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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 Read More | Comment »

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 Read More | Comment »

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 Read More | Comment »

11:45AM Mon. Mar. 4, 2013, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

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 Read More | Comment »

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 Read More | Comment »

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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."

3:30PM Thu. Feb. 28, 2013, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Stefanie Distefano's Public Mosaics Mirror Austin's Bright and Vivid Streets
Every time Stefanie Distefano breaks a mirror, somebody's in for years of good art.

1:17PM Wed. Feb. 27, 2013, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Ebony Stewart Kisses Fear on the Mouth
When Ebony Stewart wrote her first poem, she had barely spoken a word for almost a year. She was 8 years old, and her parents were going through a messy divorce. “I went to a psychiatrist and she handed me this composition journal and was like, 'Write whatever you want to say.'” The words gave her a voice, and she hasn’t stopped speaking – or writing – since.

11:11AM Wed. Feb. 27, 2013, Amy Gentry Read More | Comment »

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