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    means it is premium content -- and it continues on the all-new site. Premium stories, plus all the news from the printed edition of the paper, are included. Until June 11, you can enjoy a free preview of all the premium content on ...

  • Officials Man charged in Spicewood double slaying kills self in jail

    The Burnet County sheriff's office reported Sunday that one of three suspects charged in the killing of a Spicewood couple committed suicide while in custody.Sheriff W.T. Smith said Gregory Mark Currie, 30, was found in his cell during a routine check by correctional personnel about 7:30 p.m Saturday. Currie had ripped off a part of his bedsheet and hanged himself from the showerhead, Smith ...

  • PolitiFact Counting Abbott’s 27 lawsuits against Obama administration

    Here's a typical workday for Texas' attorney general: "I go into the office, I sue the federal government and I go home," Greg Abbott was quoted as saying recently.Speaking to FreedomWorks Texas in Austin on April 27, Abbott said, "I've sued the Obama administration now 25 times, over the last four ...

  • Poverty takes root in Austin’s suburbs

    From 2000 to 2011, the Austin metro area saw the nation's second-fastest increase in the number of poor people living in the suburbs, according to a new book to be released Monday which describes poverty dramatically shifting from America's inner cities to the suburbs and which calls on policymakers to rethink how they respond to poverty.The suburban poor population grew 143 percent in ...

  • Austin memorial for AIDS HIV Austin memorial for AIDS HIV

    AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austinites gathered Sunday in Republic Square Park to pay tribute to the fight against AIDS and HIV. Community leaders spoke to the crowd and had a moment of silence to remember those whove lost their lives. Congressman Lloyd Doggett and Austin Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole participated and spoke at the event. This year's theme: "In solidarity," emphasized the need of ...


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Oldboy [DVD]

Oldboy [DVD]

After seeing Park Chan-wook's Oldboy, I was reminded of a line of dialogue in one of the opening scenes of David Fincher's Seven (1995), a film with which Oldboy shares more than a few similarities, in both its visual use of bruised colors and sharp cont ... ...

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  • Trifecta of drought late freeze hail decimate Hill Country peach crop

    It's peach season, but Austinites likely won't be seeing any Fredericksburg peaches in grocery stores any time soon after a combination of freezing weather and hailstorms decimated more than 90 percent of the crop in Gillespie County."The damage is pretty widespread," said Jamey Vogel, owner of Vogel Orchard in Stonewall and president of the Hill Country Fruit ...

  • Manor New Tech principal invited to White House

    Two weeks after President Barack Obama visited his school, the principal of Manor New Technology High School has been invited to the White House for an informal brainstorming session on education.Steven Zipkes will join U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and 20 other leaders on Thursday to discuss how to engage "employers in buildings skills through redesigned high schools," ...

  • APDs LGBT help build new homes

    AUSTIN (KXAN) - If you're a homeowner - you likely remember the first time you stepped foot in your first home. An Austin woman and her family are about to know what that feels like...thanks to Habitat for Humanity and the "Austin Pride Build" tradition. You often see them working together to keep Austin safe. On Saturday morning a group from the Austin police department -- worked up ...

  • Memorial held for local AIDS victims

    It's common for today's youth to forget about the significance of HIV/AIDS because of medical advances made over the past decade.Still dozens of central Texans die from the disease every year. That's why activists held a vigil Sunday evening to remember local victims and remind the community that HIV/AIDS is still a disease for which there is no cure.39 people have died in the ...

  • 2nd annual Viva Streets Festival

    The heat and humidity didn't stop hundreds from heading out to 6th street for the 2nd annual viva streets festival.The free festival ran along two miles of 6th street from Brazos Street to Robert Martinez Jr. Street.The idea of the festival is to get up and move around.People were dancing, riding bikes; there was an obstacle course, and even aerial and circus performers.The viva streets ...

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