All That Remains
BY JORDAN SMITH
Roxanne Paltauf vanished three years ago, leaving her family with only memories and investigators with few clues

All That Remains
BY JORDAN SMITH
Roxanne Paltauf vanished three years ago, leaving her family with only memories and investigators with few clues

• Missing in Austin
  BY JORDAN SMITH
  Message to parents: Get to know your kids

AISD Staff Shake-Up
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
One day into the new superintendent's tenure, things already look different

Expect the Unexpected
BY AMY SMITH
Summertime and the living is ... frenzied

Transit Union Resists Giving Up Pay Raise
BY LEE NICHOLS
Cap Metro's budget woes fail to impress union

Political Sage Creekmore Fath Dies
BY AMY SMITH
Longtime Austin resident served under FDR

Lyceum Poll: Texans Full of Surprises
BY LEE NICHOLS
Texans may be learning to love their gays – not as much as their voter ID, though

Developing Stories: Learning From Denver
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
More insights from the Congress for the New Urbanism

New Urbanism Comes to East Riverside
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Tranforming car-heavy Riverside into a pedestrian-friendly place to live and work

Special Session Could End in Fireworks
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Governor wants a short and sweet special session

$4 Million Later
BY LAUREL CHESKY
Lab leaves town, plagued by accusations of faulty research, money waste, and mismanagement

Manor Expressway: Oh, the Vehicle Miles You'll Travel!
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Cash and criticism for the $623 million toll road

Ott Tackles Austin's Racial Divide
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
The city manager won't abide changing the subject when it comes to I-35

The Hightower Report
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
Republicans on Health Care; and Wall Street's Gas-Pump Robbery

Headlines

Res Publica
Citizens calendar, July 3-9

Naked City

Classics Comeback
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Are the great dramas of yore reclaiming their place on Austin's stages?

'Dune Shack Summer'
BY ROBERT FAIRES
An Austin artist's residency in a Cape Cod dune shack yields an art show and a book

Hideout Improv Marathon
BY ROBERT FAIRES
In hour 40, these improvisers were still in top form: fresh, focused, and incredibly funny

Geppetto Dreams Family Puppet Workshops
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Twice-monthly summer sessions let kids create puppets of their very own

• Department of Angels
  A bureaucratic heaven, as envisioned by a couple of charming clowns, is sweet
• A Love Supreme – The Music of John Coltrane
  Turtle Island Quartet's tribute to the jazz genius was fresh and thrilling
• 'The Lining of Forgetting: Internal and External Memory in Art'
  This thought-provoking exhibition plays off memory's elusive, fluid nature

Lake Eats Revisited
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
We take a trip down Ranch Road 620 for new bites on the scene

• Steiner Ranch Steakhouse
  When a group of six spends more than $400 on dinner, most of the food should be at least as impressive as the saddles
• Cafe Blue
  Cafe Blue's Sunday brunch is highly recommended, but the rest still needs to be worked out

Wine of the Week
BY WES MARSHALL
Terredora di Paolo offers delights from the birthplace of wine

Food-o-File
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Despite our Natural Grocers fumble, readers keep tipping us off to great new eateries around town

Event Menu
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Foodie events for July 4-8

Tough Crowd
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
The setup: 21 depressives, neurotics, and social misfits walk into a book. Meet comedy's all-stars.

Split Decision
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
At last week's open forum, the film community gathered to discuss the future of Austin Studios

Contracting and Expanding at KLRU
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
The lights go out on KLRU2 as a new channel takes the stage

Film News
BY JOE O'CONNELL
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
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
How much is that male escort in the window?

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
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

• Wilco
  Wilco (the album)
• Vieux Farka Touré
  Fondo
• Son Volt
  American Central Dust
• The Low Anthem
  Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
• Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard
  'Em Are I
• Hanne Hukkelberg
  Blood From a Stone

Postmarks
Letters to the editor, updated daily

Page Two: Hypocrisy and Health Care
BY LOUIS BLACK
Toward a list of ingredients for stew

Oops!

Letters at 3AM: Something Absurd in Between
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
At the crest of Beatlemania, 18 and hungry for life was some kind of way to be

After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Your Style Avatar cleverly distills this weekend's news overkill, so you don't have to

Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Pendery's World of Chiles and Spices offers 'gourmet spices for the discerning chef'

Gay Place
BY KATE X MESSER AND ASH BELL
Fort Worth cops open up a six-pack of whoopass just in time to celebrate the anniversary of Stonewall

Playing Through
BY THOMAS HACKETT
Spectator sports can crush our most ardent hopes and dreams, and that's a good thing

Soccer Watch Online
BY NICK BARBARO
News and scores from the U.S. and abroad

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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
BY LUKE ELLIS
Austin Water Restrictions

The Luv Doc Recommends
BY DAN HARDICK
A rambling recommendation to shore up that hole in your social calendar