Michael Ventura
Jun 14, 202017 min read
Ventura at 4am / History as Oneself
April 4, 1968 – New York City As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love....
Jedediah Purdy / The New Yorker
Jun 12, 20205 min read
Outside Sources / Environmentalism's Racist History
Madison Grant (Yale College 1887, Columbia Law School) liked to be photographed with a fedora, or just his dauntingly long head, tilted...
Clay Coppedge
Jun 10, 20209 min read
A Bolillo’s Short History of Roy’s Taxi
My sometimes exciting career as an Austin cab driver began in 1977 when, looking for something better from a base of zero, I walked to 90...
James BigBoy Medlin / Art by Dan Hubig
Jun 10, 20206 min read
WHY NOT? / President By Knockout
That highly anticipated first sip of morning coffee had just crossed my lips when I involuntarily spewed it out Danny Thomas style, in...
Christopher Brown / All Photos: Christopher Brown
Jun 7, 20207 min read
Field Notes / Black Nature Writing ~ Stories of Braver Solos
This column is about walking alone in nature. Mostly with an inclusive idea of what constitutes “nature”—the degraded urban wilderness of...
Austin Sun Staff
May 28, 20200 min read
Danny N. Schweers
May 28, 20201 min read
Photo Prayer / June, 2020
Let heaven decide our place in the world while we decide to be happy in it. Let us ask, what place is this? Let us ask, who are these...
Christopher Brown / All Photos: Christopher Brown
May 17, 202010 min read
The Coyotes of Soylent Green
The coyotes have been getting rowdy this week. Monday night we heard one of those insane banshee chorales—a sudden eruption of alien...
Charlie Loving
May 17, 20201 min read
The Loving View
Charlie Loving is an artist, cartoonist, spelunker, authentic eccentric, Veteran, world traveler, and the former Sports Editor of the...
Bill Bentley
May 11, 202010 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / May 2020
Joe Ely Love in the Midst of Mayhem Is it possible after 50 years to make the very best album of a long and illustrious career? If you’re...
Film: David Elkins / Intro: James BigBoy Medlin
May 7, 20202 min read
Back to the Basics / The Story of Luckenbach, Texas
Have you ever been to Luckenbach, Texas? Back when Austin was becoming whatever it is that Austin became, Luckenbach represented the...
James BigBoy Medlin
May 6, 20205 min read
Render Unto Trump ~ The Odessa Camps
Greetings, Fellow Earthlings. Be not afraid! As we enter Chapter Two of Book One of THE END IS NEAR, it is told that we are in good...
Fintan O’Toole / Irish Times
Apr 28, 20203 min read
Outside Sources / The World has Loved, hated and Envied the U.S. Now, for the First Time, We Pity It
Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear...
Bill Bentley
Apr 18, 202010 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / April 2020
Leeann Atherton Fallen Angel Once every few years a song appears that sounds like it’s always been here, something that has to be heard...
Jane Mayer / The New Yorker
Apr 15, 20203 min read
Outside Sources / How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief
On Thursday, March 12th, Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, could have insisted that he and his colleagues work through the...
Hannah Devlin / The Guardian
Apr 15, 20201 min read
Outside Sources / Coronavirus distancing may need to continue until 2022, say experts
Physical distancing measures may need to be in place intermittently until 2022, scientists have warned in an analysis that suggests there...
