FIRST SHOWS IN THE SERIES: KAT EDMONDSON APRIL 6 AND CHRIS THILE & BRAD MEHLDAU APRIL 20 AT PARAMOUNT
AUSTIN, Texas — March 26, 2013— The Paramount Theater and KUTX 98.9 are…...
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Rules and Regulations for Lollapalooza Giveaway
KUT/KUTX Lollapalooza Music Festival
OFFICIAL RULES
HOW TO ENTER THE LOLLAPALOOZA MUSIC FESTIVAL SWEEPSTAKES:
NO PURCHASE OR PLEDGE NECESSARY. MAKING A PURCHASE OR PLEDG…...
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Friends Say Goodbye to Civic Leader Mary Margaret Farabee
Friends and family of local philanthropist and Texas book festival co-creator Mary Margaret Farabee met this morning at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. They were there to remember a woman who they say made Austin a better place to live.
Farabee’s work in Austin spanned much more than...
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Civic Leader and Volunteer Mary Margaret Farabee Dies
Austin citizen, volunteer and philanthropist Mary Margaret Farabee passed away Sunday morning at home, with her family by her side. The wife of former state Senator Ray Farabe…...
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Announcing MapJam 2013!
The Austin Music Map, KUTX, and the City of Austin Music Division present... MapJam 2013, a daylong festival celebrating Austin music. From bluegrass to hip hop and conjunto to rockabilly, we've booked some of our favorite local bands at some of our favorite local venues. ...
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Sundance Festival has Texas Tinge
The Sundance Film Festival gets under way today in Park City, Utah. The 10-day festival features more than 100 films by directors from around the world. Ten of those are Texas filmmakers, and Austin’s film community helped bring those films to the...
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Fun Fun Fun Fest 2012 Today through Sunday at Auditorium Shores
If I may be unabashedly candid (I typically try to do that, anyway), Fun Fun Fun Fest had me at Public Image Limited.
As lovely as that news was for me, it was hardly...
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Texas Book Festival 2012: Jan Reid
That hair... that twang.... those one-liners. Ann Richardswas a larger-than-life Texas political figure who vaulted onto the national political stage after her keynote speech at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Her life, and Texas politics, would never be the same again....
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Book Festival 2012: Royal & McEachern
For some Longhorn football fans, there will only ever been one football coach for the University of Texas: Darrell Royal. His career spanned many miles, many jobs, and many decades. And his wife of 68 years, Edith Royal, has many tales to tell ...
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Texas Book Festival 2012: Robert Caro
Robert Caro's name has become synonymous with the study of the life and times of Lyndon Baines Johnson. In his most recent book about LBJ's life, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4, Caro covers the years from 1958-1964....
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Texas Book Festival 2012: Ben Fountain
Ben Fountain was watching the Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day football game halftime show a few years back when he says it suddenly hit him: he wondered what had happened to the country where he was born and grew up? He says the combination of entertainment, media, military, and what he calls...
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Texas Book Festival 2012: H.W. Brands
Most of us who study Aaron Burr in school learned the basics: he was the United States’ third vice president. He killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. He had a keen interest in the American Southwest. And he spent some time in exile in Europe after being acquitted on charges of treason against...
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Texas Book Festival 2012: Joe Nick Patoski
The National Football League's Dallas Cowboys may be based in the Lone Star State, but they have always been "America's Team." The Cowboys have come a long way from the 1960's when they were a struggling expansion franchise competing with the AFL’s Dallas Texans for the hearts and minds of...
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Texas Book Festival 2012: Michael Brick
The Austin Independent School District serves about 80,000 local children. Two-thirds of them are economically disadvantaged. The school board spends a lot of its time talking about how to fix the schools stamped by the state as “academically unacceptable.” Reagan High School used to carry the...
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