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Abilene, Through the Looking Glass
2+ hour, 2+ min ago (297+ words) A monumental blown-glass installation inside a sparkling new library reflects a city'one grappling with an AI boom and an insurgent book-banner'that's defined by its slippery cultural identity. June 11, 2026, 7: 30 AM, CDT To best trace the thread of Carlyn Ray's ascent through…...
Loon Star State: Shredded
2+ week, 6+ day ago (224+ words) Ben Sargent is the Texas Observer's longtime cartoonist. He launched his career drawing editorial cartoons for the Austin American-Statesman in 1974. He was born in Amarillo into a newspaper family and learned the printing trade from age 12 and started working for…...
Loon Star State: Incoming. ..
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (224+ words) Ben Sargent is the Texas Observer's longtime cartoonist. He launched his career drawing editorial cartoons for the Austin American-Statesman in 1974. He was born in Amarillo into a newspaper family and learned the printing trade from age 12 and started working for…...
Black Bird Redemption Song: A Fort Worth Artists Work on Confinement, Freedom, and Fred Rouse
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (346+ words) An exhibition at the UMLAUF Sculpture Garden and Museum in Austin runs through January 25. January 20, 2026, 4: 10 PM, CST "It's all connected'that's the whole thought," Huckaby said at a public talk at UMLAUF in January. "It's about social justice, and I think…...