Photo by John Anderson
Volume 38, Number 14
ON THE COVER:
news
Dec. 11 Run-off Election; Early Voting Nov. 29-Dec. 7
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
Finally doing right by Austin's waterways
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
National Climate Assessment amplifies the alarm
BY MICHAEL KING
New task force report finds room to improve
BY NICK BARBARO
Light agenda, plus spitballing about biennial budgets
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
NAKED CITY
Court guts pay for special prosecutors trying AG for fraud
BY MARY TUMA
Feds reject effort to remove unsafe animal-control tool from use
BY LINDSAY STAFFORD MADER
City manager names candidates for new executive team
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Owner files suit after sexual misconduct scandal
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Democracy itself is at stake. Just ask Frank Ward.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON, SARAH MARLOFF AND MARY TUMA
Robert Van Boven back in court against Texas Medical Board
BY MICHAEL KING
A school by any other name ...
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Union warns cash-starved district: Stay out of the classroom
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Joel Baker comes in to lead a tired department
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Inmate challenges original conviction, post-escape "law of parties" verdict
BY SARAH MARLOFF
food
Heidi Garbo is strong as hell
BY JESSI CAPE
music
Graham Reynolds teaches musicians how to score ... film
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
I Want My All ATX: Austin Artists Revisit the 80s
Broadcasts Vol. 26
All the Pain Money Can Buy 20th Anniversary Edition
Before the World Beat You Down
The Sound of Science
screens
Austin filmmakers create a one-stop production space in Taylor
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Traveling showcase of video hilarity screens at the North Door
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Local filmmakers make their own Netflix movie
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Scottish zombie musical is your new Christmas playlist
Period drama puts power and personality first
The genius soprano's contentious career in her own words
How the legendary art collective beat the world and kept its soul
Delightful anime explores growing up from a kid's viewpoint
Stunning AIDS drama looks beyond the disease and into grief
arts & culture
The fact that magicians around the world revere the magic man of Esther’s Follies is no illusion
BY JESSE SUBLETT
Weird is the new normal at this bazaar of the bizarre
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Arts Reviews
This musical production makes for an effervescent alternative to that other Dickens holiday show
In this retelling of the Charles Dickens novel, a visible love of narrative is the show's greatest strength
This show in the Cage Match Project series casts the viewer as peeping Tom, looking through holes in a boarded-up trailer to view art
columns
FBC will make you blush brighter than the Trail of Lights
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Sanctuary safeguards rare island of palms behind border wall
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
You can say "Cleveland Steamer" and not be accused of profanity
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY SAM HURT
BY RYAN HENNESSEE
BY TOM TOMORROW