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Saddle up for some old-fashioned inspirational movie entertainment with Diane Lane in the lead as the owner of the famed Triple Crown winner.

FAQs about the sport

Take the Tax Money and Run; and The Supreme Court Scorecard

Clayton cops a plea deal

Buda City Park, Saturday, April 25, 2009

Odds and ends from the Capitol

Racing PAC pushing hard for racinos, claiming 75% in favor of legalization: UPDATED

With every legislative session comes a study on the economic benefits of slot machines at race tracks

Future Clouds & Radar float to the magical kingdom of … Peoria?

A concept in search of an author; characters in search of a form; memory in search of meaning

Pro-gambling interests try their luck again; and other Lege news

You could call it Seabiscuit Jr., but this horsey heartwarmer does something surprising in spite of its underdog sports-movie formula and shameless emotional manipulation: It manages to be an enjoyable movie about and for girls.

The gambling action heats up at the Capitol

Headlines and happening from Austin and beyond

For the serious Sherlockian, there is Leslie S. Klinger's Sherlock Holmes Reference Library, an exhaustive nine-volume survey of scholarship from Gasogene Press. For the rest of us – serious Sherlockians in the making – there is this mammoth two-volume set.

Just as the titular zebra, Stripes, is not really a horse of a different color, this kids picture is not a movie of a different stripe.

Pfillies or pfamily pfun for the NE Travis suburb?

Mark Strama tries to exploit his opponent's weakest points

Texas platters

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

We celebrate the opening of Jonathan Demme's complex and moving The Agronomist and cherish the sensibilities of horror-film art director Robert Burns, who passed away this week

The House Bill on public school finance goes to the floor, and it's all about tax cuts and slot machines

Ralph Nader dips into Texas politics while pursuing ballot access

Allergic to taxes, the Lege tries to balance the budget with the rolls of the dice.

"Ever since my voice changed, I wanted to be in the company of the newspaper greats," thinks investigative reporter Johnny Barrett to himself early on in Fuller's predecessor to The Naked Kiss. "And this long corridor is the magic highway to the Pulitzer Prize."

Raoul Hernandez goes on tour with the Flatlanders

Attending his son's graduation at UC-Santa Cruz, Coach is struck by a sudden infatuation with alternative sports: college baseball, horse racing, hockey, even World Cup soccer.

A career retrospective on one of the lost cosmic cowboys, Rusty Wier

The homey hospitality of the Panhandle's Hotel Turkey