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• Keep Gomorrah weird: the rest of Texas vilifies Austin as a breeding ground for long-haired hell-raisers. To me, it's an open-minded, open-hearted, magical little town--and always will be. 

  In the fifties I moved from Houston to Austin, which didn't seem like that much of a cataclysmic cultural leap at the time. Compared with Houston,...

  12/01/04 by Kinky Friedman · More from publication

• Some like it picante 

  ONCE UPON A TIME, WE WERE PART of Mexico, and if you look at what we like to eat, you would think we still are: Breakfast tacos get us going in the...

  12/01/04 by Patricia Sharpe · More from publication

• The dining guide 

  Austin ATHENIAN GRILL Downtown workers have an economical new midday option The Athenian salad comes generously topped with chicken sliced...

  12/01/04 · More from publication

• Michael Martin Murphey 

  The "Wildfire" singer-songwriter will be playing in Austin. Fort Worth, Waco, Wichita Falls, and five other cities in Texas on his 2004 Cowboy...

  12/01/04 by Stephen Saito · More from publication

• Gordon Bethune: the compulsively candid, famously profane 63-year-old CEO of Continental A irlines on stepping down, managing up, life after 9/11, and why employees are like selfish fish 

  I imagine it must be weird for you to be stepping aside, on December 30, after a decade as CEO. I've been trying to frame it. There are going to be...

  12/01/04 by Evan Smith · More from publication

• Groundbreaker: some people who meet me still can't believe I was a real Texas Ranger, but I'm used to that. I've been surprising people all my life 

  I've spent almost my entire career being one of the only women in my profession. First it was being in the Army Reserves after I finished college...

  12/01/04 by Christine Nix · More from publication

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