Austin

Fantastic Fest to Honor The Warriors Director Walter Hill
Fantastic Fest, the annual Austin-based celebration of weird and wonderful cinema, has just announced that legendary action writer/director Walter Hill will be in attendance to receive a Lifetime Ach...

Mullin Caves On ICE Enforcement After Texas, Maine Shootings
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin has led his department to once again cave on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportations Tuesday after fatal shootings in Te...

Taxpayers on the Hook for Bridge to Tesla Gigafactory in Proposed Plan for Dog’s Head Development
From the City’s Dog’s Head Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone No. 21 Preliminary Project and Financing Plan. The proposed bridge to the Tesla Gigafactory is noted with black arrows. Credit: City of ...

Texas Is One State Under God, But Only for the Last 19 Years
In 2007, then-Governor Rick Perry signed into law House Bill 1034, squeezing the words “under God” into the Texas pledge. Joseph L. Locke speaks at First Light Books on July 15 Credit: Univer...