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30 Years of Family ElderCare at the Kodosky Lounge
Aging might be life’s biggest surprise. Even if we prepare for it, the reality shocks us. And virtually no one is ready to ask for help when the time comes. Ashley Lassberg and Edward Flores For 30...
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Profile: Physicist Cécile DeWitt-Morette
Physicist Cécile DeWitt-Morette ponders prodigiously. “I worry,” says the University of Texas professor emerita who still keeps an office at UT and covers classes for other professors. “I worry a lot....
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Austin Symphony Orchestra Season Launch Party at the Four Seasons Hotel
I hadn’t seen anything like it. Musicians mixed with benefactors. Old Austin mixed with New Austin. And everyone at the Four Seasons Hotel appeared upbeat about the Austin Symphony Orchestra’s evolving...
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Homegrown Revival Dinner at Austin Open Table
It looks like public art. And the arresting Austin Open Table is just that. Yet the stylized picnic table with benches and festive light trees planted an interstitial space near West Cesar Chavez...
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iCare Gala for Care Communities at Hyatt Regency Austin
At regular intervals during the evening, they repeated the mantra: “No one should face serious illness alone.” Art and Tanya Acevedo That’s all Care Communities needs to keep our attention. Started for...
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Glen Campbell at the Long Center
They came for different reasons. One fondly recalled a father’s gift of a first album. Another talked of the star who had been a member of their Arizona church. Still others remembered the concerts or...
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Profile: Americana musician Drew Womack
A dry chill blows through Drew Womack’s lyrics. Take this slice from “Butterfly” on the Austin musician’s recently released “Sunshine to Rain”: “Don’t you go letting your guard down now/I’ve got a big...
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Untold Austin Stories: Mary Moore Searight Park
Mary Moore Searight began and ended life in Paris, Texas. She spent half of that life, however, in Austin. In 1939, the young woman of privilege and style moved from East Texas to the capital when her...
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Unearthing Austin's Civil War-era Fort Magruder
It started with a street sign. It ended with a stroll around the grounds of an abandoned Civil War fort in South Austin. You didn’t know Austin — far from any battlefield — played a part in Confederate...
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Up on the Roof at the Jones Center + Armstrong School's new home
Hipsters and design buffs need places to meet and relax. The roof of the Jones Center at Congress Avenue and West Seventh Street is one such place. Nicolas Allinder and Joshua Penhaskashi The blend of...
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Profile: Haven's Sky Cheung
Before, during and after graduate school — social prime time for many young Americans — former electrical engineer Sky Cheung did not party. “I never went out,” he says. “I had no social life.” The...
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Arty Parties at Blanton Museum and Women & Their Work
Arty parties don’t raise nearly as much moolah their counterparts in the fields of performing arts or charities, where hundreds of thousands can be pledged in one evening. Still, these stylish social...
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Untold Austin Stories: Commons Ford Ranch
Never heard of Commons Ford Ranch Metropolitan Park? Join the club. Visitors to the Cuernavaca area off Bee Cave Road know about Commons Ford Road. Nearby residents are also familiar with the rugged...
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Opening Night of 'Just Outside Redemption' at City Theatre
The play contains powerful moments. Equally powerful were the real people portrayed in the play. They gathered onstage after “Just Outside Redemption” at the City Theatre opening to acknowledge that...
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Becky Beaver's 60th Birthday Party at the Four Seasons
Austin lawyer and benefactor Becky Beaver has raised the barre (or legal bar?) for looking fabulous on one’s 60th birthday. Tall and lean, she looked stunning in red as she greeted her 1,200 party...
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TCE Trash Makeover Challenge at Delta Lumber & Millworks
Two is not a trend. Three isn’t either — except in journalism. Yet there’s something going on. Ivan, Noah and Chiaki Stout Last week, the Texas Campaign for the Environment staged a fashion show of...
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Authentic Mexico for MexNet Alliance at the Long Center
It began in 2010 as tribute to the 200th anniversary of Mexican independence. It doubled as a dinner to benefit MexNet Alliance, which provides business training for Mexican immigrants. Just two years...
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Dianne Hardy-Garcia & Dennis Bailey on the real and the theatrical in 'Just...
Two weeks ago, Dianne Hardy-Garcia, formerly of Austin, saw herself on stage. “It was very nerve-wracking and surreal,” says the veteran campaigner for political and charitable causes. “I was humbled...
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Austin Social Planner Anniversary Party at Malverde
Serving as a pre-party for the first huge weekend of the fall social season, the mixer at Malverde on Tuesday blended behind-the-scenes players with very public ones. The organizers were Laura...
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Cooks diversify Med Fest food for St. Elias Orthodox Church
Eighty years ago, Lebanese and Syrian women rose before dawn to cook bread. They ferried the warm food to the corner of Sixth Street and Congress Avenue. At their sidewalk bake sales, they hawked...
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