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  • Trifecta of drought late freeze hail decimate Hill Country peach crop

    It's peach season, but Austinites likely won't be seeing any Fredericksburg peaches in grocery stores any time soon after a combination of freezing weather and hailstorms decimated more than 90 percent of the crop in Gillespie County."The damage is pretty widespread," said Jamey Vogel, owner of Vogel Orchard in Stonewall and president of the Hill Country Fruit ...

  • Manor New Tech principal invited to White House

    Two weeks after President Barack Obama visited his school, the principal of Manor New Technology High School has been invited to the White House for an informal brainstorming session on education.Steven Zipkes will join U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and 20 other leaders on Thursday to discuss how to engage "employers in buildings skills through redesigned high schools," ...

  • Memorial held for local AIDS victims

    It's common for today's youth to forget about the significance of HIV/AIDS because of medical advances made over the past decade.Still dozens of central Texans die from the disease every year. That's why activists held a vigil Sunday evening to remember local victims and remind the community that HIV/AIDS is still a disease for which there is no cure.39 people have died in the ...

  • 2nd annual Viva Streets Festival

    The heat and humidity didn't stop hundreds from heading out to 6th street for the 2nd annual viva streets festival.The free festival ran along two miles of 6th street from Brazos Street to Robert Martinez Jr. Street.The idea of the festival is to get up and move around.People were dancing, riding bikes; there was an obstacle course, and even aerial and circus performers.The viva streets ...

  • MoPac Improvement Project road closures start Sunday night

    By late 2015, the MoPac Improvement Project will be complete.Steve Pustelnyk with the project tells us the 11-mile stretch of MoPac from Lady Bird Lake to Parmer Lane will get brand new express lanes."Basically, you'll get an extra lane in each direction. It will be an express lane which means it should be non-stop, point to point, but there will be a toll for those folks who want to ...


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Oldboy [DVD]

Oldboy [DVD]

After seeing Park Chan-wook's Oldboy, I was reminded of a line of dialogue in one of the opening scenes of David Fincher's Seven (1995), a film with which Oldboy shares more than a few similarities, in both its visual use of bruised colors and sharp cont ... ...

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  • Rangers proceeding with caution with injuries

    Email ARLINGTON -- Injuries and subsequent trips to the disabled list continue to take their toll on the Rangers, but at least part of the reason their roster is so thin is because the Rangers are doing their best to keep players from making injuries worse at this early stage in the season. Among the players who have been sent to the disabled list when they might have been back in a week or so ...

  • Murphy looking for positives while hitting second

    Email ARLINGTON -- Rangers manager Ron Washington penciled left fielder David Murphy in the No. 2 spot in the batting order for the second consecutive night Sunday as Elvis Andrus shifted to the leadoff role in Ian Kinsler's absence. "I'm going to try to keep [Murphy] there so he doesn't have to wait around to get at-bats and he can be involved in the game right away," ...

  • Police Man stole iPhones from purses at bar

    Austin police nabbed a man accused of stealing about a dozen iPhones from different women at a Sixth Street bar this weekend.Josue Vivar-Hernandez, 28, was charged with aggregated theft, a state jail felony, and held on a $10,000 bail at the Travis County Jail, according to court records.Police say just after 2 a.m. Saturday, employees at The Aquarium bar, 403 E. Sixth St., spotted ...

  • Austin may require more disabled-accessible features in new homes

    Austin could soon require newly built homes to include more features to accommodate people with disabilities.The City Council will consider new rules Thursday that would require features such as wide doorways and levers instead of door knobs in the first floor of new single-family homes and ...

  • Todays MLB starting lineups May 19

    Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Atlanta Braves: 1. ...

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