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Yehudi Mercado Brings a Cartoon Rodeo to Austin Books
Yehudi … Mercado?
Daily Arts
4:43PM Wed. Mar. 6, 2013,
Abracadabra
Steve Miller had to sing for his supper, so to speak, at the 2013 Texas Medal of Arts awards Tuesday night. The Lone Star rocker was one of this year's dozen honorees, but he was also conscripted to play during the two-hour-plus ceremony at the Long Center. That proved lucky for those present, as his three songs were highlights of the program.
3:15PM Wed. Mar. 6, 2013, Robert Faires
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Vegan Chef Chloe Coscarelli Appears in Austin
Fans of the Food Network's Cupcake Wars will probably know Chloe Coscarelli as the vegan baker who emerged victorious in a segment of the baking competition show with Dark Chocolate orange cupcakes.
2:05PM Tue. Mar. 5, 2013, Virginia B. Wood
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Mary Margaret Farabee: In Memoriam
One of the city's most engaged philanthropists and energetic supporters of the arts has passed away. Mary Margaret Farabee, who was the original spark and guiding light for the Texas Book Festival, as well as an advocate for a host of other cultural and social causes, died Sunday morning after a long struggle with cancer. She was 73.
12:30PM Tue. Mar. 5, 2013, Robert Faires
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Domenica Ruta to Speak at BookPeople
At the midpoint of Domenica Ruta's memoir, With or Without You, Kathi Ruta offers her middle-school-aged daughter an Oxycontin to take the edge of her headache – and then snorts a pill herself “in solidarity.”
11:00AM Tue. Mar. 5, 2013, Jaime deBlanc-Knowles
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The Q&A Hole: Which One Typeface Would You Eradicate Forever?
No formal education necessary.
11:45AM Mon. Mar. 4, 2013, Wayne Alan Brenner
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Aether Galvanizes the Austin Gallery Scene con Gusto
"Here," says Wally Workman kindly, "you should really use a blanket."
3:34PM Fri. Mar. 1, 2013, Wayne Alan Brenner
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Mayor's Book Club Titles Announced
The key to a successful book club – we've heard – is the perfect balance of participants. You need brainy, bookish folks who are likeminded enough to agree on selections but outspoken and confident enough to engender productive discussion.
If the sum total of Austin's residents doesn't embody that description, we don't know who would.
3:03PM Fri. Mar. 1, 2013, Monica Riese
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Chasing C. Robert Cargill's 'Dreams and Shadows'
It's an old insult: If critics know so much about films and books, why don't they write them? That's exactly what C. Robert Cargill has done, and he argues that being a critic made him a better writer. He said, "I went into every movie trying to learn from it as much as I was trying to dissect it."
