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Volume 37, Number 8
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news
Our endorsements on local bond packages and state constitutional amendments
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
25% of the state's 1,200 long-term care centers have been cited for serious standard deficiencies
BY NINA HERNANDEZ AND ANNAMARYA SCACCIA
We could handle another giant, but let's let 'em open their own wallets
BY MICHAEL KING
Soccer planning goes better than plan planning
BY NICK BARBARO
CodeNEXT is starting to wear on everyone
NAKED CITY
Compassionate Cultivation open in Austin before year’s end?
BY MARY TUMA
Lyft, RideAustin drivers both arrested on sexual assault charges
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Cop who faked his own death accepts probation, won't face misdemeanor charges
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
District 7 trustee did Board work on city time, says city auditor
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Agenda features the CURE and a list of proposed audits
BY MICHAEL KING
New nonprofit plans to groom City Council members
BY MICHAEL KING
Sheriff incurs wrath after altering detainer policy
BY MARY TUMA
Treatment for opioids seen as big step, but hardly only solution
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Texas “must not become a sanctuary state for abortions,” says A.G.
BY MARY TUMA
Woolverton found to have not lied to Civil Service about past accident
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Wages at issue for union after oversight concessions
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Evidentiary hearing expected in Midland County
BY SARAH MARLOFF
food
Finding the gold in an Allandale strip mall
BY JESSI CAPE
Lattes are not the way to this caffeine junkie's heart
BY DANNY PALUMBO
Places in town to eat something autumnal without pumpkin spice
BY EMILY BEYDA
music
Underground turntable maestro needs no introduction to local DJs, but to the broader community he's flown under the radar
BY DAN GENTILE
Taking stock of Austin’s festival landscape a week after the conclusion of ACL Fest
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Rising ATX guitarist recounts opening for the local blues slinger
BY JACKIE VENSON
Tee Double dusts off the local release that proved Austin hip-hop worthy of his raps
BY TERRANY “TEE DOUBLE” JOHNSON
Texas Platters
Clear Language
Thx
Fuck You, You Rule: ST 37's Greatest "Hits"
Shadow World
Beauty School
screens
AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL 2017 PREVIEW
The writers' festival goes big
BY JOSH KUPECKI
Writer/director comes out to play
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Dispatches from the couch
BY JOSH KUPECKI AND MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Writer/Proofreader Greg Stitt hunts down the best horror options currently streaming
Film Reviews
Andrew Garfield stars in this biopic of a British responaut and advocate for the disabled
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei directs an epic overview of the global refugee crisis.
Of course, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the world's best hitman
Account of the informant who brought down Nixon's administration
Visceral dramatization of the heroic work of the Granite Mountain Hotshots
Can two men span the gap of cultural differences?
Intimate portrait of the surfing legend only skims the surface.
arts & culture
Does the rare books room at Austin’s North Lamar location owe its success to alchemy?
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Arts Reviews
Skilled actors and atmospheric design combine to make this co-production a spine-tingler ideal for Halloween
This stage take on the silver-screen musical really comes alive when it breaks free of the familiar film's grip
Choosing Bach’s top chamber works may be impossible, but the baroque ensemble made a convincing case for five not-easy pieces in this concert
columns
Rescheduled Pride doesn't miss a beat
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Public garden adds a culinary component to its flowering beds
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Sweet T is the name of an Irish boxer with fake front teeth and sleeve tattoos
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY LANCE MYERS
BY SAM HURT
BY RYAN HENNESSEE