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The Mother of all pop bands

Comedy isn't the funny business it was in the Eighties, what with fewer clubs and audiences burned out by comedy on cable and hack comics. Seven Austin comics discuss the current state of stand-up in a round-table discussion.

Two veteran music writers conduct an e-mail correspondence in order to look at new ways of reinventing the music industry.

"If somebody hates me," David Sedaris confesses in an interview with Sarah Hepola, "I just go to pieces. I mean, it doesn't really seem fair that I've made my career making fun of people, and if someone makes fun of me, I fall apart. But that's the way it is."

A New Drug for a New Millennium

Runoff candidates offer views on city's future.

Edie Brickell returns to tell the world what she is.

Steve Wertheimer prepares to open a second Continental Club -- in Houston.

The music of Tony Fruscella reminds us that art is about an unending attempt to give what we can, where we can, to whom we can.

The only punk rock band that mattered, and why they still do

The search for, and subsequent conversation with, country singer James Hand

Soft-spoken and self-effacing choreographer Stephen Mills seems an unlikely candidate for rebellious Prodigal Son. But he was, breaking away from Ballet Austin in 1996, only to return two years later. Now the newly named artistic director of Ballet Austin, Mills talks about his departure, his return, and the future of the company.

In Texas Prisons, It's Hard to Tell Who Your Enemies Are

Q&A with Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power

Why a sizable number of heterosexuals feel threatened by the concept of gay marriage

Local activists remember Cesar Chavez on the seventh anniversary of his death.

Is Barton Springs Pool Losing Its Soul to Algae?

Austinites love to shed their clothes, and a number of them do it onstage -- what's up with that? Some of the city's most nakedness-prone actors, performance artists, and directors expose their reasons to arts writer Ada Calhoun.

An excerpt from John Cale's new autobiography, What's Welsh for Zen?

John Cale talks abut composing the original soundtrack for American Psycho

In the Place 5 Race, Activism Is the Operative Word

Bruce Sinofsky and Joe Berlinger's Paradise Lost depicted the grossly mishandled trials of three Arkansas teens. With Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, part of the Texas Documentary Tour, they return to the scene of the crime.

Q&A with punk priestess Patti Smith.

Mayor Kirk Watson talks about challenges for austin during his next term.

In these days of HDTV, IMAX theatres with SurroundSound, and interactive software in 3-D hyper-realism, who wants to listen to one man talking for 90 minutes on a stage? A lot of people, when the man is Steven Tomlinson, award-winning economics lecturer, lay preacher, and Austin's premier monologist, as Wayne Alan Brenner explains.

The Maestro of movie make-up Tom Savini talks about George Romero, the increasing popularity of CGI, and what it felt like to shoot a crotch-gun.

Proposed hotel and golf course would be constructed on city-owned parkland.

Picks & Sleepers

An interview with Canadian documentary filmmaker Ron Mann about his newest film, Grass.

The strange road to success of former Austin bookseller Lynn Bender.