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features
GAY PRIDE 2006
DIY Queer Community
Can’t relate to what Austin’s gay scene has to offer? Make one of your own!
BY KATE GETTY
gAyTX Fun Guide
Hot, gay fun in the ATX
BY KATE GETTY AND KATE X MESSER
The Gay Place
Pride listings
news
Schroeder v. APD
Latest police shooting case raises retro question: Why not Glasgow?
BY JORDAN SMITH
Chartering Middle School
Hoping to reach middle-schoolers who could go off track in a regular school setting, district moves forward with charter school plans
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Media Watch
GMs sent packing at KEYE and KXAN
BY KEVIN BRASS
Maxey Goes Statewide?
Is an openly gay Austin liberal the answer to rebuilding the state Democratic Party?
BY AMY SMITH
The Hubris at Enron
Rarely have convictions been more deserved than those of former executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling
BY ROBERT BRYCE
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
Point Austin: Hanging Up on AT&T
My boss is suing the phone company – bully for him
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
Council ponders where to set the property-tax rate, and which health care package should cover city employees and their partners
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
A Little Something for the People; and Long-Distance Burger Orders
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Wine of the Week
Hook and Ladder
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-file
FINO is only getting better; plus, Starlite's descendants and the Eastside Cafe's new marketing strategy.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Taverna
At the corner of Second and Lavaca, Taverna is the newest eatery to grace the latest 'hippest-spot-in-town' and the current see-and-be-seen Downtown dining scene
Oaxacan Tamaleo
The tamales are superlative: the best in town
music
Rock & Roll Books
Summer reading
TCB
Austin's weeklong goodbye to Clifford Antone, while the club he left behind ponders its own future
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
screens
Shooting Loose, Long or Short
The Duplass Brothers discuss how they found 'The Puffy Chair,' and where they're headed now as it hits theatres
BY SPENCER PARSONS
Beyond Big Tex
'Ride Around the World' IMAXes cowboy culture
BY STEVE UHLER
De/Re:Constructing the Narrative
Tuesdays, June 6-July 25
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
Original Alamo Will Survive ... as a Nonprofit
Downtown Drafthouse will assume nonprofit status
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
Turnoffs
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Winter Soldier
On January 31, 1971, more than 125 Vietnam veterans gathered in a conference room at a Howard Johnson's in Detroit for a reckoning
Film Reviews
The Break-Up
Thirtysomething icon Jennifer Aniston grieves a failed relationship in one half of the movie, while thirtysomething icon Vince Vaughn grows up in the other.
Clean
With an award-winning performance by Maggie Cheung, Clean is one of the most emotionally honest movies about drug addiction ever made.
District B13
Set in the near-future of 2010, this French import is not big on plot exposition, instead focusing on its finely wrought action momentum, which moves ever forward with rushing exhilaration.
Down in the Valley
Sadly, this is less the epic modern Western it aspires to be than a muddled melodrama about a delusional drifter played by Edward Norton.
An Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore’s zeal for spreading knowledge about global warming is inspiring and this documentary about his efforts also showcases the new, improved Gore.
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Joan Plowright stars in this bittersweet yet predictable story about an aging widow's new friendships.
The Puffy Chair
In their first feature, former Austinites the Duplass brothers have made a near-perfect relationship-trauma comedy.
arts & culture
Showing the Way
The 2006 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame
BY ROBERT FAIRES
ColdTowne
In just months, New Orleans improv troupe ColdTowne has become deeply involved in Austin's comedy scene, and now it's close to getting its own venue
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Funniest People
The merry month of May was a big month for Austin's mirthmasters, with three contests determining who among us can provoke the biggest laughs
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Bass Concert Hall
The UT Board of Regents has upgraded the fire and safety upgrade of Bass Concert Hall to a $14.7 million renovation of the 3,000-seat hall
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Austin Playwrights
Four Austin playwrights are getting the opportunity to develop and showcase new work in the Big Apple
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Minus Tide
In the provocative new drama Minus Tide by Austin playwright Kimberly Burke, distance can make it hard to tell clouds from mountains and abuse from love
Talent Show 1989 and Catastrophe Theory
Though the shows Talent Show 1989 and Catastrophe Theory aren't related, the Getalong Gang's spoof of junior high talents and Stephen Pruitt's account of his career path both offer much in the way of entertainment
'Sugarcoated'
With the exhibit 'Sugarcoated,' co-curators Lisa Choinacky and Katherine McQueen have assembled an energetic mix of drawings, paintings, sculpture, textiles, and mixed media by female artists
columns
Page Two: More Stars Than There Are in Heaven
Honoring those who helped create, and now tend, the legacy of Clifford Antone
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Stephen's lists of things to do, places he went, and people he dished
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
Although it has been recognized for more than a century, failure to gain weight, or 'failure to thrive,' still lacks a precise definition
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Same-sex relationships & incapacity
BY BRANDY WINGATE AND LUKE ELLIS
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Pat Robertson pumps ungodly amounts of iron, rumba for women's rights, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Oops!
Our latest batch
Luv Doc Recommends: Gynomite “Breaking the Cherry” spoken word performance
The Vortex, Tuesday, June 6, 2006
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Serious GAME
For the Austin Outlaws, the game is the only thing
BY KEVIN BRASS
Soccer Watch
The U.S. squad's lineup is set for the impending WC kickoff, and more
