C. Gabel
Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen
Lennon on Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon
Jeff Burger
Altamont
Joel Selvin
Juggalo: Insane Clown Posse and the World They Made
Steve Miller
Screamin' Jay Hawkins' All-Time Greatest Hits: A Novel
Mark Binelli
A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism
Paul Youngquist
Play It Loud
Brad Tolinski and Alan di Perna
Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys
Lol Tolhurst
Hank: The Short Life & Long Country Road of Hank Williams
Mark Ribowsky
Pretty Paper: A Christmas Tale
Willie Nelson and David Ritz
screens
Tabletop Games for the Holidays
Whether you're a neophyte or a gaming guru, we've got you covered
BY JOSH KUPECKI, ROBERT M. REYES, RICHARD WHITTAKER, ASHLEY MORENO AND FELIX MORGAN
Film Reviews
Aquarius
A widow fights to keep her home in this Brazilian film
The Bounce Back
Charming film pits two love gurus against each other
Incarnate
Demon possession thriller
Miss Sloane
Jessica Chastain plays a powerful D.C. lobbyist
Office Christmas Party
Workplace comedy lacks the laughs
Slash
A sweet coming-of-age film set in the world of fan fiction
arts & culture
Examining the Sins and Virtues of Hypermasculine Theatre
When is violence in theatre too much?
BY SHANON WEAVER
Arts Reviews
Rude Mechs' Requiem for Tesla
The Austin theatre collective's biography of inventor Nikola Tesla literally makes sparks fly
Street Corner Arts' Constellations
The company moves through Nick Payne's play in ways that make its multiple variations quick and fresh
Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company's Disrupted
KDHDC and Dark Circles Contemporary Dance used classical music to launch into playful patterns and absurd rituals
columns
Page Two: Telling Stories, Watching Movies
The real and the known, the unreal and then some
BY LOUIS BLACK
Gay Place
It’s time to take care of our own
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Farwell and the Ozark Trail
Texas town on the New Mexican border has one of the last highway markers
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc: Be a Champion
You have to silence the doubters, the boo birds and the armchair quarterbacks
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
Maakies
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
Jen Sorensen Comics
BY JEN SORENSEN
This Modern World
BY TOM TOMORROW
Why So Much?
BY LANCE MYERS
Eyebeam
BY SAM HURT
