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If your pet escapes in Austin, pray for Animal Control

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350 or Bust: New Climate Change Campaigns Get Rolling

The Share350 initiative launches at this weekend's Green Fourth of July, bolstering an international climate-change campaign with its own Austin twist

Happenings

Cap Metro Courting Prospective Partners

Transit authority could extend rail and bus service well beyond Austin

Johnston High School Is Dead; Long Live ...?

Johnston High will get a new name and perhaps a new lease on life

The Greening of Michael McCaul

Austin congressman breaks with GOP on environmental vote

Supremes Rule on Lawyers, Sex, and Guns

Court's rulings hit home

Craddick Rebuked for Reps' Rule-Breaking

Computer Crash? Call a PI!

A new law pertaining to private investigators may inadvertently require your computer tech to take on a whole new career

Cap Metro Disability-Service Cuts on Hold

The Texas Civil Rights Project has been given more time to fight Cap Metro's changes to services for the disabled

 Swearing-In Day at City Hall

Point Austin: A Tale of Two Cities

Double vision on affordable housing

Beside the Point

A Ceremony of Innocence

The Hightower Report

Bush; and FEMA Strikes Again

Nothing Less Than Magical

Veterans of the Zilker Summer Musical recall enchantment on the hillside

Domy Books: Where Art and the Printed Page Meet

Russell Etchen on launching an Austin version of his Houston bookstore that focuses on art books, magazines, and toys

Austin Symphony Orchestra: How Much Is That Symphony in the Window?

Two new symphonies will premiere in ASO's next season, but how are those costly commissions being paid for?

McCallum Fine Arts Academy: 'Rent' Due After All

AISD pulled its sponsorship of a districtwide production of Rent, but the show will go on at the McCallum Fine Arts Academy

Arts Reviews

Altar Boyz
Zach's production inspires laughter as it offers the guilty pleasure of watching sexy young men dancing and singing together in a line

White People
J.T. Rogers' play about racial attitudes is timely, but its agenda gets in the way of its characters

Readings

America America
Shades of Chappaquiddick in the terrific novel about a political dynasty

Black & White
Former Austinite Lewis Shiner returns with a near-perfect novel of family and race in North Carolina

Microbrew Renaissance

It's a good time to drink beer in Texas

Event Menu

July 5-8

Food-o-File

Lots of news on reataurants opening and closing

Wines for Grass-Fed and Free-Range Meats

Argentinean Malbecs and Torrontes pair wonderfully with grass-fed meats

In Print

The Farmer and The Grill: A Guide to Grilling, Barbecuing and Spit-Roasting Grassfed Meat and for Saving the Planet One Bite at a Time
Farmer Shannon Hayes shares grass-fed knowledge, and all your local meat is here

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Page Two: Dead Dinosaurs

The only legitimate shot at energy independence is to develop alternative power sources

Letters @ 3AM

Samuel Adams gave Americans a vocabulary both for revolution and for the building of a republic

After a Fashion

A visit with Van and a send-off for Cyd.

Day Trips

San Antonio's San Pedro Springs eternal

Playing Through

Residents of Austin's ARCH traveled to Washington, D.C., to take part in the Homeless USA Cup

Soccer Watch Online

News and scores from the U.S. and abroad

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Thomas Jefferson an early bird, the founder of 'Founding Fathers,' and more

Ask Mr. Smarty Pants
Got a question? He's got the answer.

The Common Law

Nighttime Waterskiing?

The Luv Doc Recommends

A rambling recommendation to shore up that hole in your social calendar

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Tradition Meets the Marketplace

AFS Documentary Tour presents Weaving Worlds

Take Me to the River

Noodling 101 with filmmaker Bradley Beesley

Film Fight

The Chronicle's critics turn on each other for an online debate

Film News

Legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman on the ropes at Lord's Gym

TV Eye

It smells like strike ... again. TV Eye preemptively tosses her TV for the Internet.

Film Reviews

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson starstarstar
Hancock starhalfstar
Jaane Tu … Ya Jaane Na
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl starstar
When Did You Last See Your Father? starstarhalfstar

Red, White, and Reckless

Reckless Kelly's all-American bloodletting

Band of Brothers

In a brotherhood like Los Lonely Boys, all is 'Forgiven'

Off the Record

Commemorating the 95th birthday of Pinetop Perkins one year at a time, exploring Willie's Place at Carl's Corner, and a pregame pep talk with Paul Wall


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Festival International de Jazz de Montréal

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