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BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
Sounding the Alarm on Texas' Nursing Home System
25% of the state's 1,200 long-term care centers have been cited for serious standard deficiencies
BY NINA HERNANDEZ AND ANNAMARYA SCACCIA
Point Austin: The Amazon Invasion
We could handle another giant, but let's let 'em open their own wallets
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Let’s Hope ...
Soccer planning goes better than plan planning
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week: Ann Denkler
CodeNEXT is starting to wear on everyone
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Texas Is About to Get Its First Marijuana Dispensary
Compassionate Cultivation open in Austin before year’s end?
BY MARY TUMA
Rape Claims Hit Rideshare Drivers
Lyft, RideAustin drivers both arrested on sexual assault charges
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Former APD Officer Coleman Martin’s Charges Dropped
Cop who faked his own death accepts probation, won't face misdemeanor charges
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
AISD Trustee Yasmin Wagner’s Two Bosses
District 7 trustee did Board work on city time, says city auditor
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Council: Another Quiet Dais?
Agenda features the CURE and a list of proposed audits
BY MICHAEL KING
“Center for Austin’s Future” in Search of Candidates
New nonprofit plans to groom City Council members
BY MICHAEL KING
Hernandez to ICE Reversal Critics: “This Is Not Over”
Sheriff incurs wrath after altering detainer policy
BY MARY TUMA
A.G.: First Responders Can Carry, Administer Naloxone
Treatment for opioids seen as big step, but hardly only solution
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Despite State's Opposition, Judge Grants Abortion to Undocumented Minor Held "Hostage"
Texas “must not become a sanctuary state for abortions,” says A.G.
BY MARY TUMA
Assistant Chief Aaron Woolverton Cleared at AFD
Woolverton found to have not lied to Civil Service about past accident
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Austin Police Association, City Nearing Deal
Wages at issue for union after oversight concessions
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Death Watch: Court of Criminal Appeals Grants Stay to Clinton Young
Evidentiary hearing expected in Midland County
BY SARAH MARLOFF
food
Review: Eldorado Cafe
Finding the gold in an Allandale strip mall
BY JESSI CAPE
Comedian Danny Palumbo's Hot Take on Gas Station Coffee
Lattes are not the way to this caffeine junkie's heart
BY DANNY PALUMBO
Dear Glutton: Fall Flavors
Places in town to eat something autumnal without pumpkin spice
BY EMILY BEYDA
Food Events
music
Bill Converse Shapes Texas Techno
Underground turntable maestro needs no introduction to local DJs, but to the broader community he's flown under the radar
BY DAN GENTILE
Playback: The New Face of Austin Music Festivals
Taking stock of Austin’s festival landscape a week after the conclusion of ACL Fest
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Tour Diary: Jackie Venson
Rising ATX guitarist recounts opening for the local blues slinger
BY JACKIE VENSON
Texas Album Hall of Fame: Project Crew
Tee Double dusts off the local release that proved Austin hip-hop worthy of his raps
BY TERRANY “TEE DOUBLE” JOHNSON
Texas Platters
screens
AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL 2017 PREVIEW
Austin Film Festival 2017 Preview
The writers' festival goes big
BY JOSH KUPECKI
AFF Brings Walter Hill for The Warriors and Then Some
Writer/director comes out to play
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Stream Analysis
Dispatches from the couch
BY JOSH KUPECKI AND MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
What’cha Watchin’?
Writer/Proofreader Greg Stitt hunts down the best horror options currently streaming
Film Reviews
Breathe
Andrew Garfield stars in this biopic of a British responaut and advocate for the disabled
Dina
Human Flow
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei directs an epic overview of the global refugee crisis.
Killing Gunther
Of course, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the world's best hitman
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
Account of the informant who brought down Nixon's administration
Only the Brave
Visceral dramatization of the heroic work of the Granite Mountain Hotshots
Same Kind of Different as Me
Can two men span the gap of cultural differences?
Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton
Intimate portrait of the surfing legend only skims the surface.
arts & culture
Half Price Books: Where Rare Is Well Done
Does the rare books room at Austin’s North Lamar location owe its success to alchemy?
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Arts Reviews
Woman in Black at Scottish Rite Theater
Skilled actors and atmospheric design combine to make this co-production a spine-tingler ideal for Halloween
Zach Theatre's Singin' in the Rain
This stage take on the silver-screen musical really comes alive when it breaks free of the familiar film's grip
La Follia Plays J.S. Bach’s Greatest Chamber Music
Choosing Bach’s top chamber works may be impossible, but the baroque ensemble made a convincing case for five not-easy pieces in this concert
columns
Gay Place
Rescheduled Pride doesn't miss a beat
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: San Antonio Botanical Garden
Public garden adds a culinary component to its flowering beds
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Mr. Nice Guy
Sweet T is the name of an Irish boxer with fake front teeth and sleeve tattoos
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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