Day Trips

"...Battleground was the first public land designated as a state park, 16 years before the state parks department was..."

March 6, 1998 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: November Events Roundup

It’s time for chili cook-offs, festivals, and all sorts of November fun

"...day of trying the full lineup of one of Texas’ premier craft breweries...."

Nov. 5, 2021 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: June Events Roundup

Titanic, turtle hatchlings, and Texas beaches after Harvey

"...Titanic artifacts come to Texas while the Gulf Coast recovers from Hurricane Harvey, and..."

June 1, 2018 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Circling the Hearses

State funeral regulators are dancing to the undertakers' tune – and that's bad news for consumers

"...A $1,000 expenditure by a state agency might not sound like much – particularly when..."

Nov. 5, 2004 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...burning down in Mexico has made its way into Texas. Cough, cough...."

May 13, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Climbing the Family Tree

Virginia Wood finds that with the help of U.S. census records, finding the roots of her family is possible.

"...1920, for instance, are currently available on microfilm in state archive libraries around the country; the 1930 records should..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Features Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Day Trips

"...In the heart of East Texas and surrounded by pine and hardwood forests and small..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Zoom Backgrounds From Austin's Most Haunted Locales

Make remote work meetings a bit spookier with these photos

"...Depression sent his finances into a tailspin, and the stately home became a flophouse. Now renovated as a boutqiue..."

Oct. 21, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Postmarks

Readers take us (and each other) to task over mistaken identites and misguided ideas.

"...much like that of our late friend and former state representative Bill Kugle of Athens, buried in the state..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Column

Infill On Trial

What's the Verdict on the Latest Central-City Boom?

"...well-designed and livable city have learned to avoid what Statesman columnist Susan Richardson last April termed "the M word"..."

Feb. 14, 1997 News Feature

New Podcast Uncovers the Truth Behind 95 Bodies Found in Sugar Land

A mystery reveals a dark side of Texas’ history

"...crews working on a new school in Sugar Land, Texas, discovered 95 bodies in unmarked graves...."

June 24, 2023 News Post by Amelia Nonemacher

Finding a Way Back Home

Who's looking out for Austin's returning veterans?

"...casework volunteer for the American Red Cross of Central Texas and now does military casework full-time. In October alone,..."

Dec. 26, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Walk a Mile

The Texas Documentary Tour: Ramona Diaz's 'Imelda'

"...Her request that her husband be buried in a cemetery for state heroes was denied, and his body will..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Day Trips

Send your favorite daytripper or daytripper-to-be on a photographic journey through Austin or a uniquely Texan greasy-spoon odyssey.

"...CD-ROMs by local photographer Steve Schwartzman and Counter Culture Texas by Susie Kelly Flatau and Mark Dean expand the..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...is located on East Seventh Street across from the State Cemetery, kinda sounds like where the bubble is, eh..."

April 5, 2002 Column

Tunnel Vision

The New Waller Creek

"...surface transportation efficiency. (Some of them -- like the State Cemetery restoration, also ISTEA-funded -- do not.)..."

July 12, 1996 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Watchmen on the Walls of Freedom

UT composer Dan Welcher commemorates JFK: The Voice of Peace 40 years after the President's scheduled visit to Austin.

"...were waiting to welcome the president of the United States to their city. Each had paid $100 for the..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Music Feature by Robert Faires

Headlines

"...Navy SEAL Chris Kyle made its way from North Texas to Austin on Tuesday for burial services at the..."

Feb. 15, 2013 News Feature

Creating a 'Corridor'

"...and rapidly, become a hot stretch of Austin real estate. After decades of neglect of the industrial rail yard,..."

June 27, 2003 News Feature

Those Magic Moments

Composer, classicist Stephen Barber's encoding and imprinting

"...a trolley car full of souls arrives at a cemetery...."

Oct. 25, 2002 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Showers of Sound

The Bubble, the only place to record for Austin's indie elite

"...of mouth affair, and the word spread through the Texas music scene like a virus, replicating itself in the..."

March 29, 2002 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Live Shots

"...Harold McMillan and River City Bluez -- the Southwest Texas State University professor had his crew of past and..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Music Feature

Rebuild the Guild

Michael Yates and his fellow artisans bring new life to Austin's cadre of craft

"...more than four years – at the Commodore Perry Estate across from the Hancock Center...."

Oct. 7, 2011 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

John Anderson's Top 10 Photos of 2020

"...crowd at "You Can't Close America Rally" at the Texas State Capitol on April 18 to protest stay-in-place orders...."

Dec. 17, 2020 Photo Gallery

Big Bill Record Review

Stand by Your Bill

"...dejection sneaks out around Eric Braden's zany rhyme schemes (infirmary/mortuary/cemetery on "Pharmacy") and deadpan nasal delivery, ditching classic hardcore..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Thirteen Things To Do in Austin on Halloween

Halloween 2014: All the events here, there, and in-between

"...12) Spooktacular..."

Oct. 23, 2014 Events Post by Derek Van Wagner

There Goes the Neighborhood

North/South/Central – redistricting the live music capital

"...Seventh. That stretch hugging the east end of the state cemetery, with quick access to the White Horse, Hotel..."

July 25, 2014 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Food-O-File

"...someone remodeling a long-time restaurant space across from the state cemetery. Rafael Funes reports that Sabor (1411 E. Seventh,..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Believing the Children

In 1992, Fran and Danny Keller were convicted of multiple counts of child sexual abuse at their Oak Hill day care center and sent to prison for 48 years. It's likely they were innocent. Indeed, it's very likely that no crime ever occurred – except an absurd and overzealous prosecution

"...to do the same. The charges were based on statements Christina had made, first to her mother, Suzanne Guinne,..."

March 27, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Not in My Graveyard: RAMP vs. Covenant Presbyterian

One woman's battle with a church to preserve a Central Austin cemetery

"...strange foes – like, say, a church and a cemetery...."

Nov. 28, 2008 News Feature by Laurel Chesky

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