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Watching Jean Caffeine's eyes light up.

Mike Clark-Madison discusses 10 years covering light rail, and urges voters to support it.

A private health care consultant has improved efficiency at the county's primary health care clinics. Looming Medicaid cuts protenda new crisis.

With Lipstick Traces, the Rude Mechanicals have adeptly created a theatrical adaptation of Greil Marcus' legendary book that is loud, defiant, intelligent, funny, absurd, literate, physical, and fun, a rock concert for your head.

Council members' feuding bond proposals are sure to set off a major tectonic event at this week's council meeting.

"Sharon Bridgforth's works aren't meant to be read silently," Suzy Spencer writes. "Some folks would say that's like eating barbecue without the sauce. But if it's good barbecue, you can do without the sauce because it has plenty of flavor on its own."

Can the City Make Good on Its Affordable Housing Promise?

Ken Martin sells In Fact Daily to reporter Jo Clifton to focus on his monthly magazine, The Good Life.

The assertion of the individual is at the heart of the Austin Museum of Art's new show, "Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art From South Africa," which makes it fresh and full of surprises; it resonates with the hungry energy of a country emerging from oppression and brims with experimentation and unique, original perspectives.

City Council members award themselves a raise; neighborhood residents protest looser rules governing backyard cottages; and the council approves a convention center parking lot on property whose owner doesn't want to sell.

Drinks at Donn's Depot with Austin country music diva Susanna Van Tassel.

Installation art may be notoriously hard to define, but its role in art history isn't. It helped change the way we look at art, and the Blanton Museum of Art's survey of three decades of installation art, "Blurring the Boundaries," provides a window on the revolution.

Comic Steven Wright offers observations on his return to short film, "One Soldier," the pressure of following up an Academy Award, and this bad trick called life.

Off the Desk

Unraveling the budding symphonic genius of Graham Reynolds

Louis Black continues his ongoing list of "desert island" videos with films by Preston Sturges, Quentin Tarantino, and John Ford

A comprehensive look at the emerging Rock en Español movement in the United States

With subjects that range from Malcolm X to choreographer Alvin Ailey, Orlando Bagwell's documentaries depict the African-American -- as well as American -- experience.

Getting arts funding from the City of Austin is a long, complicated game, and Austin Chronicle writers Robi Polgar, John Walch, and Mary Jane Garza have been following some of the players around the game board this year. In the final part of their four-part series, they critique the city arts funding process.

The Rev. Horton Heat

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

Plan for People, Not Cars

VanScoy's Agenda Part 2

Hysteria Doomed Plan