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Chronicle Endorsements
From local elections to the dreaded presidential race, here's who we recommend
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
Austin Police Consider Community Reforms
After a year spent making headlines APD prioritizes policing equity
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Point Austin: Only a Few More Days
The campaigns last forever, and the battles never end
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: November at Last
Yesterday was the Day of the Dead, and next week, our long, long national nightmare will come to a close (unless another one is about to begin, but I just can't contemplate that)
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Council: From Trash to Treasure
Dripping Springs wants to dump its wastewater where?
BY MICHAEL KING
Grove Mediation Faces Timing Conflict
Standoff continues over Grove as topic barrels toward another hearing before City Council
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Election Notes: Notes at the End of the Road
Just a few more days of this deluge
Designing a Smarter City
New weeklong event celebrates city's creative community
BY ROBYN ROSS
A Celebration of Austin’s Black Cemeteries
Cemetery tour to help re-discover Austin’s lost black history
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
East Austinite’s Plan to Sell Home Nearly Thwarted
CM Houston's historic lack of compassion
BY CALEB PRITCHARD
The Hightower Report
What caused the "Wreck of the Wells Fargo"?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
SOUND ON SOUND 2016
We Know Where You Should Eat During Sound on Sound
Because Denzel Curry isn't an actual food
BY BRANDON WATSON
Cheap Eats: Quickie Pickie
Convenience dating at a convenience store
BY MARY BRYCE
Dear Glutton: Best Place for a Birthday Dinner?
How to celebrate a birthday without all the hassle
BY EMILY BEYDA
Food Events
music
SOUND ON SOUND 2016
Friday SOS Interview: Fidlar
L.A. punks fire up SOS's punk engine
BY BRYAN ROLLI
Friday SOS Picks
Two sleepers and a headliner worthy of spotlighting at SOS Friday
BY LIBBY WEBSTER AND ALEJANDRA RAMIREZ
Friday SOS Record Reviews
Records spinning at SOS Friday
Saturday SOS Interview: Car Seat Headrest
Will Toledo's bedroom confessional becomes a rock brigade – with empathy!
BY NEPH BASEDOW
Saturday SOS Pick
One flashback in particular deserves attention Saturday
BY MICHAEL TOLAND
Saturday SOS Record Reviews
Saturday platters at Sound on Sound
Sunday SOS Interview: Thursday
Poetically political post-hardcore icons reunite
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Sunday SOS Interview: Courtney Barnett
28-year-old Aussie on caring less what other people think
BY LIBBY WEBSTER
Sunday SOS Interview: Carcass
Liverpool metallurgists back from the dead
BY MICHAEL TOLAND
Sunday SOS Picks
A final three picks for the SOS Sabbath
BY TIM STEGALL AND MICHAEL TOLAND
Sunday SOS Record Reviews
Sabbath spinners at Sound on Sound
Depressed at the Faire
Emo, screamo, and other downtrodden acts
BY LIBBY WEBSTER
Dream Pop
Four acts for the sleepy set
BY ABBY JOHNSTON
Rap
Beats and rhymes at SOS
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Austin Jousters A-Z
Locals take the stage
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Punk A-Z
Nine bands that like it fast and loud
BY TIM STEGALL
Cherubs Flourish in the Afterlife at SOS Fest
"We didn’t want to be a Cherubs cover band playing Heroin Man over and over for people"
BY GREG BEETS
Playback: Sound on Sound Gets Medieval
Sound on Sound’s über headliner: 23 acres of Sherwood Forest
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Book Review: Texas Book Festival Music Reviews
Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark
Tamara Saviano
The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1963
Ed Ward
screens
Trevante Rhodes on His Role in Moonlight
UT alum discusses the acclaimed coming-of-age drama
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Highlights From the Austin Asian American Film Festival
Dark and stormy, with a side of stoner fun
BY MICHAEL AGRESTA
Film Reviews
Doctor Strange
The Doctor is out, far out
Hacksaw Ridge
A pacifist goes to war in Mel Gibson's brutal film
A Man Called Ove
A grumpy old man finds his heart
arts & culture
SOUND ON SOUND 2016
All Booked Up for the Texas Book Festival
Fans of the written word, keep this weekend’s schedule free; you’ll need every minute for the TBF
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Vortex’s Ballot Eats the Bullet
This timely production’s extraordinary performers speak truth, as black women in America, that makes us see them
Tapestry Dance’s One Step at a Time
The rhythm tap company’s production offers not just wonderful dance but perhaps the most necessary commentary of this electoral season
“Tania Mouraud: Everyday Ogres” at UT VAC
The artist’s disturbing videos capture the ominous sense of an industrial intelligence beyond humans’ capacity to manage
columns
Page Two: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us
Whoever wins the election, the damage is already done
BY LOUIS BLACK
Gay Place
Vote early! Vote on Election Day! Just vote!
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Glenn Goode’s Big People, Gainesville
Towering sculptures are roadside attractions
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: History
Any time you start poking around in someone's skeleton closet there is a good chance you're going to get boned
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law: How The Next President Will Reshape the U.S. Supreme Court
And the lasting impact of this presidential election
BY LUKE ELLIS
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sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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