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news
What the Task Force Wrought
Austin ISD's facilities review became a panic drill of cuts, closings, and contradictions
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Point Austin: The Monitor Comes Knocking
The police monitor and the chief share an exchange of views
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: Do You Feel Lucky, PHHS?
Council committee takes next step in reorganizing social service funding
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Headlines
Res Publica
Citizens calendar, May 26-June 1
Naked City
Quote of the Week
Leaked AFD Exam Adds Fuel to Fire
Allegations of cheating exacerbate Fire Department's diversity woes
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Fightin' Words in Council Run-off
Shade swings; Tovo ducks
BY WELLS DUNBAR
LEGELAND
Out of the Schools and Into the Polls
Lege (and voters) still fighting over how much to cut public schools
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
From Womb to Bill to Law to Court?
Perry signs ultrasound-before-abortion bill
BY JORDAN SMITH
Bill of the Week
Last-minute school finance fix near collapse – special session beckons
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
End of the Road for Five-Way Stop?
A proposal to close Bruning Avenue stirs neighborhood debate
BY LEE NICHOLS
Cops Don't Let Cops Drive Drunk
SWAT officers busted after partying too hard
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Hightower Report
The Kochs Take One on the Chin; and Muzzling Michigan Professors
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
A Knead To Read
From Spain's elBulli and France's wines to Baghdad's Green Zone and your own backyard: Bring cooking home with these new tomes
Talking Sugar With Gesine Bullock-Prado
How to not sweat candymaking, sugar
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Wine of the Week: Pink Syrah? Why Not?
A Rosé is a Rosé is a Rosé
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
A food and wine festival reboot, the best barbecue in Texas, and more in this week's food news
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Delicious ways to savor May 28-June 2
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
A Night at the Opera
Opera for dummies: Name one male tenor
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Off the Record
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Kerrville Folk Festival one year at a time
BY AUSTIN POWELL
screens
Inching to the Finish
Bob Sabiston's winding road to Inchworm Animation
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Of Family Heirlooms and Industrial Films
The Texas Archive of the Moving Image preserves the state's cinematic roads less traveled
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Say What?
Mapping the Rolling Roadshow tour in movie quotes
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
TV Eye
Franklin & Bash's dude charm
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
The First Grader
In Kenya, an octogenarian takes the government's promise of an education for all to heart and joins the 6-year-old reciting their ABC's.
The Hangover: Part II
The action moves from Vegas to Thailand – but someone forgot to send along a new script.
Kung Fu Panda 2
In this visually enticing sequel, the panda voiced by Jack Black is tasked with finding inner peace.
Nora's Will
This Mexican award winner is a melodrama with a darkly comic streak about a Jewish woman who masterminds her family's lives even after her death.
Winter in Wartime
This coming-of-age story is set in the Dutch countryside during the Nazi-occupied winter of 1944-1945.
arts & culture
Top of the Line
The nominees for the 2011 Austin Critics Table Awards
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Dana Friis-Hansen
AMOA's former director presents his first independent show with an old friend
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Austin Theatre Alliance
From TV and the LPGA comes the man who will run the Paramount and State
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash
A dozen NEA grants, an Austinite for State Artist, and Austin High takes state
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
A Lie of the Mind
A long yet insightful look into families where love and kindness are rare
Of Mice and Men
A relaxed tempo can't obscure the lyricism and dark beauty of Steinbeck's tale
'Poster Cabaret Bicycle Print Show'
A host of colorful, expertly crafted prints celebrates the two-wheeled world
columns
Page Two: Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful
Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they are out to get you, either
BY LOUIS BLACK
Oops!
Gay Place
Countdown to QueerBomb
BY KATE X MESSER
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar keeps his rapturous feet on the ground ... with the Chihuahuas
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Liz Taylor, the Beatles, inventor of the Pringles can, etc.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
The Pratt Stone Cabin is worth the five-mile, round-trip hike up McKittrick Canyon
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc Recommends: The White Party
Long Center for the Performing Arts, Friday, May 27, 2011
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Texas Toast Jam
Austin's rep as a town that knows an ice-pick grind from a handrail jam is catching big air
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
2011 'Austin Chronicle' Adult Spelling Bee
Geoff Thevenot wins again!
BY SARAH SMITH
Soccer Watch
It's looking to be an exciting Eurpean Champions League final, and more
