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Can the City Make Good on Its Affordable Housing Promise?

"Alex Jones is to patriotism ... what hot dogs are to meat."

Clifford Antone receives a sentence; Heinz Geissler takes over the Antone's Records label; Ed Hamell is hospitalized after a car accident.

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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.

Soft-spoken and self-effacing choreographer Stephen Mills seems an unlikely candidate for rebellious Prodigal Son. But he was, breaking away from Ballet Austin in 1996, only to return two years later. Now the newly named artistic director of Ballet Austin, Mills talks about his departure, his return, and the future of the company.

During Gov. Bush's campaign for his party's presidential nomination last fall, reporters asked the candidate to comment on a federal government report asserting that many Texans, including large numbers of children, were going to bed hungry. "I saw the report that children in Texas are going hungry. Where?" he demanded, going on to say, "You'd think the governor would have heard if there are pockets of hunger in Texas." Indeed, you would, especially if one of those pockets is just a few miles from his front door, Virginia B. Wood explains as she explores the very pockets of hunger in Austin Bush has difficulty fathoming.

Readers hash over the war on drugs in response to an AISD principal's being busted for marijuana possession.

Sandra Bullock's 28 Days

Coach goes the Davis Cup quarterfinals at the Great Western Forum in L.A.

Detailing the still-wet merger of Doolittle and New West Records

SXSW 2000 Film Festival and Conference

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We are wrong, wrong, wrong. So is golf.

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History is more than a bound collection of facts; it is something personal, something intimate, something that, even in contradiction, demands to be shared. Robi Polgar gleans that immediate sense of history from two plays currently running in Austin theatres: E Pluribus Unum: Barbara Jordan -- One Voice and The America Play.

Readers take us (and each other) to task over mistaken identites and misguided ideas.

It's time for the American South to reject its "rebel" hypocrisy of states rights and atone for the sins of the slave economy of the Confederacy.

Sailing into the sunset on Delbert McClinton's Blues Crusie.

Addison DeWitt and Miss Caswell come back to life as chihuahuas, and it's All About Margaret.

Carol Brorson consults the experts to get to the roof of Austin's rat problem.

R.O.'s Outpost, 17 miles west of Austin in the Hill Country, serves the kind of food, reviewer Mick Vann reports, that "the old folks grew up on, and the kind rarely found these days in our modern, fast-food, a-go-go world."

Profile of piano man Earl Poole Ball

A profile of Bill Bentley, former Austin Sun writer, current music industry impresario, and producer of tribute albums of Roky Erickson and Skip Spence

Tracing Doug Sahm's roots from San Antonio to potential State Musician of Texas