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Before she knew there was really something wrong with her brother, Elaine would tell him that their mother had tried to abort him when she was only a month gone.

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

Can the City Make Good on Its Affordable Housing Promise?

All Belinda Acosta wanted was a roof over her head that wouldn't explode into flames. Little did she know that jumping into the Austin housing market is like jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

Watch out far too many local public service organizations are holding very cool events this hot summer.

A New Drug for a New Millennium

Substandard Conditions Are a Way of Life for Northridge Acres

The Real World: New Orleans and Survivor, CBS' brutal bid to rein reality television, are sure to fascinate pop culture fans throughout the summer. Belinda Acosta explains why she resents it: and why she can't stop watching.

City Council Member Gus Garcia retires after more than 30 years of public service

Texas Restaurants Worth Visiting on the Road This Summer

City Council members award themselves a raise; neighborhood residents protest looser rules governing backyard cottages; and the council approves a convention center parking lot on property whose owner doesn't want to sell.

The search for, and subsequent conversation with, country singer James Hand

Local activists remember Cesar Chavez on the seventh anniversary of his death.

Q&A with Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power

Is Barton Springs Pool Losing Its Soul to Algae?

A recap of favorite SXSW venues that no longer exist, a few festival hot tips, some non-festival tips, a celebrity-sightings checklist.

We are wrong, wrong, wrong. So is golf.

Sailing into the sunset on Delbert McClinton's Blues Crusie.

watson goes to washington to talk transportation; city backs off of terrace pud money, no settlement yet with gary bradley, city may step in to stop expansion of hyde park baptist church, council to consider retail space at csc.

Michael Moorcock. literary superstar of Bastrop, Texas and the world, had quite a 60th birthday party. Writer Carolyn Banks on what it was like to be there.

Council denies historic zoning for old house on St. David's property.

Chronicle Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood and food writers Pableaux Johnson, Mick Vann, Wes Marshall, Rebecca Chastenet de Géry, and Barbara Chisholm share their Christmas memories.

Homeowning may be the American Dream, but seems so far out of reach for so many. Bernadette Noll's story of finding and buying a house offers hope for the hapless.

A profile of Austin's longest-running musical parody, the Uranium Savages.

Three former Capital Metro board members and two former employees claim that the transportation agency attempted to put Longhorn Railway, its costly freight rail operator, out of business.

Chick dramas: we just don't get it; also, what to watch this witching weekend

Third Place

Texas Our Texas loves Texas; Neighbors for Neighbors hate strip-mining; Justin B. Andrews returns; and other delighted and dismayed letters from readers.