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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 »

First Texas FLDS Member Sent to Jail

Raymond Jessop, the first of 12 members of the polygamous Mormon breakaway sect the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to be tried in Texas on sexual assault and bigamy charges related to the practice of taking multiple wives – and often underage wives – has been given 10 years in prison by a jury in the West Texas town of Eldorado.

12:53PM Wed. Nov. 11, 2009, Jordan Smith Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Friday the 13th Pt. VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

We Luv Video

H.M.S. Pinafore
at McCallum Fine Arts Academy Theatre

Glaze Magazine presents License to Slay w/ Daiistar, Sad Cell, more at Parish

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Tejano Returns to 6th Street

Isidoro Lopez likes to use the phrase “invisible society” when referring to the Latino community and how it's often looked through. It’s a particularly apt phrase in regards to Tejano, that vibrant hybrid of Texas-born, Mexican-originated music. For every musical style that exists, there’s a Spanish take on it.

11:01AM Wed. Nov. 11, 2009, Margaret Moser Read More | Comment »

Hampton For Judge

Entering the political fray for the first time as a candidate, Austin criminal defense attorney Keith Hampton on Nov. 4 filed paperwork to run as a Democratic candidate for the Court of Criminal Appeals seat currently held by Judge Michael Keasler.

5:52PM Tue. Nov. 10, 2009, Jordan Smith Read More | Comment »

News Corp. fans take on the evils of Sesame Street

Fox Versus Grouch

Pity poor Fox News. Not only are those poor, defenseless wretches being bullied by those nasty White House socialists, but now Sesame Street is ganging up on them.

3:32PM Tue. Nov. 10, 2009, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

TXRG has a few little requests before the WFTDA nationals (video)

Texecutioners Make Their Demands

Weekends don't get much bigger in roller derby: On Friday, the best teams from the Women's Flat Track Derby Association will meet in Philadelphia for the 2009 Declaration of Derby national finals. As befits the founding mothers of the sport, Austin's own Texas Rollergirls took the time to list their rider requirements.

2:06PM Tue. Nov. 10, 2009, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Scott's Softer Tone

Commission of Education Robert Scott and Austin ISD Superintendent Meria Carstarphen have scarcely had the best working relationship. So there has been some scratching of heads about the (relatively) nice words he had say at last week's Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce lunchtime meeting about education.

5:44PM Mon. Nov. 9, 2009, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Natural's Not in It

We didn't have no stinkin' Sassy when I was a lass. I grew up in the 1970s, when a tender teen's periodical choices pretty much boiled down to Tiger Beat and Seventeen. Being a pop freak, I preferred the former (and also loved Mad magazine, my enjoyment apparently violating some sort of gender code I wasn't aware of at the time).

3:40PM Mon. Nov. 9, 2009, Cindy Widner Read More | Comment »

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