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News of the death of longtime Austin actress Judi Sklar Becker and the birth of a new era at Hyde Park Theatre, with Ken Webster as Producing Artistic Director, Subterranean Theatre Company as producing company in residence, and Austin Script Works as a producing partner for FronteraFest.

Trying to find ways to make art while sustaining a family is no easy road.

Kissinger gets lost

Our resident Marshmallow Peep relates the news and hearsay in and around the Live Music Capital...

A wholly originally, wholly beautiful rumination on memory and rootlessness

South by Southwest draws closer -- lots of news from SXSW 2001

Kudos for the Lost Austin issue, and much environmental ado.

Global Warming, Public Schools, and Jazz a la Zorn.

Look who's releasing records this year!

The Year in Austin Culture

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

NBC actually dropped Freaks & Geeks -- the smart, funny, refreshingly true-to-life high school comedy? Well, duh. Also, a look at the WB's DC, the latest ensemble drama to feature incredibly good-looking people.

Now in its 15th year, the Independent Spirit Awards were created to recognize the so-called "indie" filmmakers who get by with low budgets, favor originality over the formulaic, and feature lesser-known or unknown talent in front of the camera. Well, that's what it used to be like.

Picks & Sleepers

Quote of the week: "You, my hyphenated friend, are an ambassador of evil."

The usual suspects return: Miles Zuniga, Daniel Johnston, Sandra Bullock, Bob Schneider, and the Asylum Street Spankers; also, Patti Smith returns to Austin for SXSW, as do a bunch of other people.

Our readers talk back.

Spring Previews 2000

Collapsing Beams at the Mercury, Asleep at the Wheel Beams into Your Home, SXSW Marches On

From biopics to end-of-day thrillers, a look at the films you'll be standing in line for this Christmas.

The dulcet tones of the karaoke fill the former Electric Lounge, but that's not the fate of the building.