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CinemaTexas unveils CinemaKids, a two-part program of movies created by kids and inspired by them.

Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It

The evolving idea of what it means to be experimental in this oh-so-traditional world is explored by filmmakers like Garcia Crow and Schiesari in the 25th season of The Territory, a television series showcasing the best short experimental works by film and video artists from Texas and around the world

The natural glory of the Hill Country's Westcave Preserve and its 40-foot waterfall.

Katherine Catmull never intended to pursue a career in acting. In fact, she seriously avoided it for as long as she could, choosing instead to earn her degree in English literature. Why is revealed in this profile of one of Austin's most sophisticated and literate performers.

From poetry scrawled on walls to poetry inscribed on CD: the saga of the Gourds.

In the process of writing her new play con flama, Austin poet / writer Sharon Bridgforth discovered that the piece was not complete without her own voice in it. In the process of observing con flama's development, writer Belinda Acosta discovered something about her own voice, too.

Two new television shows remind us what it was like to be young: Nickelodeon's half-hour comedy series The Brothers Garcia and Fox's "nonfiction drama series," American High.

For 10 years, Lisa Crystal Carver has been writing about sex and doing sex-drenched performance pieces under the name Suckdog. But her lifestyle is born of a profound quest for an uncompromised life, a search for truth and adventure that makes her a prophet for our time.

Roger Gathman delves into local bookstores' shelves of smut to investigate the collective Gestalt of erotica.

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The next time you go out to eat, keep an eye out for the work of Austin artist Elizabeth Guenthner. She's showing in almost every cafe where it's possible to display art, and her works' precise, distinctly disturbing beauty is simply transcendent.

Goldie (a fish story), an original musical from the kidsActing troupe that pokes extremely corny fun at the Hollywood mythos in an undersea milieu, is a happy spectacle of acting and directing and singing and costuming.

Grand Champeen eschew Minneapolis for Austin even though they just want to rawk!

Christine Fugate's new documentary The Girl Next Door follows Stacy Baker from her childhood in Tulsa to her rise as porn star Stacy Valentine.

Advice to a high-school graduating class: Face your fear and take risks.

The music of Tony Fruscella reminds us that art is about an unending attempt to give what we can, where we can, to whom we can.

Guide to Summer Films

Paramount Theatre's Summer 2000 Series

With The Music Man, Austin Musical Theatre creates a River City that's bigger than some by-god real Texas towns. But it's a show whose heart may be the biggest thing of all.

The Children's Photographic Collective at Andrews Elementary

A high school play contest might not sound like a big deal, but it is to the 18,000 students in 1,200 schools across Texas who participate in the state's UIL one-act play every year -- and here's a look at why.

National Book Award winner and SWT professor Tim O'Brien is real. He's blunt. But he's also, according to Chronicle editor Sarah Hepola, responsible for her hangover.

Explore the Texas Underground -- literally -- with the help of Blair Pittman's new travel guide, Texas Caves.