Day Trips: Rio Grande, Big Bend National Park

Paddling the Rio Grande

"...Kayaking the Rio Grande in Big Bend takes voyagers beyond the boundaries..."

March 20, 2020 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips: Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, Taos, N.M.

Take a walk with a wild view across the seventh-highest bridge in the U.S.

"...The Rio Grande Gorge Bridge outside of Taos, N.M., offers a..."

July 24, 2015 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The River and the Wall

More than a nature hike, this border wall documentary replaces rhetoric with reality

"...At 1,759 miles, the Rio Grande is the fourth-largest river in the United States,..."

May 3, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Frozen River

In order to make ends meet, two women in upstate New York smuggle illegal aliens across the St. Lawrence River into the U.S. in this unusually thoughtful and expertly acted movie.

"...to transport illegal immigrants across the frozen St. Lawrence River from Canada to the bordering reservation, which is off-limits..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rio Grande No Longer?

An overview of the ecological crisis along the Rio Grande

"...booming border towns, and fast-growing cities line the Lower Rio Grande (known in Mexico as the Rio Bravo) as..."

Oct. 26, 2001 News Feature by Dan Oko

Opinion: LCRA’s Water Marketing Ambitions Could Lower the Colorado River Below Austin

Environmental activist Rusty Middleton raises concerns over a groundwater pumping plan

"...the Lost Pines Groundwater Conservation District, the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) plans to pump an astonishing 25,000 acre-foot..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Column by Rusty Middleton

How DPS's Occupation of a Border Town May Have Crippled Its Economy

Rio Grande City sees a marked decline in sales and tourism

"...suspects as much. He's a county judge in the Rio Grande Valley, hard on the border with Mexico. Vera..."

Oct. 6, 2017 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

New Documentary Shows the Beauty of the Border, and the Perils of a Barrier

The River and the Wall captures a wilderness without divisions

"...immeasurable amount of wildlife. With his new documentary, The River and the Wall, Austin-based natural history filmmaker Ben Masters..."

May 3, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips: Resaca de la Palma State Park

Former river channel provides a tropical paradise for Rio Grande Valley wildlife

"...Birding Center's network of nine sites in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. At any given time, the 1,200 acres..."

July 22, 2016 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips: The Riverside Dreamer, Mission

Rolling on the Rio Grande

"...The Riverside Dreamer takes visitors on a short and unique tour..."

April 30, 2021 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Standing Rock’s Civil Disobedience Reaches West Texas

“It’s the Rio Grande. It’s sacred to many people."

"...took a succession of bolt cutters to free the trio from the gates, said Mark, before Lori, 44, and..."

Dec. 9, 2016 News Feature by Greg Harman

Day Trips: Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge

Old growth forest survives on the Rio Grande

"...steep cliffs that enclose the muddy waters of the Rio Grande...."

July 19, 2019 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

Historic chapel on the Rio Grande

"...site of the chapel on the banks of the Rio Grande as they traveled from Brownsville to the isolated..."

March 1, 2013 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

God's Own Clothesline

In Search of Far Flung Adventures With Butch Hancock

"...Far Flung Adventures down a lazy stretch of the Rio Grande. River guide by day and campfire sage by..."

May 15, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Texas Titles in Toto

"..."Big Rio Grande River," Austin Lounge Lizards..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Music Feature

Day Trips: Chamizal National Memorial, El Paso

A peace park on the border where generations of differences were washed under the bridge

"...The Rio Grande represented the international border after the Mexican-American War..."

June 19, 2015 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Lawsuits Are Mounting Against Abbott's Border Operation

The Department of Justice, ACLU of Texas challenge scheme

"...dead in buoys that had been put in the Rio Grande by the state. Additionally, the Houston Chronicle reported..."

Aug. 25, 2023 News Feature by Benton Graham

SXSW Film Review: The In Between

Intimate doc captures life, loss on the U.S.-Mexico border

"...Family cookouts, the stillness of a river at dusk, teenage conversations. They seem small in the..."

March 10, 2024 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

Have You Ever Been to Carrascolendas?

The Bilingual Education Act in 1968 sparked an unprecedented number of bilingual television programs for children, and the Austin-produced children's series Carrascolendas, which premiered in 1970, was among the first.

"...the earliest ranches on the north side of the Rio Grande River, [which] later became Rio Grande City...," writes..."

July 4, 2003 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Meow Mix

Texans Are Wild About Exotic Cats, but at What Cost?

"...country-western tourist shop a few dirt yards from the Rio Grande River and the hand-pulled Los Ebanos Ferry. Ramirez..."

Aug. 4, 2000 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Off the Road and Hungry

Where Austin Musicians Eat When They Get Home

"...be on a musician's "must visit" list. I was curious about the food local artists grew homesick for while..."

March 20, 1998 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Jollyville Salamander Not So Jolly

Save Our Springs Alliance files suit against U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to respond to petitions to add the rare Jollyville salamander and Val Verde County's San Felipe gambusia to the endangered species list

"...largest in Texas, flows through the heart of Del Rio before dipping into the Rio Grande River. The gambusia..."

Aug. 18, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

It's a Gas, Gas, Gas

South Austin's Neon Transformers Light Up Life South of the River

"...South Austin are funnier than people north of the river," he says with a wry grin. "And they're more..."

Jan. 19, 2001 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Friday’s Latinx Mega-Stream Proclaims Rock the Border, Stop the Wall, and Vote!

Online rally stars G-Fantasma, B-Pumas, G-Chavez y mucho mas

"...“I grew up crossing the river at will – it cost 25 cents – and..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Texas Radio and the Really Big Beat

Capstar's Austin-based Empire

"...Brinkley was all ears when enterprising boosters in Del Rio, Texas came up with a plan to get him..."

May 22, 1998 Music Feature by Bill Crawford

Adam Torres’ Big Sky Americana

His panoramic view of the world transcends into his haunting falsetto

"...balancing Southeast Engine, Torres' own music became "a second priority at the time." After the band achieved moderate success,..."

July 14, 2017 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

Countdown to L-G-B-T

U.S. Census meets Austin LGBT Tuesday at the MACC

"...Tue., Feb. 9, 7pm Mexican-American Cultural Center Auditorium 600 River Street, Austin, TX 78701..."

Feb. 9, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

The Treats of Laredo

Shopping South of the Border Guarantees a Feliz Navidad

"..."Do I look like I need prescriptions?" I'm also curious about what sort of "prescriptions" I could get my..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Features Feature by Amy Smith

Big Land, Big Stories,& One-Eyed Jacks

Western Roundup

"...a small militia to protect settlers near the Colorado River from Indian raids sometime after August 4, 1823) up..."

April 18, 1997 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Biden Asks Supreme Court to Let Feds Cut Razor Wire at the Border

Feds say wire blocks Border Patrol from carrying out duties

"...wire Texas has strung along 29 miles of the Rio Grande river near Eagle Pass...."

Jan. 3, 2024 News Post by Brant Bingamon

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