Features

  • Eeyore’s party hosts lively guests

    By Victoria Heckenlaible -

    Crowds of fairy wings, tutus and an occasional look-a-like “Winnie the Pooh” character headed down to the heart of Pease Park on Saturday. Tribal drumming became more distinct and fiesta-style, tissue-paper flowers decorated every tree and shrub in sight.

  • Ride on yonder to the ‘cowboy capital of Texas’

    By Victoria Heckenlaible -
    When you turn off Highway 1604 onto Texas State Highway 16 toward Bandera, don’t even try to resist the urge to put on some Texas country western music. Bon Iver matched the rain’s pitter-patter as I zipped past general San Antonio, but as soon as I turned off that four-lane highway, anything other than a country twang seemed damn inappropriate. Johnny Cash’s voice soon serenaded me about Texas thunderstorms — “’Cause they’ve got to ride forever on that range up in the sky ... Yippee yi yay. Yippee yi oh. Ghost riders in the sky.”

  • Generational gap complicates stats for ‘hooking up’

    By Mary Lingwall -

    “The low percentage of students actually having one-night stands may dispel the perception that most college students are routinely having casual sex,” said Jefferson Singer, a professor of psychology at Connecticut College, in a news brief released last Monday on the findings of his study on casual sex and college students.

  • Record Day lures vinyl enthusiasts

    By Amber Genuske -

    Hundreds of independent record stores across the globe, including 11 in Austin, united Saturday to celebrate the third annual Record Store Day with special and limited-edition vinyls and CD releases, discounts and in-store performances.

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