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Yesterday | The Austin American-Statesman

Musician Amy Cook: What's in Your Fridge Friday?

Hailing from the Ozarks, Addie Broyles expanded her cooking skills on the West Coast and Spain before settling in Austin, mainly for the aguas frescas at the taco stand down the street from her house where she, husband Ian and son Julian are now attempting to grow their own food in the backyard.

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Thu Jul 02, 2009

Houston Press

Frenchy's Celebrates 40 Years

Some restaurants epitomize the soul of their cities. There's Brown's Diner and the Pancake Pantry in Nashville, cheese-steak joints like Pat's and Geno's Steaks in Philly, and many a corner pizzeria in Chicago and NYC.

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Sun Jun 28, 2009

KOSA

Police Chief File EEOC Against Against Marfa

CBS 7 News Staff June 28, 2009 MARFA, TX - The Chief of Police in Marfa has filed an Equal Employment Opportunity complaint against the city of Marfa, citing ethnic discrimination.

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Fri Jun 26, 2009

Sag Harbor Online

For the Birds: Mylaynea s Western Views of Avian Life

The large-scale prints of Jean Luc Mylayne featuring the landscape and avian inhabitants of Fort Davis, Texas, now on view at Parrish Art Museum, are part of the French photographer's long-term project to capture or illustrate different notions of time.

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Wed Jun 24, 2009

KOSA

Commissioners Working to Get County Jail Back in Business

CBS 7 News Staff June 23, 2009 PRESIDIO COUNTY - Presidio County Commissioners are working on a way to re-open the jail, which is now temporarily closed.

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Fri Jun 12, 2009

KOSA

Presidio County Jail Shutting Down

Eddie Garcia CBS 7 News egarcia@cbs7.com June 11, 2009 MARFA, TX - The Presidio County Jail in Marfa is in the process of shutting down because the county can't afford to run it.

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Fri Jun 05, 2009

The New York Times

Travel: What's Doing in Marfa, Texas

Vintage boots at JM Dry Goods. "People come to Marfa and think all of Texas looks likes this," said Lyle Lovett, on stage at the Crowley Theater where he was performing this past weekend for the Ballroom Marfa benefit.

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Thu Jun 04, 2009

The Austin Chronicle

The Cowboy Song

It's a smoldering summer night in Marfa, the kind that seems to linger all year long.

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Tue Jun 02, 2009

MSNBC

Image: Prada boutique, Marfa, Texas

The West Texas desert seems an unlikely home for high fashion. But along a desolate stretch of U.S. Highway 90 near Marfa, Texas, travelers can stop at a Prada boutique.

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Wed May 27, 2009

Inter Press Service

U.S.: 'There's No Way I'm Going to Deploy to Afghanistan'

U.S. Army Specialist Victor Agosto, a veteran of the U.S. occupation of Iraq who is refusing deployment to Afghanistan.

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Mon May 25, 2009

Houston Chronicle

Architect leaps obstacles to build desert home

Building tall and skinny is common practice in dense, urban areas. But how do you approach the design of a single house on 2,200 acres of southwest Texas desert? That was the scenario Houston-based architect Carlos Jim nez faced in 2000 when he began envisioning a sanctuary for art dealer Lynn Goode and lawyer Timothy J. Crowley.

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Sat May 23, 2009

Forbes

America's Hidden Travel Gems

You don't need to leave the U.S. to find exotic or quirky treasures. The West Texas desert seems an unlikely home for high fashion.

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Thu May 21, 2009

Austin American Statesman

Negative light creating quite a gray area

Not every business - even a glamorous one - is entitled to a state tax break. But if the state offers tax breaks, the reason for giving or denying them ought to be clear.

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Mon May 18, 2009

WFAA

Fusion Center's spending questioned in Collin County

The North Central Texas Fusion Center is Collin County's new criminal and intelligence data gathering center.

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Sat May 16, 2009

Odessa American Online

Fourth illegal immigrant rescued in Presidio County

Border patrol agents found and rescued a fourth illegal immigrant Thursday evening in a group that was stranded near the brush fires in Presidio County, according to a news release from U.S. Border Patrol Marfa Sector spokesman Bill Brooks.

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Fri May 15, 2009

Ledger Dispatch

Construction on 'virtual fence' resumes

The Obama administration is resuming construction of a "virtual fence" on the U.S.-Mexico border, renewing plans to build a multibillion dollar chain of tower-mounted sensors and other surveillance equipment over most of the 2,000-mile frontier over five years, Homeland Security Department officials said Friday.

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Wed May 13, 2009

Boston Globe

Getting a bite from the Shark in Marfa, Texas

At lunchtime the Food Shark rolls into the empty ranch town. It's a 1974 Butter-Krust brand bread truck stripped down to galvanized aluminum.

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Mon May 11, 2009

The Sydney Morning Herald

US tries again with remote control of Mexico border

THE United States will resume construction of a "virtual fence" on the US-Mexico border, renewing plans to build a multibillion-dollar chain of tower-mounted sensors and other surveillance equipment over most of the 3000-kilometre frontier over five years.

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Sat May 09, 2009

Odessa American Online

UTPB presents a Family Business of the Yeara awards

The University of Texas of the Permian's Jan and Ted Roden Center for Entrepreneurship presented the Permian Basin Family Business of the Year awards during a luncheon April 24 at the University's Center for Energy and Economic Diversification.

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Wed May 06, 2009

Defamer

Gossip Girl : Sooty Sextopia

In our continuing series of guest recappers, we present a mysterious woman known only as Octavia Thundersnatch who braved one hour of insipid TV so you didn't have to.

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