KBH has told Rep. McCaul that she's running for governor in 2010. Truck stopped in Southeast Austin late this morning thought to be involved in human smuggling. AISD approves 3% pay increase for teachers. Hidalgo County Jail can't hold an almost 1,000 pound Edinburg woman charged in the death of her nephew....

Cat's nosiness leads to child porn stash discovery in south Austin apartment complex. Only about 7 local churches serve as backup shelters for the homeless on freeze nights. Bill for oil spill cleanup at Waller Creek: $200,000....

Photo by gunnyrat on flickr The oil that spilled onto Sixth Street and into Waller Creek last week came from a 100-year-old underground tank. Jennifer Kim on the Northcross WalMart: "It's going to be a freaking disaster." Celebration Church in Georgetown has its own Starbucks and 5,000 attendees. Sayeth the pastor: "You can't do church without money." Wachovia Bank on Mesa Drive robbed this morning. Statewide public meetings on the Trans-Texas Corridor to begin tomorrow.......

Photo by smellyknee on flickr Sorry, Kucinich fans: Federal judge rules that he won't be on the Texas ballot. Downtown oil-spill sends 1,500 gallons of oil into Waller Creek, and it is still unclear where the oil came from. City of Hutto signs U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. Seven City of Austin employees alter vehicle inspection stickers, get arrested. Search is still on for Lewisville dad who killed his two daughters; on New Year's Eve......

City crews are working to clean up the ruptured water line that caused thousands of gallons of an oil and water mix to spill onto Sixth Street and into Waller Creek. It could take up to twelve more hours before the clean-up is complete, and businesses in the area are likely to be without water as the line is fixed....

The Waller Creek Tunnel project here in Austin is gaining ground. Major scientific breakthrough shows that cloning embryos is much easier than anticipated... U.S. clean energy stocks are doing better than the U.S. economy as a whole. Is classical music on the comeback? Norman Mailer dies in Manhattan at the age of 84. Writers Guild of America strike in Hollywood goes into week two... We will all have less privacy in the future, says......

Waller Creek Design Workshop. Image from City of Austin News Austin Music Commission's Town Hall Meeting Notes AMD Sued Over Birth Defects Plant a Tree for Freedom Waller Creek Design and Vision Workshop At This Rate, We're Having Our Next Happy Hour in Cancun Pangaea: It's For Real, Y'all UT Biologists Propose Biodiversity Institute Save BookWoman! Austin Music Commission Considering Plan to Stop the Rock They've Got the Lasers... Now All You Need is......

Image from Austin City Connection. Waller Creek Design Workshop9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007Austin City Hall (301 W. 2nd St.)[info] City Council Member Sheryl Cole and the Waller Creek Citizen Advisory Committee are asking the public for input regarding the Waller Creek corridor at a design workshop 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007, at Austin City Hall. Displays from the joint venture engineering team will be, uh, displayed. Silly ideas like......

Today sucks. Our house is quickly being annexed by Waller Creek, all of the tickets are sold out to the last night at the Alamo and our ‘Stros can’t buy a win. We could use a stiff drink* and a good laugh. Lucky for us, and you, the Onion AV Club and Rio Rita have prescribed a sweet salve to cure our burning wounds as they present Robert Altman’s satirical snarkfest OC & Stiggs. O.C.......

If you aren't going to the launch party tonight, you can watch the first episode of Downtown's third season tomorrow night from the comfort of your own home. For those unfamiliar with the show, KLRU's award-winning series focuses on, well, the downtown area. Topics covered in past seasons have been: Waller Creek, First Night Austin, bicycle messengers, Austin's hip-hop scene, the Austin Farmer's Market, urban density, and more. Each thirty-minute episode is made up of......

The freezing thunderstorms and errant tornados of last night have left Central Texas a sopping mess, with heavy flooding leaving people and cars stranded, and over a dozen roads closed. At least one woman is believed to have drowned in Waller Creek, while several homes and industrial buildings San Marcos were damaged by "tornadic winds" that touched down in the early morning. The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning in effect......

No sooner than we revealed the plans for a secret tunnel downtown, an Australian developer, Constellation Property Group, has announced their own plans to build a 30-story, twin tower, hotel/condo project right above the planned tunnel. Constellation is also building the Star Riverside condos at the northeast corner of Riverside Dr. and I-35. The architect is marchese + partners, which appears to be the design arm of the developer (Eugene Marchese runs both). This seems......

Ok, not so much "secret" as "we hadn't heard about it yet." Also, "revealed" isn't really accurate. Anyway, the city and Travis County are talking again about building a tunnel under Waller Creek. This proposal was last seriously considered in 2003 and has been kicking around since a bond proposal for its funding passed in 1998. Flooding is a big problem and now, with the global warming, these hundred-year floods are happening, like, a......

We just got home from taking in the third to last performance of Rude Mechanical's Pale Idiot at the Off Center. Since there are only two performances remaining, both of which are not sold out (much to our amazement), we're going to try jotting off an uncharacteristically short review. We confess that we're not as familiar with the Rudes as we should be. Tonight's performance really made us feel rotten about missing so much......

Students from the Sri Atmananda Memorial School are spending a year trying to determine what is in the water in Waller Creek, which runs through their private campus in Hyde Park. This endeavor is a funded by a $10,000 grant from Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. Not only does this project provide the students a practical lesson about science in general, it also provides a valuable data set for water quality in the creek.......

We’ve all seen William Shakespeare’s Macbeth…on television, in the movies, performed by the kids we picked on in high school. It’s so played. However, one group of Austin actors is adding a new twist to an old classic. The Weird Sisters Women’s Theater Collective presents The Weird Sisters, Hand in Hand which is “a female-centric adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.” According to their website, this all-female cast presents a “play [that] centralizes the female characters and......