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LBJ High School – A Look at Two Sides

June 29, 2011

UT Radio-Television-Film: LBJ High School – A Look at Two Sides Directors: Orr, Vanessa; Taylor, Mariah; LBJ High School in East Austin has a magnet program and a non-magnet program in one building. The magnet school draws kids from all over Austin, while the non-magnet is mainly local students. Students from both schools discuss their [...]

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La Tierra de Mis Hijos

May 1, 2011

La Tierra de Mis Hijos Directors: Erivez, Raul; Jenkins, Eric; Lasky, Andrew; Mullin, Amy; Ray, Steven; People leave their homes and move to the United States for many reasons. As Francisco Rodriguez explains, the move may be difficult, but it also comes with rewards.

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Green & White

April 1, 2011

UT Radio-Television-Film: Green & White Directors: Becker, Tristan; Boisvenue, James; Garcia, Sarah; John Cazares at The Green and White Grocery sells traditional medicines and velas espirituales. But step into the back and you might find him drumming or leading a martial arts class. The Green and White is a place to connect with the community [...]

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The Scoot Inn and Bier Garden

September 4, 2010

The Scoot Inn, previously Red’s Scoot Inn, has played an important role for years on the Eastside. The Scoot Inn, which began as a railroad saloon sometime around 1871, has been claimed to be one of the oldest running bars in Texas. East Austin was teeming with warehouses, railroad workers, and rich bankers living along [...]

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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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Town Lake DDT Fish Massacre Legacy

May 5, 2010

Rachel Carson chronicled the darkest moment of Town Lake in her book Silent Spring when the dumping of DDT into an Austin storm drain led to a massive fish kill that spread from East Austin to Matagorda Bay. One of the most spectacular fish kills of recent years occurred in the Colorado River below Austin, [...]

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The Holly Power Plant

April 16, 2010

“When the Holly power plant was built in the 1960s, no one in the city government cared that it was being located in a residential neighborhood in the heart of Mexican-American East Austin. In 2001, an accident at the plant reminded the city that the danger is still real, and raised the buried questions of [...]

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