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Who Did He Serve?
Scott McClellan on Bush, bipartisanship, loyalty, and duty
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Morrison Prevails in Place 4 Run-Off
With the campaign behind her, Morrison gets ready to tackle the city budget
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Numbers: Morrison Crunches Galindo
BY LEE NICHOLS
Mansion Fire Leaves Burning Questions
Who was that guy in the cargo pants? And why wasn't he stopped?
BY LEE NICHOLS
Cops Walk in Round Rock Shooting
Police acted 'reasonably' when they shot a naked man six times, says grand jury
BY PATRICIA J. RULAND
Don't Spray It! 'Bad' Effluent Threatens Hill Country
Spraying treated sewage over the aquifer isn't cool
BY JACOB COTTINGHAM
Manor Road Housing Project Looking for a Home
Neighborhoods balk at a proposed homeless and low-income housing development on Manor Road
BY LYDIA CRAFTS
CCA Jump-Starts the Death Machine
Executions resume after Court of Criminal Appeals rules against death row inmates' challenges
BY JORDAN SMITH
Long Wait for Yogurt Shop Murders DNA
New DNA testing could exonerate defendants, lawyers say – if only they could see those test results.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Johnston High School: TEA Allows 'Repurposing'
Generations of Johnston High alums ponder the fate of the 'Pride of the Eastside'
BY MICHAEL KING
Happenings
Quote of the Week
Headlines
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere
Beyond City Limits
Point Austin: Raising the Bar
AMD opens its Lantana campus, and the questions continue
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point: Run-Off 101
Morrison won the City Council run-off, but apparently only 4.99% of you care
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
(Further) Beside the Point
Council members – some for their very last time – attempt to dot all their i's and cross all their t's before summer break
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The Healthy Yogurt Invasion
The healthy yogurt fad is invading Austin with Piccomolo and Yogoberry, and we couldn't be more pleased
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Chillin' Books
Homemade ice cream can be an all-seasons dessert
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Veldhuizen Family Farm Cheeses
In Dublin, Texas, Veldhuizen Family Farm cheeses are giving Dr Pepper some sharp competition
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Food-o-File
This summer, Castle Hill Cafe gets a makeover to become the Corazon of Mexican Interior fans
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu: June 20-26
Locally grown Tomato Me Crazy Day, red meat and wine pairings, and more
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Fantastic Journey
Alejandro Escovedo comes full circle
BY DAVE MARSH
Off the Record
Red River rolls out the red carpet with bottle service at Beauty Bar, the Jungle Rockers get down on the Bo Diddley beat, and the Kadane brothers return to Austin
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Phases & Stages
My Morning Jacket
Evil Urges
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
The Last Shadow Puppets
The Age of Understatement
Lil Wayne
Tha Carter III
Death Cab for Cutie
Narrow Stairs
Love
Forever Changes: Collector's Edition
Simon & Garfunkel
Live 1969
Larry Norman
Rebel Poet, Jukebox Balladeer: The Anthology
Midnight Oil
Diesel and Dust
Mudhoney
Superfuzz Bigmuff: Deluxe Edition
Mogwai
Young Team
screens
Film Yr Idols
When Sonic Youth rocked Reno, seven high schoolers and their substitute teacher turned their cameras on
BY MARC SAVLOV
Film News
Mr. Blonde and the Six Million Dollar Man, making a movie in Kyle
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
TV Eye turns off the TV and turns on the Internet
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Catherine Deneuve: 5-Film Collection
Sophia Loren: 4-Film Collection
Lions Gate lionizes two icons – one French, one Italian – in two new collections
Film Reviews
Dasavatharam
New Indian film is a biotechnology action mystery that takes place one week before the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004.
The Duchess of Langeais
Jacques Rivette adapts a Balzac novel and creates a period piece that's also a timeless tale about obsessive love and hate.
Get Smart
A giggly summer movie, Get Smart is a well-cast chip off the old block, although the toothless action sequences detract from the comedy.
The Happening
In M. Night Shyamalan's mystery spooker, logic-defying episodes of death and destruction suddenly erupt across America.
The Love Guru
Is it redundant to mock self-help culture? Not if you're Mike Myers and have a new sketch-comedy character to introduce.
Mongol
Kazakhstan's Oscar entry for Best Foreign Language Film is an epic drama about the early years of Genghis Khan.
Roman de Gare
Until its piffling ending, Frenchman Claude Lelouch delivers a film that's intellectually cagey, potentially romantic, and, above all, an entertaining puzzle box.
arts & culture
Tomorrow, the World
Craig Hella Johnson's company of voices has long been world-class; now the world is hearing it
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'Necessary Targets': A Reason for Revisiting Bosnia
The Paradox Players believe Eve Ensler's play about the decade-old Bosnian war is as timely as ever
BY BARRY PINEO
Sterling Allen: Residencies!
The Austin artist and Okay Mountaineer has been picked for a pair of prestigious residencies in San Antonio and Omaha
BY RACHEL KOPER
First Night Austin: New Year's Festival Names New Director
First Night International's executive director brings decades of experience with First Night to the local celebration
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash!
The Longs give a million, the Rudes add a co-PAD, Mills shows his new dance, and Kitch joins a board
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
This Beauty Queen is harsh but effective, gritty as a sandpaper shamrock
Steve Brudniak: 'Noumenon'
Steve Brudniak's newest exhibition is thoroughly retro-futuristic, but don't use the "s" word to describe it
columns
Page Two: Music of the Spheres
We cannot work together unless we can talk to each other
BY LOUIS BLACK
Oops!
Letters @ 3AM
Reality is cracked and alive; the one constant is change
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Fort Leaton State Historic Site stands as a stark reminder of the rugged life of the pioneers on the Texas frontier
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Playing Through
The greats, like Tiger Woods, excel on and off the course
BY THOMAS HACKETT
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Cameron Diaz likes sexy firefighters, the Bugatti Veyron's fuel efficiency, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Becoming a U.S. Citizen
BY EDNA YANG
Luv Doc Recommends: Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
Hyde Park Theatre, Thursday, June 19, 2008
BY THE LUV DOC
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