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Taking the Road Less Traveled to Provide Relief • The Austin Chronicle (opens the original)
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The common complaints against autonomous vehicles designed to provide first aid relief to disaster victims are that they are either too expensive or inefficient. ASCEND wants to change that. Founded by University of Texas professor Christian Claudel, ASCEND, or Aerial Solutions for Combating Emergencies and Natural Disasters, started in spring 2024 as a research group. Claudel said his goal was to build a high payload-bearing, flight-capable, autonomous ATV without breaking the bank. The group t
Ruthie Foster Finds Freedom on Just Say Yes • The Austin Chronicle (opens the original)
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Released by Elvis’ original Memphis label and produced with the help of a rising Nashville power couple, Ruthie Foster’s Just Say Yes draws on tradition, using lessons from the past to look toward the future. Out Aug. 28, the singer-songwriter’s 12th LP, and second since leaving longtime label Blue Corn, follows up on her 2024 Grammy-winning Sun Records debut Mileage with a crop of reflective roots rock cuts anchored in wisdom forged through a career spanning three decades. Foster’s upbringing i
Meet the Blacksmith at the Center of Austin Music’s Golden Era • The Austin Chronicle (opens the original)
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In December 1975, James Szalapski showed up to Clarksville with a documentary crew. The novice director wanted access to the emerging outlaw country scene, and the West Austin enclave had been drawing honky-tonk hippies since the late Sixties. On the first day of shooting, he followed Townes Van Zandt into a house near the corner of 12th Street and West Lynn. It belonged to Seymour Washington, a 79-year-old retired blacksmith who had shod horses since the 1910s. In the documentary, as Van Zandt
At a Historic West Austin Church, Clarksville Is Still Home Sweet Home • The Austin Chronicle (opens the original)
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Clarksville families used to fill Sweet Home Missionary Baptist, the little white church on West 11th Street, every Sunday. Most stopped coming as hostile developers turned the once all-Black neighborhood into one of Austin’s wealthiest, and whitest. Homecoming, the church’s annual anniversary celebration, brings them back. “Sweet Home is the foundation, the hub,” said Ada Bolden, who grew up spending Sundays at the church. “If we don’t do anything else, we’re gonna come home. We’re gonna come t
Don’t Call It a Kum Bak • The Austin Chronicle (opens the original)
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Despite the afternoon deluge, generations of Dirty Martin’s faithfuls turned out to the little white burger joint at Nueces and Guadalupe Saturday to celebrate the 100th anniversary of one of just a few old Austin fixtures left standing. Founded in 1926 by John Martin as Martin’s Kum Bak Place, “Dirty’s” – nicknamed affectionately after the dirt floors of its early days – has served as a staple for University of Texas students for the past century. Saturday’s daylong festivities, which included
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