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Growing Pains

Emily Hagins became a household Austin name for her work as a teen director, but what happens when that novelty wears off?

by Dan Solomon

Exhibitionism

This drama of Chilean exiles in Wisconsin is a play of rare beauty that speaks to loss, hope, and regret in ways we seldom see

by Dan Solomon

The Luv Doc: Young Twerks

Luv Doc, My 12-year-old daughter has been begging me to let her go to her school Halloween carnival (and trick or treating) as Miley Cyrus – specifically in her teddy bear twerking outfit from MTV. I know she is just trying to be funny but Miley is just gross and I don’t want other parents…

by The Luv Doc

12 Years a Slave

Brutal yet elegant, Steve McQueen’s latest is a beautifully rendered punch to the gut about the most shameful chapter in American history.

by Steve Davis

Exhibitionism

Butler Opera Center makes the most of Daron Hagen’s new opera, which stuffs a lot of high drama into one story

by Natalie Zeldin

Food Events

Boorito at Chipotle Costumed customers receive a discount. Thu., Oct. 31, 4-10pm. Chipotle Mexican Grill outlets all over town. › Slow Feast in the Field Benefits the Austin Discovery School. Sat., Nov. 2, 6-9pm. Green Gate Farms, 8310 Canoga, 512/769-3612. $100 a plate. www.austindiscoveryschool.org/slowfeast. • Kebabalicious Grand Opening Beer, food, live music, and a photo…

by Virginia B. Wood

Texas Platters

League of Extraordinary Gz #LeagueShit “Everybody know it was too early,” laments the onset of Austin’s most anticipated rap album ever. “All I can say is, nigga, I’ma miss you forever.” The late Esbe da 6th Street Bully conceived the League of Extraordinary Gz in 2010 as a conglomerate of local hip-hop crews Dred Skott,…

by Thomas Fawcett

Farmers’ Market Report

Winter vegetables like broccoli, kale, turnips, and beets have arrived, and for a few weeks will overlap with summer produce like sweet peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, and okra. Johnson’s Backyard Garden will be bringing autumn strawberries to all the markets until the first frost. Find out where you can buy the few remaining summer melons and…

by Kate Thornberry

Hornography

The Longhorns entered this season with a cushy No. 15 ranking and an inside track to a Big 12 championship and subsequent invitation to a BCS bowl. But that Top 25 ranking got put out to pasture following a loss to Brigham Young in which Manny Diaz’s defense relinquished 679 yards to the Cougar offense.…

by Russ Espinoza

Texas Platters

Willie Nelson To All the Girls (Legacy) A Willie Nelson duets album? Is there anyone who hasn’t duetted with Willie already? Apparently, there are 18 women who haven’t, but they all get their chance here, including some of country music’s first ladies (Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Emmylou Harris), revisiting Willie classics (“Bloody Mary Morning” with…

by Tim Stegall

Texas Platters

Loves It All We Are (Team Austin) The eternal hamstring of having too many ideas comes from not knowing whether you’re making floor wax or dessert topping. Such is the all-over fate of Loves It. The road-tested Austin duo’s second full-length goes on a mixed-bag bender of Appalachian-derived folk, honky-tonk tearjerkers, and quirk-laden acoustic pop.…

by Greg Beets

Soccer Watch

The St. Edward’s women lost their nine-game shutout streak Saturday against UT-Permian Basin; winning 9-1 probably took some of the sting out of that. The 12-0-2 Hilltoppers have still only allowed three goals all season… The St. Ed’s men (10-3-1) split a pair on the weekend. Both teams take their national rankings on the road…

by Nick Barbaro

Free Birds

Animated film about the Turkey Liberation Front and the first Thanksgiving is ideologically cute, but unremarkable.

