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ELECTION 2008
- Election Notes
- Tax Assessor: Spears Pounds Maxey
  
  Bitter race ends in landslide
  
  BY LEE NICHOLS
- HD 46: Dukes Routs Thompson
  
  Dawnna Dukes closes out a volatile contest
  
  BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
- D.A. Race: Final Verdict Pending
  
  BY JORDAN SMITH
- Here Come the Judges
  
  BY JORDAN SMITH
- CD 10: Doherty Over Grant
  
  BY WELLS DUNBAR
- March 4 Election Results
Oh Boy! Another Campaign Season!

City of Austin, AISD, and ACC poised for another round of elections

BY WELLS DUNBAR
Panel Upholds Olsen Firing, but Case Doesn't End Here

APD officer loses first round of appeal challenging his firing

BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
@ Newsdesk

U.S. Marshals Service nabs marijuana-trafficking fugitive in behemoth's parking lot

BY JORDAN SMITH
Polygamist Prophet Back in Court ... Again

Warren Jeffs faces prosecution in Arizona

BY JORDAN SMITH
Happenings

March 7-12
Developing Stories

City off to promising start with Seaholm East Redevelopment District

BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Reefer Madness

Convicted drug felons slated for early release this week under new crack-cocaine guidelines

BY JORDAN SMITH
Point Austin: Democracy Rocks!

On this day, change happened from the bottom up

BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point

Gentlemen's agreements, single-member districts, and more

BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report

How to Get Young People Involved in Politics; and Monsanto Seeks to Ban the Truth

BY JIM HIGHTOWER

food

Pub Grub

A guide to some of the best food-serving bars in town
Food-o-File

Threadgill's new Old No. 1 almost done, keep Las Manitas on you food to-do list, and take advantage of Austin's Downtown wine bars

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu

March 7-12

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews

Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table, and The Grove Wine Bar & Kitchen

music

If You Have Ghosts

The 2007-08 AMA's ghosts – past, present, and future

BY DOUG FREEMAN
Wednesday SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Handicapping the first night of SXSW 08
Wednesday Picks
Wednesday Sleepers
SXSW Showcases
SXSW Interviews
Off the Record

The countdown to South by Southwest continues, while the Black Angels turn on and Ghostland Observatory marches onward and upward

BY AUSTIN POWELL
SXSW Platters

screens

Big Hair, Big Stars, and a Mechanical Bull

Previewing the 2008 Texas Film Hall of Fame

BY MELANIE HAUPT
SXSW FILM
- Something to Talk About
  
  Previewing SXSW Film 08
  
  BY KIMBERLEY JONES
- All-Around Gal
  
  Mumblecore baby Greta Gerwig acts, writes, directs, enunciates properly
  
  BY SPENCER PARSONS
- Nathan and David and 'Goliath'
  
  After years of making shorts, the Zellner Brothers go big
  
  BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
- Outsider Art
  
  Music on the margins
  
  BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
- Ministering to the Dead
  
  A death row chaplain has a change of heart in At the Death House Door
  
  BY CLAY SMITH
- Private Parts in Public Places
  
  Bob Byington lifts the lid on Registered Sex Offender
  
  BY SHAWN BADGLEY
- Boom and Bust in a Single-Stoplight Town
  
  Crawford and the commander in chief
  
  BY KIMBERLEY JONES
- Greenlight Awards Premiere at SXSW
  
  Celebrating digital TV
  
  BY BELINDA ACOSTA
- No Telling What's What or Who's Who
  
  Confronting, and confounding, the color line in The Order of Myths
  
  BY MARC SAVLOV
- Making More Than Ends Meet
  
  Chasing the middle class dream in Intimidad
  
  BY SHAWN BADGLEY
- Birds of America
  
  Austin transplant Alex Karpovsky blends fact and fiction in his funny, heady tracking of the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker
  
  BY TODDY BURTON
- It's a Dog's Life
  
  The Toe Tactic's existential angst and animated canines
  
  BY YVONNE GEORGINA PUIG
- Truth or Vérité?
  
  Celia Maysles looks her father's legacy head-on in Wild Blue Yonder
  
  BY ANNE S. LEWIS
- Black Like Me ... and Me ... and Me
  
  Elvis Mitchell discusses why there's no one African-American experience
  
  BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
- Frisco Bay Blues
  
  It's a thin line between love and hate for San Francisco in Barry Jenkins' 'Medicine for Melancholy'
  
  BY SOFIA RESNICK
- The Streets of Philadelphia
  
  Divorce pains framed against the backdrop of 'The New Year Parade'
  
  BY RAYMOND BLANTON
- The Coast of Utopia
  
  Two frustrated actors write a script, make it geographically specific, enlist A-list talent, and make the damn thing themselves. Why does 'Humboldt County' sound familiar?
  
