Volume 33, Number 45
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news
Sheriff Greg Hamilton stoutly defends the 'Secure Communities' deportation mill. But growing public and official opposition is working to shut down the line.
BY TONY CANTÚ
Firefighters fulfill threat to contest DOJ decree
BY MICHAEL KING
Task force urges 'aggressive' conservation and reuse strategies
Travis County Sheriff bucks opposition
BY TONY CANTÚ
CMs work through full agenda before break
BY MICHAEL KING
Timetable to allow stakeholder input
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Torres, Moya won't run again
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Nomadic Notions owner lives to tell the tale
BY SARAH MORTIMER
Recurrent Energy price could lower energy rates
BY NORA ANKRUM
Leffingwell refuses to give up Balcones Canyonlands Conservation Planning Org. seat
BY AMY SMITH
Friction between the two stems from arrest of jaywalking jogger
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
EMS almost forced to activate disaster plan
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
July 4-10
Is bánh mì destined to be Austin's newest food obsession?
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Looking for water? Bring your own!
Gas station eats by the lake
BY MICK VANN
music
Lone Star guitar great Johnny Winter gets his hands dirty once again
BY JIM CALIGIURI
See that tip jar? Give.
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Box Sets
From His Head to His Heart to His Hands
Soul & Swagger: The Complete "5" Royales 1951-1967
Spiderland
Intrigue & Stuff Vol. 1-4
The Complete Studio Recordings
The Warner Bros. Years 1967-1991
Rad Gumbo: The Complete Warner Bros. Years 1971-1990
screens
Joe Nicolosi's workstation is out of this world
BY DAN GENTILE
Annie Silverstein's road to Cannes
BY NEHA AZIZ
RTX 2014
BY ASHLEY MORENO
Film Reviews
Another book by conservative political commentator Dinesh D'Souza gets the documentary treatment.
Agreeably phony movie focuses on a pair of unlikely partners drawn together by the promise of making music.
Adventure-comedy about a female private detective.
A trio of suburban kids befriend an alien entity in this Spielberg-influenced family film.
In this Canadian comedy, a down-on-its-luck fishing village spruces up to try to lure a big-city doctor to town.
Two kids elope and discover marriage is tougher than it looks in this Bollywood film.
Melissa McCarthy burns through a lot of goodwill in this limp, confused comedy cowritten with her husband, Ben Falcone.
Globe-trotting multistory meditation on love, betrayal, and lost/found children from the director of Crash.
Optimus Prime finds a new pal in franchise addition Mark Wahlberg.
arts & culture
Tales of true crime and made-up mayhem from deep in the heart of Texas
BY ROBERT FAIRES
As summer heats up, the 'Chronicle' runs afoul of the law, in fiction and nonfiction
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Sure to be the most current event this weekend
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Arts Reviews
The musical send-up of 'The Silence of the Lambs' delivers two hours of nearly nonstop laughter
This concert of music from the pacifist community offered a meaningful alternative to the usual July Fourth celebration
The works by these two artists weave an intricate web of times and cultures
columns
How to appeal to the Appraisal Review Board
BY LUKE ELLIS
Natural Bridge Caverns is home to Buddy the giraffe
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Them other boys don't know how to craft ...
BY AMY GENTRY
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Go forth and blow it up for the Fourth
BY KATE X MESSER
Americans should be highly suspicious of people walking around in robes
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY RYAN HENNESSEE
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
BY SAM HURT