Fire, War and Trash [Extra Extra]
- It’s been a year since the major fire at the Governor’s Mansion. Reconstruction at the historic house is now getting closer to reality.
- Cindy Sheehan will lead an anti-war protest in Dallas this afternoon.
- Volunteers put the smack-down on trash at Lady Bird Lake this weekend.
- Liz Lambert of (Austin's Hotel San Jose) is name-checked in a New York Times article on Marfa.
- Yes, there was giant bust of Obama passing thru Austin this weekend
- The Gulf shrimp population actually benefited from Hurricane Ike.
- Here’s your chance to see hottie Rudolph Valentino in one of those moving pictures at the Harry Ransom Center on Thursday. Free!
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