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With two storms, nature has increased the speed of America's decline by several years. This series of columns sketches what we're in for (for good as well as for ill). The focus of this column is air travel and the tourist industries.

A tragedy at Reagan High School evokes a mother's courageous response.

Rocker’s Category 4 account: “I thought, We might not make this"

Beauty is something you don't have to deserve

The nominees for the 2011 Austin Critics Table Awards

Jonathan Dove's opera in an airport is often fun but leaves no lasting impression

Local Arts Reviews

Defining the city's personality from the moonlight towers to the railroad bridge

Something in me still wants to be a World War I fighter pilot – which is not only nuts, but helps me understand why we will always make war

Adelaide, South Australia, sibling city and state of Austin, Texas, is a delicious destination for food and wine lovers

Airborne biopic finds warm friendship across the military's racial divide

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

How retired Air Force medic Gene Robinson found new purpose looking for missing persons

Marjorie Baumgarten kicks off the festival with a song in her heart

No escape from cell phones, even in the skies; and, don't give up your biometrics!

Our readers talk back.

Airport food isn't the same as airline food, especially at Austin-Bergstrom.

Our readers talk back.

Rape saga redux and other local imbroglios.

Real-life adventurer Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 trip across the Pacific on a raft is re-created in this beautifully lensed film.

Our man in Cannes Vincent Van Horn sees famous people

Remembering the cowardice and dysfunction of the White House on 9 / 11

Detective novelist Michael Connelly trolls L.A.'s seedy underbelly again in The Brass Verdict

Gates Foundation grant pushes attempt to completely rethink high school

Our readers talk back.