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news
ELECTION RESULTS
All the Votes That Fit
Tovo's Place 3 surprise, Shade's dilemma ... and the great uninterested
Breaking Down the Boxes
A look at the numbers in the Place 3 race
BY LEE NICHOLS
Point Austin: Hard Choices
City Hall embarks on the bumpy road to social services
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: Diminishing Returns
We didn't quite break the record ... for unvoting
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Quote of the Week
Headlines
Naked City
Res Publica
Citizens' calendar, May 19-26
LEGELAND
Education Funding May Require Special Session
Lawmakers at impasse over school finance
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Not Everyone Hates Women's Health Care
Voters support funding Planned Parenthood
BY JORDAN SMITH
Lege Throws a Bone
Three bills make life a little better for Texas animals
BY JORDAN SMITH
Bill of the Week
House Bill 911
BY LEE NICHOLS
Two Wheels, 236 New Miles
Austin unveils new bicycle map in time for Bike to Work Week
BY LEE NICHOLS
Bike Study Wants You
BY LEE NICHOLS
One County, Four Senators?
Senate slices up Travis County
BY LEE NICHOLS
The Hightower Report
Hiding Behind the Hedge; and Ryan Peddling a Raw Deal
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
2011 RESTAURANT POLL RESULTS & GUIDE
'The Austin Chronicle' 2011 Restaurant Poll & Guide
The Recipes Behind the Restaurants
Make your restaurant favorites in your favorite footed jammies, for all we care
Food-o-File
Not a chef, but want to eat like one? We've got you covered during the International Association of Culinary Professionals conference.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Juneteenth Dream Pie Social at Limerick-Frazier House
Pie social? You had me at 'pie.' And 'social.'
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Beer Flights: Guys, I'm Sorry I Ever Doubted You
Twisted X makes jalapeño beer a reality
BY LEE NICHOLS
Event Menu
Something's fishy about the Kocurek's latest class, but there's nothing to wine about at the Front Porch
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Mexicans With Guns
Electro-Latinate gets its traditional Pachanga on at Fiesta Gardens
Phases & Stages
Jackson Browne
Live at the Moody Theater, May 13
TV on the Radio
Nine Types of Light
Panda Bear
Tomboy
Loudon Wainwright III
40 Odd Years
Ray Davies
See My Friends
Alison Krauss & Union Station
Paper Airplane
Emmylou Harris
Hard Bargain
Robbie Robertson
How To Become Clairvoyant
Paul Simon
So Beautiful or So What
Off the Record
The lineup for ACL drops just in time for Pachanga and the Midgetmen's nine-year anniversary bash
BY AUSTIN POWELL
screens
Let Me Paint You a Picture
Previewing the Paramount Summer Classics Film Series
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Spinning Flavor
The MALI conference celebrates a decade of diversity
BY CINDY WIDNER
Historic Varsity Theater Mural Mutilated
Construction endangers the iconic movie mural at 24th and Guadalupe
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Players' Guide
Wiley Wiggins wants to show you his Thunderbeam; indie game
developer Adam Saltsman gets an unwelcome Taiwanese clone; and more
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
TV Eye: Front and Center
Eyeballing what NBC and Fox are serving up in the the fall
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Bill Cunningham New York
The film provides an intimate portrait of Cunningham, whose two weekly New York Times photo columns document the city's fashion trends.
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Ever-intrepid Werner Herzog guides us through a cave in southern France that holds the oldest drawings known to humanity.
Go for It!
A young woman in Chicago learns to overcome her fears and become a hip-hop dancer in this inspirational dance movie.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Johnny Depp sails the seas once again.
Priest
A warrior priest is on a mission to recapture his niece from murderous vampires.
Skateland
Skateland is a sweet, knowing, visually spot-on evocation of early-Eighties teen life in a small East Texas town.
arts & culture
I Shutter To Think
Six photographers offer a snapshot of the state of the art
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'A Lie of the Mind'/'Love's Labour's Lost'
Seeing two plays she did 23 years ago prompts flashbacks for a local actor
BY KATHERINE CATMULL
Zach Theatre
A $500,000 challenge grant supports a spot that Juliet would really love
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Funniest Person in Austin Contest
After an especially lengthy deliberation, Andy Ritchie takes the comedy crown
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Arts Reviews
The Dudleys!: A Family Game
This ambitious new play imagines a family crisis as an 8-bit video game
The Grand Theory of Everything Between
What's undeniably grand about this new dance is Peter Stopschinski's music
Renaissance Splendour
This enchanting debut proved Ensemble VIII boasts singers of the highest order
columns
Page Two: Lullaby for the New World Order
The birthers have no endgame
BY LOUIS BLACK
Oops!
Letters at 3AM: The Bad and the Beautiful
Film noir cuts through the cant of America's idealism
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
There should probably be some sort of 'A Lady Bird in the hand is worth two Laura Bushes' joke in here somewhere ...
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Gay Place
Harvey Milk: The man, the monolith, the conference, and the march!
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
National Natural Landmarks are some of the country's most unique biological and geological sites
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
'None but the dead have free speech,' etc.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: Deutschen Pfest
Pfluger Park, Friday, May 20, 2011
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
2011 NCAA Softball Austin Regional
UT softball hosts 2011 NCAA tourney
BY MARK FAGAN
Soccer Watch
A big week for teams from Manchester, England, and more
