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Deep Eddy Rising
Citizens and city come together to restore an Austin landmark
BY MICHAEL KING
The Key (Chain) to Chief Ellison's Heart
Hey, who wants an Austin Police badge?
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Power of Poetry
Johnston High English teacher makes poets out of school's urban immigrant youths
BY MICHAEL MAY
Bucks for Bullets: Federal minimum-wage raise approved
When Congress passed Iraq war spending bill last Thursday, it approved a raise in federal minimum wage for first time in a decade
BY CHERYL SMITH
Naked City
Developing Stories: The Long Capitol View
The Downtown Commission and Heritage Society of Austin square off over Capitol-view corridors
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Developing Stories
Traffic, bullshit, Suttle, and Town Lake
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
On the Lege
The last days of the session: a rebellion and a budget
BY AMY SMITH
Point Austin: Craddick Unbound
The House speaker retains his chair, but at what cost?
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside The Point
Rethinking our old water treatment plant, and other feces-related topics
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
The Offshoring of Local News; and Come On, Democrats, Shape Up!
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Place of Honor
Twelve rounds between Hiroko Shimbo and Tyson Cole
BY MICK VANN
Bocaditos
Cissi's Market Kohana Coffee and Austin Slow Burn Green Chile con Queso
BY KATE THORNBERRY
Food-o-File
Tentatively galvanizing news for the vegetarian community and a KLRU programming update
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
June 1-7
music
Rock & Roll Books
All the Townes Van Zandt, Texas Troubadours, Southern hip-hop, Zen punk, and Phil Spector, Warren Zevon, and Joe Strummer you can shake a bottle of sunblock at
TCB
Redrawing Austin's musical map with Roadhouse Rags, Rabbit's, and even a word or two from the state Capitol
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Live Shots
screens
A Life of His Own
Diving right in with Tab Hunter
BY MARC SAVLOV
Taking You to Ninja School
Seven reasons why Naruto is kicking everybody's ass
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
AFS's Other Minds, Other Worlds
Global Sci-Fi Cinema
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Film News
Incentives (except for any production that "portrays Texas or Texans in a negative fashion")!
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
La Lupe
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Adam's Apples
Pitting a skinhead against a priest, this Danish comedy, like most of that country's dramas, is dark, dark, dark.
Beyond the Gates
With infinite grace but no real suspense, Beyond the Gates bears dramatic witness to the Rwandan ethnic genocide of the last decade.
Bug
The Exorcist's William Friedkin directs this psychological thriller that never really gets under your skin.
Fool and Final
New Bollywood crime comedy.
Gracie
Davis Guggenheim (director of An Inconvenient Truth) tells this more-or-less true story of one New Jersey girl's struggle to play soccer in the male-dominated sports world of the late Seventies.
Jindabyne
The Australian director of Lantana returns to similar psychological terrain with this drama based on a Raymond Carver short story and starring the fantastic Laura Linney and Gabriel Byrne.
Knocked Up
Although it’s extremely funny in bursts, Judd Apatow's new comedy flirts once too often with schmaltz before toppling into melodrama in its third act.
Mr. Brooks
Serial killers are a dime a dozen in this often beguiling but essentially ludicrous movie that stars Kevin Costner in an unconventional role.
Once
This delicate Irish import, which stars the frontman of the Frames, is an insightful and endearing reimagining of a familiar genre: the musical.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
This third Pirates outing is an empty vessel haunted by the ghosts of its sabre-rattling betters.
10 Questions for the Dalai Lama
His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, is truly a spiritual leader for the 21st century.
arts & culture
Making It Happen
The 2007 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame
BY ROBERT FAIRES
ASO Concerts in the Park: The gift at the gazebo
The Austin Symphony is again presenting its summer series of concerts in Wooldridge Park, and the musicians love getting out of the concert hall and inside that park's gazebo
BY BARRY PINEO
Austin Figurative Gallery/Pump Project: Something old, something new
Two gallery events, one focused on past Texas masters and one featuring artists creating new work in real time, show us where we've been and where we're going
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Wallace Shawn's 'A Thought in Three Parts': The author approves
After making a special visit to Austin to see Rubber Repertory's production of his play A Thought in Three Parts, Wallace Shawn called it 'an incredible moment in his life'
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Jesus Christ Superstar/Jesucristo Superestrella
Zachary Scott Theatre's Jesus Christ Superstar/Jesuchristo Superestrella transcends the usual ascension into the heavens of rock & roll to become an anthem of Mexican tradition
'Lizzy Wetzel, Bradley Brown & Edward Setina: Agent on the Road'
This first part of the artist exchange between Dallas' Road Agent Gallery and Austin's Art Palace brings a stylistically different perspective to our town
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After a Fashion
Stephen and the rest of town remember Clifford
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Once closed to the public, Fort Chadbourne – located between San Angelo and Abilene – is now open for tours
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Flossing for life and marrying in absentia
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Austin speed racer – resolving a traffic ticket
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: Republic of Texas Rally
Congress Avenue, Thursday, May 31, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
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Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
The Austin Lightning wins, Beckham's back, and more
