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Those willing to endure some cold and stay up past their bedtimes are about to be treated to the annual Geminid meteor shower.

Every year around this time, musicians, dancers, poets, actors, and more join together to stage Wassail Austin , a truly old-fashioned, family friendly celebration of Christmas and the Winter Solstice.

This article is written by KUT's reporting partner the Austin Monitor . Below, listen to an interview with author Mark Richardson.

You don't mess with Texas and you don't mess with Austin street art. Austinites are taking to social media to voice their frustration after AT&T took beloved street art and murals and Photoshopped them to advertise their new AT&T U-verse high speed internet service .

Texas coach Mack Brown, center, and Oregon coach Mark Helfrich, second from left, take part in a Valero Alamo Bowl news conference, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013, in San Antonio.

Strap on your best leather chaps and fire up that home-crafted iron horse: The Weird West Fest will be celebrating the era of bespoke engineering and steampowered frontier busters this weekend in Giddings.

Magnum photographer Alec Soth and writer Brad Zellar have finished their tour of Texas, and on Saturday they partied.

Tucked away on an easy-to-miss side street just north of campus sits Nasty's, an unpretentious dive known for its pitchers of margaritas and rugby-centric dA©cor.

Though Austin is still characterized as a music city, both its residents and the culinary world at large know that the most exciting part of living in Austin today is its burgeoning food scene.

Once every two years, the Republican Party of Texas gets some bad news. The Libertarian Party of Texas releases its list of candidates for the upcoming November election.

India sparks outrage, GQ gives us the smoochies, and Washington totally gets gay married all over the place, as your AggreGAYtor orders another wedding cake, just for funsies.

Travis Meriwether and his wife Paige were high school sweethearts at Tuttle High School 10 years ago.

As is the case around this time every December and has been for hundreds of Decembers now a handful of those herders leave their woolly flocks and go in search of the child whose birth has been foretold by angels.

New York City-based group Vampire Weekend has scheduled a date on its upcoming tour in Austin, much to the delight of local music fans disappointed by the fact that the popular act did not play a night show while it was in town during ACL Fest this year.

A judge has denied a motion to remove from office a Central Texas district attorney who oversees the state's Public Integrity Unit.

AT&T launched its "GigaPower" all-fiber Internet network in Austin, Texas. consumers have ever experienced.

Austin's Austin-Bergstrom International Airport really aims to embody the area it serves without seeming inauthentic.

Live healthy and eating well are a popular pastime for Austinites, with various trends sweeping through town and becoming all the rage.

Voting in all categories of the NME Awards 2014 with Austin, Texas has now opened - click here to start casting your votes.

The Min family, husband Uka Min Tun Aung Min and his wife Naw San Shwe Win Aung Min are refugees from Burma living in Austin with their two year old daughter Okee Fee.