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Derek's main Domino Bobby Whitlock settles in his legend in Austin

In Double Exposure, writer/performers Wayne Alan Brenner and David Jewell offer old and new material they've created, and their knack for capturing nuance in the mundane entertains

Finally, nobody died this week, heralding several new beginnings: Trail of Dead hopes its career is reborn on 'So Divided,' ex-Domino Bobby Whitlock relocates to Austin, Stretford comes back on the scene, and even the boy-band craze is revived

The nationals come to Austin amid the polarizing medium's 20th anniversary

Austin Lyric Opera artistic director Richard Buckley is taking his baton up to Ohio to serve as principal conductor for Opera Cleveland

A new generation creates its own take on the show that changed Austin theatre

At last, a magical confluence of ice hockey, Neil Young, and SXSW 2006

Texas (finally) gets a horror-film convention to call its own

AFS's 20th birthday party

Unlocking the enduring phenomenon of Cirque du Soleil

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

Record review

An interview with Michael Beck

The full list of nominations for the 2003-2004 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

Picks & Sleepers

Three highly amusing and personable comic actors skewer, pun, and cook their way through all 37 of Shakespeare's plays in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), a show that launches the Austin Shakespeare Festival's 20th anniversary season with a bang, a few whacks, and a lot of laughs.

Happenings

Dobie goes digital, understanding Sikhism, and Tom Copeland celebrates two decades at the Texas Film Commission.

A painful week for friends of the theatre with the passing of educator and director Gil Sharp and producer, director, and actor Don Phillips, Jr.

In honor of the 20th anniversary of the Visser-Rowland Organ, the UT School of Music is hosting a special recital that allows you to listen to glorious music made by a machine that seems alive, step inside the machine and spend some time with it, meet the organ's designer, Piet Visser, and its keeper, Dr. Frank Speller, and benefit the school's Great Organ Series as well.

Austin Stories

States of Grace, the opening program for Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks' 20th anniversary season, provided an optimistic opening to 2003, with bold and imaginative choreographers presenting creative movement against which the rest of this year's work will have to be measured.

The Texas Commission for the Arts gives Austinites a chance to see the state's best artists for free, and praise from the out-of-town press for local playwrights Cyndi Williams and Joe Sears and Jaston Williams

Tuna isn't the only Texas town with which actor-writers Jaston Williams and Joe Sears can be closely identified. Austin has played a significant role in the development of their town, and in return Sears and Williams have changed the face of the capital city.

Waterloo Records marks 20 years as Austin's premiere record retail outlet.

Light rail is coming, sooner or later, because it's a necessary part of our long-term traffic solution.

Our "Best of Austin" 2001 recognizes some heroes of daily life; the Chronicle celebrates its 20th anniversary with a number of upcoming special events.