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 high school experience.

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.

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 with a history that goes back farther than the building itself.

UT Radio-Television-Film 78702 Live Stories: A place for the kids

Directors: Goodrich, Sean; Grafe, Amy; Ponce, Sara;

Sometimes being a kid can be, well, boring, especially if you don’t have a lot of money to spend or computer games at home. Thats when it helps to have a place to go to hang out with other young people and see what the city has to offer.

Austin’s Moontowers In 1962 from KUT News on Vimeo.

Segment on Austin’s Moontowers from a locally produced television program called Progress Report Austin. This episode aired in 1962.

Video is public domain and provided courtesy Texas Archive of the Moving Image: http://www.texasarchive.org

(h/t KUT News)

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. Here’s what they found.

Shutting down the Holly Power Plant took neighbors organizing and expressing a shared vision for our neighborhood. While the power plant is in the process of being deconstructed our work to build a healthier future is far from over. One thing we could do as neighbors to clean up our air (most of our power comes from burning coal) is to unplug Vampire Devices. The things that stay plugged in when they aren’t doing useful for us. Computers in sleep mode, cell phone chargers, stereos and many other devices and appliances around our homes. We could save a lot of money and energy if we unplugged, or cut the power to devices when they’re not in use.

It’s difficult to address these types of topics without sounding preachy, but here’s a good video clip on Vampire Energy.

A glossy bit of coverage on changes in East Austin. The ending statement by the reporter indicates that developers and biz owners are happy with the direction of growth and change in 78702.

Development plans around the Plaza Saltillo metro rail stop, just east of downtown, are taking shape.

A 40,000-square-foot boutique hotel is planned at East Sixth and Waller streets and a 50,000-square-foot, 40-unit mixed-use condo development is planned at East Seventh and San Marcos streets.

Meanwhile, about 10 acres owned by the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority will remain in limbo until market rental rates and lending increase, according to a November report commissioned by Capital Metro (ABJ).

A DPS crew fired up sonar equipment on Thursday while examining the bottom of Lady Bird Lake near Festival Beach. They discovered an outline of an automobile. By the end of the day, KVUE reports, DPS had pulled five cars out of the lake.