Rosemary Vines has been shaking her booty with her three-year-old students at St. George’s Episcopal for 30 years.

Bob Bullock's final monument to himself, the Texas State History Museum, won't have many historical documents, but it promises to be entertaining.

Seven years after the ATF's raid on the Branch Davidians' Waco compound, the government continues to blame the media for tipping off the Davidians about the raid while hiding information that tells a different story.

Ken Martin sells In Fact to Jo Clifton; Log Cabin Republicans set up a "booth in exile" at Republican convention; AustinAtWork.com debuts; Whole Foods closes its Web site.

New council members are sworn in.

"The moment I walked into Lucky Dog on Spicewood Springs Road," Cuisines writer MM Pack writes, "I knew I wasn't in Austin hot-dog land. For one thing, people working there were wearing Bulls' caps, and they hadn't learned to pronounce those flat As in Longview."

Virginia B. Wood explains why Texas Folklife Resources' new exhibit "The Welcoming Table" is worth a visit and updates readers on local culinary news.

Chronicle Cuisines writer MM Pack on Austin’s American cafes.

Two veteran music writers conduct an e-mail correspondence in order to look at new ways of reinventing the music industry.

A flood of posthumous Doug Sahm CDs, both old and new, hits record stores

The war betwixt Dynamite Hack and Vallejo escalates, in truth and in fiction; Watchtower gears up to rock Germany's ass off; Hank's Roadside Cafe bites the dust.

Christine Fugate's new documentary The Girl Next Door follows Stacy Baker from her childhood in Tulsa to her rise as porn star Stacy Valentine.

Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.

Iron Chef, the addictive and absorbing Japanese show which presents cooking as a sports event, comes to Manhattan with Iron Chef NY Battle, which pits Japanese chef Masaharu Morimoto against American Bobby Flay.

Boys and Girls, Chicken Run, Fantasia, The Girl Next Door, Hamlet, Me, Myself & Irene, and Orphans

The new photo exhibitions “Kosova24: Life After Wartime” and “The Welcoming Table” may document radically different experiences, but they share a sense of life turning from season to season, generation to generation, persisting even in the face of dramatic upheavals. Life goes on, and both shows offer portraits of human resilience and perseverance.

A new CEO for ARTSCenter Stage; some bad luck for a pair of former Austin actors.

North by Northeast introduces club-hopping to Toronto.

Raves for Marc Savlov's recent article on Ecstasy.

Watch out far too many local public service organizations are holding very cool events this hot summer.

The paperback reissue of Steve Erickson's The Sea Came In at Midnight prompts a reflection on his writing.

Isn't any fashion show better than no fashion shows? Definitely maybe.

Perhaps soon, Florida's waters will smell lemon-balmy instead.

Coach, on vacation in Cozumel, is having a little trouble keeping up with sports, but his cap's off to those gutty Pacers!

Barry's Coffee Company in Temple provides fuel for the discerning I-35 driver in the form of real coffee, desserts, and the best chicken salad sandwiches in the universe.

Denying the denialists, part two.

Philip Roth's strength as a novelist, Tom Grimes says, is that he never writes as if he's finally reached a point of permanent self-definition. He's always searching for that definition, as a writer, as a Jew, and now, through the aging, reclusive Nathan Zuckerman, as an American.

Upcoming literary events in Austin.

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