We saw an episode of "Who Wants to Be a Superhero?" this season, but we didn't realize that The Defuser was one of Austin's finest. He won in last night's season finale. Congress bridge officially became the Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge in ceremony today. Man carrying at least 72 pounds of pot gets pulled over on the way up from Brownsville. The Live from the Plaza music series starts next Friday. That......

Pending a vote by the Austin City Council tomorrow, Congress Avenue Bridge is to be renamed in honor of Ann Richards, Texas' 45th Governor who passed away in September. [Excerpted from our previous post] From humble beginnings in Waco, Texas, Richards went on to attend Baylor University on a debate scholarship, later marrying high school sweetheart David Richards and settling in Austin. She began her political career by campaigning for such respected Texas Democrats......

A few things we didn’t know: • The Mexican free-tailed bat colony living underneath Congress Avenue Bridge is    visited by over 100,000 ecotourists per year. • The bat colony brings in over $10 million in ecotourism revenue annually for our     city. This is beside the point here, but we nevertheless have to ask: Who are these people? What makes them tick? Where do they come from? Are they like us? Is there some......