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You Can't Go Home Again, Parts 1 & 2

Part One Crash. The statue of Robert E. Lee comes tumbling down. Sir Donald says “NO MORE! I’ll protect our history from mobs of ultra...

Coronavirus Chronicles / Reactions in a Time of Plague

Various People

Aug 3, 2020
5 min

Coronavirus Chronicles / Reactions in a Time of Plague

An Ongoing Series A compendium of thoughts, reflections, asides or just whatever from a variety of writers, artists & everyday folks,...

Field Notes / Black Nature Writing ~ Stories of Braver Solos

Christopher Brown / All Photos: Christopher Brown

Jun 7, 2020
7 min

Field Notes / Black Nature Writing ~ Stories of Braver Solos

This column is about walking alone in nature. Mostly with an inclusive idea of what constitutes “nature”—the degraded urban wilderness of...

Austin Sun Staff

May 28, 2020
0 min

Outside Sources / Biden WINS!

Charlie Loving

May 17, 2020
1 min

The Loving View

Charlie Loving is an artist, cartoonist, spelunker, authentic eccentric, Veteran, world traveler, and the former Sports Editor of the...

Outside Sources / The World has Loved, hated and Envied the U.S. Now, for the First Time, We Pity It

Fintan O’Toole / Irish Times

Apr 28, 2020
3 min

Outside Sources / The World has Loved, hated and Envied the U.S. Now, for the First Time, We Pity It

Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear...

Ventura at 4am / Impressions - Democrats Debate in Las Vegas, February 19, 2020

Michael Ventura

Feb 21, 2020
4 min

Ventura at 4am / Impressions - Democrats Debate in Las Vegas, February 19, 2020

Who did we see? A gay guy. Two New York Jews age 78. A no-nonsense hard-working Oklahoma woman and a no-nonsense hard-working Minnesota...

Tamim Ansary / Art by Dan Hubig

Jan 8, 2020
6 min

World War III

The assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani on orders from Donald Trump has many people asking: could this mark the beginning of...

Outside Sources / What Can We Learn from the Germans About Confronting Our History?

Lizzie Widdicombe / The New Yorker

Oct 29, 2019
2 min

Outside Sources / What Can We Learn from the Germans About Confronting Our History?

When Donald Trump recently tweeted a dark warning of a “Civil War like fracture in this Nation” were he to be impeached, it was further...

Ventura at 4AM / Election 2020 – Some Notes / October 2019

Michael Ventura

Oct 23, 2019
11 min

Ventura at 4AM / Election 2020 – Some Notes / October 2019

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY —– Missing the Point The most important element of the 2020 election stood unnoticed in plain sight from start to...

THE GARLIC PAPERS — A SMALL GARLIC FARM IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL VAMPIRES

Stanley Crawford

Oct 9, 2019
6 min

THE GARLIC PAPERS — A SMALL GARLIC FARM IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL VAMPIRES

Every tenderfoot city-bred person like myself would benefit by reading my friend Stanley Crawford’s new work, The Garlic Papers — A Small...

the Lunch Guys

Aug 13, 2019
18 min

The Lunch Guys / Art, Politics and Talibanism

The Lunch Guys are: L to R, Randy Alfred (editor & writer), Dan Hubig (artist), Jeffrey Klein (former editor of Mother Jones & West...

Message to Immigrants: ‘You Aren’t Alone’

Rabbi Robin Podolsky / Jewish Journal

Jul 31, 2019
3 min

Message to Immigrants: ‘You Aren’t Alone’

The rideshare dropped me off 15 minutes early at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. Already, there were hundreds...

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Micael Priest's work was one of the hallmarks of a special time in Austin. He made the art that drew the crowds to hear the music that made a city. He made us all a little richer just by strokes of a pen

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