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How Do You Pick a Chief?
APD reviewer list raises questions about the process
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Last Rock & Roll Deejay
KLBJ cans legendary Johnny Walker
BY KEVIN BRASS
Council: Call Me a (Lone Star) Cab!
Hailing 'unique' business model, City Council chooses city's newest taxi franchise
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Refugees Remain in Taylor Prison
ACLU files suit to spring children from 'residential facility'
BY DIANA WELCH
Naked City
Developing Stories: What Would Andrés Duany Do?
The town-planning messiah fixes Austin.
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
More Developing Stories
A calendar of upcoming urban planning events
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
On the Lege: TXU Meltdown
TXU says FU, then backs down
BY AMY SMITH
Point Austin: Unconventional
Is the Hodge Affair the end of an era or the beginning?
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
If this was a good year, what's a bad one look like?
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
Why Media Companies Get No Respect; NYPD's 'Intelligence'
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Wine of the Week
Sometimes, bigger is better
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
Openings, awards, accolades, and other assorted food goings-on
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
April 13-19
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
The Way We Garden Now
Katherine Whiteside
Java Gardens
Johanes and Shinta Muljadi are back in the kitchen where they belong
Phil's Icehouse
Last year, Amy Simmons and her team at Amy's Ice Creams took on a new venture that seemed like a natural
music
The Power of Three
With ZZ Top mowing down the Backyard this weekend, the power of three – trios – comes into play
BY MARGARET MOSER
TCB
Cowboys and bluesmen at the Alamo Drafthouse's new home, Moose and conjunto on the Eastside, an ailing Crack Pipe, a cranky cigarette company, and other nutty notions
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
Stephen Marley
Mind Control
The Frames
The Cost
LCD Soundsystem
Sound of Silver
the Fratellis
Costello Music
Dr. Dog
We All Belong
Andrew Bird
Armchair Apocrypha
Bright Eyes
Cassadaga
Amy Winehouse
Back to Black
Grinderman
Grinderman
Fountains of Wayne
Traffic and Weather
screens
Holywood Squares?
A local church rents out the Alamo Drafthouse South for a conference on Christians and film
BY TODDY BURTON
A Decade of Cine
El Violín kicks off the 10th Cine Las Americas Film Festival
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film News
Stars litter the Austin landscape, the real Oprah Effect, and other nuggets of film info
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
War and Remembrance: Part III
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Twin Peaks: The Second Season
Twin Peaks: The Second Season, Dog Day Afternoon HD, and Old Joy
Film Reviews
Air Guitar Nation
What other international competition awards points for general "airiness"? This fun documentary celebrates the weirdness but never mocks the participants.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
Absurdist non sequiturs and deadpan pauses emanate from an animated milkshake, a box of french fries, and a ball of ground beef.
Are We Done Yet?
Who could have foreseen that Ice Cube's path Straight Outta Compton would lead to family-friendly movies about the complications of life in the suburbs?
Disturbia
Up-and-comer Shia LaBeouf is a young actor to watch, but he’s had better opportunities than this teen thriller to show what he’s capable of.
Firehouse Dog
A Hollywood pooch gets lost during a stunt and ends up a stray outside a downtown firehouse captained by a single dad with a stubborn school-skipping son.
Glastonbury
The sense of total immersion in England's Glastonbury Festival is breathlessly complete in Julien Temple's everywhere-at-once music documentary.
Jagadam
Telegu-language film about a man who wishes to become the local don.
arts & culture
The Iron Man
Longtime local stage phenom Ken Webster has a record to rival that of a Baseball Hall of Famer
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Fuse Box: Supercharged
In its third year, Refraction Arts' Fuse Box Festival has evolved from the Little Festival That Could into the Amazing Colossal Fest
BY ROBERT FAIRES
UT Performing Arts Center: Wadsworth announces retirement
Pebbles Wadsworth, who has run the UT Performing Arts Center for 15 years now, will step down from her position as director of the UT PAC as of New Year's Day 2008
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Zachary Scott Theatre Center: A stage for a diva
The new theatre being built by the Zachary Scott Theatre Center already has a name: the Karen Kuykendall Stage, in honor of the Austin native and award-winning performer
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'The Barber of Seville': Oh, we meant to do it this way
With Bass Concert Hall no longer available, Austin Lyric Opera is working to stage The Barber of Seville in a hall with no orchestra pit, no proscenium, and no wing space
BY BARRY PINEO
Arts Reviews
Take Me Out
Zachary Scott Theatre Center's production of the baseball drama Take Me Out is powerful evidence that theatre is also a team sport and we're all playing together
Lettice and Lovage
Different Stages' Lettice and Lovage is a treat for Peter Shaffer's excruciatingly witty script and the easy rapport between the two lead actresses
columns
Page Two: Legacy and Lunacy
Rush Limbaugh and Waterloo Records leave their marks – in very different ways
BY LOUIS BLACK
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Letters @ 3AM
Family life in the Bible mirrors the worst in anyone's family
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Stephen hands out Fashion Crimes Against Humanity tickets and dips into the Gallery of the Absurd
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
The Brown Ranch and Hummer House south of Christoval is the summer home of the largest concentration of black-chinned hummingbirds
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Forrest Gump's soft-porn origins, and Oprah knows molting
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Nuts and bolts of filing your tax return
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: Chaparral’s 25th Anniversary Party
Continental Club, Saturday, April 14, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
High school championship tournament rolls into Round Rock, and more
