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Fleet discredits the Constitution and news outlets perform PR.

The celebrated 19th-century actress Fanny Kemble possessed the courage both to stand on a stage and speak as someone else and to stand on principle and speak up for someone else, as we learn with admiration and delight in the Pollyanna Theatre Company's production of Shame the Devil.

News briefs from Austin, Central Texas, and elsewhere.

How Dead Man Walking came to be an opera -- and to be produced in Austin before almost every other city in the world -- reveals the great risks and rewards in developing new works for the modern operatic stage.

Authors who need authors are the luckiest authors: We assess the harmonies and tumults at the 2002 Texas Book Festival.

Seton Healthcare Network's undermining of a proposed hospital district -- combined with the city's consistent lack of long-term planning -- may have tragic, real-world consequences.

Austin leaders try to influence the feds' new U.S. courthouse project.

Saudi Arabia puts lipstick on a pig; and Gary Winnick puts lipstick on his greed.

Breaking news from Austin, Texas, and the World

San Diegans pay for sorry sports teams; and a small town stuffs Ronald McDonald back into the clown car.

Our readers talk back.

The state's textbook adoption process focuses more on pleasing everyone than on teaching children.

Our readers talk back.

Our readers talk back.

The battle for Barton Springs has been a struggle over the soul of the city.

The city manager's new budget squeezes city services that are already tight

Texas Platters

Bush barks but barely bites, and MBNA buys a Congressman … on credit.

The Texas Republicans Gather in Dallas to Pray

George W. puffs out his chest over Cuba, and Dick Cheney invites Jim to dinner.

Patty Griffin comes of age.

A huge garbage dump in northeast Travis County causes a stink with its neighbors.

Bush's policy toward democracy is loaded with irony; Corporate Big Brother is watching you shop; Our government legal robs us -- of our rights.

Capitol Reporter Untimely Ripped

Earlier this spring, University of Texas Press began publishing a series of books about politics in Texas. Because the editors of the series, which is spearheaded by Don Carleton, the director of UT's Center for American History, understand that it's more interesting to read about underdogs than the ruling class, all three books in the series are about Texas liberals. Here's a brief overview of the series.

With The Medea Stories, the St. Edward's University Theatre Department with guest artists from the SITI Company reinvents Euripides' tragedy as a modern courtroom drama and connects us to Medea's tale with immediacy and a great urgency.

An "anomaly" in Tulia bust?

Though it doesn't make it into the paper, we do get a fair amount of correspondence via phone, e-mail, or snail mail in which readers air their complaints about experiences in local restaurants. We don't print it because it's Chronicle policy not to take a position on business complaints about incidents we didn't witness and can't substantiate, but it does make for very interesting reading. It was certainly food for thought in the development of this special Chronicle pop quiz.