AFS Cinema
Volume 34, Number 14
news
Chronicle Endorsements
Here Come the Run-Offs!
What you need to know before heading to the ballot
BY THE NEWS STAFF
Point Austin: Nuts to You!
Campaign season has entered crazy-time
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: A Numbers Game
Low turnout means the results of the run-offs can be hard to predict
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Shooter Had "Hate in His Heart"
Chief Acevedo calls shooter McQuilliams a "homegrown American extremist"
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER AND MICHAEL KING
10-1 Ticker... Run-off Election Updates!
Never a dull moment
BY THE NEWS STAFF
Politics Gift Guide
Part 2
Who's Afraid of Accountability?
Gables Residential not ready to "Build It Better" just yet
BY AMY KAMP
Iraqis Come Home to Austin
Refugees, fleeing violence in Iraq, struggle to get used to life in Texas
BY DINA SAMIR SHEHATA
Public Intoxication?
What proof does APD need to make a PI arrest? Not much.
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
The Hightower Report
Trying to teach ethics to congress critters
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Season's Eatings
Our guide to finally shutting up your in-laws
Five Questions With Dan Barber
Award-winning chef reimagines local
BY BRANDON WATSON
Bless Their Heart
Olamaie's Southern is everything but down-home
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Food-o-File
Even Threadgill's gets the blues
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
music
Excitable Boy
New Okie standard John Fullbright
BY WILLIAM HARRIES GRAHAM
Playback
Ian McLagan died Wednesday
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ AND KEVIN CURTIN
Music Gift Guide: Books
Holiday stocking stuffers you won't have to restring
screens
Science-Fiction Cinema
Other Worlds Austin film festival debuts; interviews with the directors of Apt 3D and The Well featured
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Bedtime Stories That Bite Back
Jennifer Kent discusses horror debut The Babadook
BY MARC SAVLOV
Where Fences Don't Make Good Neighbors
AFS Doc Nights: Purgatorio
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Film Reviews
The Babadook
Tyro helmer Jennifer Kent conjures a disturbing spook story about a mother, a son, and an unnerving presence in their house
Listen Up Philip
The director of The Color Wheel is back with this film about a narcissistic and abrasive young novelist.
The One I Wrote for You
This filmed-in-San Antonio indie tells a familiar tale about the soul-sucking music industry, but does so with an engaging cast and contemporary spin.
Pelican Dreams
The director of The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is back with a personal doc about these "flying dinosaurs," which have always fascinated her.
Uzumasa Limelight
The hero of this beguiling Japanese film is a kirare-yaku or “sliced actor” – a certain kind of Japanese actor/stuntman who always dies by sword in the shadows.
arts & culture
Telling Stories
Bill Wittliff seeks the "yes" in his debut novel, The Devil's Backbone
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Season's Repeatings
Austin Chamber Music Center's lessons on developing a holiday tradition with A Charlie Brown Christmas
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily
Austin Playhouse's Sherlockian pastry may be light, but Jason Newman's Great Detective is seriously good
"Unseen Hendrix"
Robert Hewgley's dramatic images of Jimi Hendrix at a 1969 concert capture a musician in the throes of creation
"Julie Moon and Rick Mansfield: Green Zone"
Julie Moon and Rick Mansfield are both sculptors, but their work here comes from opposite ends of the sculpting spectrum
columns
Oops!
Gay Place: FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA
Your gay apparel isn't gay enough. Time to go shopping.
BY KATE X MESSER
The Good Eye: Happy Thankswishing! Here's Your Jardigan.
You can't fit these wishes in a jar
BY AMY GENTRY
Day Trips: Hill Country Pottery
Pottery inspired by the landscape
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Holiday shopping: challenging incorrect credit card charges
BY LUKE ELLIS
The Luv Doc: Strong Emotions
There is often a very thin line between intense love and intense hate
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Hornography
BY ERIC SOLLENBERGER
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
