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'Chronicle' Endorsements
Our recommendations for the May 8 elections
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
Cutting on the Bias
Is Christopher Dunn APD's designated fall guy ... or a potential domino?
BY JORDAN SMITH
Point Austin: Tell Us Something We Don't Know
Capital Metro report discovers that the agency's been badly managed. Who knew?
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: Strayhorn the Populist
Ex-mayor visits City Hall, blazing another nuclear trail
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Headlines
Res Publica
Citizens' calendar, April 29-May 6
Rush to Judgment on Cactus?
KUT looks like the next stop for the Cactus
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Norwood Moves Forward
Norwood House restoration begins, has long way still to go
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
'Chronicle' Disappearing Act at Airport
Chronicle trashed in dispute between workers and food franchise operator
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Showdown at David Street: City Regs Broken at Will
Gasp! City staff helps developer skirt the law.
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Yellow Bike Project Rolls Into New Home
Nonprofit collective adds community programs to its mission
BY LEE NICHOLS
State Report Slams Cap Metro
Transit agency in a crisis, Sunset Advisory Commission says
BY MICHAEL KING
Sanders Report
City resists release of full report on Sanders shooting
BY JORDAN SMITH
State of the Art
Austin gets to keep police chief
BY JORDAN SMITH
Cherrywood: Neighbors Fear City Project's Impact
Willowbrook Reach could be victim of city's good intentions
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Through the New Wringer
A comprehensive new process will determine prioritization of transportation projects
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
City Counciling: City Budget Preview
Not great, could be worse
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
The Foreign Corporation Vote; and Forming a Beer Party
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Mariscos in Austin
Austin's Mexican seafood restaurants are a gustatory vacation if you can't leave the country
BY MICK VANN
Mexican Guayabas Are Here!
Sweet and spicy
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Thai Fresh Expansion
More dining room seating, a tea bar, a bakery case, and a case of homemade ice creams are just some of the things to look forward to
BY KATE THORNBERRY
Food-o-File
This week's local foodie news
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Check out these tasty events
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
New Day Rising
My Education puts music to an 83-year-old silent German expressionist touchstone
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
Off the Record
And then there were two (proposals for the future of the Cactus Cafe)
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Willie Nelson
Country Music
Gary P. Nunn
Taking Texas to the Country
Erykah Badu
New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh
UT Jazz Orchestra with Carmen Bradford
Duke Ellington's Queenie Pie
Peter Stopschinski
Sixth Symphony: Rough Night w / Happy Ending
Bus Stop Stallions
Don't Block It!
Black Bone Child
Alligator, Take You Blind
Alpha Rev
New Morning
Brandon Rhyder
Head Above Water
Jennifer Ellen Cook, Ruby James, Aly Tadros, Elizabeth Wills, Chrysta Bell, Tribella
A Storytelling of Crows, Happy Now, Things Worth Keeping, Love Comes Home, Bitter Pills & Delicacies, Thirteen
S. Dot, Tuk da Gat, MelodicScience Recordings, Stormshadow
White Boy Mixtape, Formula 512 Vol. 2, The Sleeper Must Awaken
Johnny Moeller
BlooGaLoo!
the Iron City Soul Shakers
Shake Me Up, Judy!
Jeff & the Jumptones
Live on Red River
Margo Valiante
I Can't Pray
Shawn Pittman
Undeniable
screens
Home Field Advantage
Sure, Austin can become a sustainable center for TV production. Just ask the Friday Night Lights gridiron gang.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Coming to America
Native Nigerian filmmaker Joy Dickson on getting the job done
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
The Politics of Food Production
Austin's first Fair Trade Film Festival sparks controversy
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Location, Location, Location
Previewing the Marfa Film Festival
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
TV Eye
The surprising crossroads of Glee and local doc Sunshine
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Furry Vengeance
In this kids' film, creatures of the forest rebel when a housing development threatens their forest home.
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
This rollicking South Korean film mines the traditional Western genre and infuses it with fresh, frequently hilarious life.
House Full
A man winds up married to three different women in this Bollywood romantic comedy.
The Little Traitor
Set in the British Mandate of Palestine in the summer of 1947, The Little Traitor stars Alfred Molina and tells its story through the eyes of a young innocent.
The Losers
In this action movie, a U.S. Special Forces unit on a mission in the jungles of Bolivia becomes the target for assassination and must figure out who is double-crossing them.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Although it's conventionally made, this documentary offers a streamlined and resonant account of recent history.
North Face
Based on real-life events of July 1936 in the Swiss Alps, this German film is a gripping and epic account of men vs. mountain vs. other men.
Oceans
The makers of Winged Migration are behind this documentary about the creatures that live in the waters covering nearly two-thirds of the Earth's surface.
Phish 3D
The movie highlights Phish’s Festival 8, a three-day, eight-set, 16-hour concert in the Southern California desert.
arts & culture
Possibility of Failure
Pulitzer or not, composer David Lang won't play it safe
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Free Comic Book Day
Nine years in, the annual event is winning big crowds and new comics readers
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Ladies Are Funny Festival
More East Coast comics and a full night of stand-up add more laughs to LAFF
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Arts Reviews
Sleeping Beauty
The strength of Vortex's original musical adaptation is in its imagination
Songs of Love and Loss
This ambitious Austin Vocal Arts Ensemble program was like a tale of two choirs
Hansel and Gretel
Set in the Gilded Age, this operatic fairy tale really resonates with the present
columns
Page Two: Principle and Patriotism
'We have met the enemy and he is us,' Part II
BY LOUIS BLACK
After a Fashion
Your Cougar Avatar schools the young
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
The famous trees of Texas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Gay Place
Let us honor the memory of a fallen comrade
BY KATE X MESSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Cats' whiskers, 10-gallon hats, and much more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: Lights Out! at Seaholm Power Plant
Seaholm Power Plant, Friday, April 30, 2010
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
AHL West Division Finals
The first-year Texas Stars have advanced to the second round of the AHL playoffs
BY MARK FAGAN
Soccer Watch
Aztex lose their perfect season
