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news
'Y' Can't We Be Friends?
The Fix290 Coalition provides a test case for highway and community compatibility
BY KIMBERLY REEVES
Follmer Fights Back
Fired APD Officer Joel Follmer to seek reinstatement
BY JORDAN SMITH
Good Morning, Afghani-Stan!
Stan Knee will be one of thousands of former U.S. police officers now working abroad in lucrative postings, typically as private employees of international conglomerates under contract to the U.S. government
BY MICHAEL KING
Media Watch: Libel Suits Ain't Pretty
Suit against KVUE alleges story defamed local modeling and acting school owner
BY KEVIN BRASS
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
Point Austin: Up or Out?
Debates over open space and neighborhoods are the discourse of community
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
At 3am, who cares what's going into the bonds?
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
State Secrets; and The GOP's Xenophobic Goofiness
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Working-Class Heroes
The restaurants on the resurgent Airport Boulevard are solid, simple, and affordable
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Austin Tea Party
The Tea Embassy presents Best on Ice
BY MM PACK
Food-o-File
Reports from rumor patrol; plus, it's that time of year for many, many different kinds of beer
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Better Git It in Your Soul
Why listen to jazz's greatest bassist Charles Mingus today? The Creative Opportunity Orchestra's monthlong Mingus Among Us series has answers.
BY HARVEY PEKAR
TCB
Talking smack with Doug Stanhope and the Yuppie Pricks, investigating Substance D with 'A Scanner Darkly' composer Graham Reynolds
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
Tapes n' Tapes
Live Shot
Be Your Own Pet
Be Your Own Pet
the Raconteurs
Broken Boy Soldiers
the Minutemen
We Jam Econo:The Story of the Minutemen
Dr. John, Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint
Mercernary, The River in Reverse
Phoenix
It's Never Been Like That
Shellac
Live Shot
screens
GAMING
GAMING
In Print
'Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema' and 'Conversations With John Schlesinger'
Austin Wranglers
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
What if?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Stagecoach
John Wayne has been called many things, but "beautiful" isn't often one of them
Film Reviews
Fall to Grace
Shot in Austin with a mostly local cast and buoyed by a fine, evocative score, Fall to Grace is a quiet little ensemble film that pulses with its own unique heartbeat.
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Racing junkies would be better off browsing the many online drifting videos in which the camera doesn't cut and the people don't speak.
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
Hide the lasagna: The fat, lazy cat – and his doppelgänger – is back.
The Lake House
This tale of magical realism has potential for delightful originality, but the Sandra Bullock-Keanu Reeves love story lacks heat and the science fiction premise spirals into senselessness.
The Lost City
Andy Garcia’s film is a Cuban exile’s lament – more a dirge for what has vanished than a celebration of the past.
Nacho Libre
This sophomore outing from the director of Napoleon Dynamite is full of cheesy goodness, courtesy of Jack Black, but a little goes a long way.
Wah-Wah
The death throes of an empire are are practically nothing when compared with the twitch of the marital death nerve in Richard E. Grant's semiautobiographical directorial debut.
arts & culture
Austin Power and Light
A guide to 10 new companies that are charging up Austin's theatre scene
BY ELIZABETH COBBE
Texas in Bold, Dark Strokes
When Jack Jackson wasn't studying, researching, and presenting history in painstakingly drawn graphic novels, this wildly talented artist and scholar was making it himself
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The True Originals
In her solo show 'True Originals,' painter Daphane Park has created a series of mutant portraits that are 1/3 female creature, 1/3 creepy textures, 1/3 dreamy background
BY RACHEL KOPER
In Memoriam
Bil Pfuderer, an actor, director, and designer in Austin theatre for 20 years and producer of the Zilker Summer Musical from 1980-1995, died in Canton, Ohio, on June 4
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Mozart! (Like You've Never Heard It Before)
Austin choral ensemble Conspirare marks Mozart's 250th birthday with the newly finished version of his 'Mass in C Minor' in the concert Mozart! (Like You've Never Heard It Before)
BY BARRY PINEO
Arts Reviews
The Intergalactic Nemesis Trilogy
Salvage Vanguard Theater's repertory revival of all three parts of its popular Intergalactic Nemesis series parodying science fiction radio serials delivers three evenings of gluttonous intergalactic delectation
Bunk Bed Brothers
The Pat Hazell-Matt Goldman comedy 'Bunk Bed Brothers' isn't just for nostalgic baby boomers; it's for anyone who can understand the rivalry and love between brothers growing up together
columns
Page Two: Loss Upon Loss
Legendary cartoonist, historian, and Texan Jack Jackson passes on
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Stephen takes on the statewide political landscape ... and throws a Tupperware Party ... sort of.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
Is there a reliable and inexpensive way to test a home for radon?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Protesting High Property Taxes – Persuasive Evidence
BY LUKE ELLIS
Day Trips
Col. Charles Goodnight's home and all of his many accomplishments are being remembered and restored by the Armstrong County Museum and the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Prison populations and a Polish pope
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: Now I’m 64: Paul McCartney’s Birthday Sing-Along
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, Sunday, June 18, 2006
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
Places to watch the WC, and more
