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A fire started by transients brings an end to Pato's Good Tacos

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A roundup of primary races important to the Austin area

The legendary Peter Bogdanovich discusses his latest film, The Cat's Meow, about a hush-hush Hearst scandal of long ago.

How Virginia B. Wood joined the Local Yokel Coalition and a chance to meet Bill Jamison and Cheryl Alter Jamison, the authors of A Real American Breakfast: The Best Meal of the Day, Any Time of Day.

A report on the African-American Legislative Summit

From the beginning, Nader's visit to Austin was sold-out activist central.

Candidates begin throwing hats into the District 51 ring

Champ Hood takes his fiddle to heaven.

In a conversation on art and craft, playwrights Dan Dietz and Wayne Alan Brenner discuss making the blueprints for and building a drama.

Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk returns home to Austin to pitch his senate bid … and inadvertently "retires" Glen Maxey.

Arts companies are pulling in the green, playwright Dan Dietz is on the road again, and the stork delivers a couple of new artists.

A brief analysis of a number of Gov. Perry's vetoes

Laredo National Bank opens a branch in Austin, trailing a big fine and a clouded political and financial history.

Real legislative reform of the state's tax-credit allocation process is slowly moving toward the governor's desk.

The Lege Has Barely Begun, and the Official Accountants Say We're Broke

Virginia B. Wood thought her previous column about local chef changes was pretty comprehensive until the last few days of January, when all kinds of newsworthy information began pouring in via phone, fax, and e-mail.

City council lingers over matters including the fate of the Austin Music Network, the city's media system as a whole, and the proposed Mueller Airport swap.

Hoping to capitalize on the success of Tobe Hooper's 1974 surprise horror hit Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Future-Kill reunited that film's stars Neal and Burns and aimed for a similar creepy / kitschy vein. It failed.Meat Loaf quits his day job to become the world's best roadie. Sound weird? It is.

A glacial pace and overzealous refs are killing college basketball. Who's in charge here?

Somehow George W. Bush becomes president and takes Jimmie Vaughan with him. Swine.

What two local moguls were "generally acting like delighted boys with a brand new toy" at a new Krispy Kreme Donut shop last Saturday?

Christmastime comes to Austin.

Long after everyone who was in Bass Concert Hall the night of October 29 has shuffled off this mortal coil, Stephen Mills' ballet of Hamlet will live. Ballet Austin's world premiere production looked and sounded sublime.