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"...as hipster cowboy art colony, what the tiny West Texas destination offers is solitude, and a reset. That certainly..."

May 14, 2021 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Wish List

Give 'Til It Helps, Part 2

"...X, Kathryn O'Shields, and Meghan Ruth Speakerman ADAPT OF TEXAS..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Features Feature

Naked City

Farewell to ECB, Return to Tulia, APD Extends Knee, Ramping Up I-35, AAN Awards and Slacker Editor

"...RETURN TO TULIA For residents of the once-sleepy Texas Panhandle town of Tulia, the second anniversary of the..."

July 20, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

Framing the Border

Photography of the Region Between Mexico and the U.S.

"...of a moment in the cultural life of Central Texas. On a sunny Thursday morning in a gallery in..."

May 1, 1998 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

We Have an Issue: Read Before Burning

Welcome to the Books Issue

"...Welcome to the Books Issue. It's a far-ranging thing:..."

June 30, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones

Trumpet Colossus Kenny Dorham Towers Alongside the Jazz Gods

The Austin musician stands alone in showing up Miles Davis in his autobiography

"...stage to anyone, but he loved and respected the Texas-born trumpeter, whom he recognized as a peer. In the..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Headlines

"...Celia Israel, and other legislators hit back at Austin American-Statesman reporter W. Gardner Selby for an "antagonistic" PolitiFact article..."

Dec. 15, 2017 News Feature

'Eggheads'

Novelist Joseph Skibell reflects on his adventures in the screen trade that produced this screwball comedy

"...a Harvard philosophy professor who returns home to Odessa, Texas, for Christmas after having not seen his redneck family..."

Sept. 6, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Day Trips

Texas avoided much of the devastation of the Civil War, but not all of it

"...The Civil War began 150 years ago this month. Texas was spared much of the war's carnage and devastation,..."

April 22, 2011 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Headlines

"...• The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday overturned Texas' flexible air-permitting policy, saying the state standards violate the..."

July 2, 2010 News Feature

Daytrips

"...Art, Texas, is more a state of mind than a place...."

Sept. 5, 2003 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Living Library

Grassroots historians team up with local agencies to bring past and future history to light

"...Dr. Martha Norkunas, director of Texas Folklife Resources, is a well-respected oral historian. "When I..."

July 4, 2003 Features Feature by Abe Louise Young

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...Plant Closure Committee. Donley was buried Wednesday in Assumption Cemetery. -- Amy Smith..."

Sept. 27, 2002 News Feature

Austin's Waterloo

Taking a Walk along Waller

"...the Indians. (Their burial place became the initial city cemetery, under today's Waller Creek Centre, née Avante Plaza.) Its..."

July 7, 1995 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Day Trips: Polly's Chapel, Bandera

Frontier chapel survives 140 years in the woods

"...José Policarpio "Polly" Rodriguez, a military scout, Texas Ranger, justice of the peace, and circuit-riding Methodist minister,..."

June 5, 2020 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Family Flight

Will AISD abandon its shrinking schools?

"...memories and stories: The gym was built atop a cemetery, so some say a ghost named Constance roams its..."

Feb. 3, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Naked City

Local news this week in Austin.

"...Watson would take an early leave to run for statewide office. But with Watson's 2002 plans still uncertain, Rather..."

July 6, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Hitting the Bottleneck

The Texas Department of Transportation tries to fix bottleneck project.

"...worth neither the nightmare nor the negative publicity, the Texas Dept. of Transportation canned the plan and started anew...."

Jan. 28, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

Life and Nothing But

"...discovered, exculpatory evidence he's put together. This includes a statement by one of the victims that she couldn't possibly..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

A Bird in the Hand

"...30] -- The Anatomy Department of the University of Texas-San Antonio will also accept bodies. They will cremate and..."

April 4, 1997 Column

La Historia

"...of Oaxaca, Patzcuaro in Michoacan and Huaquechula in the state of Puebla became meccas for tourists and folk art..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Food Feature

As Clock Ticks, Council Bites the Campsite Bullet

Post-Proposition B work to find places for unhoused Austinites continues

"...some locations could ever be considered. A historic Black cemetery? The vacant Home Depot whose neighbors spent years working..."

May 28, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Food-o-File: Friday Lagniappe

A little extra Austin food news

"...a successful trial lawyer and a respected jurist on Texas' 250th District Court. But over the past decade, members..."

Oct. 10, 2014 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Off the Record

Across the Borderline: BettySoo travels abroad with Doug Cox, Monte Wardens discovers Kevin Ahart, and Ancient VVisdom collaborates with Charles Manson

"...contributions were apparently recorded last year at California's Corcoran State Prison over a smuggled cell phone. "He's allowed to..."

June 17, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Austin Comp Planning: A Brief History

Moving forward sometimes requires looking back

"..."A City Plan for Austin, Texas," prepared for the City Plan Commission in 1928, most..."

Feb. 5, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Saturday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...Sky" has been on Dawson's Creek and in Garden State, but deserves a fuller life on his soon-to-be-completed debut..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Great Expectations

Assessing Austin's Class of '96

"...may have combined to put them in a similar state of confusion as Prescott Curlywolf. "We thought it was..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Mercedes Wanguemert-Peña's Grand Obsession Stuck Inside Cuba

"...artist worked for La Raza Unida in Crystal City, Texas. That was about politics...."

Feb. 16, 1996 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Point Austin: Follow the Money

Final city budget discussions begin in earnest

"...($4.3 million, although much of that reflects assumption of cemetery maintenance), as is the Libra­ry Department. (3.1%, $900,000) –..."

Aug. 9, 2013 News Column by Michael King

Day Trips

St. Mary's Grotto in Windthorst isn't your normal piece of modern sculpture

"...is rather unique in its simplicity. Besides the shrine's statement of faith, it is art by the people for..."

June 4, 2004 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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