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Eighties retro-synth bands like the Faint, Fischerspooner, and Austin's This Microwave World prove that the best way to move forward is to look back first.

Now what kind of mother would take her kids to see a movie about juvenile delinquents serving time in a hard-labor prison camp? A smart one, if she's read Holes, Louis Sachar's wacky, wickedly funny children's book that makes the leap to the big screen this Friday.

Texas Documentary Tour present Arthur Dong's award-winning 1994 documentary about gays in the military, 'Coming Out Under Fire.'

'Portis' characters are painfully human; they are often complicated, sometimes plain wretched, and always worth the price of admission," writes Anne Harris of the great man's True Grit. "And his frugal comic dexterity can be so subtle as to just whisper beneath catastrophe."

Picks & Sleepers

Say hello to two Patric(k)s, and goodbye to some recently departed film greats.

I've some good news and I've got some bad news. Which do you want first?

The story CNN broke, and the story that broke CNN into the big leagues of television journalism.

David Baerwald goes from Boomtown to bust-town, Austin.

Clay Smith reviews Prague, whose author, Arthur Phillips, will be at BookPeople on Tuesday, July 16, 7pm.

Reliant CEO Finds Religion; Edison Has the Vapors

Seaholm District Master Plan Morphs Into the Lumbermen's Tract Subsidy Program

Preview of Place 3 City Council Race

A SXSW retrospective honors the work of legendary documentarian Albert Maysles.

A downtown landowner continues his fight to keep the city from condemning his property.

All the right ingredients came together at a benefit for Boggy Creek Farm.

Statesman bungles a report about a local traffic incident

"TV Eye" reflects on television's coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Recent Picks From the Summer Crop

Robbie Jacks is dead, but Auditorium Shores is not. Check back later about the Empanada Parlour.

The ballad of Mambo John Treanor

Super-8 enthusiast Cory Ryan brings Flicker to town.

Rounding Up the 2001 FronteraFest Long Fringe

It's been over a decade since Slacker premiered at the Dobie Theater. Since then, the lifestyle it celebrated is largely gone, along with the locations it helped make famous. In this "Slacker map," we look at what's disappeared and what's endured.

What was up with that tacky television coverage of Austin's local New Year's Eve celebration? Find out inside!

Rounding up 2000 LPs.

Photos by John Anderson

Austinite old-school punker Dottie Farrell explains the meaning of the word 'splooge.'