Estate Sale Roundup: May 29-31

Get your loot while the sun shines – we're estate sailin'.

"...brass tray table; Italian wood and velvet chair; vintage wooden desk; antique sofa table; iron and glass bakers rack;..."

May 29, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Day Trips & Beyond: April Events Roundup

All of Texas' best fests, fairs, fandangos, and fiestas

"...Hammett’s imagination. There were at least eight of the birds made for the movie – two lead falcons that..."

April 3, 2025 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

The Best of "Day Trips"

"...Huge crowds never materialized to see the wooden ships docked on the ship channel under the Harbor..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

day trips

"...ecosystems and habitats for hundreds of native animals and birds...."

June 27, 1997 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Estate Sale Roundup: February 28-March 2

Cowboy up and head out for this week's loot.

"...mother of pearl inlay; six Duncan Phyfe chairs; four wooden high back chairs; laquer tables, chests, and fern stands;..."

Feb. 27, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Marjorie Moore: Remains

Moore frames the remains of birds with such beauty and care as to be heartbreaking

"...which you may pull open to see the dead birds lying in great beds of salt, like tree limbs..."

Jan. 9, 2009 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Street Lighter

Andy Coolquitt gives urban waste a second life as art

"...plastic cloth mop standing next to some equally long wooden stakes stained with pink paint, one stack of disposable..."

Nov. 23, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Film

Film Reviews

"...Lawrence Pressman. If you are one of those rare birds who recall their high school days with trilling glee..."

Sept. 22, 1995 News Feature

Northern-Southern Gallery's "Left in Leaves"

This group exhibition frees artwork from lockdown and sends quarantined viewers in search of it

"...me the side-eye as a butterfly flitted past and birdsong celebrated the day. The way down the trail, everything..."

May 22, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Estate Sale Roundup: May 8-11

So many options, so little time.

"...high-backed chair; plant stand; antique dry sink; tea cart; wooden TV trays, collection of glass turtles; coffee table of..."

May 8, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Day Trips

The East Texas Arboretum in Athens uses flowers and landscaped gardens as a gateway into the rugged beauty of the hardwood forest along Walnut Creek

"...along Walnut Creek. The manicured paths lead across a wooden bridge to a hiking trail beneath the canopy of..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: October Events Roundup

Catch up on Lone Star State news and plan some fall fun

"...four kinds of carnivorous plants, hundreds of species of birds, mammals, and reptiles, and more than 1,600 species of..."

Oct. 4, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

A Very Merry List of Junk to Gift to News Junkies

For loved ones in the good fight and those you’ve yet to indoctrinate

"...something to wrap, pair it with binoculars or a Birds of Central Texas Reference Guide, available to buy online..."

Dec. 8, 2023 News Feature by the News Team

Going With the Flow

The next life of Waller Creek

"...During a late summer visit, the sounds of chirping birds and buzzing insects commingle with blaring radios, sound checks,..."

Jan. 11, 2013 News Feature by Ari Phillips

Ethan Azarian

Texas platters

"...God of Slack for that. Just two songs about birds – lovable opener "Love Birds" and the more melancholic..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Music Review by Darcie Stevens

Day Trips

"...signs and knick-knacks were donated by customers. The long, wooden bar along the dining room was used in the..."

April 10, 1998 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Follies, Samurai, and a Few Non-Alcoholic Events for the Weekend

Got a resolution to get out more? No problem.

"...the Highball stage this night!   – James Scott Birds in the Landscape..."

Jan. 10, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, December 25-31

"...CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The birds known as red knots breed every year in the..."

Dec. 25, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

Day Trips: Utopia

French chef decorates her ultimate treehouses in Utopia

"...Treehouse Utopia looks like a collection of four wooden spaceships hovering above the Sabinal River...."

July 13, 2018 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Estate Sale Roundup: February 21-23

This town has something for everyone this week.

"...gold-framed mirror; huge pirate's chest reduced in price; vintage wooden school desk; two armoires reduced in price; USPS personalized..."

Feb. 20, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Estate Sale Roundup: February 14-16

Look for treasures around every corner to capture your heart this week.

"...mother of pearl inlay; six Duncan Phyfe chairs; four wooden high back chairs; laquer tables, chests, and fern stands;..."

Feb. 13, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

A Sense of Place

For two decades, Stephen L. Clark's gallery has made a home for photographers of the region

"...weathered stucco bunkhouse, butt sunk deep in a sagging wooden chair but trunk leaning forward, elbows on knees, and..."

Oct. 18, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Playback: Pachuco Hop

Hanging with Joe King Carrasco in Puerto Vallarta

"...warriors dance around us to the pounding of a wooden drum, while girls portraying the sacred virgin roll past..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Olive & June

The highest highs and lowest lows

"...crayons, paper, and the most recent edition of Angry Birds loaded onto the fully-charged smartphones...."

June 22, 2012 Food Review by Melanie Haupt

Women Printmakers of Austin: Under Pressure

A lovely, carefully crafted exhibition of ancient techniques that invite contemplation

"...this, hanging side by side in the same simple wooden frame – like a trio of enlarged microscope slides..."

March 18, 2011 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

'You Were Our Father, A Veteran and So Full of Desperation'

Short Story Contest: Third place

"...sharp snorts and proclaimed, "I nearly spit out my wooden teeth!" His comment set the troops laughing a little..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Books Feature by Kyle R M

'Malcolm Bucknall: New Works'

The artist's fine technique and odd juxtapositions are enchanted and enchanting

"...queens: These painstakingly wrought figures support the heads of birds, of toads, of dogs and cats and reptiles and..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Joseph Phillips & Shawn Smith'

Two artists make dazzling use of artifice to explore and explode the artificial

"...technology as necessary to create his sculptures of pixilated birds and antelopes and so on, but that he figures..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Get Back

Francisco Matto created bold modern art with the timeless graphic style of the past

"...Mythic" is a quintet of his totems – rough wooden sculptures of human and animal figures mounted on thin..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Black as Your Lungs, Black as Pitch

First-Place Winner

"...jacket pocket and put it down on the shiny wooden bar. It was hard-fired and glazed with greenish-blue...."

Feb. 15, 2008 Books Feature by Greg Koehler

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