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Is Austin the state’s most segregated city?
Austin is booming with jobs, condos, festivals, traffic, hipsters, joggers, and high-concept dive bars (anyone for Lone Star and seared foie gras?). Does that mean it’s no longer Austin?
When people ask me if cartel violence will find its way into Texas, I tell them it already has—and it’s going to get worse.
East Side King’s first bricks-and-mortar kitchen is now bringing beet fries, brussels sprouts, and wild ramen combinations to the legendary dive bar and rock venue.
The war between Compaq and Dell has gone online. Guess who’s winning?
Long before Walter Cronkite was the voice of the news, he was just a kid from Houston at the University of Texas, chasing girls, acting in school plays, and drinking cheap beer. Yet Douglas Brinkley, whose new biography of Cronkite will be released this month, argues that it was in Austin that the seeds of one of the greatest careers in American journalism were sown.
The outcome of the case could bar affirmative action from use in college admissions.
October 11, 2012 | by Sonia Smith
On Inauguration Day, Midland, Texas was like a parallel universe to the rest of the country.
The arson of the Governor’s Mansion in June was as mystifying as it was heartbreaking. Could Austin anarchists have been to blame?