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Good design, like good air, helps you breathe a little easier, and here are a few Austinites who are helping us all breathe easier through their work as graphic designers.

Writers coming and going in Austin's literary scene.

Austin Music Commission chair Bob Livingston steps down, no one steps up; Man's Ruin returns to Austin; Michael Corcoran's suspension is puzzling.

North American Properties pulls out of Triangle project; Charlie Jones of Middleman Music heads up New Year's Eve celebration downtown, Bernice Butler leaves her directors post at the ARA, Darlene Byrne runs for judges seat, Dawnna Dukes has an opponent.

Liberty Lunch is finally reduced to dust bin debris even as Mueller Airport hosts the "Airport Rave" and some 6,000 attendees, one of which was NOT Biz Markie, who was a no-show. Who says there are no more live music venues in Austin. Once-local guitarist Evan Johns hospitalized in DC with severe liver problems, just as Bad Livers finish recording a new album. Ken Lieck, King of the Segue.

The Chronicle music staff's picks for the 2000 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees; Austin bands point NXNW; and is this airport hip-hop rave really happening? Yes. For sure. Definitely. Maybe.

Running Out of Steam

The Lunch's Last Supper

Balls to the Wall

Fastball: The Band That Saved Hollywood?

Whither Buttholes?

Lewis Rebuts Ads

Hale-Bopp, She-Bop, We Bop

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

Top 10 Quotes of the Year

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

Whoa! Your Style Avatar is older than dirt! Oops, we mean, "just celebrated another b-day!" Come celebrate within.

Defending the death penalty, the new Gov, the schools, and all that Jazz.

Our readers talk back.

September

Winter/Spring Movie Sneaks