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The new version of this Jules Verne classic provides gentle fun, but without the 3-D visual effects "comin' right at ya," this journey's center will not hold.

Walter Cronkite and the creation of Earth Day

Fidencio Duran opens a new solo exhibition at the MACC

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

Fans of J. R. R. Tolkien needn't wait until the December 12 opening of the film of Lord of the Rings to take a journey to Middle Earth. Second Youth Family Repertory Theatre, an Austin arts company acclaimed for its intelligent, highly theatrical stage shows for family audiences, will ferry you there this weekend via its production of The Hobbit.

A riveting novel in which a Jewish American becomes and Israeli spy and then a traitor to his adopted country

Austan Librach remembers

Go green in a number of ways this week

Time for a real vampire weekend

The 15,000-capacity concert/basketball arena, plus more debuting venue news

James Magnuson reflects on his 23 years as director of the Michener Center for Writers

Austin's new performing-arts center releases the performance schedule for its first few months

“It’s about all of us”

The City Council places a 90-day moratorium on new historic zoning cases in the Eastside and creates a task force to examine the relationship between historic zoning and gentrification.

The World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle collapsed under its own weight.

Cutrer's City Markets Revives the Neighborhood Grocery

Painter Bradley Kerl leads us from inside to outside and beyond

ARC of the covenant, good Reputations, and Blind Sight

Critics charge original mission of serving poor has strayed

Flaming Idiot Rob Williams trades his torches for the pointy little slippers of David Sedaris' department-store elf in 'The Santaland Diaries'

TEA for Texas

A fugitive sect of Mormon polygamists is building a home – and an end-time temple – in the West Texas town of Eldorado

They're horrible! They're evil, mean, and terrible! They're New Yorkers! They're the Fabulous and Ridiculous Theatre, and they're giving laid-back Austin a shot of scrappy, sophisticated, lowbrow, smart-ass theatre.

Chasing the cold away

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