Point Austin: Picking Up the Campaign Pieces
After a Fashion: Even Avatars Need a Nap Now and Again
Layered: The Last Days of Desmond Nani Reese: A Stripper's History of the World
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Place 1: A Clear Victory for Leffingwell
Meeker's anti-Wal-Mart cred fails to bring in the votes
Place 3: Shade's Surprising Landslide
Even after winning, Shade takes jabs at Kim
Place 4: Morrison, Galindo Move to Run-Off
ACC: Mahoney Comes Out on Top, for Now
McCracken Disavows Stanford
Brewster breaks with political consultant
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere
Density Debacle at 51st Street
Neighborhood, developer, and bike activists all at odds over proposed development
Happenings
May 15-22
Crashing the Green Water Treatment Plant Proposal Party
Artist Cage Match: Fairey vs. Orr
Iconic Obey Giant creator sues Austin artist
Newsdesk: Pushing for a Three-Party System
A Little Poison With Your Plastic?
Polycarbonate plastic bottles pulled from shelves over health concerns
City Hall Hustle
Poppin' E: Election Reception Roundup
Developing Stories
The New Guy at CAMPO
Point Austin: Picking Up the Pieces
Campaigns end with a thunderclap and voters' whimpers
Beside the Point
A Resigned Affair
The Hightower Report
Spending Your Stimulus Check; and Corporate Greed Strangles Health Care
Postmarks Online
Letters to the editor, updated daily
Page Two: Spin and Cinema
An understanding of the U.S. Constitution by way of Robert Thom
After a Fashion
Even Avatars need a nap now and again.
Day Trips
Nichol's Landing Paddling Trail lends access to the many swimming, paddling, and water-related delights of the Upper Guadalupe River
Playing Through
Cassanova tore up the competition at the Purina Incredible Dog Challenge and hopes to do the same in the nationals
Soccer Watch Online
News and scores from the U.S. and abroad
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Whale puke, George Costanza, coffee – the miracle drug, and more
Ask Mr. Smarty Pants
Got a question? He's got the answer.
The Common Law
Protesting High Property Taxes: Persuasive Evidence
The Luv Doc Recommends
A rambling recommendation to shore up that hole in your social calendar
Object Lesson
In Sherry Kramer's new play, things that are ordinary become magical: flowers, Barbies, even the writer herself
Alan Pappé: In Memoriam
The man who gave us thousands of memorable images from Hollywood and the music scene has passed
Mindstorms Mania: Children are the future, and the future is robots
The next generation of robot-makers showed their stuff at Austin Children's Museum's robotics showcase
Arts Reviews
The Last Days of Desmond Nani Reese: A Stripper's History of the World
Heather Woodbury's new solo show about a 108-year-old fallen woman humanizes strippers and storytellers, whores and academics
Don Quixote
In Ballet Austin's take on Cervantes' old knight, youthful vigor and good humor pretty much carried the day
Half a World Away, and at War
One reporter's journey from Odessa, Texas, to Kinshasa, Congo
2008 Austin Chronicle Restaurant Poll
A year's worth of Austin's best eateries
Event Menu
May 16-18
Look, Ma, All Hands
Hammer & Tongs on why their Eighties-era childhood epic 'Son of Rambow' is the anti-CGI
Master Pancake Flattens 'Road House'
For love (of Swayze) and money (for cancer research)
In Play
Welcome to the Godfather of the 21st century
TV Eye
Tuning In to Texas
DVD Watch
First Ladies: Early Women Filmmakers
Kino celebrates female filmmaking pioneers
Film Reviews
• The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Soundscraping
The Weird Weeds untangle
Off the Record
music news
Texas Platters
Girlie Action
Beautiful World, Paris, Texafrance
Leatherbag
Love & Harm
Brent Adair
Ostrich
Old 97's
Blame It on Gravity
On the DL
Monroe Mustang
Country Mile
Big Bend, Copano Bay, West Texas Wine, Walls Fall Down, Country Jam
Bob Schneider
When the Sun Breaks Down on the Moon
Kissinger
Underwater
Ghost of the Russian Empire
The Mammoth
Lucid Dementia
Trickery
Tungsten Coil
Alpha Omega
deEP end
Noise Revival Orchestra Experience, Hiding in the Light, Canopy / Anopy
Jesse Sublett
Murder Ballads & Noir Capers, Part 1
Death is Not a Joyride
The Human Zoo
ATX Underground
ATX Underground, Volume One
Driver F
Chase the White Whale
The Wailing Walls
Long Live the Infidel