by Louis Black

Texas Platters

Brennen Leigh & Noel McKay Before the World Was Made When Brennen Leigh released her 2007 duet with local honky-tonker Jesse Dayton, Holdin’ Our Own, her hard Midwestern twang played well off Dayton’s low croon. Leigh’s new collaboration with local songwriter Noel McKay doesn’t strike as immediately as the classic country-styled duets with Dayton, but…

by Doug Freeman

Texas Platters

Joanna Barbera Forget Joanna Barbera has a penchant for heartache, or at least an active wellspring for it. While there’s no shortage of lamentation on her sophomore album Forget, the misery suits her, voice wavering between an unhurried Karen O and a kind of Patsy Cline croon, hard to place but conspicuous. And she has…

by Abby Johnston

Texas Platters

Tish Hinojosa After the Fair (Varese Sarabande) A new recording from Tish Hinojosa feels like an unexpected note from an old friend, something to savor in the anticipation of affectionate satisfaction. So goes After the Fair, Hinojosa’s delightful reminder that she’s first and foremost a folk-pop balladeer and songwriter, plus, by happy coincidence, a Latina…

by Margaret Moser

Texas Platters

Ali Holder In Preparation for Saturn’s Return Ali Holder, recent graduate student at UT, chose a different college town to record her debut, In Preparation for Saturn’s Return. That road trip to Oxford, Miss., paid off, too. Bagging the brightest musical movements throughout the South, the 27-year-old singer and her band blend Mississippi blues, New…

by Abby Johnston

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

About half of the chocolate in the U.S. comes from the Ivory Coast, where forced child labor on cocoa farms persists despite a decade of pressure on chocolate companies to implement better oversight. Matthew McConaughey is afraid of revolving doors. Although tricks and treats have been a part of Halloween tradition for ages, Oct. 31…

by Mr. Smarty Pants

Man of Tai Chi

Keanu Reeves’ directorial debut sizzles with mandible-cracking action, political intrigue, and electrifying martial physicality.

by Marc Savlov

Texas Platters

The Leavers Once Upon a Time (South of the River) Once Upon a Time may be the Leavers’ debut, but they’re no bunch of amateurs. Indeed, the local quintet collectively served as sidemen for no less than the Sextons, the Robisons, Kelly Willis, Alejandro Escovedo, and Jon Dee Graham. With four of the album’s 10…

by Jim Caligiuri

Headlines

› Fresh from raising wage and benefit standards on economic development projects and impact fees for new developments, City Council takes a Halloween break until Nov. 7, when it will consider rental property registration programs, among other things. See “Council.” › As of Wednesday morning, a whopping 21,609 voters – 3.5% of those registered –…

by Chronicle Staff

Arrambam

Arrambam 2013, NR, 157 min. Directed by Vishnuvardhan, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Ajith Kumar, Aarya, Nayanthara, Tapsee Pannu. Not reviewed at press time. Tamil action thriller.

by Marjorie Baumgarten

Record Review

Possessed by Paul James There Will Be Nights When I’m Lonely (Hillgrass Bluebilly Records) Gothic folk pervading 2010’s Feed the Family shows up only occasionally on There Will Be Nights When I’m Lonely. Instead, the fourth album from Possessed by Paul James, the spirited musical moniker of Konrad Wert, finds him using Austin musicians: Lloyd…

by Chase Hoffberger

Quote of the Week

“Look, it happens.” – Sen. Ted Cruz on the 2006 hunting incident in which former Vice President Dick Cheney shot attorney Harry Whittington.

by Chronicle Staff

Krrish 3

Krrish 3 2013, NR, 135 min. Directed by Rakesh Roshan, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut, Vivek Oberoi. Not reviewed at press time. This is Bollywood science fiction about the exploits of a superhero.

by Marjorie Baumgarten

‘Chronicle’ Endorsements

Here are the Chronicle editorial board’s endorsements for the Nov. 5 election, for which early voting runs Oct. 21-Nov. 1. Constitutional Amendments The Chronicle editorial board perennially suggests that the Texas Constitution is too long, too complicated, and too subject to arbitrary changes that should be matters of legislation and not basic governmental principle. Needless…

by Chronicle Staff

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