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Cap Metro Seeks More Feedback on Service Plan 2020

Similar to the Envision Central Texas plan for regional growth, Capital Metro will be seeking feedback next week over how to plan its own growth over the next 10 years. See press release after the jump:

8:40AM Fri. Nov. 13, 2009, Lee Nichols Read More | Comment »

Erin on Majic

7:30AM Fri. Nov. 13, 2009 Read More | Comment »

Legeland Update

Just because the session is out, that doesn't mean there's nothing happening under the dome. Like Tom Waits said, there's always some killing you got to do around the farm.

3:37PM Thu. Nov. 12, 2009, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

The City We Built: Black Leaders of Austin

Black Pearl Books

Belles & Chimes Austin Night at Pinballz Arcade

Louisiana Surf Department, West Texas Exiles, William Harries Graham at Continental Club

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

No Trail of Lights

With the budget crunch casting a shadow over the city's biggest holiday season celebration, the decision was simple: a) Have a Trail of Lights (complete with massive electricity bill) at Zilker Park and charge up to $5 a head; b) no Trail of Lights, make whatever is organized free. The city has picked option B and is calling it the Zilker Tree Holiday Festival.

2:37PM Thu. Nov. 12, 2009, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Blog and Roll

Last weekend, a panel of representatives from Billboard, Rolling Stone, Spin, Idolator, Aquarium Drunkard, My Old Kentucky Blog, and the Austin-American Statesman met at the Mohawk to share their wisdom with music bloggers old and new.

12:53PM Thu. Nov. 12, 2009, Livvy Bennett Read More | Comment »

Sista... Whut?

We're hoping against hope that Sister's Edge II earns a better track record than its elder sib, that used to reside at the same location on San Jacinto. The last incarnation of Sister's Edge (circa 1997) sputtered out in a blaze of protests and hurt feelings after

12:00AM Thu. Nov. 12, 2009, Kate X Messer Read More | Comment »

Dust In the Air

I’ve referred to Son Volt as the premier American roots-rock band of our day and in my mind, its latest, American Central Dust (Rounder), confirms that notion.

4:03PM Wed. Nov. 11, 2009, Jim Caligiuri Read More | Comment »

Progressing in the Economy

Whenever there's a statistic about Texas leading the nation in some category or other, freemarketeers and the anti-regulation crew are quick to take the credit (well, except in child morbidity and other such minor blights on society). So why is it the more liberal towns that are heading up those scores?

4:00PM Wed. Nov. 11, 2009, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

MetroRail at Dusk

On Sept. 3, 1830, Sir William Huskisson became the first person run over by a passenger train. As Capital Metro announces that it will be shifting to evening testing for its MetroRail trains, the transit agency is asking people to make sure they don't become the next historic statistic.

2:00PM Wed. Nov. 11, 2009, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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