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Point Austin: Happy New Year?!?

Looking forward … 2020 could go either way

by Michael King January 3, 2020September 30, 2025

Music

Patty Griffin – The Paramount’s Aural Blade

Singer continues transformation from folkie to Americana icon

by Jim Caligiuri September 24, 2015September 30, 2025

Music

Riders Against the Storm Year

ATX hip-hop duo gets its science down

by Kahron Spearman June 24, 2015September 30, 2025

Arts

In Print

James Baldwin, the oracular writer and spectacular wordsmith of mid-20th century America, is revivified in this new collection

by Marjorie Baumgarten August 20, 2010September 30, 2025

News

War Made Easy

New echoes of Vietnam: ‘Withdrawal would cripple U.S. credibility’

by Norman Solomon July 15, 2005September 30, 2025

Letters at 3AM

Interlude before American lit

by Michael Ventura May 13, 2005September 30, 2025

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