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George W. puffs out his chest over Cuba, and Dick Cheney invites Jim to dinner.

Waterloo Records marks 20 years as Austin's premiere record retail outlet.

Coming to terms: The limited wisdom of term limits

Here and There: UT basketball is a great entertainment value, Major League Baseball isn't. And neither is the NFL, thanks in large part to the lousy refs, who got what they deserved in Cleveland.

The Dickinson-Hannig House looks for a home

The Intel Building and its discontents

Richard Linklater and John Pierson Ponder 'Slacker' and Its Aftermath

The video mailed across the state, the Christian film that found an audience in Austin, and other stories of evangelicals using film to spread the word

The cover of this issue is a reprint of the cover from the first Chronicle Music Poll results 20 years ago. The poll results in this issue are just the latest chapter.

Bruce Branit and Jeremy Hunt made "405" with a digital camera, off-the-desktop software, and a desktop computer. The action / comedy has now become the most popular short film on the Web.

The Lege Has Barely Begun, and the Official Accountants Say We're Broke

If you want to understand the legacy of Bill Clinton forget the Elvis analogies and remember Orson Welles, who created film characters marked by their own self-corruption.

Lady sings the blues

As owners, brewers and distributors of Austin's Live Oak Brewing Company, Chip McElroy and Brian Peters have reached the highest level of malty geekdom. They are self-described "beer nerds gone pro."

Prior to his appearance at the Austin Film Festival, writer / director Steven Zaillian remembers his first film, his most successful, and the lessons he's learned along the way.

Beverly Griffith's populist ideas, once held by a majority of the council, are finding few friends as Mayor Watson turns the council's agenda toward transportation.

Captain Daytrips announces his own annual Best of (in the daytripping vicinity of) Austin awards.

The summer drought is making historical Indian sites throughout Texas more accesible to archaeologists ... and to looters.

Seemingly unadaptable, Greil Marcus' 1989 opus Lipstick Traces proved to be the foundation for the Rude Mechanicals' strongest theatre work to date. As they revive their hit adaptation, the Rude Mechs reflect on its creation, its success, working as a collective, and being told by Marcus, "You staged the book I wanted to write."

City Manager Jesus Garza introduces a budget that focuses on roads, utilities, and cops, and skates around a needed tax increase.

Transforming the storefront at 617 Congress into The Hideout, a multilevel arts venue, has been a learning process for proprietors Shana Merlin and Sean Hill. But after $250,000 of investment, the developer's dance of securing permits, and many hours of hard labor, they have created one of Austin's most user-friendly theatre spaces.

It probably seems a little unlikely. A 33-foot midnight blue tour bus rolls into town at dusk. And former Austin Poetry Slam Team member Mike Henry was on it.

Rails have been turned to trails at Lake Mineral Wells State Park.

Life is cruel, but it doesn't have to be unattractive.

Round Rock residents decry the western alignment proposed for SH130 and plead the case for an eastern alignment before the Texas Turnpike Authority.

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