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CSI: Travis County
Why Is the Medical Examiner's Office so screwed up?
BY JORDAN SMITH
AISD Budget
District may have resources to reverse cuts if it can muster the courage to raise taxes
BY MICHAEL MAY
Katrina's Aftermath
As the end of the primary federal housing program keeping roofs over the heads of area hurricane evacuees gets closer, local homeless advocates and social service providers try to prevent evacuees from falling through affordable housing cracks
BY CHERYL SMITH
Will the Nuke Mushroom?
The long-reviled South Texas (Nuclear) Project might actually expand.
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
Point Austin: Blue Spectre
The 'Statesman' discovers a sinister plot to take control of city government. The culprits? Those union goons, of course
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
Jennifer Kim fights a lonely battle to get the new Green Water Treatment Plant built
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
Ad Creep Advances; and Congress Does It Again
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
A Refreshing Development
Thank you, Mexico, for family-run fruterías and juguerías
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Award-Winning Summer Refreshment
Martine Pelegrin's L'Alhambra
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Watching, Breathing, and Eating the World Cup 2006
The quarterfinals definitely mean high-caliber matchups; hopefully, they also mean high-caliber cuisine.
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
New and Noteworthy
New flavors take us to the top of the taste mountain, but also to the valley of agony and despair
BY MICK VANN
Food-o-File
Off with our heads on some misreporting of the Lazy Fork Barbecue legacy; plus, an Independence Day Event Menu
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Boomerang's
You've got to try these Australian meat pies
music
Return to Sin City
Gram Parsons, back in a big way even if he never left
BY JIM CALIGIURI
The True One
The Byrds' fifth dimension, Gene Clark, eight miles high and as wide as Americana
BY LOUIS BLACK
TCB
The Back Room's curtain call after almost 33 years, live music crosses the gay divide at Chain Drive, and a sore groin foils Beck's secret Continental Club show
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
Julieta Venegas
Limón y Sal
Badi Assad
Live shot
Song for My Fathers: A New Orleans Story in Black and White
Tom Sanction
Nardwuar
The Human Serviette:Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo!
Evangelicals
So Gone
Sufjan Stevens
The Avalanche
Bruce Springsteen
We Shall Overcome:The Seeger Sessions
screens
The Latest From Z Zeitgeist
'Pathogen' and 'Zombie Girl: The Movie'
BY MARRIT INGMAN
I've Had a Wonderful Evening ...
Marx Brothers Month at the San Antonio Street Cafe
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Neighborhood Watch
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
The Devil Wears Prada
A fresh and caustic take on the fashion industry is hobbled by a threadbare plot about a girl learning that it's wrong to sell her soul for designer shoes.
Drawing Restraint 9
Iconoclastic artist Matthew Barney and his paramour Björk flood the screen with arresting images and sounds, and though little of it makes ordinary sense, it's compelling nevertheless.
Lady Vengeance
The South Korean master of revenge dramas, Park Chan-wook, offers another entertaining puzzle of emotional nuance, riotous color, and bloody hell.
Look Both Ways
This indie ensemble film from Australia examines big issues such as life and death but it's really at its best when probing smaller interactions.
Superman Returns
Superman returns to Earth seeming more like a humbled prodigal son than an invincible superhero.
Twelve and Holding
This disturbing but emotionally authentic story about adolescent life treats its subjects with bravery and compassion.
Waist Deep
An ex-con in Los Angeles gets pulled back into the gang wars when he has to rescue his son, who was in his carjacked vehicle.
arts & culture
Are You Experienced?
In a new ad campaign, the Blanton redefines 'art,' raising questions about what it means
BY NIKKI MOORE
Fat Pig
To present an in-your-face play about weight as your first show requires real intestinal fortitude, so consider the Vestige Group, making its debut with Neil LaBute's 'Fat Pig,' a gutsy bunch
BY BARRY PINEO
The Music Man
TexARTS' highly anticipated version of 'The Music Man' brought Meredith Willson's classic musical to life with charm and verve and a fullness of character that's eluded many a production fully tricked out in period costumes and sets
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Austin Chamber Music Festival
As the Austin Chamber Music Festival marks its 10th summer of celebrating the intimate joys of chamber music, it will be the last for Felicity Coltman as Austin Chamber Music Center director
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
A Brief History of Helen of Troy
Capital T Theatre Company's 'A Brief History of Helen of Troy' depicts a lot of brutality in a teenage girl's world, but ultimately it's about caring, connection, and love
'Summer Fling'
Art Palace's exhibition 'Summer Fling' offers a look at that ever elusive 'real thing' that is at once as disturbing, pleasurable, and seductive as art in Austin can get
I Love My Dead Gay Son: The Musical!
With 'I Love My Dead Gay Son: The Musical!', the energy-to-burn Yellow Tape Construction Company turn this cult film 'Heathers' into a loud, amped-up send-up of everything Eighties
columns
Page Two
The debate over illegal immigration is nearly perfect for Bush's core voters
BY LOUIS BLACK
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Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
With a successful 30th high school reunion under his tunic, Stephen proves that you can go home again
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
Hypokalemia and regulating potassium levels
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Annulment – as if the marriage never happened?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Day Trips
Aloe King: Soothing the Lower Rio Grande Valley for four decades
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Deadly doctors and dentists' drills
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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Our latest batch
Luv Doc Recommends: The Heart of Texas Red White & Blues Festival
Waterloo Park, Saturday, July 1, 2006
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
WC quarterfinals preview, and more
