Thirteen Things To Do in Austin on Halloween
Halloween 2014: All the events here, there, and in-between
Housecore Horror Preview: Voivod
Nuclear winter’s never far from the Canadian thrashers
Forever Fest Hits Its Sophomore Year
Get your squee on Nov. 14-16
Texas Book Festival: Monsterator Keith Graves
Now your budding doctor-to-be can piece together their own…
Voter Empowerment?
Austin’s ThinkVoting has an app for that
Breaking: Dog and Duck Closing
Elm Italian concept named
ACL @ 40: Ryan Adams
PBS taping precedes tonight’s sold-out Moody Theater show
Mayor’s Day Off
“Routine procedure” or football hookey?
Everybody Has a Secret Life in the Movies
Authors Michael McGriff and J.M. Tyree eloquently show us how.
The AggreGAYtor: October 23
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Standing for Pine Street Station
As Pine Street vacates the station, a Capital Metro ultimatum looms
Housecore Horror Preview: Eyehategod
Mike Williams’ NOLA sludgemeisters load into Emo’s Sunday
Antonio Buehler Promises Memorable Trial
Peaceful Streets founder defends first misdemeanor charges Thursday
When You Pause the Heart of an Eagle and Can Feel Its Fear
Steve Moore’s smartphone thriller for Fusebox comes to an end.
SXSW Music: First List
Conference releases initial list of 171 showcasers
Homes Tour Alert: AIA Is Spiffed Up and Ready
AIA Austin rolls it out this weekend for the 2014 Homes Tour
Truck by Truckwest Begins Today
Mobile kitchens battle for a big cash prize
SXSW Film Announces First Keynote and Oodles of Panels
Dropping names and other juicy tidbits
DVDanger: XX versus XY
Female-centric horrors Witching & Bitching, Life After Beth
Trailblazer Reaches End of Road
Texas filmmaker L.M. Kit Carson has passed away
Special Edition: State Ticker
Election tidbits
Code Chica
A local hackathon brings coding to the kids
Election Day One: Turnout Low, Slow
Little sign of unified election day boost
Crosstown Traffic
John Ridley and André Benjamin on ‘Jimi: All Is by My Side’
Full Service Circus
Comical lengths some locals go to for a cover story
At S-Comm Forum, Both Sides Dig In
Sheriff claims his hands are tied
First Look: Patika Wine and Coffee
Raising the bar on South Lamar
Libertarian Ludlow Seeks Press Against Dukes
Who has most to lose from HD46 ethics complaint?
SXSW Interactive Announces Programming
Panels, sessions, meet ups, and more
Longhorns Oust Iowa State
Late heroics from QB Tyrone Swoopes seals 48-45 victory
Some People in Austin Need to STFU
Stand-up comedian Katie Pengra offers a lesson in heckling.
The AggreGAYtor: October 20
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
News Roundup
Your Monday morning news update
Voter ID: Battle Lost, War Goes On
Litigants respond to SCOTUS ruling, pledge continuing challenge
Supreme Court Upholds Voter ID
Declines to vacate the Fifth Circuit’s ruling
Food-o-File: Friday Lagniappe
A little extra Austin food news
More Endorsements: ACC Trustees
Williams in Place 1, dual endorsement in Place 2
First Look: Delysia Chocolatier
New facility makes chocolate production chic
Where the Girls Go/ATX: Make a Difference Edition
Best queer-grrrl-tastic events this weekend and every weekend
Updated Endorsement: Diane Henson
Chief Justice, Third Court of Appeals
One in a Crowd: Found Footage 3D
Horror-comedy offering Texas Chain Saw rarity among incentives
What Food Goes Well With Comedy?
Jim Gaffigan can tell you – and does in this Q&A
Relatives Oracle Hospitalized
Dallas gospel/soul staple Gean West idles while heart sick
More Endorsements
Congressional districts and justices of the peace
The Art of Gothic Brings Darkness in Full Slick Color
New coffeetable tome from Backbeat Books is an inky danse macabre.
