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'Chronicle' Endorsements
June 14 City Council run-off
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
The Honorable Charlie Baird
Judge Charlie Baird is ruffling official feathers at the Travis County Courthouse
BY JORDAN SMITH
Green With Ambition
Why we need a master developer – not a project developer – to mastermind Seaholm East
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Quote of the Week
Headlines
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere
Beyond City Limits
Llano Springs Ranch
The Vandivier family wins the Leopold Conservation Award for their restoration of an Edwards Co. ranch
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Ogling the 360 Condo Crowd
Up close and personal with Downtown's newest high-rise residents
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Lovable Livability
Love (and trophies) for Austin's leaders of livability
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Happenings
Council Packs More 'P' Into Every PUD
Proposed PUD ordinance changes may give council more mastery over master-planned developments
BY KIMBERLY REEVES
Those Mothers!
High-court ruling favors mothers over the Lone Star State
BY JORDAN SMITH
Border Security Expo
Immigrant rights activists and border security entrepreneurs mix it up in Austin
BY ANDREA GRIMES
Beside the Point: Riptide!
Fast-moving development deal on deck
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
The Toxic Corruption of Our Political System; and Herbert Hoover Revisited
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Read to Eat
Traverse the world of food from your poolside perch this summer
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Boundless Nutrition Oatmega-3 Bars
Trevor Ross cooked up his own protein bar, and they're available to you
BY KATE THORNBERRY
Zhi Tea
This formerly online-only tea resource is opening its physical doors this summer
BY KATE THORNBERRY
Food-o-File
Restaurant closings dot the Austin landscape, while Zax and the Belmont expand their hours and menus
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu: May 29–31
Sarah's Party and Ararat's Mid-East Fusion light up the weekend with fundraising and fire dancing
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Rock & Roll Summer Reading
Off the Record
Only in Austin: Green Day heats up Emo's, Elvis Costello and Diana Krall dine at Eddie V's, and Los Lonely Boys visit the Saxon Pub
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Kacy Crowley
Cave
Charles Potts Magic Windmill Band
The Golden Calves
Chris Brecht
The Great Ride
KVRX Local Live Vol. 12: Technicolor Yawn
KVRX Local Live Vol. 12: Technicolor Yawn
Dubb Sicks
Steven Markus Bernstein
Distant Sky
Tovah, Erin Ivey, Kimbo, Annabella
Escapologist, Sweet Little E.P., Spokes, Say Goodnight
Golden Arm Trio, Book of Shadows, Dirac C
Cult of Color, The Cosmic Doctrine, Dirac C
screens
Guess Who's Coming to Terrorize Your Night
UT alum Bryan Bertino's nerve-shattering debut, 'The Strangers'
BY MARC SAVLOV
Zen and the Art of Winning Championships
Richard Linklater profiles living legend Augie Garrido in Inning by Inning
BY ASHLEY MORENO
Funny Ha-Ha in a Half-Dozen Languages
AFS Essential Cinema presents Making the World Laugh: Global Comedy
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
TV EYE
'TV Eye' has lost its love for Lost
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Bra Boys
Russell Crowe narrates this insider's documentary about Australia's Bra Boys – a family of brawlers whose exploits are legendary.
The Fall
Astonishing and hyperstylized images mark Tarsem's stunning but mournful movie, which is also layered with fairy-tale subtext and thickets of moral and motivational ambiguity.
Sex and the City
The new feature stands on its own (typically stilettoed) feet, while holding fast to the series’ singular mix of the giddily ribald and brutally confessional.
The Strangers
First-time writer/director Bertino, a UT alum, scares up a solid horror-film success with this debut outing.
The Wedding Weekend
This earnest, well-acted ensemble film is a seriocomic meditation on what it means to be an American male approaching the dreaded four-oh.
arts & culture
Bats Left, Sings Right
With help from Esther's Follies, Austin Lyric Opera turns Strauss' Viennese waltz into a Texas two-step
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Lance Letscher: Newly industrious
The Austin artist's current work signals new shifts in the collages for which he has gained national notoriety
BY MADELINE IRVINE
Robin Lewis: If it's springtime, it must be Hitler
The TexARTS artistic director gets to goose the goose-steppers one more time in a regional production of The Producers
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash!
A new theatre company gets Broadway vets to teach teens in Austin, and an older one gets a new artistic director and a new name
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
Underneath its vulgar, profane surface, Bert V. Royal's look at the Peanuts gang as teens still honors its source material
The Love Sonatas
Much has been invested in mounting Manuel Zarate's five-play cycle, all to answer the basic question: What is love?
Atelier 2008: Selections from the Department of Art & Art History Faculty at the University of Texas at Austin
The exhibit has moments of direct correlation that would not have been achieved without guest curator James Elaine
columns
After a Fashion
Wake for the living; Stephen wants to see what you're going to wear.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Playing Through
The visiting Big Easy Rollergirls Roller Derby squad hopes they are up to the monumental task of defeating the Texas Rollergirls' Hotrod Honeys
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Oops!
Page Two: Running in Place
Movie-serial style coverage plagues the most thrilling, genuine, and troubling Democratic contest in decades
BY LOUIS BLACK
Day Trips
The Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue program out of California is humanely removing donkeys from the Big Bend Ranch State Park
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
An ex-Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan writes a sex book as a woman, 10% of Brits think George W. is their leader, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Big Night Out? Try Deferred Disposition
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: Austin Poetry Slam Benefit
The Scoot Inn, Saturday, May 31, 2008
BY THE LUV DOC
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