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Shall We Bike?
Local bike advocates pedal optimistically uphill
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Place 6
Lawyer promises promotion of affordable housing
BY KIMBERLY REEVES
APD's Stan Knee Goes East – Way East
After nine years, APD Chief Stan Knee steps down and moves – to Afghanistan
BY JORDAN SMITH
APD Chief Says Farewell
Afghanistan-bound Stan Knee given an Austin send-off
BY MICHAEL KING
If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It
Travis Co. commissioners agree that county's tax collection system isn't broken, vote to do another exhaustive study of it anyway
BY AMY SMITH
SPURring Students Toward College
Pilot program brings students from high schools with low college-attendance rates into UT writing classes
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
Point Austin: Blues for Clifford
Men are remembered not for what they had, but for what they gave
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
Austin Energy – at least they're not FEMA; and, coming up this week: more bond slicing and dicing
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
Health Care Morality; and Keeping Watch on You
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Summer Reading
Recipes, reminiscences, booze, sushi, and cheese: read it and eat
Family Reunion at Cafe Caprice
The Tankersleys gather at their old home, now the Constantines' Cafe Caprice
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Not Too Peachy
Bad news for Hill Country peach lovers
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
New and Noteworthy
P&K Grocery
BY KATE THORNBERRY
Food-o-file
Plus, this week's Event Menu!
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
CLIFFORD ANTONE
Okie Dokie Stomp
Clifford Antone didn't invent the blues, he immortalized
them
BY JOE NICK PATOSKI
This Be an Empty World Without the Blues
Sometimes a sandwich – and its maker – is a hero
BY BILL BENTLEY
Buried Alive in the Blues
The night Austin's Godfather of the blues granted Ed Ward a favor he'll never forget
BY ED WARD
I Saw the Light
Clifford Antone, hardcore to the end
BY MARGARET MOSER
TCB
Remembering Clifford Antone, who gave Austin a home of the blues
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
Marvin Gaye, Chuck Berry, Ali Farka Touré, Gary Moore
The Real Thing in Performance 1964-1981, Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll, A Visit to Ali Farka Touré, One Night in Dublin, A Tribute to Phil Lynott
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Stadium Arcadium
San Quinn
The Rock: Pressure Makes Diamonds
Irma Thomas
After the Rain
screens
Movies and Shakers
The production companies behind – and ahead of – the boom, and how they might be able to help you
BY MARC SAVLOV
A Kinder, Gentler Filmmaker
Jeffrey Travis' surprising success
BY TODDY BURTON
Film News
It's Texas vs. Arizona in the 'Friday Night Lights' Bowl, but we might have a secret weapon: the new TXMPA
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
Slot Machines
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Dazed and Confused
'That was me making the movie – being initiated into how you get a film made with someone else's money at a studio level. I felt I was the one being paddled and running for my life.'
Film Reviews
The Beauty Academy of Kabul
This documentary shows how real power flows not from the barrel of a gun but rather a can of hairspray.
The Da Vinci Code
Faithful adaptation of Dan Brown's bestseller treats the novel as if it were a sacred text even though it's basically a Hardy Boys mystery dressed up in provocative attire.
Fanaa
New Bollywood film explores the choices made by those in love.
Mountain Patrol: Kekexili
A self-appointed game warden and his ragtag band of volunteers cross some treacherous Chinese landscape in search of poachers who are decimating the Tibetan antelope.
See No Evil
Former porn auteur Gregory Dark advances to making this rote exercise in slasher-film tedium.
Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy
More a meditation than a traditional documentary, Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy beautifully employs direct cinema techniques to transport the viewer into the world of an exiled culture.
X-Men: The Last Stand
This third outing in the franchise lays on the subtext even more heavily than its predecessors – racial, gender, and sexual politics are all over the place, as are the multiple strands of the story line.
arts & culture
Good Humor Man
Former 'Seinfeld' writer Pat Hazell is funny, upbeat, generous, and, oh, yeah, he lives here now
BY BARRY PINEO
'Minus Tide'
Austin playwright Kimberly Burke explains how her yearlong residency in Minneapolis helped shape her new play, 'Minus Tide'
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Golden Hornet Project
Since Mozart isn't writing any new chamber music, the Golden Hornet Project is picking up the slack with concerts of new works for small ensembles by local composers
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Soul to Sole Festival
Hoofers from around the country are tapping their way to Austin for the sixth annual Soul to Sole Festival, featuring tap master Arthur Duncan as one of the 2006 Festival Legends
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
'Slick, Furry, Lush, Line'
The textures explored by artists Young-Min Kang, Candace Briceño, Jeongmee Yoon, and Miguel Cortez in Studio 107's Slick, Furry, Lush, Line go far beyond the show title
'Over + Over: Passion for Process'
The 13 artists in AMOA's engaging exhibit 'Over + Over' use everyday objects from pencil stubs to marker caps to old tire parts to look at the craft of making art
columns
Page Two: Praise and Lamentation
Saying goodbye and a final thank you to Clifford Antone
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Letters @ 3AM
The federal government benefits from undocumented workers, therefore something is owed those workers in return: justice
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Stephen gets all judgmental and then recants. As usual. Who are his targets this week?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
Outside of antidepressants, what are the best ways to treat postpartum depression
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Annulment because the marriage was a "mistake"?
BY BRANDY WINGATE AND LUKE ELLIS
Day Trips
The sleepy Texas town of McMahan is for sale and $215,000 gets you the whole kit and caboodle
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The ever-dapper Teddy Roosevelt, the "no-mow" movement, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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Our latest batch
Luv Doc Recommends: BOBaritaville
Waterloo Park, Saturday, May 27, 2006
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
The U.S. men lose 1-0 to Morroco, Man U loses their doctor, and more