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In the two decades it has taken for Cirque du Soleil to reach Austin for the first time, this Montreal-based troupe has not only reinvented circus as performance art but grown into one of the most unexpected and unlikely of entertainment empires.

The mental health care system for Austin and Travis County is increasingly overwhelmed, with no relief in sight.

Danny Crooks, down with the ship once again

News Shorts

Toni Price comes clean.

September 1988-August 1991

A performance artist is arrested for being "indecent" at the Capitol. Why can't we arrest legislators for that?

The Blue Genie boys -- those whimsical artists responsible for the armadillo-festooned entrance to Threadgill's World Headquarters, the guitar gal atop Fran's Hamburgers, and other mini-landmarks around Austin -- have been fun for the people who see them and fun for the people who made them. Making giant panels for the new Texas State History Museum, though, was a bit more than just that.

San Antonio's funtastic and 75-years-young Kiddie Park.

Notes on the music scene, the music seen, the music herd, and the music heard.

Big career moves for a couple of Austin playwrights and big parties thrown by a couple of Austin arts organizations.

Yes, the merger of Austin's Paramount Theatre and State Theater Company is a business affair, but since theatres traffic in stories, human dramas that talk to us about life, this historic event deserves to be looked at as a story, the story of a wedding between two neighbors.

The usual suspects return: Miles Zuniga, Daniel Johnston, Sandra Bullock, Bob Schneider, and the Asylum Street Spankers; also, Patti Smith returns to Austin for SXSW, as do a bunch of other people.

UT Regents Rita Clements and Tony Sanchez torpedoed Herzog & De Meuron's design for the Blanton Museum because it didn't fit in with the Campus Master Plan. But neither do most buildings built on campus since the mid-1960s.

Send your favorite daytripper or daytripper-to-be on a photographic journey through Austin or a uniquely Texan greasy-spoon odyssey.

Differing takes on Town Lake going Greek; too many zeros for Babich; and the Chronicle film reviewers take another hit.

For the last two years Miranda July's work in fanzines, performance art, music, and movies have allowed her to support herself off her art. "No day job" - how many performance artists can say that?

Jimmy Lafave

The Disco Box

Begging the Question

Letter to Isaac

Scaggs Photo in Bad Taste

Anonymous Was a Photographer

Bye, Bye Clubs