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Andy Langer examines round one of trying to establish a new city noise ordinance for Austin.

Primary Run-off Report

Picks & Sleepers

SXSW Records

How music from the Medieval and Baroque eras impacts us today

The State Policy Committee Politically Purges the State Employees' Charitable Campaign

Local news this week in Austin, Texas.

Over the years Austin has absorbed (and discarded) several new Indian restaurants, most in the mode of the classic Americanized Indian dining establishment. But within the past few years, we have been fortunate enough to attract a new class of Indian restaurants. Mick Vann has compiled a guide to them.

Louie's signature Mediterranean fare claims a strong spot in the city's collective gustatory memory, Rebecca Chastenet de Géry writes. Indeed for many Austinites, Louie's 106 provided initiation into the world of Spanish tapas and introduced the vibrant, if now omnipresent, "Mediterranean" cooking style.

Luling's Icehouse Pottery is a thriving center of ceramic, glass, and jewelry artisans.

Bigger Isn't Always Better

Six months after its well ran dry, Northridge Acres gets a begrudging promise of water from the Austin City Council.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. would call it a Wampeter.

Gary Bradley ponders the significance of his proposed settlement agreement with the city of Austin.

Texas Department of Housing and CommunityAffairs board members have begun questioning TDHCA staff guidelines for administering the agency's low-income housing tax credits, which critics say are arbitrary and too subjective.

Economics, schmeconomics: Chronicle reviewer Roger Gathman compiles the latest books about the (almost) first commodity, money.

Chronicle Food writer Barbara Chisholm reviews local Tex-mex establishment La Reyna.

Malick's return to filmmakng after a 20-year absence is this WWII story based on James Jones' Guadalcanal novel. The film is a lyrical and introverted study of the curiously destructive relationship between man and nature.