Estate Sale Roundup: October 17-19
The weather is perfect for rummaging
Oh L’amour!
Violet flamers return to the land of the violet crown
Jason Reitman (Not) Versus the Internet
Men, Women & Children director on the use and abuse of tech
The AggreGAYtor: October 17
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Chronicle Endorsements
Here are the Chronicle editorial board’s endorsements for the November 4 General Election. For a very few races (noted below as “pending”), we have not yet made an endorsement choice. Those endorsements will appear in the next print issue, and will be posted online before early voting starts on Monday, Oct. 20. See more info…
The Luv Doc: To Tell The Truth
Dear Luv Doc, Despite all the advice I received from sitcoms and comedians, I told my GF that I didn’t like a particular dress that she wanted to wear after she asked my opinion. What is the proper response? Should you lie if you don’t like it? – Big Trouble I’ll bet your ass is…
Addicted
This erotic thriller is based on the best-selling novel by Zane.
The Book of Life
Dia de los Muertos provides a colorful and vivid background for this animated film.
Fury
Brad Pitt commands a Sherman tank in the waning days of World War II, and teaches his men the simple algorithm of war: Kill or be killed.
St. Vincent
Bill Murray plays a hard-hearted grouch who warms to his new neighbors – Melissa McCarthy and her young son.
The Best of Me
It’s getting hard to tell one Nicholas Sparks adaptation from another amid all the dross.
Brush With Danger
The obvious martial arts skills of the brother and sister filmmakers, Ken and Livi Zheng, don’t compensate for this film’s wooden drama.
The Overnighters
The fracking boom in Williston, N.D., has created hard times in the land of plenty as shown in this devastating doc.
Men, Women & Children
We might be able to connect as human beings if we could just disconnect from from our wired lives, says this movie about our modern world.
Housebound
This New Zealand horror/comedy nimbly jumps through the tropes, and inventively subverts them along the way.
Art and Craft
Mark Landis is an expert forger who donates his work to museums, and this doc makes no judgments about this curious man.
ACC Propositions and Board of Trustees
Austin Community College bonds, tax rate increase, and board of trustees
Who Follows Bradley?
Austin ISD District 1
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Through all 5 seasons, the Breaking Bad series was shot on 35mm film. According to a study by the University of Maribor, seeing white light in a near-death experience is due to an overload of carbon dioxide in the bloodstream. In the Twenties and Thirties, the term “muggle” was slang for marijuana. According to Harry…
Point Austin: Look If You Like …
What we do when we do endorsements
10-1 Ticker … Election updates!
It’s campaign video season
Head Over Meals
Get Jim Gaffigan talking about food, and he can fill a book
Then There’s This: Trying to Undo a “Witch Hunt”
Council tries to untangle a controversial ethics complaint
Who Follows Torres?
Cowan vs. Flanagan in AISD District 4
On Polish Screens, the Past Stays in the Picture
Films from the past and present screen at the Austin Polish Film Festival
Exhibitionism
Hyde Park Theatre’s latest takes a compelling look at religious extremism through a glass, darkly
SCOTUS Blocks Texas Abortion Law HB 2
Texas women claim rare victory
The Good Eye: Killer Outfits – Anna’s Blue Dress
Isabelle Adjani is a devil in a you-know-what
Headlines
CITY COUNCIL MEETS today (Oct. 16) with a middling agenda but a couple of matters likely to raise sand: the return for third reading of the transportation network company proposal and an attempt to wrangle the city auditor’s office on ethics investigations. See “Rides-for-Hire” and “Witch Hunt…,” Oct. 17. ANOTHER ACL came to a close…
The Hightower Report
Buy local beer, books … and why not seafood?
