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Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself

In another sad and ridiculous news, a Wichita Falls woman has been indicted for selling her daughter. Tina Valdez admitted to pawning off her teenage daughter for three thousand dollars. Okay, the whole concept of this is unfathomable to us, so after we ponder why a mother would even think to sell her daughter away, we wonder: why only three thousand dollars? We can't put our heads around it. more ›

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First Look: First Night Austin 2007

Official Poster of First Night Austin 2007 by Peat Duggins After the tremendous success of last year's inaugural festival, First Night Austin returns to downtown this New Year's Eve with an all-day program full of music, art, theatre, dance, and more. Begun in Boston back in 1976 as a massive public gathering to ring in the new year through "art, ritual, and festivity," First Night events are now held all over the world, from... more ›

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Thanks, Beautiful

Mia Hamm doesn’t want to visit Waco, and we can’t really say we blame her. The North Carolina Tar Heel and world soccer legend recently declined induction in to the Texas Sports Hall of Fame. Sometime-Austinite Hamm and husband Nomar Garciaparra are expecting their first child in early spring, and the couple’s doctor advised any travel after January. Yea, sure that’s the reason. more ›

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Waco To Host World's Largest Spur Auction; Austinist Still Hoping To Spot an Actual Horse

The spur collection once belonging to a W.F. "Bill" Reynolds, late of Wichita Falls, TX, is to be auctioned off this weekend in Waco, in what's being billed as one of the biggest such auctions ever held. more ›