  BY MARC SAVLOV
Film News

Austin Film: The SXSW CliffsNotes version

BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye

It's curtains for the Web crossover quarterlife

BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews

The Band's Visit, The Bank Job, Black & White, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Steep, SXSW 08 Film Festival, and War Dance

the arts

Shape of Things to Come

What will the arts in Austin look like in 10 years? CreateAustin has a good idea – in fact, it has 10.

BY ROBERT FAIRES
Tapestry Dance Company:Getting those tap shoes re-'Soul'ed

The troupe's thrilling Souls of Our Feet program is back, with more reconstructions of classic rhythm tap routines

BY ROBERT FAIRES
Long Center for the Performing Arts: Opening the house before it opens

The long-awaited cultural facility throws wide its doors for four days of free performances and tours

BY ROBERT FAIRES
ColdTowne: Getting Upright with the originals

Core members from cult comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade raid Austin for the first time since 2000

BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews

Speeding Motorcycle, Stones in His Pockets, and Jade Walker: Merriment

columns

Page Two: Love and Creation

An approach to the SXSW Film Festival

BY LOUIS BLACK
Oops!
After a Fashion

The rumors of Stephen's debilitating automobile accident have been greatly exaggerated, but train wreck? That's another story altogether.

BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips

Texas coastal fishing piers provide the means to walk on water

BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Playing Through

The Ice Bats are making it work the way a sublimely half-assed Will Ferrell movie works

BY THOMAS HACKETT
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

The state (and world's toughest) dog of North Carolina is the Plott Hound, Indiana Jones' first name is Henry and more fun facts

BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law

Can my bicycle be towed?

BY LUKE ELLIS

The Luv Doc: Real People vs. Smart Phones

Nothing breaks the ice like a flawless recitation of the Monty Python 'Albatross' sketch

Postmarks

Letters to the editor, published daily

books

Book Reviews

Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of 'Energy Independence', and The Secret History of the English Language

sports

Soccer Watch

Austin Aztex U-23 tryouts, and more

BY NICK BARBARO

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ELECTION 2008

BY LEE NICHOLS

BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

BY JORDAN SMITH

BY JORDAN SMITH

BY WELLS DUNBAR

BY WELLS DUNBAR

BY JORDAN SMITH

BY JORDAN SMITH

BY JORDAN SMITH

BY KATHERINE GREGOR

BY JORDAN SMITH

BY MICHAEL KING

BY WELLS DUNBAR

BY JIM HIGHTOWER

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD

Food Reviews

BY DOUG FREEMAN

Wednesday SXSW Picks & Sleepers

BY AUSTIN POWELL

SXSW Platters

BY MELANIE HAUPT

SXSW FILM

BY KIMBERLEY JONES

BY SPENCER PARSONS

BY JOSH ROSENBLATT

BY JOSH ROSENBLATT

BY CLAY SMITH

BY SHAWN BADGLEY

BY KIMBERLEY JONES

BY BELINDA ACOSTA

BY MARC SAVLOV

BY SHAWN BADGLEY

BY TODDY BURTON

BY YVONNE GEORGINA PUIG

BY ANNE S. LEWIS

BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN

BY SOFIA RESNICK

BY RAYMOND BLANTON

BY MARC SAVLOV

BY JOE O'CONNELL

BY BELINDA ACOSTA

Film Reviews

BY ROBERT FAIRES

BY ROBERT FAIRES

BY ROBERT FAIRES

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Arts Reviews

BY LOUIS BLACK

BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER

BY GERALD E. MCLEOD

BY THOMAS HACKETT

BY MR. SMARTY PANTS

BY LUKE ELLIS

Book Reviews

BY NICK BARBARO

Texans Rookie Mini-Camp Report Texans welcome their newest additions

The Changing Face of Mueller A burst of development marks the latest phase of the central city neighborhood

A Second Chance for Drug Dealers on 'The Corner' The Drug Market Intervention project in action

Thinking About Stephen Bruton There’s just no getting over some people

Review: The Great Gatsby A great American novel does not always a great movie make, but Baz Lurhmann, a director of delirious excess, certainly seems an apt fit for the Roaring Twenties.

Thinking About Stephen Bruton There’s just no getting over some people

Taste Test Farmers market food sampling bill passes Texas House

Praise the Lloyd Lloyd Maines and the Dixie Chicks hold court for KLRU

East Austin Arts Puts It Into a FRAME This Weekend Big Medium, Co-Lab, Tiny Park, MASS Gallery: Four in Legion