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Carstarphen's AISD Staff Shake-Up
Rockets, Glare: Fourth of July Listings

This Week's Waste of Time: Like a spreadsheet but, believe it or not, more exciting
Special Morning: Could the three-day session become a two-day session with victims?
Aztex Bow Out of U.S. Open Cup: Dynamo advances over Aztex, 2-0
Aztex U-23s Suffer Through Rough Road Trip: The junior Aztex hang onto first place, just barely
All That Remains
Roxanne Paltauf vanished three years ago, leaving her family with only memories and investigators with few clues
AISD Staff Shake-Up
One day into the new superintendent's tenure, things already look different
Expect the Unexpected
Summertime and the living is ... frenzied
Transit Union Resists Giving Up Pay Raise
Cap Metro's budget woes fail to impress union
Political Sage Creekmore Fath Dies
Longtime Austin resident served under FDR
Lyceum Poll: Texans Full of Surprises
Texans may be learning to love their gays – not as much as their voter ID, though
Developing Stories: Learning From Denver
More insights from the Congress for the New Urbanism
New Urbanism Comes to East Riverside
Tranforming car-heavy Riverside into a pedestrian-friendly place to live and work
Special Session Could End in Fireworks
Governor wants a short and sweet special session
$4 Million Later
Lab leaves town, plagued by accusations of faulty research, money waste, and mismanagement
Manor Expressway: Oh, the Vehicle Miles You'll Travel!
Cash and criticism for the $623 million toll road
Ott Tackles Austin's Racial Divide
The city manager won't abide changing the subject when it comes to I-35
The Hightower Report
Republicans on Health Care; and Wall Street's Gas-Pump Robbery
Res Publica
Citizens calendar, July 3-9
Classics Comeback
Are the great dramas of yore reclaiming their place on Austin's stages?
'Dune Shack Summer'
An Austin artist's residency in a Cape Cod dune shack yields an art show and a book
Hideout Improv Marathon
In hour 40, these improvisers were still in top form: fresh, focused, and incredibly funny
Geppetto Dreams Family Puppet Workshops
Twice-monthly summer sessions let kids create puppets of their very own
Lake Eats Revisited
We take a trip down Ranch Road 620 for new bites on the scene
Wine of the Week
Terredora di Paolo offers delights from the birthplace of wine
Food-o-File
Despite our Natural Grocers fumble, readers keep tipping us off to great new eateries around town
Event Menu
Foodie events for July 4-8
Postmarks
Letters to the editor, updated daily
Page Two: Hypocrisy and Health Care
Toward a list of ingredients for stew
Letters at 3AM: Something Absurd in Between
At the crest of Beatlemania, 18 and hungry for life was some kind of way to be
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar cleverly distills this weekend's news overkill, so you don't have to
Day Trips
Pendery's World of Chiles and Spices offers 'gourmet spices for the discerning chef'
Gay Place
Fort Worth cops open up a six-pack of whoopass just in time to celebrate the anniversary of Stonewall
Playing Through
Spectator sports can crush our most ardent hopes and dreams, and that's a good thing
Soccer Watch Online
News and scores from the U.S. and abroad
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Small places with big names, solving the mystery of white meat, and more
Ask Mr. Smarty Pants
Got a question? He's got the answer.
The Common Law
Austin Water Restrictions
The Luv Doc Recommends
A rambling recommendation to shore up that hole in your social calendar
Tough Crowd
The setup: 21 depressives, neurotics, and social misfits walk into a book. Meet comedy's all-stars.
Split Decision
At last week's open forum, the film community gathered to discuss the future of Austin Studios
Contracting and Expanding at KLRU
The lights go out on KLRU2 as a new channel takes the stage
Film News
Local singer-songwriter Jesse Dayton tries on a new role as a psychobilly vampire in Rob Zombie's Halloween II; plus news on Gary Kent, the TXMPA, and Turk Pipkin
TV Eye
How much is that male escort in the window?
Film Reviews
• Whatever Works


I Write the Folk Songs
From 1980s MTV Robert Plant look-alike to New Age icon, Marshall Styler knows his way around an eBay melody
Hooping
Eighty-eight keys are too heavy, too melancholy, says computer-key stroker Laura Scarborough
Off the Record
Explosions in the Sky commemorates the Fourth of July, Harlem signs with Matador, floating down to Whitewater on the Horseshoe, and paying tribute to Sky Sunlight Saxon and the King of Pop