Traces of Texas reader Carolyn Rogers graciously shared this photo of a young lady who sold cigars at the Dallas County Courthouse during the time her great grandfather, William Atwell, was either a judge or an attorney there. Her smile and flapper hair are super! Thank you, Carolyn. What a photo!

Why Austin dive bars endure: Mean Eyed Cat to Deep Eddy www.statesman.com/news/history...

Meet Elisabet Ney, the unconventional artist who helped found Austin's art scene www.statesman.com/news/history...

Did your Central Texas high school musical win a Heller Award in Austin? www.statesman.com/entertainmen...

From Austin to Broadway: Hunter Regian’s rapid rise as a producer www.statesman.com/entertainmen...

Congrats to Julie K. Brown! She was awarded a #Pulitzer Prize special citation today for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 & 2018 for the Miami Herald exposing Jeffrey Epstein's systematic abuse of young women and the justice system & powerful network of associates that protected him for years.

How the Alamo got its shape — and 4 other San Antonio stories for Texas history buffs www.statesman.com/news/history...

Austin's Allison Orr, creator of 'Trash Dance,' wins $525,000 Doris Duke Artist Award www.statesman.com/news/article...

Beyond big box garden centers: Four nurseries that helped grow Austin www.statesman.com/news/history...

Bullock museum in Austin offers free admission, IMAX films for anniversary www.statesman.com/entertainmen...

‘Zapata’ at Zach Theater turns cultural identity into a superpower www.statesman.com/entertainmen...

From Tarrytown to Crestview, a look at Austin’s early shopping centers www.statesman.com/news/history...

Agave plants are in bloom all over Austin. Will they now die? www.statesman.com/news/history...

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

These rare Texas maps — some centuries old — are finally coming into view www.statesman.com/news/history...

Before tech bros, there were ‘Slackers’: An ode to a cheaper, simpler Austin www.statesman.com/news/history...

Ghost stories, speakeasies and saloons: Inside the history of Austin’s oldest bars www.statesman.com/news/history...

A fabulous look at downtown San Augustine, Texas, as night falls in 1943. I believe all of these buildings still stand. Taken by John Vachon.

Illusionist Harry Houdini reappears in Austin 100 years after his death www.statesman.com/entertainmen...

‘Not Every Mountain’ traces time, loss and resilience for Austin's Rude Mechs www.statesman.com/entertainmen...

Why do these Austin street names sound familiar? A reader followed a long, strange clue www.statesman.com/news/history...

New UT building will protect and display iconic Paluxy River dinosaur tracks www.statesman.com/news/history...

Gone but still kicking: Austex Chili, Steck and more Austin originals www.statesman.com/news/history...

'Bones all over': UT paleontologist finds 100,000-year-old fossils in Central Texas cave www.statesman.com/news/history...

Which squirrels thrive in Austin? How to spot and manage them around gardens www.statesman.com/entertainmen...

Who was Ed Bluestein? What's up with the half streets? More Austin street name trivia www.statesman.com/news/history...

The entire 1983 Stevie Ray Vaughan ACL concert has been uploaded. I've queued it up to start on "Tin pan Alley," but the whole thing is worth watching --- after you "like" this post, of course. 😃 youtu.be/MrbAaQ3BXgA?...

If Starbucks wants Seattle to love them, Starbucks can love us first. A big way to show that love is to stop standing in the way of unions. *Microsoft* can be neutral when employees want to unionize, so can Starbucks (instead of threatening us with Tennessee).

🚨: NASA just dropped a full disk image of Earth taken by Artemis II 🤯

Austin coffee shops that survived: Ruta Maya, Anderson's, Mozart's, Flightpath www.statesman.com/news/history...

Austin’s bats are back. Here’s where and when to watch them fly. www.statesman.com/entertainmen...

Central Texas high school musical awards grow with $2M boost, bigger venue www.statesman.com/entertainmen...

From the Statesman archives: How Mueller neighborhood streets got their Austin names www.statesman.com/story/news/h...

Beloved Austin singer-songwriter, Jon Dee Graham, dead at 67 www.statesman.com/entertainmen...

Fonda San Miguel, Chuy’s and Serranos: Decades of Austin Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisine www.statesman.com/news/history...

Austin’s bats are back. Here’s where and when to watch them fly. www.statesman.com/entertainmen...

Why Ballet Austin is turning Marie Antoinette into a vampire queen www.statesman.com/entertainmen...

An ancient Romanian salt mine known for its vast chambers that dwarf visitors 🥹

How Austin street names tell the story of the city’s earliest days www.statesman.com/news/history...

Cowboys in Palo Duro Canyon, 1940s. Did you know that, deep in the park’s rarely visited backcountry ), there’s a set of narrow “Utah Slots”— snaking passages carved into the Trujillo sandstone, often just a couple of feet wide and 20+ feet deep? Few people have seen them.

Remember Austin’s slacker era? It was also its last affordable one www.statesman.com/news/history...

From Spanish Village to Rosie’s, the stories behind Austin’s Tex-Mex staples www.statesman.com/news/history...

A carpenter's helper and his family stand in front of the trailer in which they lived in Corpus Christi, 1940. Russell Lee took this photo as well as some others of the trailer, which was very small. How miserable would sleeping in a trailer with three other people and no AC be in a Corpus summer?

President William McKinley, center, arrives in El Paso, 1901. An El Paso Times reporter noted that "the president goes from place to place unattended and unguarded. Should an assassin desire to take his life, it would be a comparatively easy matter." Four months later, Mckinley was assassinated.

City halts work after historic former Cenote house in East Austin largely demolished www.statesman.com/news/article...

Three extraordinary women who helped shape Austin’s history www.statesman.com/news/history...

Review: ‘The Great Gatsby’ dazzles with spectacle at Bass Concert Hall in Austin www.statesman.com/entertainmen...

Harry Potter play, Alicia Keys musical coming to next Broadway in Austin season www.statesman.com/entertainmen...

True crime: Mass murderers, serial killers are part of Austin and Texas past www.statesman.com/news/history...