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What will shy novelist Sarah Bird do now that she's back in the limelight, Dick Holland asks in this profile of the author of The Yokota Officers Club.

The University Co-Op becomes a textbook monopoly.

Austin Preeminent Concert Promoter Ponders Retirement

With the city facing its biggest budget crunch in a decade, city manager Jesus Garza has begun to make some tough financial choices.

The 24th Annual O.Henry Pun-Off World Championships and other upcoming literary events.

Mandy Mercier puts down her fiddle to talk about her eventful life.

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

Policing the media, mediating the police.

Local foodies who are traveling for food, and an update on the Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival.

Right in the booming heart of Austin, folks can still find evidence of times past. Devin Greaney explores some of Austin's abandoned haunts.

Our readers talk back.

Gather round the Yule log and the figgy pudding, get out a paper and pen, and jot down some of these items from our Annual Holiday Wish List 2000, Part 2. Local organizations need you!

Once UT's Dr. Seth Wolitz discovered Proust, he didn't turn back, but it took a real beating for him to get to that point.

Liberals blame Ralph Nader for Al Gore's defeat; media frenzy at the Governor's Mansion

Gore vs. Bush vs. Nader vs. Ventura vs. Hernandez vs. Simone, approximately.

The Fifth Annual Texas Book Festival

The Fifth Annual Texas Book Festival

The state of gay writing was discussed at the third annual Behind Our Masks Literary Festival in Philadelphia last weekend.

East Texas chicken magnate Bo Pilgrim wants a state permit to build a bigger chicken slaughterhouse and waste disposal facility -- right across the creek from Sen. Bill Ratliff's in-laws' vacation home.

Coach is having none of this "Subway Series" BS. Only question is: Which team does he hate the most?

'Bo Knows Not to be Stupid'

The Mexico of now, David Garza writes, is not held only within the borders of Mexico itself. It has spread northward, re-entered its old space, in a sense. For so many of the Mexicans, displaced but still infatuated with the idea of spirit and ghost, the nation itself is a ghost in the back of the head.

Book on Texas' Death Row Presents Just the Facts

Book news, signings, and author appearances this week.

Upcoming literary events in Austin.

Who gets punished when George W. Bush comes home to Austin after losing the election.

Austin's live music scene turns up missing.

Recycled Books, Denton's premiere used bookstore, features a world-class collection of fine editions, vinyl records and CDs in a historic downtown building.

From poetry scrawled on walls to poetry inscribed on CD: the saga of the Gourds.