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The TAKS Is Dead! Long Live the TAKS!
Students continue to cram for slow-to-expire high-stakes tests
BY MICHAEL MAY
The Morales Murder: Misreported worldwide
Blame for sloppy reporting goes to ... APD?
BY JORDAN SMITH
TEA: Neeley Steps Down
Official story: Forced out when informed by governor's staff that he's ready for new leadership at Texas Education Agency
BY KIMBERLY REEVES
Oak Hill Redevelopment: Varying visions for town center
Concept of town center node in Oak Hill looks like it's getting tougher - not easier - as city's neighborhood plan progresses
BY KIMBERLY REEVES
Campaign Buzz
Distant city and county elections begin to draw early feelers
BY KATHERINE GREGOR AND MICHAEL KING
Will Texas Catch Some Solar Rays?
Local and worldwide solar-energy experts convene in Austin and deliver this message: The day when solar energy will compete economically with traditional fossil-fueled power is fast approaching, and Texas is doing much less than it could be to utilize its solar potential
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Lawsuit Against APD Officers Alleges Civil Rights Violations
Family of 24-year-old beaten and arrested last summer by APD officer at bus stop files federal lawsuit against officer and his supervisors
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
Developing Stories
Liveable City presents 2007 Vision Awards; ROMA Design Group working on initial research stage of Downtown Austin Plan; and architectural team for San Antonio master plan selected
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Reefer Madness: This Is Your Brain on Drugs
ONDCP's latest attempt at scaring you into believing marijuana is bad is pure propaganda
BY JORDAN SMITH
Point Austin: Oregon Dreams, Austin Nightmare
Leave for a week, and there goes the neighborhood
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
A weird week at City Council
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
The Seventeen Traditions; and Bushites' Ethical Cluelessness
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Yardbird's Blues
How the bone-out chicken-fried chicken breast is destroying American menus
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
A Place to Try
The Lost Sock Launderette & Coffee Lounge
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Food-o-File
The Las Manitas model has other restaurants wondering where the $750,000-forgivable-loan line forms
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Wine of the Week
Kiwi Pinot is a best buy
BY WES MARSHALL
Event Menu
June 29-July 5
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
The Girls of Summer
Austin's inaugural all-girls rock camp looks out after its own
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
TCB
That's the news, and I am outta here
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur
Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur
Sinéad O'Connor
Theology
Rolling Stones
The Biggest Bang
screens
Not Enough Cooks
Janeane Garofalo discusses Ratatouille, stirs up trouble
BY MARRIT INGMAN
Film News
Projects aplenty
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
POV at 20
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Apne
Bollywood film about an ex-boxer whose career was cut short and the expectations he has of his sons to fulfill his legacy.
Evening
Featuring the work of a great many fine actresses, this movie is less than the sum of its parts and runs aground while trying to create a mountain from a molehill.
Live Free or Die Hard
As John McClane, Bruce Willis once more brings the noise and blows the bejesus out of the bad guys.
Ratatouille
Pixar scores another triumph of animated wonder with this story of a rat who craves haute cuisine over garbage.
Sicko
Professional gadfly Michael Moore alights on the topic of the shortcomings of the American health-care system, and crafts his most widely accessible film to date.
arts & culture
PHOTOASIS
Photoasis
Will van Overbeek's camera captures the eternal allure of Austin's favorite swimming hole
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
24 Summers at Barton Springs Pool
Photographs by Will van Overbeek
Sterling Allen: The Allen transformer as self-generator ...
Sterling Allen's irrational, exuberant drawings in the exhibit 'Writesy Drawsy' are so decisive in placement and texture that they immediately send you to a happy place as a viewer
BY RACHEL KOPER
Is That Science?: The elements of smile
The initial results of the experiment Is That Science? – wherein members of the theatrical company St. Idiot Collective interacted with the element Improvium – were fast, furious, and funny
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Jessie Otto Hite: With the Blanton built, the director takes her leave
With the Blanton Museum of Art's new galleries open and drawing record crowds and the companion building set to open next year, Jessie Otto Hite has decided to retire as director in 2008
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Carousel
TexARTS' staging of Carousel found the humanity in this unusually dark musical, bringing us close to even the cruelest characters and taking them to a place of comfort and light
The Threepenny Opera
The Threepenny Opera, the deliciously caustic musical by Brecht and Weill, has been reinterpreted by Austin Playhouse, with unfortunate results, as a kind of broad slapstick
columns
Page Two: Brain Wash
Coming to terms with conspiracy theorists, with some help from Loudon Wainwright III
BY LOUIS BLACK
Oops!
Our latest batch
After a Fashion
Stephen ponders his career in radio and what to wear for it
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
White-water rafting on the Rio Grande in New Mexico is a huge rush and a little scary, too
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Benito's birthright and the nitty-gritty on sandpaper
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Class-action lawsuit – what is it?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: Karaoke Apocalypse
Hole in the Wall, Friday, June 29, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
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Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Austin Lightning lose fourth straight, and more
