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Sounding the Alarm on Texas’ Nursing Home System
25% of the state’s 1,200 long-term care centers have been cited for serious standard deficiencies
In Search of Amazon
Mayor writes in support of Austin location for corporate “HQ2”
Another Epic Austin City Limits HOF
Roy Orbison, Rosanne Cash, Neville Brothers, and LBJ honored
Rick Cofer Withdraws From Race for Travis County Democratic Chair
Frontrunner’s exit clouds what looked like one-horse race
John Fogerty Won’t Back Down
From Pete Seeger and Tom Petty to the romance of the Sixties
Au Revoir, Le Bonheur de Vivre
Doug Jaques’ award-winning 24th St. mural gets painted over
Five Arty Things to Do: Oct. 27-29
You’ll do the mash? The monster mash? Alrighty, then.
Joe Straus, Voice of Moderation in Texas Legislature, Won’t Seek Re-Election
House speaker doesn’t rule out future run for governor
2017 Payne Theatre Award Winners
Lotta love for Nevermore, Drowning Girls, Agent Andromeda
Court Rules Undocumented Minor Held “Hostage” by Trump Administration Can Access Abortion
Decision “rights a grave constitutional wrong,” says judge
AIDS Walk Austin 2017
Celebrating and advocating 30 years of progress and beyond
Death Watch: Areli Escobar
Court of Criminal Appeals orders re-examination of 2009 case
Dawnna Dukes’ Charges Dropped
13 felonies gone, two misdemeanors resolved
Chris Stapleton’s Outlaw Triple Threat
Smokin’ guitar licks, howling wail, and forceful songs
My Education’s Coordinates
Home movies from ATX’s cinematic instrumentalists
The Blackest of the Man in Black
Pinkus, Buzzo, Bad Seeds highlight new Cash tribute
During Austin Visit, A.G. Jeff Sessions Rehashes Immigration Myths
Activists protest Sessions and the DOJ’s “racist” agenda
Formula 1 Music: Stevie Wonder
The master blaster signed, sealed, and delivered
Formula 1 Music: Justin Timberlake
Circuit of the Americas race hosts another ol’ blue eyes
Court Delays Undocumented Minor’s Right to Abortion
Jane Doe again faces government engineered obstacles to abortion
Days Numbered for Threadgill’s WHQ
Eddie Wilson’s iconic business will close after SXSW unless …
King Crimson Kills
Approaching a half-century of progress
Your Weekend in Film
Let’s celebrate us
Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton
Intimate portrait of the surfing legend only skims the surface.
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
Account of the informant who brought down Nixon’s administration
Only the Brave
Visceral dramatization of the heroic work of the Granite Mountain Hotshots
Breathe
Andrew Garfield stars in this biopic of a British responaut and advocate for the disabled
Same Kind of Different as Me
Can two men span the gap of cultural differences?
Killing Gunther
Of course, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the world’s best hitman
Human Flow
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei directs an epic overview of the global refugee crisis.
Dina
Dina 2017, NR, 103 min. Directed by Antonio Santini, Dan Sickles, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring . This intimate documentary is billed as a “real-life romantic comedy.” Dina Buno and Scott Levin are a couple about to be married whom the filmmakers observe during the time leading up to the wedding and for…
Tour Diary: Jackie Venson
Rising ATX guitarist recounts opening for the local blues slinger
Stream Analysis
Dispatches from the couch
Headlines
City Council hopes for another daytime adjournment today, with a light agenda and few anticipated fireworks. They’ll consider the city auditor’s FY 2018 audit plans, do an annual personnel review (mostly in executive session), and trim CURE zoning east of I-35. See “Council: Another Quiet Dais?” Oct. 20. The University of Texas Health Austin opened…
Half Price Books: Where Rare Is Well Done
Does the rare books room at Austin’s North Lamar location owe its success to alchemy?
Texas Album Hall of Fame: Project Crew
Tee Double dusts off the local release that proved Austin hip-hop worthy of his raps
Oops!
Last week’s News feature “Learning the Hard Way That Police and Democratic Socialists Rarely Mix,” about the fallout from Danny Fetonte’s resignation from the Democratic Socialists of America, reported in error that the organization passed a resolution that called for the “abolition of prisons and the police,” when in fact the resolution called only for…
Point Austin: The Amazon Invasion
We could handle another giant, but let’s let ’em open their own wallets
Texas Platters
Between their eponymous 2007 debut and 2012’s fourth studio LP Stranger, Balmorhea shaped and expanded its gorgeously layered soundscapes into ever-more stunning compositions. Austin’s multi-instrumental pairing of Rob Lowe and Michael Muller seemed in constant search of the perfect moment, even while realizing the ephemeral impossibility of its resonance. Their sextet’s return after five years…
Rape Claims Hit Rideshare Drivers
Lyft, RideAustin drivers both arrested on sexual assault charges
Quote of the Week: Ann Denkler
CodeNEXT is starting to wear on everyone
Bill Converse Shapes Texas Techno
Underground turntable maestro needs no introduction to local DJs, but to the broader community he’s flown under the radar
Texas Platters
Open roads aren’t exactly untrodden material to singer-songwriters, but for Hannah Read, interstate travel and headlight revelations remain her origins. Raised and based in the little town of Silsbee, just north of Beaumont, she began cultivating work under the moniker Lomelda during high school. On her first release for sensitive Brooklyn indie Double Double Whammy,…
Former APD Officer Coleman Martin’s Charges Dropped
Cop who faked his own death accepts probation, won’t face misdemeanor charges
What’cha Watchin’?
