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SukkahCity Austin at the Dell Jewish Community Campus
A sukkah is a temporary prayer shelter for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Several sukkah design judges — including me — who met at Battle Hall in the University of Texas School of Architecture several...
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Record Your Own Untold Austin Stories
She sat in a tiny room bathed in yellow light. Talking in low, soothing tones, she patiently answered a battery of questions from her daughter, grandson and granddaughter. Austinite Jayne Keedy’s gift...
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KIPP Austin 10th anniversary luncheon
The numbers tell much of the story. And we’ll get to those. But first, let’s consider the people attending the KIPP Austin 10th anniversary luncheon, staged at the south campus off Interstate 35, the...
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Jordan Shipley & Sunny Helms: Music, football and romance
The eyes give away the game. His are enormous, kind, copper-colored. Hers alert, amused, blue then green. Clearly, they are in deeply, irrevocably in love. Former Longhorn standout wide receiver and...
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Friday in Austin: Dinner, ballet, film festival party
One night in Austin and the world’s your oyster. Mariam Parker and Ben Brown It started at Max’s Wine Dive. The Houston-based eatery and drinkery has carved big-boned banquet rooms out of its basement...
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Moonlight and Memories for the Christi Center at Hill's Cafe
Some charitable groups hover on the horizon of public consciousness. The Christi Center — formerly called For the Love of Christi — has been helping survivors overcome the loss of a loved one for 25...
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Mellow Yellow for Livestrong at a Tarrytown home
There must be a million parties like this in Austin every year. But you hardly ever hear about them. They fill a living room and a backyard. They generate a good time and some cash for a noble cause....
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Untold Austin Stories: Hancock Golf Course
In an historical essay, John W. Ramzy cuts to the chase: “Golf has been played longer at this location than anywhere else in Texas.” That location is Hancock Golf Course, centerpiece for the Hancock,...
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Profile: Inventor, writer and golf pro Chip Thomson
When the visor goes on, the Austin inventor looks like an alien. The thin, dark device that wraps around his eyes is called 3rdiView, the latest creation from golf pro, writer and serial business...
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La Dolce Vita and Communities in Bloom
La Dolce Vita was Austin’s first essential food festival. The benefit for AMOA Arthouse started out as a few coolers of wine and some local vendors. It now showcases dozens of wineries and most of the...
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"Survivor: ACL"
When I mentioned on Facebook that I would be skipping muggy Zilker Park and the ACL Music Festival this year to visit my parents in Houston, one reader suggested it would be, historically, the first...
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Mockingbird Domestics combines stories with people and objects
When Laura Whitney Daly lived in France, she would drive around the countryside, shopping with her mother. Sometimes, they would stumble on a studio of glassblowers or other artisans whose families had...
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Untold Austin Stories: West Austin Park
Austin park shelters come in varied styles and have served varied purposes. The Tudor Revival structure built in West Austin Park in 1930 is also known as a “bathhouse,” because the shelter’s rest...
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JW Marriott groundbreaking ceremony at One Congress Plaza
Straining at the bit for the new 1,000-room JW Marriott hotel to open its doors at Congress Avenue and East Second Street. But I — and everyone else — must wait. Although the groundbreaking was...
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Rostow Awards at AT&T Center
Austin loves plans. Some of them work. Among those that set the city’s imagination on fire was the Austin Project. Charles Barnett and Mark Williams Started by LBJ advisers Walt and Elspeth Rostow in...
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Champions for Children Luncheon for Helping Hand Home at Hilton Austin
Sometimes a benefit sneaks up on you. I didn’t now what to expect from the Champions for Children luncheon that supports Helping Hand Home. Other than the fact the child welfare group had been around...
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Profile: Virginia Cumberbatch of Austin Area Urban League and Hahn, Texas
Every day after school, Virginia Cumberbatch reported the news. On the way home from Hyde Park Baptist School, she reviewed what happened in the classroom, the playground, the cafeteria. “Dad called me...
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Austin Community Foundation Awards at the Four Seasons Hotel
Texas Monthly editor Jake Silverstein joked from the dais: You know a gala is good when Michael Barnes skips his next scheduled social event. He got it right. The people, the food, the program,...
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Lance Armstrong's remarks at Livestrong gala
Go here for a larger report on the Livestrong gala at the Austin Convention Center. But here’s what a warm, steady and open Lance Armstrong said, slightly edited. I am humbled by your support. It’s...
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More on the Livestrong Gala at the Austin Convention Center
Photos to come soon. The numbers and the names piled up. Seventeen hundred people — a sold out house — filtered into the Austin Convention Center for the Livestrong gala on Friday. Even before bidding...
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