Roosevelt Weeks, the director of the Austin Public Library, sees the 23-branch system not as a group of facilities, but as a resource that reaches into the community to help people make positive changes in their lives.
“Somebody gotta be first.” That attitude explains how Tommy Wyatt ran for Travis County Commissioner twice in the 60s, even though a black person…
We last chatted with the comedy legend Sommore during her 2011 performance in Austin. As she prepares to return to the Capitol City –…
A lot of people tell me they hate exercise. They think it’s boring, they don’t know what to do or they’re afraid they’ll feel embarrassed.
You haven’t heard of Littig, Texas. You have no idea it even exists. And that’s a shame, because the little town of Littig, and the people who live there, are the kinds of human curiosities that make Austin at its weirdest seem boring.
We had the chance to talk with Aisha Tyler as she passed through Austin on a tour promoting her first film Axis.
It’s not a title she’d give herself, because she’s adorably, awkwardly humble. But Quita Culpepper, long-time television news personality in Austin, is basically the…
As a stand up comedian, he toured colleges and clubs internationally before transitioning to the small screen with roles on TBS’s Sullivan and Son, and as the Senior Black Correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show.
If you haven’t been to Encore yet, you’ve been missing out on the hottest, sexiest, most grown vibe in the city. Encore combines live…
Everyone remembers their grandma’s down home cooking and how it would unite the family, at least for the time it took to eat a good meal.
Austin dating service, OnSpeedDating.Com in partnership with soulciti hosted an Afrodesiac Speed Dating event at Water2Wine for women that love Black men on Wednesday,…
More than 70,000 concert-goers fill the park each day for live music at Austin’s largest music festival.