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Volume 33, Number 10
news
Ted Cruz Is the Stuff Nightmares Are Made of
Meet 'Ted-dy Cruz-er,' our Halloween cover boy
BY BRANDON WATSON
'Chronicle' Endorsements
Science Goes to Court
Death row case sets new state law against prosecutorial resistance
BY JORDAN SMITH
Point Austin: A Sense of History
By the way, there's an election, and it's your choice
BY MICHAEL KING
Then There's This: Homeward Bound
After last year's loss, housing bond proponents ready for a win
BY AMY SMITH
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Yeakel: HB 2 Unconstitutional – In Part
Judge strikes down portion of abortion law
BY JORDAN SMITH
How Do You Get From Here ... to Here?
The Austin transit system plan has vision but little consensus
BY NICK BARBARO
Redistricting: Everybody's Gotta Map!
More groups crowd the redistricting playing field
BY ELIZABETH PAGANO
HD 50: Circular Dem Firing Squad
Rifts deepen among candidates
BY CHRISTOPHER HOOKS
Council: Imagine Comprehensively
Zoning and proclaimations crowd next week's agenda
BY MICHAEL KING
It's Lonely at the Polls
Early voting kicks off with a whimper
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Hightower Report: Monsanto's World Food Farce
Montsanto's world food farce
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Celis Brewery, Back Home Where It Belongs
Christine Celis reclaims the family business
BY ANNA TOON
The Way We Ate
'Historic Austin Restaurants': an excerpt
Farmers' Market Report
BY KATE THORNBERRY
Food-O-File
National media outlets love them some Austin
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
Oct. 31-Nov. 7
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Boss Bangladeshi Fish at Voss
Under-the-radar Bangla joint surprises with fantastic fish dishes
music
Bittersweet Life
Folksinging, an education
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Playback: Priced Out?
Soon, Austin’s golden geese – musicians – will be priced out of the live music capital
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
League of Extraordinary Gz
#LeagueShit
Willie Nelson
To All the Girls
Brennen Leigh & Noel McKay
Before the World Was Made
Tish Hinojosa
After the Fair
Leavers
Once Upon a Time
Loves It
All We Are
Joanna Barbera
Forget
Ali Holder
In Preparation for Saturn's Return
screens
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
1 Fest, 2 Founders, 3 Days: 4ever
Forever Fest finds the total outer limits of all things squee
BY AMY GENTRY
Direct From Gdynia to Austin
Poland's full-court commitment to film shines at the eighth annual Austin Polish Film Festival
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Film Reviews
About Time
Love Actually maestro wants to make you cry with this romantic dramedy.
Angels Sing
This sugarcoated Christmas tale is an Austin-born and -bred affair.
Arrambam
Blue Is the Warmest Color
This three-hour-long French film has been much hyped for its graphic sexual content, but it's the less explicit stuff that makes it worth a watch.
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card's supposedly unfilmable militaristic sci-fi novel makes the leap to screen.
Free Birds
Animated film about the Turkey Liberation Front and the first Thanksgiving is ideologically cute, but unremarkable.
Krrish 3
Last Vegas
Did the Social Security set finally get their The Hangover?
Man of Tai Chi
Keanu Reeves’ directorial debut sizzles with mandible-cracking action, political intrigue, and electrifying martial physicality.
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.
arts & culture
He Happy Is
For Mark Pickell, Capital T Theatre is a source of joy
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'XXV – Anticipation of Next'
A decade after joining Tapestry, Matthew Shields choreographs the kickoff to its 25th season
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Austin Symphony Orchestra
ASO performs Verdi's 'Requiem' to honor JFK in the hall he never reached on Nov. 22
BY NATALIE ZELDIN
Arts Reviews
Pinkolandia
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
The Spanish Tragedie
The Baron's Men make this revenge drama by one of Shakespeare's contemporaries an absolute joy to behold
A Woman in Morocco
Butler Opera Center makes the most of Daron Hagen's new opera, which stuffs a lot of high drama into one story
columns
Letters at 3AM: In Greta Garbo's Bungalow
As beautiful as Greta Garbo was, she was something more
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Gay Place
Halloqueers and Dia de las Lezbos, just another wild weekend in the gAyTX
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
Museum keeps the American West alive
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Young Twerks
It's not the costume, it's what you do in it
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Hornography
BY RUSS ESPINOZA
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
