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A fugitive sect of Mormon polygamists is building a home – and an end-time temple – in the West Texas town of Eldorado

'Murderball' and the making of a celebrity

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Smog descends on Austin in the guise of Bill Callahan

A visit to Deadwood: The legends show you where to go. Once you get there, you do your best to find out why you came.

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We take cars for granted, yet people have been living like this only a short time, and, when this era exhausts itself, people may never live like this again. What will they think of us, I wonder.

The Austin-bashing bills are not just about water – also property, power, and democracy

While the suburbs sprawl, central city schools count their children – and their blessings

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Remembering Boyd Vance, his life and legacy

Told in the cracks between bicoastal flashbacks and Nineties real time by Hayward Theiss, a twentysomething working in television, it's the story of someone who can only move forward by retracing his steps and fulfilling – or conquering – his need to go back. Sam Brumbaugh will be at BookPeople on April 29.

A human tragedy overshadows the campaign two-steps, but the dance goes on

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All of the director's classic themes and techniques are here, but 'Kagemusha' also ushered in a new period in Kurosawa's style, one influenced by the countless hours, months, and years he spent painting imagined scenes from the movie as he waited dejectedly for funding to come in

Stephen Mills' journey into the Holocaust leads a community toward tolerance

Even though Born Into Brothels – winner of the 2004 Oscar for Best Documentary – is a devastating portrait of impoverished Calcutta children who are born into the sex trades, the film is also an inspiring document about human possibilities.

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Austin ISD Schools grapple with high student turnover – and all its consequences

Bush wants to deplete your Social Security; ChoicePoint may have helped deplete your bank account

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

Jim hopes Dubya enjoyed his inauguration, because polls show the next four years may be bumpy

Austin Playhouse's Enchanted April' taps the story's timeless charms and envelops you in a captivating glow, as warming as spring sunshine

The 79th Lege hasn't been here before – it only seems like it

The Zachary Scott Theatre Center is hosting a special performance by Anna Deveare Smith in which she'll present theatrical portraits of select Austinites

Sword of Dracula' creator Jason Henderson is taking over the (fantasy) world