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Jana Birchum / Design by Zeke Barbaro
Volume 42, Number 4
Issue Supplements
Best of Austin: Restaurants 2022
Texas Tribune Festival
ON THE COVER:
WE HAVE AN ISSUE:
BY Kimberley Jones
news
Austin at Large: Battle Lines Being (Re)drawn
The imperfect ways we try to describe what’s at stake when neighborhoods change
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Public Notice: More Drama in Hays County
Plus APD at City Council, and what’s one man’s trash ...
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines / Quote of the Week
Election Ticker: They Ban, We Plan
Celia Israel and Kirk Watson answer urbanists, Israel lays out repro rights plan, and more
BY THE NEWS STAFF
Austin Seeks Federal Funds for Safer Streets
The $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill presents an opportunity
BY BENTON GRAHAM
Austin Aquarium Under Scrutiny Again After PETA Investigation
One fish, two fish, red fish, dead fish
BY LINA FISHER
Animals, Society, and Race at Huston-Tillotson
New course tackles how animal welfare work intersects with racism
BY LINA FISHER
Federal District Court Rules Employers Can Refuse to Purchase Health Insurance That Covers PrEP
When lifesaving medicines are against someone’s religion
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
APD Protects and Serves Itself With Eighth Street Report
Lessons learned?
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Different Court and State, Same Alex Jones
Jones keeps lying in court and getting caught
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
food
BEST OF AUSTIN: RESTAURANTS 2022
Best of Austin: Restaurants 2022
Some thoughts on the inaugural Best of Austin: Restaurants Awards
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Chronicle Editorial Staffers Name Their Essential Dishes
We've all got our favorites
BY CHRONICLE STAFF
Food Editor Melanie Haupt’s 10 Favorite Austin Restaurants
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Crow Bar’s Gone In Flames, Good Work Austin Calls In the S.I. Votes, Pizza Is Pretty Much Rampant Everywhere, Festival Season’s Coming for Us All, and This Is Fine
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmer's markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of September 22, 2022
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
music
Voxtrot: The (Re)start of Something
12 years after disbanding, the forerunners of modern indie-pop call on the "mystical, inexplicable force" that flowed through their Early Music
BY JULIAN TOWERS
Faster Than Sound: Infinite Hellscape Brings Austin Eclecticism Into Focus Under West Texas Stars
Camping at the first-year Austin/Marathon/Ft. Davis fest
BY RACHEL RASCOE
Review: The Bearer's Chained to a Tree (Silent Pendulum)
Austin metalcore trio tightens the restraints
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Review: No One at the Circus – The Story of Ghostwriter Through Place and Song
In one-man band's situationally annotated lyric book, the path is the goal
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week
Carrie Rodriguez's Laboratorio, itchy-O, Fontaines D.C., Ash Lauryn, Nas & Wu-Tang, and more
BY CHRISTINA GARCIA, RICHARD WHITTAKER, MICHAEL TOLAND, CHRISTINA GARCIA, RAOUL HERNANDEZ, KEVIN CURTIN AND DEREK UDENSI
Live Music in Austin
BY DEREK UDENSI
screens
FANTASTIC FEST 2022
Fantastic Fest Cuts Into the Scarier Side of Cinema
Austin’s weirdest film festival returns
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
How Art the Clown Became a Horror Icon
Slasher epic Terrifier 2 breaks all the rules, but director Damien Leone is just telling the story he wants to tell
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Millennial Mayhem in V/H/S/99
The fifth installment in the found footage horror anthology series gets the Y2K jitters
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Film Family That Slays Together Makes Child's Play Together
Documentarian Kyra Elise Gardner celebrates the community around pint-sized slasher Chucky in in Living With Chucky
BY JAMES SCOTT
Five Films to Catch First at Fantastic Fest
The movies you'll want to see before drafting your year-end best-of lists
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Moseying Out Into the Multiverse With the Quantum Cowboys
Geoff Marslett probes memory and the many-worlds theory in his new animated mind-bender at AFS Cinema
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Blonde
Treatise on fame turns Marilyn Monroe's life into a horror story
Carmen
Maltese midlife crisis comedy is a pleasant if undemanding jaunt
Catherine Called Birdy
Lena Dunham goes for historical comedy
Chup
A serial killer targets film critics in this Bollywood thriller
Cuando Sea Joven
Age-swap antics as a 70-year-old woman becomes her younger self
Don't Worry Darling
Even Florence Pugh can't save this heavy-handed thriller
arts & culture
Review: Zach Theatre’s The Inheritance, Part 2
Second installment of this audacious opus is too much of a good thing
BY BOB ABELMAN
Arts Events
Art galleries, theatre, comedy, dance, and more
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Community Events
Local events, volunteer opportunities, kids' activities, and more
BY KATHERINE MCNEVINS
columns
We Have an Issue: Toasts All Around
Celebrating the Best of Austin: Restaurants awards, and sending off Music Editor Kevin Curtin
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Opinion: Wildflower Center Fails Its Conservation Mission by Lighting Up Its Landscape
Field of Light exhibit glamorizes outdoor landscape lighting and ignores light pollution's harmful effects on wildlife, plants, and human health
BY SOLL SUSSMAN
Qmmunity: Take Me Home, Country Queers
OUTlaw Pride Festival declares there's nothin' more outlaw than being queer in country music
BY JAMES SCOTT
Day Trips: The Vanishing Texana Museum, Jacksonville
Train ticket leads to museum demolition
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Her Own YouTube Channel
The Luv Doc is not trying to fetish shame
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, September 23-29
BY ROB BREZSNY
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
The Verde Report: What You Need to Know About the MLS Cup Playoffs in Austin
When and how to watch Austin FC in their first-ever playoff match
BY ERIC GOODMAN
comics
