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Texas school districts will get a total of just more than $618,000 from the U.S. Dept. of Education to establish andom student drug testing programs

In the backstage comedy Anton in Show Business, playwright Jane Martin wittily paints the contemporary stage as a madhouse overrun by loons and lunatics so preoccupied with money, image, and themselves that they can hardly be bothered to create art. And the State Theater Company's production takes us inside the insanity with an air of playfulness that keeps the audience primed for a good time.

Wrong John, Wrong Reason

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Jonathan Jakubowicz and Elizabeth Avellán on 'Secuestro Express'

Rubber is a movie about a sentient, telekinetic, and homicidal tire on a rampage.

QueerBomb and Austin Pride meet for a roundtable

Word for word, the whole shebang

An interview with Virginia Postrel

Don't Dissolve District

Scott Swearingen on the ‘environmental city’

A sweet, old-fashioned kind of picture content to burrow into the quiet spaces, where boring, ordinary adults live and fitfully try to love again. Oh, and occasionally talk to dead people.

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Words on the Jesus video, the Instrumental article, the Dance Festival, and other local points of contention.

Did the Austin Police Department Shut Down an Investigation of Its Own Cops?

The city's plan to implement a radio system is turning into a long, high-dollar project

Advocates Still Fighting for Lacresha Murray's Freedom

Your weekly horoscope, February 19-25

“We needed each other”

The Hugo-winning author of 'Among Others' really loves books

The crucial element of prayer is "no alibis"

Defense raises profiling questions about officer's actions

Supremes' June 28 ruling in case of Texas death row inmate Scott Panetti concludes that law requires condemned inmates have some 'rational understanding' of why they're being executed in order to satisfy Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

Joining a long East Texas tradition, Jackson County DA Bobby Bell has convicted 28 black people on drug charges via manufactured evidence and railroaded trials. One small-town exile, her family, and a few neighbors are finally fighting back.

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Courtroom debate over schizophrenic Texas death row inmate

The case of James Allridge raises familiar questions about the Texas justice system