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Every year, like clockwork, there are signs of the upcoming holiday season. It can be something as subtle as a mailbox overflowing with junk mail to the giant bows atop of fancy shopping centers. John Waters and his annual Christmas show can be added to the list of indicators that...
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Austin to ATX: The Hippies, Pickers, Slackers & Geeks Who Transformed The Capital of Texas By Joe Nick Patoski 376 pp. $32 Texas A&M University Press First things first: You are reading the identity of the publisher correctly above. That the literary cabal at College Station could (and would) put...
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Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts By Jill Abramson 544 pp. $30 Simon & Schuster You’d be hard pressed to name an industry that the Digital Age has affected more – both positively and negatively – than journalism. Though the days of people getting...
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Where's your happy place? Whether it's gardening, dance, art or volunteering, those lucky enough to find that passion also get respite from office drama, money worries or life's travails. But what happens when your paintbrush or gardening trowel grows fangs and bites you instead? Such is the premise of Sky,...
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God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State By Lawrence Wright 368 pp. $27.95 Alfred A. Knopf The writing of Lawrence Wright is all over the map. Novelist. Playwright. Screenwriter. Journalist. A correspondent for both Texas Monthly and The New Yorker. And author of Important...
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The plan was to keep it simple. Stages Repertory Theatre’s board and directors, like most thriving mid-size operations, had stayed solvent all these years with a mix of audience favorites and daring, edgier works while keeping a careful eye on the purse strings. They knew they needed a redo to...
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