Come hear Helen Plume, a world-renowned climate change expert from New Zealand, speak Tuesday, June 15. Our local chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council organized the event, with reception;Lee Leffingwell and Mark Strama warm the crowd up.

The comedy of errors that has been the search for a Materials Recovery Facility gained another chapter yesterday, as City Council voted to toss out the proposals process that netted three frontrunners, and begin it anew. And then, to no one's surprise, the historic zoning debate teetered on histrionic.

Further developments on the mysterious stack of signatures that seem to have given the Green Party of Texas ballot access. The Greens are voluntarily giving the Democrats two weeks to find who was really behind the signature-getting effort.

It's 2pm – do you know where your City Council is? Ours just returned from executive session, with discussion of hot topics like the Materials Recovery Facility and historic landmark zoning still in wait. But it was a timeworn topic – Water Treatment Plant No.4 – that dominated the morning.

The No. 2 seed Texas Longhorns start their Super Regional series vs. the No. 6 Texas Christian University Horned Frogs Friday. How best to describe this matchup? They say the next big thing is here
That the revolution's near
But to me it seems quite clear
That it's all just a little bit of history repeating.
- Shirley Bassey Well that sums it up nicely.

If you're a fan of HGTV's "My First Place," and you're a first-time home buyer, get ready for your close-up. Season nine of the popular series finds Austin center stage,

While researching Tom Bissell's new book, Extra Lives: Why Games Matter, I came across an argument that games were not art because there is a goal. This can be debated (and is), but I started to think about games I play that have no predetermined goal. Everything interactive is a game if you want it to be. See for yourself below the fold.

In the age of the mp3, tribute albums have gone the way of the CD. That hasn’t stopped Bobby Bare Sr. and Jr. from producing one of the most delightful tributes of the year, Twistable Turnable Man: A Musical Tribute to the Songs of Shel Silverstein (Sugar Hill).

The University of Colorado made its leap to the Pac-10 official today. Many sources say Nebraska will be gone by tomorrow. And University of Texas and Texas A&M officials are meeting in Austin today (some reports have Baylor and Texas Tech reps on hand as well). The Pac-10 reportedly also wants to get its hands on Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.