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Bedside Manner: Tales From the Commute
Taking the bus to work: Good for the environment, and great for reading.

6:57AM Mon. Nov. 1, 2010, Jay Trachtenberg Read More | Comment »

Happy NaNoWriMo!
Yup, writing a novel is hard. But what if you had a community of thousands egging you on?

7:15PM Sun. Oct. 31, 2010, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Global Fear is Here
Every Holiday needs its public face. Easter and the Easter Bunny. Christmas and Santa. And, in Austin, Halloween and Mr. Creep, the Best of Austin-winning ghoul with a grin. Now Creep and his closest associate, artist of the macabre Matt Garcia, have spread their black wings as the haunting season begins.

5:00PM Mon. Oct. 25, 2010, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Bedside Manner: San Diego, California
Bedside. San Diego, California—or was this Los Angeles? It could have been Tucson. It’s definitely not Phoenix. In Phoenix, I stayed in a nice hotel with a carpeted floor and a bed so tall, I nearly needed a step stool to get in to it.

1:32AM Mon. Oct. 25, 2010, Belinda Acosta Read More | Comment »

Not All of Me Will Die:
Remembering Joe Watson
Sometimes I find myself missing my old hometown even though I still live here.

12:03PM Sat. Oct. 23, 2010, Sidney Brammer Read More | Comment »

The Immortal Mansion
If you think you've been to the House of Torment before, think again. Austin's nationally recognized Halloween haunt has been torn down and rebuilt, fresh for the new scaring season. House vice-president Jon Love said, "Everybody that works here is never satisfied in January with what happened in October. So it's better, more, new, different."

9:23PM Fri. Oct. 22, 2010, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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Scarin' And Carin'
If you go into the woods this Halloween, you're sure of a big surprise. Yet while you're avoiding being eaten by zombies, you'll also be helping fight cancer, courtesy of Scare for a Cure.

4:35PM Wed. Oct. 20, 2010, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Bedside Manner: The Restless Reader
Here's another in a weekly series of what we're reading. More than 20 years ago, I bought a $4.50 paperback copy of Isabel Allende's The House of Spirits at the original Borders Book Shop on State Street in Ann Arbor, Mich., before it went all chain-gang on us. I'm proud to say I knew Borders when it was just a wee little shop.

1:21PM Mon. Oct. 18, 2010, Amy Smith Read More | Comment »

Bedside Manner: The Tao of Riddley
So, a day late and a dollar's snort, here's the second in this new series called Bedside Manner, in which your toilers at Austin's Favorite Altweekly take a snapshot of what readables happen to be next to their bed when they wake from whatever dreams complicated their headspace on the Sunday night just passed. This is what's on mine:

10:07AM Tue. Oct. 12, 2010, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

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