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June 23, 2006

Volume 25, Number 43

news

  • Downtown's Tall Order

    Where can we put 20,000 new residents?

    BY KATHERINE GREGOR

  • Defenseless: TFDP Sues Williamson Co.

    Is Williamson County dispensing with defense?

    BY PATRICIA J. RULAND

  • Hoover: Caught in the Flash

    Artsy nude photos of teacher took on dramatically different context when viewed through lens of a high school classroom

    BY MICHAEL MAY

  • Church Fight

    Local atheist activist and Presbyterian pastor team up to challenge conservative wing of church's hierarchy

    BY AMY SMITH

  • Naked City

    Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

  • Disaster Fraud

    Government Accountability Office releases two reports on FEMA disaster aid payments made in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita

    BY CHERYL SMITH

  • Hurricane Evacuees Take a Legal Blow

    Emergency housing class-action suit against FEMA dismissed

    BY CHERYL SMITH

  • Polygamist Prophet Sighting

    Warren Jeffs spotted in FLDS stronghold Colorado City, Ariz.

    BY JORDAN SMITH

  • Bouldin Meadows Update

    With lingering 100-year floodplain concerns, Zoning and Platting Commission once again delays decision on the proposed South Austin subdivision

    BY WELLS DUNBAR

  • Challenging Lethal Injection

    Supreme Court rules death row inmates with no more criminal appeals left may challenge constitutionality of lethal injection method of execution under federal civil rights statutes

    BY JORDAN SMITH

  • Point Austin: Three Dimensions

    When you're looking for heroes, avoid the usual suspects

    BY MICHAEL KING

  • Beside the Point

    City Council gets ready to wade in the water (treatment plant)

    BY WELLS DUNBAR

  • The Hightower Report

    Alito Strikes; and Corporatizing The Border

    BY JIM HIGHTOWER

food

music

screens

the arts

  • But You Can Win Her Yet

    TexARTS revives a classic musical and a big musical theatre dream

    BY ROBERT FAIRES

  • 'Hitten Switches': Of Communal Recognition

    The mail-art collaboration 'Hitten Switches,' by Travis Millard and Michael Sieben, is a journal, a two-person diary, an ode to friendship, and a manifestation of a respectful relationship

    BY RACHEL KOPER

  • State Theatre

    The waters may be gone, but the State Theatre is still sunk in the aftermath of a June 13 water-main break that left the venue's stage, basement, and four rows of seats inundated

    BY ROBERT FAIRES

  • Austin Dance

    Some Austin dance artists will be getting out of town this summer – way out of town: Innsbruck, Jacob's Pillow, and Hong Kong – thanks to special invitations

    BY ROBERT FAIRES

  • Arts Reviews

    The 24th Day, 'What Do You See', 'Legacies of Dust', and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

columns

  • Postmarks

    Our readers talk back.

  • Letters @ 3AM

    On this drive, the universe condensed into one word: invitation.

    BY MICHAEL VENTURA

  • After a Fashion

    You wouldn't think that an event so oozing with testosterone would displease Stephen so. Well, you'll just have to read to find out.

    BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER

  • To Your Health

    What is the difference between l-glutamine and glutamine, and the same for the other amino acids?

    BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.

  • The Common Law

    Divorce – Let Me (Unfortunately) Count the Ways

    BY LUKE ELLIS

  • Day Trips

    Tolbert's Restaurant in Grapevine knows chili

    BY GERALD E. MCLEOD

  • Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

    Deadly doctors and dentists' drills

    BY MR. SMARTY PANTS

    • The Luv Doc: Grabbing Crotch

    How to cure your attention deficit

    Postmarks

    Letters to the editor, published daily

books

sports

  • Soccer Watch

    All the World Cup news that's fit to print

    BY NICK BARBARO