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…
Daiboku by Sazan
The in-and-out ramen served at Daiboku, a newer contender to the ever-growing culinary landscape in Austin, has won my heart. I’m a connoisseur of Japanese cuisine, having lived in Tokyo…
OLIVER!
Can we have some more Oliver! please? This show at the Hill Country Community Theatre is so good I did not want it to end. And as for Fagan, one…
9 to 5 and the Rise of Feminism
The pendulum swings. A musical film of 1980 made it big with songs by Dolly Parton. It was 9 to 5, and the title song became one of her greatest…
Viva Las Vegas – Part II
Welcome to Part II in the travel series on Las Vegas. Continuing my 95-degree desert venture made for challenging walks lasting at most fifteen minutes outside. However, everywhere indoors was…
Viva Las Vegas Part I
Lead photo: chef Francesco Di Caudo I took a five-day journey to Las Vegas for several reasons, but Vegas was not on my preferred destination list. I was on a…