Volume 39, Number 8
ON THE COVER:
news
Their goal: Flip the state House of Representatives
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
“Redevelopment” is always about community
BY MICHAEL KING
Land Use Commissioners, public swing into action on the LDC
BY NICK BARBARO
NAKED CITY
Council could take a first-reading vote in December
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Infamous defense attorney will represent the defendants in rape survivor's defamation suit
BY SARAH MARLOFF
"Council made a decision, and it's time for us to move past the divisiveness in the community"
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
City Council gives final zoning approval for "Domain on Riverside" project
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
County and operator at odds over expansion
BY LINDSAY STAFFORD MADER
Yet time is running out for Ruben Gutierrez, Rodney Reed
BY BRANT BINGAMON
HR 4539 would rescind deportation orders for three Austinites currently in refuge in local churches
BY MARY TUMA
Conservative 5th Circuit ignores Whole Woman's precedent
BY MARY TUMA
food
Texas Book Festival showcases seven food books from around the world
BY EMILY BEYDA
Dinner parties, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of October 24, 2019
music
The Bubble's new studio stands as Mark Genfan's swan song
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Producer Brian Beattie has an unreleased Daniel Johnston album ready, but can’t make amends with the late cult singer’s management
BY RACHEL RASCOE
screens
AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL 2019
The Krisha creator screens his latest at the Austin Film Festival
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
If you thought cross-country cattle drives were the stuff of legend, this Austin Film Festival showing will make you think again
BY MATTHEW MONAGLE
Breaking up in the apocalypse at the Austin Film Festival
BY JENNY NULF
AFS and Austin Polish Film Festival celebrate the Polish pioneer
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Austin film podcasting community comes offline for one night
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Corrupt cop drama feels awkwardly dated
The birth of the modern age in a battle of industrialists
Something weird in suburbia (again) but this is no Blue Velvet ripoff
Anti-hate satire in the ruins of the Reich finds heart and humor in the chaos
The latest from The Witch director finds madness in isolation
Almodóvar's latest classic is a self-portrait by a great, aging artist
Bong Joon-ho heats up South Korea's cold class war
SF anthology brings in genre heavy hitters but still whiffs
DayGlo anime explosion makes firefighters cool and kinetic
arts & culture
TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL 2019
Book lovers charge the Texas State Capitol this weekend
BY ROBERT FAIRES
In Dad's Maybe Book, the author of Going After Cacciato is going after fatherhood
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Arts Reviews
Among the threads of this darkling tapestry are spirits of malice and mayhem and longing and love
Strong performances and Broadway-level design fill this entertaining version of the Bram Stoker vampire tale
This revival of a 2002 production paid tribute to the spirit of the city but also showed how the troupe embodies its best qualities
columns
Plus commemorating Intersex Awareness Day and Halloween vibes
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Just add water at boat-building school
BY GERALD E. MCCLEOD
Tornadoes are a dime a dozen in Oklahoma
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY SAM HURT
BY RYAN HENNESSEE