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With no startling new technical innovations around to distract, this year's SXSW Interactive Festival panels devoted to the visual creative process stressed that now is the time for designers to find their roots.

Austin is now officially in non-attainment of the Clean Air Act's ozone standard, but it's still unclear how Texas cities will enforce the federal law.

Chris Gray gets laid.

Kissinger, Austin's band of the moment

If you were young, talented, and a little crazy in the old Austin, you may have answered to the bizarre title of "Mad Dog."

Requiem for the founder of the St. Edward's University theatre program and co-founder of Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage, Edward Magnum

The romance field, Margraet Moser writes, is unique in its symbiosis: Most writers come from the ranks of readers and therefore understand the marriage of reader and book. The sisterhood and moral support in this almost exclusively female dominion is palpable. It is also gratifying and empowering and, in a few cases, exceedingly lucrative.

The unassuming, 42-year-old Bill Jones is Austin's premier garage-kit model maker, and that Godzilla leering down at you from the corner of the room is only 1 / 500th scale. Lucky you.

The Style Avatar digs into the subatomic particles of the Atomic Cafe Fashion show and goes on a "Bender"…

Austin's live music scene turns up missing.

Glossing the heights and depths of fashion, as reflected by last Saturday's big show at the Austin Music Hall.

The Starbucks Showdown continues; and readers voice their opinions on last week's Best of Austin issue.

The Official Crock of the '96 Summer Olympics

Examining the current overwhelming white trash influence in popular culture

Whither downtown shopping?

Soft-spoken and self-effacing choreographer Stephen Mills seems an unlikely candidate for rebellious Prodigal Son. But he was, breaking away from Ballet Austin in 1996, only to return two years later. Now the newly named artistic director of Ballet Austin, Mills talks about his departure, his return, and the future of the company.

Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.

Stuart Prestidge wades into the exotic jungle of the Corporate Gym and surveys its creatures.

Top 10s: Year, Decade, Eternity

Why party in line when you can party online?

A scandal in the modeling business?! Gasp!

What best describes the modern playwright? Itinerant preacher? Holy fool? Several artists with an intimate knowledge of the playwriting life offer their views in this roundtable discussion.