Film to Table
The Austin Film Festival celebrates two Austin obsessions
Exhibitionism
One man’s twisted sense of racial identity unravels in Adrienne Dawes’ brisk and tense new drama
Fifth Circuit Lets Voter ID Stand
Claims it’s too close to election to change rules
Food-O-File
How the Southwest was won
“Dave Culpepper: Wake Me When It’s Quitting Time”
Even as Dave Culpepper dreams about our future in space, he humorously points out our present decline
Austin City Election
Endorsements for mayor and Council
In the Line of Fire
How a home remedy started a flame war
Quote of the Week
“Tonight, Texan women got justice.” – Amy Hagstrom Miller, president and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health, on the decision by SCOTUS to block parts of Texas abortion law House Bill 2.
In Real Life in Real Life
Cory Doctorow brings his newest work to the Texas Teen Book Festival
A Farewell to Charms
Pleasant Storage Room only does one kind of jerk right
APD: Can We Please Buy Some Top-Secret “StingRays”?
Is APD trying to track your phone?
Proposition 1
Our endorsement for Local Prop. 1
Letters at 3am: The Future Dot-Dot-Dot
Ellipses express exactly my sense of the future
Civics 101
Thursday 16 Mark Mazzetti Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter speaks about covering national security. 1:30-3pm. Belo Center for New Media, Rm. 5.102, 300 W. Dean Keeton St. Free. www.thirdcoastactivist.org. Friday 17 Leap of the Heroes V The Travis Co. Sheriff’s Office hosts a benefit for the Wounded Warriors Project. 11am-6pm. Skydive San Marcos, Fentress…
Love Is the Drug
It’s a rare YA novel that combines entertainment and social commentary this gracefully
Food Events
Johnson’s Backyard Garden Potluck Great food, live music, and beautiful fall weather. Bring blankets, drinks, and a dish to share. (The butternut squash and sage risotto recipe on Johnson’s site is gorgeous – hint, hint.) Sun., Oct. 19, 3:30-7pm. Johnson’s Backyard Garden, 9515 Hergotz, 512/386-5273. $10 adults, kids free. www.jbgorganic.com. Food Fight Les Dames d’Escoffier’s…
Council: Third Try on Rides-for-Hire
Will the third time be a charm for Riley’s TNC proposal?
The Truth About Alice
This tale of slut-shaming in a tiny Texas town is entertaining, but doesn’t leave a lasting impact
AISD Board
Endorsements for AISD board of trustees
Council: Ridin’ the (R)App
Council continues TNC debate
The Gay Place
It’s Coming Out Month big time in Austin this week
Twu Luv
Cary Elwes on the enduring appeal of The Princess Bride
South Austin Vigilante Homicide
Man takes matters into his own hands, kills alleged car thief
Partisan Races
Governor: Wendy Davis “Abortion Barbie,” her opponents call her. In doing so, they cheaply malign and undersell the achievements of the Fort Worth Democratic senator. If the role of a governor is to wake and engage the whole state – not just the radicals who vote in Republican primaries – then Davis is supremely qualified.…
Help Desk
What to do when an online mug shot messes with your romantic prospects
Day Trips: Gonzales Jail Museum
Crime and punishment in Central Texas
Playback: Jon Pettis Rising
One man’s life touches so many others
Hornography
We’re halfway through the Texas Longhorns season, and the team now stands at 2-4. You could make the argument that a .333 winning percentage is pretty bad for one of the biggest college football programs in the country, but you could also argue a 33% success rate is pretty good for NASCAR drivers or people…
Oops!
Last week’s story “TNCs: Disrupted Market, Disrupted Council” contained an inaccurate detail concerning the insurance coverage plans belonging to both Uber and Lyft. Both companies offer primary coverage to drivers at any point in which they’re actively engaged in commercial activity – from the moment a connection has been made to the moment the transaction…
Soccer Watch
The Texas Longhorns lost to Kansas, 1-0 last Friday – the fifth shutout loss in their last eight games. They’re at TCU on Friday, then host Arkansas-Little Rock at 7pm Monday, Oct. 20, their next-to-last home game of the year. The St. Edward’s men and women swept another pair of doubleheaders last weekend, outscoring Heartland…
