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Austin Celebrates Black History Month
A guest appearance by Mary Wilson, an original member of The Supremes, added some star power to the annual Black History Month celebration at the LBJ Library and Museum today. The year’s event, hosted by the Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau and the George Washington Carver Museum & Cultural Center, honored 16 local African-American families.
Among those honored were the families of Mahala Murchison, the first recorded black resident of Austin; Arthur DeWitty, an Austin civil rights activist and the first African-American to serve as delegate to county and state Democratic conventions, and Henry Green Madison, Austin’s first black city council member.
Mayor Will Wynn declared Wilson as an “honorary Austinite” and commemorated the occasion as, “Mary Wilson Week.” Following the ceremony, Wilson viewed one of her vintage costumes, currently on display at the museum as part of the Signs of the Times: Life in the Swingin' Sixties exhibit.
Other highlights included the unveiling of banners featuring the families’ names that hang on Congress Avenue.
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 Watergate Archives on Display
Landmark Maps of Texas
Cirque du Soleil Returns
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MovieMaker 2005 Top 10 Cities for Moviemakers
MovieMaker
(February 2005)
“With great weather, beautiful scenery and plenty of nightlife, Austin is a lot of fun, which goes a long way toward bringing people back. Like any industry, show business thrives on repeat customers—and Austin’s got plenty of those! The indies who’ve made Austin a venerable “scene” continue to keep working here.”
Festivals Feed the Mind, Body
USA Today
(January 28, 2005)
“'The 20th annual Saveur Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival April 7-10 in Austin will offer seminars devoted to trends from the past two decades, but the overall thrust is to be “unusual and different” rather than overtly intellectual,’ says Saveur editor in chief Colman Andrews. New this year will be programs that present food demonstrations during boat rides on a lake; an event that showcases Texas musicians and chefs; and a "cross-cultural breakfast" that weaves elements of Tex-Mex and cowboy cultures with the Czech and German influences from the surrounding hill country.”
“‘The festival is in Texas, so you're naturally going to have offbeat stuff,’ Andrews says. ‘So we're trying to rethink the conventional way of presenting food and wine, just to offer people some variety.’"
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Building the Perfect Home Bar: Round Eleven
Details
(January/February 2005)
“We’ve rounded up some of the major vodka potentates, along with some smaller, rogue labels that also bear watching – and drinking. Tito’s Handmade. Selling Point: Actually made by a Texas named Tito. Takeaway: A lemony tartness makes this a good choice to down with dinner.”
Austin Motel Puts Retro in its Place
Fort Worth Star Telegram
(January 23, 2005)
“OK, sure, just because you love retro and love funky doesn’t mean you actually have to spend the night in a funky, retro motel room unless, of course, it’s the Austin Motel in Austin. Then it’s worth it. The Austin Motel is on South Congress Avenue, a street with such character that within a couple blocks you can buy a second-hand cowboy shirt, a green Depression-glass measuring cup and an Ethiopian cross, plus lots of beaded bohemian things. You can do this while walking to dinner. I know this because I inadvertently bought these things, when I had intended only to stroll down the avenue in search of food.”
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