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...pieces worth saving. That's especially true in New Orleans, where many Creole townhouses and shotgun homes were built from centuries-old cypress native to the region and dense oak boards pulled from the sides of barges. Now Sergio Palleroni, an architecture professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has launched a project that uses wood salvaged from homes destroyed by the hurricane to build new furniture for local residents that could also be sold in boutiques around the country. "The furniture - you touch it and you feel New Orleans," says Palleroni, whose first three prototypes - a minimalist...
...discovery of competitive air guitar, a deliciously addictive niche of pop culture, came unexpectedly at the 2006 South by Southwest Film festival in Austin, Texas. It was there that I stumbled across a film proclaiming to be the “Official Story of America’s Unofficial Pastime.” The film, a documentary feature called “Air Guitar Nation,” follows the determined 2002 search for the first U.S. air guitar champion. While vying for this title, national contenders David “C-Diddy” Jung...
...writers came back to our room, and they couldn't even talk." And just like that, the movie about the ancient Greek battle of Thermopylae with no stars and unusual stylized visuals became the talk of the convention. Six months later, it premiered at Butt-Numb-a-Thon, an Austin, Texas, film festival curated by Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News (AICN). Most mainstream media critics trounced it, but 60% of the males who bought tickets on opening weekend said they were drawn by seeing references to the movie on the Web, where readers of sites like Garabedian...
...such an amazing kid, Ross," wrote Zach Allen, who along with Alameddine attended Austin Preparatory School in Reading, Mass. "You always made me smile, and you always knew the right thing to do or say to cheer anyone...
August 1, 1966: Austin, Texas Charles Whitman points a rifle from the observation deck of the University of Texas at Austin's Tower and begins shooting in a homicidal rampage that goes on for 96 minutes. Sixteen people are killed, 31 wounded...