AFS Cinema
Volume 35, Number 22
news
Roe's End?
After nearly three years of fighting, Texas reproductive rights advocates will get their day at the U.S. Supreme Court
BY MARY TUMA
Point Austin: On the Endorsement Carousel
The Chronicle begins its endorsements process
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Chaos Reigns!
City needs your help now!
BY NICK BARBARO
On the Record: Sexism and the City
Council should get serious about gender equality
BY MARY TUMA
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Council: Let's Face the Music
Ring in the New Year with a marathon Council meeting
BY MICHAEL KING
Uber Says "Thumbs Down"
No truce in the TNC war
BY MAC MCCANN
Eastside Residents Protest STRs
Protesters don't want to see homes turned into hotels
BY JOSEPH CATERINE
Blocked by the Cops
Choose your words carefully before tweeting at APD
BY JOHN ANDERSON
Meet the Candidate: Huey Rey Fischer
Fischer has spent time working under the Capitol dome for a trio of Dem legislators
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Gimme Shelter
Austin's housing market is rough. It's even worse if you have a criminal record.
BY AMY KAMP
The Hightower Report
Why the GOP's fence fantasy is a farce
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
With the Grain
How Austin kitchens are beginning to love gluten
BY VERONICA MEEWES
Queen Bee
Tara Chapman redefines local with Two Hives Honey
BY JESSI CAPE
Review: Geraldine's
Rainey Street dining matures
BY BRANDON WATSON
The Take-Out
One truck isn't the only problem with how white Austin views "Asian" food
BY BRANDON WATSON
Food Events
music
Texas Moonshine
Previously pigeonholed psych trio Ringo Deathstarr transcends its root crushes
BY LIBBY WEBSTER
Playback: The Austin Music Poll's 11th Hour
A final push to get out the vote in the Austin Music Poll
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
John Wesley Coleman III
Greatest Hits
Los Jazz Vatos
El Jefe
Ariel Abshire
Unresolved
Lew Card
Follow Me Down
Harvest Thieves
Rival
Broken Teeth
Bulldozer
James Cotton, Pinetop Perkins
Mighty Long Time, Live at Antone's Nightclub, Live at Antone's Vol. 1, Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
Spoon
Gimme Fiction
screens
Fantastic Four
Crowdfunded juggernaut Lazer Team hits screens big and small
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Two Americans in Paris
UT grads go abroad for "Margot"
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
2016 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation
Watch and prepare for your Oscar pool
2016 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action
Form an opinion instead of guessing what will win this category
Airlift
Bollywood actioner
The Boy
Horrors: A nanny finds that her new charge is a life-sized doll
Dirty Grandpa
Robert De Niro and Zac Efron go on a raunchy road trip
The 5th Wave
Chloë Grace Moretz battles Earth's fifth wave of alien attacks
The Finest Hours
Perfect effects and performances made this sea-rescue movie a dandy
45 Years
A long-married couple begins to question their union
Kung Fu Panda 3
Now a kung-fu master, the panda is no longer a grasshopper
Lazer Team
The first feature film from Austin's Rooster Teeth gang is a hoot
Mountain Men
Estranged brothers exchange truths while stuck in the woods
arts & culture
Stephen Harrigan on A Friend of Mr. Lincoln
The Austin writer reveals the vision behind his portrait of the 16th president as a young man in his new novel
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Salvage Vanguard Theater's Denim Doves
Adrienne Dawes' play takes the idea of postapocalyptic sister wives in an original, amusing direction
Southwest Theatre Productions' Exit 27
At its heart, Aleks Merilo's play about boys exiled from their cultlike church is about mind control
"Cali Thornhill DeWitt: This Magic Moment" at Farewell Books
Nineties youth rebellion meets millennial "meh" and resigned participation in this solo show
columns
Gay Place
Some weeks are for the birds, others for the bears
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Perky Breast Mountain, Bakersfield
Distinctive peak outside of Bakersfield has guided travelers for centuries
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Cat Poop!
A pile of cat poop is hardly a severed horse head, but you should probably take it as a message
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
Hornography
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
comics
