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Laguna Gloria gets a contemporary punch
statesman.com Local
Feb 04In the past couple of decades, museums went on a building spree.After Frank Gehry's spectacular Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao opened in 1997, seemingly every museum that could tried to follow suit, anxious to cash in (literally) on the cachet that a bigg... »
Dog whisperer's calling came from Lassie
Austin360.com
Feb 04In person, Cesar Millan, host of National Geographic Wild's "The Dog Whisperer," appears smallish but solid, like a bulldog. Millan, who grew up poor in Mexico and hired a "coyote" to illegally transport him to America at age 21, stopped in Austin to h... »
EPA: Austin No. 8 for green power
Austin Business News: Local News
Feb 03Austin is the eighth-largest green power purchaser overall among 50 organizations ranked by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership. The partnership ranked Fortune 500 companies, local, state and federal governments, and coll... »
Austin Energy proposal keeps same rate increase but divides it into two steps
Statesman.com Local News
Feb 03Under pressure from an unhappy City Council, Austin Energy released a new proposal Thursday for raising electric rates. »
Austin Energy 'softens' rate increase
KXAN TV Local News
Feb 02Austin Energy pitched a re-vamped rate plan to city officials Thursday. The utility now has a $77 million deficit and is seeking the first increase in its electric rates in more than 17 years. »
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Austin Lyric Opera, music school formally split
Austin360 Seeing Things
Jan 31The previously announced split between Austin Lyric Opera and its Armstrong Community Music School will be official Feb. 1, opera officials announced today. In June, ALO announced that it would jettison its music school as a cost-saving measure amid ne... »
LIVING RECORD: The Music Documentaries of DA Pennebaker
Austin Film Festival News
Jan 30We will kick off the year on Wednesday, February 1 at 7:00pm, with our new series, Living Record: The Music Docs of DA Pennebaker. Partnering with Jo's Hot Coffee, we will be offering free screenings of this legendary documentarian's films at the downt... »
Weekend downtown power failure fully resolved
The Blotter
Jan 30A power failure that darkened parts of downtown this weekend was fully resolved this morning, an official with Austin Energy said today. Power to Capitol Center, a 15-story office tower at 919 Congress Ave., was restored about 3 a.m. today, spokesman E... »
Austin Energy expects to have downtown power outage resolved by mid-morning
The Blotter
Jan 29From Austin Energy: Update - 5:00 a.m. A power outage at this hour that began at about 8:30 p.m. last night and grew larger about 11:30 p.m. — affects an area of the downtown generally between Congress and Red River and 12th to 5th street. The outage w... »
Authorities warn public away from downtown during power outage
The Blotter
Jan 29Emergency officials say a power outage in the Sixth Street area is prompting them to warn the public to avoid going downtown for the remainder of the night. Officials didn’t say what caused the outage but said Austin Energy is working on the problem. O... »
