Steel Magnolias
In her directorial debut, Kelsey Layton has a big success on her hands. Steel Magnolias, which is playing at the Bastrop Opera House, is a sheer delight. “I’m used to…
Tulsi Fine Indian Cuisine
For the very best of Indian cuisine, greater Austin now benefits from what Arkansas has lost. Tulsi Fine Indian Cuisine opened in Round Rock on July 7. Restaurant manager Rahul…
Colton House Hotel – Cozy Luxury in South Austin
Opened during Covid in what could have or should have been a terrible time for hoteliers and the hospitality industry in general, Colton House Hotel has come out of that…
A String Quartet Plays the Best Tunes of 100 Years of Warner Bros. Film Music
It sounds corny; Warner Bros. film music performed by a string quartet, doesn’t it? At least, it did to skeptical me, but curiosity got the better of me, and off…
Pointless Fun
A marvellous production of the musical Head Over Heels is currently being staged at the Zach Theatre in Austin. It is best to brush up on your Elizabethan English for…
Austin PRIDE 2023
Today Austin hosted the 31st annual Pride Festival and Parade! As last year, the festival was held at Fiesta Gardens, 2101 Jesse Segovia St. As everyone knows, Austin is a…
Gerald Ford Presidential Museum and Library
The Gerald Ford Presidential Museum was opened in 1979. Perhaps due to the prevailing mood of the country then, it was, in the words of Ford’s son Michael, “kind of…
The New Millennium Problem
Sun News presents this poem from 1999, for those who fondly remember the turn of the millennium, and for those who missed it: Where will you be when the millennium…
MOUNTBATTEN in Burma and India
Bloomsbury has recently published two books relating to Lord Louis Mountbatten, one of the two Supremos of World War II (the other being Eisenhower). One is about how the news…
Benise in Austin on July 29
The Spanish guitarist Benise will be appearing in Austin on July 29, but Sun News caught his act in Michigan on July 23. Here is what you can expect. For…