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Kudos for the Lost Austin issue, and much environmental ado.

If you want to understand the legacy of Bill Clinton forget the Elvis analogies and remember Orson Welles, who created film characters marked by their own self-corruption.

Jimmie Vaughan skips Dubya's inaugural ball, while the Austin Music Network gets a reprieve from the city as the SIMS Foundation tries to spend $62,000 and fast.

A mixed salad of Green letters and more.

These letters spell highway violence, the environment, and a lost bracelet.

Eight reasons to go on living if you don't' own a PlayStation2

The romance field, Margraet Moser writes, is unique in its symbiosis: Most writers come from the ranks of readers and therefore understand the marriage of reader and book. The sisterhood and moral support in this almost exclusively female dominion is palpable. It is also gratifying and empowering and, in a few cases, exceedingly lucrative.

Chronicle writer Roger Gathman imagined Mark Z. Danielewski as "one of the roughs," because his novel, House of Leaves, is saturated in the tattoo parlor demimonde of Los Angeles. What he found is something quite different.

One right fine Tele-pickin' dude

More Light Rail hubbub and a few Naderite cries in the wilderness.

Thanks to soaring energy prices, wind energy is becoming cheaper than that fueled by natural gas and other fossil.fuels.

TMG label rises from the ashes of Watermelon and Antone's.

John Cornyn says he believes in privacy, but a subpoena of Texans for Public Justice seeking donor records suggests otherwise.

'Never an Adult Moment' With Austin's Veteran Bluegrass Pranksters

Austin Energy's attempt to shut close its books to the public will be considered by city council September.

Plans for the Bennett tract, potentially a major economic blockbuster for East Austin, are still ongoing and may include small retail, offices, and some residential.

Triangle Square plans get approved by the Planning Commission, but not without some haggling and opposition.

Larry McMurtry's New Books Continue His Journey

Neighbors relate their own housing crunches in response to last week's cover story.

San Antonio-based Presidian wants to enter into public private partnerships with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

Sure, complaining about the heat only makes it worse. A long string of 100 degree days presents an unsolvable problem but it just so happens that there's one summer problem we can solve. What to do about dinner on a day when the ambient blast furnace is stuck in the triple digits and operating any appliance hotter than a microwave is a sure sign of madness? Where to go, what to buy, how to put a tasty meal on the table without working up a sweat?

Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.

Our readers talk back.

The Gourds weren't Phishing for trouble when they covered "Gin and Juice"; the Meat Puppets have (probably) found a new home.

Utilities' estimates of stranded costs associated with deregulation are coming in, and they're far higher than the figures originally provided to the Texas Legislature when the law was being approved.

Phil Donahue, James Lipton, Jon Stewart, Katie Couric, Johnny Carson, Tom Snyder, and more: columnist Belinda Acosta reflects on the hosts who made television great.

Aqua Fest seems unlikely, but there's plenty of other summer fun to be had; the Austin Music Network is a bit of a mess.