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Paying the Piper Online
Stations, labels, and musicians wrestle over new Web royalties
BY KEVIN BRASS
Dying Alone in Williamson County
Animal shelter conditions draw outrage and accusations
BY PATRICIA J. RULAND
On Death Row: Texas' 'Law of Parties'
Kenneth Foster's capital case highlights arbitrary state law
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
Developing Stories
Neighbors file similar suit to RG4N's
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Point Austin: Getting Wello
Join the fight for universal health care
BY MICHAEL KING
Reefer Madness
Apparently, the mere mention of drugs justifies suppressing student speech
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Hightower Report
Why Not 'Drink Local'?; and Clogging Up Congress
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
United Plates
Andrew F. Smith at Central Market
BY MM PACK
Food-o-File
El Gringo morphs into Molto, and chef Kristine Kittrell couldn't be happier
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
July 6-12
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
La Traviata
Not only does Marion Gilchrist make great food, day after day, but the restaurant is actually better for every year it has been open
North by Northwest Restaurant & Brewery
A longtime team on top of their game
music
The Miller's Tale
Swinging across the century with Ernie Mae Miller, 'a little blues, a little bawdy'
BY MARGARET MOSER
Off the Record
Promoters square off on Red River, Daytrotter comes to Austin, Explosions goes international, and live music in Austin continues grinding
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Li'l Cap'n Travis
Twilight on Sometimes Island
the Monstas
Meet the Monstas
Kelly Willis
Translated From Love
Rodney Hayden
Down the Road
Ray Price
The Essential
Guy Forsyth
Unrepentant Schizophrenic Americana
Monahans
Low Pining
Mr. Lewis & the Funeral 5
Murder and the Art of Dance
Scott Adair
Liquidation
A. Rex
Moving Backwards
Jack Saunders, Drew Kennedy, Taylor Mills, Bruce Smith Band
Living for the Sunshine, Dollar Theatre Movie, Lullagoodbye, Another Day in Texas
Scandinavian Friends: A Tribute to Roky Erickson
Scandinavian Friends: A Tribute to Roky Erickson
Clap! Clap!
You Love This!
Pail
The Last Soundtrack
The Bulemics
...Still Too Young to Care
Spencer Thomas, Paul Pearcy, Larry Lange & the Lonely Knights, Sean Mencher, Porterdavis
Voodoo Dream, Come and Take It, Crazy Crazy Baby, Goofin', Live at Eddie's Club
screens
Sound Decision
The Austin Film Society Documentary Tour: Hear and Now
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Studio Involvement
Catherine Parrington and the future of the Austin film industry
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Coming Next Week
Nine people who have never made a film make one in a weekend
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
iPhone Fodder
SXSWclick announces finalists in fourth annual competition
Illegally Parked?
Robosaurus sighting
TV Eye
Can't live with it ...
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
License to Wed
A couple seeks connubial advice from a celibate with an affinity for Popeye impressions.
Transformers
What matters most about Transformers isn't subtext (this is Michael Bay after all), but what happens when big, loud, heavy things bang into other differently colored big, loud, heavy things.
arts & culture
Forte at Forty
Thriving under Jack Allen's leadership, KMFA endures as Classically Austin radio
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Vertigo Ramp: Inclined toward humor
In the improv created by Craig Kotfas and Ted Rutherford as the duo Vertigo Ramp, the unintentional chaos in the patterns is often as delightful as the patterns themselves
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Austin Lyric Opera: Pittsburgh Opera's Kevin Patterson takes the reins
Kevin Patterson of Pittsburgh Opera has been hired to serve as Austin Lyric Opera's new general director
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Barbara Jordan Statue: Standing like she stood up for the Constitution
After a second national search, a design for UT's proposed statue of Barbara Jordan has been chosen, this one by California sculptor Bruce Wolfe
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Austin Script Works: Swanson steps down as artistic director
After three years as artistic director of Austin Script Works, playwright Colin Denby Swanson is leaving her leadership post at the organization to focus full-time on her writing
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Constant Wife
Different Stages has put together a production of Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife, which makes for an elegant, enjoyable, urbane evening of theatre
Parallel Lives: The Kathy and Mo Show
Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney's Parallel Lives was a cult classic in the Eighties, but in the City Theatre production, it still feels fresh
'Whitney Lee: Power Craft'
Artist Whitney Lee has taken cute farm animals and adorable house pets – icons of traditional domestic crafts – and postered them across the streets of Austin
columns
Page Two: Grand Illusions
The only problem with wide-ranging, all-encompassing
conspiracy theories is that they're wrong
BY LOUIS BLACK
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Our latest batch
Letters @ 3AM
The craziness of this country is that our public and
private discussions have almost nothing to do with each
other
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Summer fashion no-no's
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
The Texas Country Music Hall of Fame & Tex Ritter
Museum honors and remembers state luminaries
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The argument against ties and flip-flops
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Class-action lawsuit – should I participate?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: Freestyle Jump Contest for Barton Springs
Barton Springs Pool, Saturday, July 7, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
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Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Looks to be three and out for the U.S. team at Copa América, and more
