November/December 2010
Olympia Dukakis
Olympia Dukakis is a busy lady. In the midst of working in Los Angeles in the Getty Villa’s recent production of Sophocles’ Elektra (she...
Del Shores
Del Shores is an honorary Austinite. His award-winning play and film, Sordid Lives, which was also a television series, has a cult-like following in...
Becoming A Bill
With the Texas Legislature set to reconvene on January 1, 2011, Austin is once again gearing up for the capitol dome to be illuminated...
A New Path
Ivan Davila was only 15 when his family moved to Houston from Monterrey, Mexico, but the experiences and struggles that shaped their adjustment to...
The Standards
At our house, the holidays start sometime in mid-November and stretch into the early part of January. Roughly bookended by Thanksgiving and the turn...
Catering To Your Every Whim
Catering businesses can be like marriages. Without attention and care, they can quickly become an exercise in going through the monotonous motions. Sam Armstrong...
Making a Life with Our Best Friends
Geo Sanchez and his partner Aaron Johnson adopted their dog Sai three years ago. As Sanchez tells it, the boxer “seduced him” at a...
Living History
On the morning of August 1, 1966, Forrest Preece was riding high. A young undergrad at UT, he played sax in the Longhorn Band...
