Day Trips & Beyond: November Events Roundup
‘Tis the season for day-tripping
SOS Q&A: Carcass
“Everyone in the band enjoys Austin”
SOS Q&A: Courtney Barnett
“Courtney Drops Details About Her Next Album!”
Eight-Days-Out Campaign Finance Report
Money, money, monayyyy
Video Premiere: Magna Carda “The Root”
“We all came from somewhere”
Austin Food & Wine Alliance Releases Wine & Swine Menu
Pork-centric feast returns with a new twist
Ben Katchor: Drawn, You Might Say, to the Texas Book Festival
The acclaimed cartoonist brings his Cheap Novelties to Austin
Other Worlds Says OMG!
Fest adds Israeli sci-fi comedy OMG, I’m a Robot?! and Dark Star
The Q&A Hole: Which Restaurant for the Rest of Your Life?
With Ben Snakepit, Regina Allen, Patty Leidy, Miracle Jones, and more.
Travis County Voting Boom Means Extra Booths
Elections division meets demand with semi-permanent mobile location
The Grove PUD: Is Mediation Helping?
Depends on whom you ask …
DVDanger: More to Watch This Halloween
Part II: Slavic rednecks, emo vigilantes, and crazed snipers
Blxpltn Streams New York Fascist Week
Austin electro-punk duo unloads second LP
DVDanger: What to Watch This Halloween
Part I: Slugs, zombies, and one-night stands
Into the Woods at Scream Hollow
Behind the scenes at the local destination horror house
Certain Women
Wonderful performances imbue this subtle drama
El Jeremías
A boy genius searches for his destiny
Inferno
Hanks tours the museums of Europe trying to save the world
Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween
Tricks and treats with Tyler Perry
I’m Not Ashamed
The story of the first casualty in the Columbine school shooting
Miss Hokusai
The life of an artist through the eyes of his daughter
Oasis: Supersonic
Britpop band looks back in anger
Antibirth
A party girl discovers she’s pregnant
We Are X
Japanese rockers are the best band you’ve never heard of
The Handmaiden
A stylish and alluring love triangle
How to Assemble Your Donald Trump Mask
Scene: Trump Tower, nightfall, the Republican nominee for president’s Midtown Manhattan corner office. A tired and defeated Trump slouches into his plush red executive chair and checks the messages on his phone. “Donald? It’s Paul Ryan. Look, I know things aren’t looking too bright right now, but at least it’s Halloween. Candy, right? Okay. Look,…
Headlines
The next regular City Council meeting is Nov. 3, when they’ll discuss demolition permit processes, the Champions Tract rezoning, Dripping Springs wastewater discharge, a potential deal between APD’s DNA lab and Dallas County, the spay/neuter policy at the Austin Animal Center, and other items. Council will also cancel its Nov. 8 work session – seems…
Leon and Stella Alesi: Love Conjures All
Leon and Stella Alesi provide ocular proof of a life in the arts
Nina Diaz Record Review
The Beat Is Dead (Cosmica)
Quote of the Week
“The need is acute, and the time for action is now.” – Rep. Donna Howard, requesting the Legislative Budget Board take immediate action to increase Child Protective Services foster child caseworker salaries in “high-turnover, high-workload” areas
Girl in a Coma’s Nina Diaz Debuts Solo
Screaming without a sound
Alejandro Escovedo Record Review
Burn Something Beautiful (Fantasy)
Point Austin: Let Us Begin
The transportation bond represents useful and necessary progress
Why I Left Austin
Alejandro Escovedo’s first-person account of leaving Austin last year after 35 years
Public Notice: Your Libraries at Work
Plus parties for the environment, and the Dead
Austin as Tech Hub: Myth or Reality?
Start-ups abound here in Bat City, but they rarely stick around
Soccer Watch
The Texas Longhorns had their best weekend of the season, shutting out Texas Tech Friday night, 2-0, to move out of the Big 12 cellar, and then playing nationally-top-ranked West Virginia dead-even Sunday before giving up a goal with 10 minutes to play. That puts the Horns in good shape to extend their season at…
The Odds on Mayor Adler’s $720 Million Mobility Bond
Is the plan just daring enough to work?
Hidden Room Theatre’s Houdini Speaks to the Living
In this drama featuring Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle, a debate on the talking dead springs to dramatic life
CodeNEXT Is Coming
Special called CodeNEXT meeting signals new day forward for land development
The Institution Theater’s It Came From Your Brain
This improvised retro sci-fi monster movie may pique your curiosity enough that you’ll want to visit the “drive-in” more than once
“Painters Painting Painters” at Davis Gallery
With 10 artists making portraits of themselves and one another, it’s the variety of styles that provides the show’s strength
Playback: C3 in Talks to Co-Produce Levitation Fest
ACL Fest promoters partner with psych fest?
Day Trips: Smither Park, Houston
Art garden turns old dishes into beautiful mosaics
Project and Program Map
The “project and program map” reflects both the priority regional/corridor/local mobility projects targeted in the bond, and those projects marked for initial planning and engineering studies, but not fully funded for construction. The regional projects ($101 million) are Westside highways and intersections (Loop 360, RM 620/2222, Parmer Lane, etc.). The local projects ($137 million) include…
Ghost Hunting at Austin’s Spookiest Bars and Restaurants
Our favorite haunts
Election Notes
It’s All About the Money: The award for most masochistic press release of the election cycle goes to Ceasar Ruiz, the Republican challenging incumbent Rep. Celia Israel in House District 50. On Oct. 24, Ruiz sent journalists an email demanding Israel spend more money to beat him. He claimed: “My opponent’s near-total lack of spending…
Dear Glutton: Where to Eat Before a Halloween Party
In search of a respectable dinner before a night of costumed buffoonery
League of Left-Out Voters
In a busy election season, the Statesman grapples with space and its endorsements
Review: Forthright
Tiny cafe serves solid classics
APD: Suspensions and Demotions
Former Lieutenant Allen Hicks and Sergeant Scott Stanfield were disciplined for failing to properly review multiple cases of their officers’ use of force
Gay Place
Halloween is our fave holiday of the year
Pushing Forward
This Thursday, Oct. 27, the Matthew Shepard Foundation will meet with Mayor Steve Adler, representatives from the Austin Police Department, Equality Texas, Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT), and the Human Rights Campaign to lead a hate crime summit geared toward advancing LGBTQ equality throughout the state. The goal, says APD detective and president of…
The Luv Doc: A Real Pleasurecraft
Ambition is not an admirable quality, it’s a tolerable neurosis at best
HACA Digital Inclusion Plan Hits Two-Year Mark
Three public housing properties are now connected to high-speed internet, with a fourth on the horizon
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Most star systems in the universe, but not ours, are binary systems, having two stars. Marie Curie is the only person to date to have won the Nobel prize in both Physics and Chemistry. Leonard Roy Harmon of Cuero, Texas, was the first African-American after whom a U.S. Navy ship was named. It was the…
The Hightower Report: Four Questions for the Former Boss of the Wells Fargo Gang
Some stories of corporate villainy make me throw up my hands in astonishment. But this one makes me literally throw up.
Chronicle Endorsements
From local elections to the dreaded presidential race, here’s who we recommend
