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What are you laughing at? Cable network Trio -- will release "Uncensored Comedy," three meditations on the state of our sense of humor, in June, to help us figure it out.

Our readers talk back.

Our readers talk back.

How to resolve conflict? Japanese import Iron Chef has the right idea.

Texas Platter

Kate Messer brings us up to date on the drag king scene in Austin.

Like the protagonist in his latest novel, Miss Spellbinder's Point of View, novelist Edward Swift is still battling the "disease of the literal minded."

There is potential in this material for overwrought melodrama, but as realized on the Mary Moody Northen Theatre stage, Miller's morality play has a simmering urgency.

From digital derring-do to super sculpey miniatures, imagination turns into mind-blowing matter in Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams

You just had to be there: The Chronicle's Mick Vann compasses the cuisine of Thailand, in Bangkok and beyond.

Learning about "manhood" from the movies

The "outernet industry want advertising on the inside of your eyelids; WorldCom moneyslinger Bernie Ebbers dies by his own gun; and the un-American activities of Stanley Works.

Mike Clark-Madison Profiles New City Manager Toby Futrell

The outdoor shows continue …

First-time author Dina Temple-Raston's A Death in Texas pulls the James Byrd Jr. murder out of the East Texas woods.

In Austin Lyric Opera's production of the opera A Streetcar Named Desire, director Brad Dalton and his design team translate the unsettled mental state of Blanche Dubois into literal elements of the setting, creating a distorted, exaggerated, haunted work.

Whose truth prevails at Austin's Catholic high school?

What Becomes a Legend Most?

"I guess I started with this high idea -- 'Yeah, social criticism!'" says Austinite Alexander Parsons about his first novel Leaving Disneyland. "And then I realized more and more that the story was about a guy and that I should stick with that."

Our readers talk back.

Coach's "double-Scorpio" wife Kelly makes some unreasonable demands.

Live Shot

Rick Treviño returns to his roots.

A fresh melange of reader responses to our recent issues.

The Blue Genie boys -- those whimsical artists responsible for the armadillo-festooned entrance to Threadgill's World Headquarters, the guitar gal atop Fran's Hamburgers, and other mini-landmarks around Austin -- have been fun for the people who see them and fun for the people who made them. Making giant panels for the new Texas State History Museum, though, was a bit more than just that.

Legislators introduce a bill to protect endangered Texas bats.

The Gospel According to Bill "The Mailman" Martin and Chester Baldwin

Why a top-ranked boxer, jailed once and deported twice, became the subject of a documentary and a Fighter for the American Dream