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How to Assemble Your Brett Kavanaugh Mask
Start by trampling on someone's rights
news
Chronicle Endorsements
Recommendations for mayor, Council, school and college districts, bonds, and propositions
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
Land for Water
The city is asking voters to send more money to a little-known program that protects Barton Springs
BY LINDSAY STAFFORD MADER
Point Austin: Lessons at Election Time
Vote like our lives (and Austin) depend on it
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice Light
Planning for the weekend
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dipping into the literary well
Civics 101
This Week’s Rolling Boil
Living a handful of days without good water
BY MARY TUMA
NAKED CITY
The Floods Hit Sandy Creek
Sustained rains bring trouble to Llano County site
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Vietnam Memories
Ricardo Ainslie's new documentary The Mark of War airs Sunday
BY MICHAEL KING
Whole Foods’ Labor Market
U.S. Sens. Sanders, Warren probe Austin grocer's labor relations
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Sixth Street Shootouts
Three shootings roil Downtown this weekend
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Ora’s Last Stand?
Running circles around City Council
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Camelback PUD Ambles Forward
City Council gives preliminary approval to major northwest Austin development
BY MICHAEL KING
Election Ticker: Don’t Listen to Us!
Midterm coverage, from the folks you love to hate
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON, CHASE HOFFBERGER, MICHAEL KING, MARY TUMA AND NINA HERNANDEZ
The Texas Public Policy Foundation: Not Always Evil!
Conservative think tank aligns with FIRST STEP Act
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Bullies Will Be Bullies
Decoding Jimmy Flannigan and Ken Casaday's most recent tiff
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Death Watch: Can Texas Keep a Secret?
State Supreme Court grants rehearing in execution drug supplier case
BY SARAH MARLOFF
The Threat Is Real
Still wonder how Kavanaugh will rule on abortion? Look no further than his record in Texas
BY MARY TUMA
food
Tasty Reads at the Texas Book Festival
Barbecue, pies, and more to whet your literary appetite
Give Booze a Shot
Local options for shots (shots shots shots shots)
BY VERONICA MEEWES
Food Events
music
Music on the Page at the Texas Book Festival
Music books strut their feminism, hip-hop, and emo
BY RACHEL RASCOE
Playback: Seth Gibbs Promises to Fight
Cancer stricken pop savant crafts his NOT-posthumous album
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Doyle Bramhall II
Shades
Charlie Belle
Like I Love This
Upper Reality
Holy Mountain Wata
Jane Ellen Bryant
Let Me Be Lost
Immortal Guardian
Age of Revolution
Cherubs
Short of Popular
Bright Light Social Hour
Missing Something
Shmu
Lead Me to the Glow
Jaimee Harris
Red Rescue
screens
Austin Film Festival 2018 Preview
Austin Film Festival Brings Paul Dano's Wildlife to Town
The actor becomes director with literary family drama
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Small-Town Drama, Small-Town Hospitality
Austin director Tyler Russell gets help picking some Texas Cotton
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Also Starring Austin Makes ATX the Star
Mike Blizzard’s cinematic history finds more than just slackers
BY JULIAN DEBERRY
Iron Orchard Gets Its Day on Screen
Austin Film Festival shows the film adaptation of the classic Texas novel
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
From Paris to Austin
AFA Ciné-Club brings in Gallic wonders from the Champs-Élysées Film Festival
BY JOSH KUPECKI
What’cha Watchin’?
Screens editor Richard Whittaker has your Halloween binge watch ready
Film Reviews
Beautiful Boy
Steve Carell soars above this overly-earnest addiction biography
Border
Swedish coming out drama has a mythological bent
Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable
The great photographer's work reappraised and redeemed
The Happy Prince
Tragic Oscar Wilde biopic flies sporadically
Hunter Killer
Cold War flashbacks as Gerard Butler takes on the Russkies
Johnny English Strikes Again
Time to revoke this agent's license
London Fields
Buried crime drama finally emerges after legal scandals
Mid90s
Jonah Hill's coming-of-age story sometimes sparks with authenticity
Silencio
Time travel drama with a family twist
arts & culture
Ben Fountain on Beautiful Country Burn Again
In his new book, the author lights up 2016 to make sense of that crazy, intense year
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Books to Prep You for the Texas Book Festival
The read goes on forever at the 2018 Texas Book Festival
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Snapshot: Ghost Walk Austin
Suicide Brides and servant girl murders: Haunted tour guide Jim Miles explores the creepier side of Downtown Austin
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Arts Reviews
Austin Symphony's Happy Birthday, Lenny
In its concert celebrating Bernstein, the ASO shows the composer giving his all in even the briefest of works
“Candace Hicks: Many Mini Murder Scenes” at Women & Their Work
In her small-scale re-creations of murder scenes in mystery novels, the artist provides playful social commentary on the genre
“Shanie Tommasini: Slippery Clump” at the Umlauf
The Umlauf Prize-winning artist uses big, playful shapes and environmental manipulation to look at art, nature, and conservation
columns
Qmmunity
Trump and other things that go bump in the night
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Active Plan, Brownsville
Tropical trail mix comes to the RGV
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Exposed Nipples
Unlike our president, a warm, sweaty, glitter-speckled nipple is nothing to be embarrassed about
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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