Continental Club
Photo by David Brendan Hall
Volume 39, Number 7
ON THE COVER:
news
Chronicle Endorsements for the November 5 Election
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
The Long Story of East 11th and 12th Streets Takes a Turn
Austin’s historically black neighborhood continues to stand at the crossroads of growth
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Austin at Large: We Have Had It With That Guy
Republicans, come get your bros. Dems, get out your voters.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Public Notice – LDC Revision: Notes & Notices
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Texas Hemp Growers Host Master Class on Modern Cultivation
BY KEVIN CURTIN
The Beto-Castro-Meter
Checking on the chances for Texas' presidential candidates
A Testy Council Continues to Consider Homelessness
The dais agrees: Ordinances need to be revised, but they disagree on how to do so
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
The Texas Conference for Women Turns 20 With Expanded Programming
Megan Rapinoe, Tracee Ellis Ross to keynote nonprofit, nonpartisan networking event
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Ken Paxton Blocks Payment to Formerly Incarcerated Man Declared Innocent
Declared innocent, Alfred Dewayne Brown has appealed for compensation due to unjust imprisonment
BY MICHAEL KING
Will Austin's New Wildfire Code Be Enough?
"The risk is bad"
BY LINDSAY STAFFORD MADER
food
The Graphic Details Behind Marketing Austin's Craft Beers
How to grow from a brew to a brand
BY ERIC PUGA
Local Supplement Brand Pledges to Clean Up Litter With Every Purchase
fitppl sees the link between healthy food and a healthy planet
BY LINA FISHER
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of October 17, 2019
music
Iron Age's Seminal Album Reverberates Through Texas' Metal Scene
The Sleeping Eye turns 10 with a reissue, its creators and other Texas metal icons consider its influence
BY MICHAEL TOLAND
Faster Than Sound: Ryan Garrett Assumes Beerland Lease
Stubb’s GM Ryan Garrett takes over lease on neighboring punk club Beerland, expanding Red River Cultural District involvement.
BY RACHEL RASCOE
screens
Chad Holt, Austin's Last Provocateur
The Total Badass left his mark on the city's underground
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Dreamy Visions at the Austin Arthouse Film Festival
Celebrate the avant-garde at AFS Cinema
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
The Addams Family
Your favorite creepy neighbors are back, and kid friendly
Celebration
Long-suppressed documentary of Yves Saint Laurent is style and substance
Give Me Liberty
Chaotic story of disability doesn't get completely lost on its trip
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
This spell isn't as bewitching the second time around
Zombieland: Double Tap
Zomcom sequel doesn't have the splattering charm of the original
arts & culture
Esther's Follies Meets Scooby-Doo in The Haunting of the Tavern
In this new murder mystery comedy, chasing Emily the ghost leads to some real high jinkies!
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Thinkery & Verse's Dionysus in America
This contemporary spin on The Bacchae shows how little the unjust treatment of women has changed in 2,500 years
TexARTS’ Little Shop of Horrors
This production of the horror comedy musical makes watching inept humans get devoured by an alien plant just a damn good time
“Will Klemm: Box of Light” at Wally Workman Gallery
The artist illuminates our world’s defining shadows with an oil-based glow
columns
Qmmunity: The Queer Adoration of Robyn
Plus Halloween-inspired drag and QTAPI storytelling
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum, Cuero
Chisholm Trail rides again
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Exposed Flesh
Please remember my disapproval
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