Writer/Proofreader Greg Stitt hunts down the best horror options currently streaming
Hernandez to ICE Reversal Critics: “This Is Not Over”
Sheriff incurs wrath after altering detainer policy
Texas Platters
Surviving since at least 1991 means your band’s overdue retrospective treatment. And if Fuck You, You Rule proves anything, it’s that ST 37 held Austin’s psychedelia flag in place through a Nineties underground awash in punk and garage sounds, waiting for the Black Angels to pick it up and run with it the next decade.…
AISD Trustee Yasmin Wagner’s Two Bosses
District 7 trustee did Board work on city time, says city auditor
Despite State’s Opposition, Judge Grants Abortion to Undocumented Minor Held “Hostage”
Texas “must not become a sanctuary state for abortions,” says A.G.
Texas Platters
On the heels of Why El Paso Sky, his sonically dense and turbulent EP from earlier this year, plus an adventurous double dip of digital/cassette releases with fellow ambient electronic amalgamists Sangam and Holly respectively, Austin’s VVV (Shawhin Izaddoost) dips back to his roots with intoxicating efficiency. Billed as the proper follow-up to Across the…
Council: Another Quiet Dais?
Agenda features the CURE and a list of proposed audits
Public Notice: Let’s Hope …
Soccer planning goes better than plan planning
Texas Platters
When a band known for garage rock makes its Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the results usually don’t live up to either its ambitions or its prior achievements. That’s not the case for the Crack Pipes’ Beauty School. Originally released in 2005, the third LP from the Austin quartet revels in its music nerd…
“Center for Austin’s Future” in Search of Candidates
New nonprofit plans to groom City Council members
A.G.: First Responders Can Carry, Administer Naloxone
Treatment for opioids seen as big step, but hardly only solution
Assistant Chief Aaron Woolverton Cleared at AFD
Woolverton found to have not lied to Civil Service about past accident
Dear Glutton: Fall Flavors
Places in town to eat something autumnal without pumpkin spice
Austin Police Association, City Nearing Deal
Wages at issue for union after oversight concessions
Comedian Danny Palumbo’s Hot Take on Gas Station Coffee
Lattes are not the way to this caffeine junkie’s heart
Death Watch: Court of Criminal Appeals Grants Stay to Clinton Young
Evidentiary hearing expected in Midland County
The Luv Doc: Mr. Nice Guy
Sweet T is the name of an Irish boxer with fake front teeth and sleeve tattoos
Chronicle Endorsements
Our endorsements on local bond packages and state constitutional amendments
Woman in Black at Scottish Rite Theater
Skilled actors and atmospheric design combine to make this co-production a spine-tingler ideal for Halloween
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
They say that Cornish, the language of the southwestern tip of England, could be making a comeback. A 2016 ICM survey shared with BBC showed that 48% of vinyl record buyers do not play the records they buy. The 1904 model of the Coldwell Steam Lawn Mower was also used for threshing grain, sawing wood,…
Early Voting
Oct. 23 – Nov. 3
Zach Theatre’s Singin’ in the Rain
This stage take on the silver-screen musical really comes alive when it breaks free of the familiar film’s grip
Review: Eldorado Cafe
Finding the gold in an Allandale strip mall
Austin Film Festival 2017 Preview
The writers’ festival goes big
La Follia Plays J.S. Bach’s Greatest Chamber Music
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
Gay Place
Rescheduled Pride doesn’t miss a beat
AFF Brings Walter Hill for The Warriors and Then Some
Writer/director comes out to play
Day Trips: San Antonio Botanical Garden
Public garden adds a culinary component to its flowering beds
Bill Converse Record Review
The Shape of Things to Come (Dark Entries)
Playback: The New Face of Austin Music Festivals
Taking stock of Austin’s festival landscape a week after the conclusion of ACL Fest
Soccer Watch
This week’s big news is Monday’s announcement that the Columbus Crew might want to relocate to Austin. Read more about that in this week’s “Public Notice,” p.12. And there might be more info and rumors floating around at the Supporter Social & Meetup with Supporters Union and the MLS in Austin Supporters Group, this Sunday,…
Texas Is About to Get Its First Marijuana Dispensary
Compassionate Cultivation open in Austin before year’s end?
