From the category archives:

Arts and Culture

E.A.S.T. examined

December 7, 2010

The dust has settled and the East Austin Studio Tour is over. The event continues to grow and expose new people to the creative juices that flow as deep as Lady Bird on our side of town. The kind folks at KLRU dove deep into this year’s studio tour and interviewed dozens of area artists. [...]

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Party at the MACC

September 14, 2010

Fiesta de Independencia 2010! — join friends and neighbors at the MACC on Wednesday 9/15 for a celebration of Mexico. This year we celebrate the Bicentennial of Mexico’s Independence and the Centennial of the Mexican Revolution.

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Project Aims to Lessen East-West Divide

June 27, 2010
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Juneteenth 2010

June 20, 2010

Austin celebrated Juneteenth, the day that marks the abolition of slavery, this weekend and the festive spirit reverberated throughout East Austin. News8 video portrait

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Closing: El Maiz es Nuestra Vida

May 27, 2010

If you haven’t seen it yet, or want to view it again, go check out the El Maiz Nuestra Vida at the Mexican American Cultural Center. It closes on June 5. The traveling exhibit is made possible in part by the MAMAZ collective which is holding a fundraiser at El Sol y La Luna on [...]

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El Maiz es Nuestra Vida

April 15, 2010

With Mexican-American women there was a clear sense of a utopic vision of pre-Columbian forms and a symbiosis with nature. On the other hand, the Mexican women were making clear political statements against genetically-modified corn — El Maize es Nuestra Vida curator Claudia Zapata on the diversity of views represented in the exhibit. It’s darn [...]

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