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Profile: Musician and SIMS backer Gina Chavez
Without ceremony, she makes the sign of the cross. Then Gina Chavez tilts her head to say grace. Before digging into lunch at El Alma restaurant on Barton Springs Road, the Austin musician makes...
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Lady Bird Johnson in her own voice
“We did get in his car and ride and ride and ride,” Lady Bird Johnson recalls about her first date with Lyndon Baines Johnson. “He did a great deal of talking of a surprising sort of nature for me. He...
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A dream app for a social reporter
I dreamed up an app. No really. The deep-slumber dream combined elements of South by Southwest, Austin City Limits Music Festival and Formula One with our city’s lingering civic rift over short-term...
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Profile: The one and only Jane Sibley
“I was 87,” Jane Sibley says. “Then somebody told me: ‘You were born in 1924! You’re 88!’ Hell, I’m 88.” A wicked sense of self mockery is unexpected in a woman who has ridden atop a traditional part...
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Profile: Nonprofit guide and volunteer Beverly Scarborough
At countless charity events, Beverly Scarborough is omnipresent. You spot her chatting with a corporate captain in the lobby. Or sharing a table with a family of generous benefactors in the banquet...
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Real Magazine: December Look Ahead
News flash: Austinites spend the holidays with their families. The mad fall rush to socialize in public with strangers, acquaintances and friends subsides in December, when private family affairs...
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'Austin's Mexico' Exhibit Reception at Austin History Center
The subtitle of “Austin’s Mexico,” the small historical show organized by Mexic-Arte Museum and the Austin History Center, includes the phrase “forgotten downtown neighborhood.” Indeed, a poll of...
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AWARE Reception with Mark Shriver at Four Seasons Residences
The art of the small reception is underrated. It takes a great deal of thought to balance the right people, place, decor, food, drink and timing. And to know when to stop. Mark Kennedy Shriver and...
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Food for Thought for Communities in Schools at Circuit of the Amercias
So to answer the main question from that warm night: Yes. The Circuit of the Americas does make a good venue for large charity events. Myndi Garrett and Jon Salinas For Communities in Schools’ popular...
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Jennifer and Fred Myers' Magical Garden
On a bend in Shoal Creek lies a magical garden. The acre of cultivated oasis doesn’t belong to a high-tech mogul or a rich venture capitalist. Rather, it is the love child of Seton nurse Jennifer Myers...
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2012 Preservation Awards for Austin Heritage Society at Driskill Hotel
In some ways, the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans puts the Heritage Society of Austin to shame. It marshals an annual budget in the range of $5 million, leverages many millions more in...
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Tritonal returns to Austin at Emo's East
Tritonal is a trance DJ duo composed of Chad Cisneros, 32, and Dave Reed, 24. The pair, who made the Top 100 list of international DJs (No. 65) in a recent issue of DJ Mag, returns home to Austin,...
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Symphony in G for Austin Symphony Orchestra at the Long Center
It actually worked. Austin Symphony Orchestra’s new social outreach to the gay community, Symphony in G, was a blast. And a communal breath of fresh air given the ensemble’s history. Pat Cherico and...
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State Dinner & Black-Tie Gala at LBJ Library and Museum
Formality. Ritual. Grandeur. We respond to these signs and symbols deep in our brains. When employed honorably — and let’s not forget that for centuries despots have abused these forms — they confer...
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Profile: Ellen Jefferson of Austin Pets Alive
While volunteering at the old Town Lake Animal Shelter, veterinarian Ellen Jefferson saw too many animals killed. “It didn’t feel like I was making a big impact,” Jefferson says. “But I felt like if I...
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Dancing with the Stars Austin for Center for Child Protection at Hilton Austin
Bet on it: Dancing with the Stars Austin will brighten your week. The annual benefit for Center for Child Protection never fails to deliver on the glitz, glamour and gamboling. And it seems to get...
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Tritonal at Emo's East
I could do this every weekend. Tritonal, the triumphant Austin trance duo, played a homecoming concert at Emo’s East late last night. More than 1,700 fans showed up. They were greeted by an...
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Real Magazine: Windsor Park Profile
This neighborhood profile appeared in the December issue of Real magazine. For the near future, no other midcentury Austin neighborhood faces as much potential change as Windsor Park. Credit — or blame...
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Eat Drink Local Week Auction Party at a Tarrytown home
Austin chefs do somethings special that many locals don’t know about. They donate their services at special high-value dinners that benefit worthy causes. Among those who have adroitly turned this...
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Opening Night Audience for 'Billy Elliot' at Bass Concert Hall
They didn’t know the show. Conversations with a dozen audience members before, during and after the opening night performance of “Billy Elliot” at Bass Concert Hall on Tuesday turned up nobody who was...
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