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Bastrop ISD explains Confederate flag incident, Texas Civil Rights Project files suit against Taco Cabana, Young Conservatives of Texas oppose hate crimes legislation.

Defending the death penalty, the new Gov, the schools, and all that Jazz.

Cooking Schools in Austin

A look inside the Teen Challenge faith-based drug treatment in Fort Worth suggests that there are problems with Christian drug rehab programs.

Broken Spoke is broken into and thieves ride away with owner James White's family heirloom: a saddle, mister.

It's been 60 years since a biograpy of Benjamin Franklin has been written; Austin author H.W. Brands' The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin makes up for lost time.

Photos by John Anderson

Anti light rail faction makes final push. Austin politicians travel to Round Rock to promote a charter school.

The David Fisher-Todd Staples Senate Contest in East Texas Will Decide the Fate of the State Senate -- and the U.S. House

The Mexico of now, David Garza writes, is not held only within the borders of Mexico itself. It has spread northward, re-entered its old space, in a sense. For so many of the Mexicans, displaced but still infatuated with the idea of spirit and ghost, the nation itself is a ghost in the back of the head.

Light Rail, Green Politics, and much ado about the city's growing pains.

Don Walser and Willie Nelson come up winners; Sixth Street still not quite dead.

The seven-year rise of Knolly Williams, the Master P of Christian hip-hop

The epic life story of Nigerian soul superstar Fela Kuti.

The Good, the Bad, and the Struggling: Where Cable TV is Going and How It'sChanged

Paramount Theatre's Summer 2000 Series

The Chronicle's style avatar, Stephen M. Moser, explores the fashion program at the University of Texas.

Looking for something to watch this Easter? Try a little history lesson with George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire. Also, Antiques Roadshow comes to Austin; Great Writers, Great Cities premieres on PBS; no one takes the flap for Who Wants to Marry a Multi-millionaire.

Dynamite Hack goes prime-time; Atomic Cafe hangs in there; the Old Settler's Music Festival is upon us.

In these days of HDTV, IMAX theatres with SurroundSound, and interactive software in 3-D hyper-realism, who wants to listen to one man talking for 90 minutes on a stage? A lot of people, when the man is Steven Tomlinson, award-winning economics lecturer, lay preacher, and Austin's premier monologist, as Wayne Alan Brenner explains.

Reports from a rare week of fashion activity in Austin.

UT professor Horace Newcomb reflects on the segregation South on the release of his friend and colleague Paul Stekler's documentary George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire.

Primary races start heating up in nearby counties, across Texas, and around the nation.

Spring Previews 2000