Senator Larry E. Craig of Idaho will remain in the Senate despite calls for his resignation. Myanmar junta summons U.S. envoy for talks. Ig Nobel awards celebrate jet-setting Viagra-using hamsters and our military's attempt to make a "gay bomb." East Sixth Street, between Pedernales and Robert Martinez, now open after yesterday's train accident caused it to be closed. North Korea agrees to dismantle "all" of its nuclear facilities by the end of the year.......

[This review courtesy of new Austinist contributor Anna Hanks! -Ed.] As much as we'd like to change a few things about our first time, we regret we’ll never be able to repeat the experience. We also can’t change history, so catching the currently playing, slick incarnation of the Rude Mechanicals' Get Your War On also wasn't our first time. (We reviewed the show last January as well.) Directed by Shawn Sides, Get Your War......

Apparently the nuclear testing by North Korea has made South Koreans a tad frisky. Obese people are totally bad for the environment. And we aren't talking about methane gas. Students in business school are a bunch of cheaters. That explains quite a bit. On its death-bed, the Ford Taurus is considered to have been a huge influence within the auto industry. Grandpa would be glad to know he's storing a piece of history. In......

An engrossing and timely documentary, Abduction tells the story of young Megumi Yokota, a Japanese teenager who vanishes while walking home from school one afternoon in 1977. While her parents and the police initially suspect a typical runaway or child abduction scenario, two decades go by without any clue as to her whereabouts. The film lets the viewer know that a larger conspiracy is at play, namely that North Korea has kidnapped Yokota along......

A local man is going to jail for wiretapping. North Korea's bark still may be worse than their bite; a sample of air taken from the area shows no radioactive particles. It is costing us more in the long run to ignore global warming rather than to fix it; $20 trillion more, in fact. Bush keeps saying "unacceptable". We overuse words too, but we're not the leader of the free world. Anything's better than......

A couple from Utah have decided that kidnapping their daughter is the best way to stop her marriage. Those silly "scientists" now say that the ozone hole will take an additional 15 years to recover from pollution. This puts it in the year 2065. Hurricane experts are predicting just one more hurricane for this 2006 season. The Perry camp is accusing Carole Couger Keeton Strayhorn of using college fund ads for election help. North......

LOCAL: The NAACP of Austin and the Texas Civil Rights project have sued the state and Travis County over electronic voting machines. They claim that E-Slate voting machines violate the state election code because they don't provide a paper record of the vote transaction. STATE: A federal judge has ruled that former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay must remain on the ballot for the 22nd Congressional District race. It seems DeLay's little scheme to temporarily......

Local: The Austin City Council has decided to reduce the speed limit in three Austin neighborhoods from 30 miles to 25. In addition, they have given the green light to require Austin residents to reduce their water consumption by 1% for the next 10 years. State: Texas Secretary of State Roger Williams has until September to decide whether Carole Cougar Mellencamp can use the nickname, "Grandma," on the ballot in November. We are happy......

As mentioned yesterday here on Austinist, Rude Mechanicals has mounted an upgraded version of last year's workshopped production, Get Your War On!. ( In case you haven't been reading Austinist, or didn't see the cover of this week's Austin Chronicle, we'll give you the lowdown on this unique work. Basically, shortly after 9/11/2001, a New Yorker named David Rees started writing, and publishing online, an acerbic, satirical comic strip called Get Your War On!.......

-The director of Austin's Clean Water Program has been asked to resign amidst claims of "inappropriate" business dealings with his girlfriend -Austin Chronicle's Amy Smith tries to explain just what Prop 2 proponents were thinking -A murder suspect from San Marcos may be lurking somewhere in Austin -Cops raided a meth lab somewhere south of William Cannon -The country might be getting more prudish, but at least we can count on more sex on......

-Police in the UK are trying to figure out the true identity of the fake Earl of Buckingham, who "married under the false name, passed it to his children, laid claim to the Buckingham crest and promised his teenage son that the peerage would one day be his." Sounds almost too awesome to be true. -The crazy woman in Houston who drowned her five children back in 2001 has had her murder convictions thrown......