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The weighted cape crusader: In Austin, a barber makes room for kids who feel too much
The first thing you notice isn’t the scissors.
It’s the bubbles.
Inside Cultivate Behavioral Health & Education in northwest Austin, a vertical bubble machine stands like a tall aquarium lamp...
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Blankets, basslines, and belonging: Rock the Park returns to Mueller for a 17th-season celebration of Austin music
The sun starts to drop behind the trees at Mueller Lake Park, turning the water into a ribbon of copper. Parents tug wagons and tote diaper bags; couples arrive with dogs on leashes; kids do that p...
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In the Heat of the Pass: How Culinary Comrades Turned Austin’s Local-Food Ideal Into a Team Sport
The kitchen at La Condesa didn’t sound like a restaurant so much as a rehearsal—metal tongs clicking like castanets, pans hissing, a low chorus of “behind” and “hot,” and the soft, urgent scrape of...
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How Texas gun law loopholes left an accused abuser armed—until West Sixth Street became a crime scene
How did Texas gun law loopholes enable the recent West Sixth Street mass shooting in Austin by a suspect with a documented history of domestic violence?
That question hangs over downtown like the ...
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Austin Lace-Up Moment: Race to Cure Sarcoma brings the city together at Lake Park Amphitheatre
Austin has never needed much convincing to show up for its neighbors—especially when the cause is health, hope, and the kind of support that can carry families through their hardest seasons. On Mar...
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Austin ISD faces TEA investigation over student walkouts as district cites limits on restraint and state warns against political facilitation
Austin Independent School District is under investigation by the Texas Education Agency following recent student walkouts, with district leaders and state officials offering sharply contrasting vie...
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A Birthday Song in Bronze and Stone: UT Austin’s Tower Turns 89
The first notes of “Happy Birthday” didn’t drift across the Forty Acres so much as they rang—bright, deliberate, and unmistakably UT—spilling from the UT Tower high above the live oaks and limeston...
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AISD faces intensifying pressure as anti-ICE student walkouts disrupt campuses and trigger state investigations
Ongoing student walkouts protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Austin Independent School District (AISD) schools have prompted increasingly urgent responses from district officials...
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As data centers surge across Texas, residents press city halls to slow down—while officials weigh growth against water and power strain
Texas’ rapid buildout of large-scale data centers—facilities that house the servers powering everything from streaming and banking to artificial intelligence—has collided with a rising wave of loca...
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A Lasting Legacy in East Austin: A New Travel Guide Maps the Black Landmarks That Built—and Still Shape—the City
East Austin is a place where history can feel like it’s always in motion. New buildings rise, longtime businesses fight for breathing room, and familiar streets take on fresh names and new crowds. ...
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Big Nuzzl’s Yappy Hour is Austin’s newest way to meet someone—starting with the dog
Austin’s social calendar rarely needs help getting crowded, but this weekend it’s gaining a fresh kind of buzz: the kind that starts at leash level.
Big Nuzzl—a new dating app built specifically f...
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Uvalde CISD’s 11,500-document release lays bare a familiar pattern: warnings, weak follow-through—and a long fight to see the record
The newest cache of Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District records—roughly 11,500 documents totaling an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 pages—arrives with the weight of a courtroom order and th...
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About 100 Dripping Springs High students walk out to protest immigration enforcement; drivers ticketed along march route
About 100 students walked out of Dripping Springs High School during the school day Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026, staging a peaceful protest against immigration enforcement policies as law enforcement c...
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Zero-Proof Dry January in Austin: 18 Places to Go When You’re Skipping the Booze
Alcohol is playing a smaller role in American life than it has in generations, and the shift is starting to show up in how—and where—people choose to go out. Just 54% of U.S. adults now say they dr...