Temple Makes Austin the Place to Find Peace and Joy

Beaming with enlightenment.

Lama Lobtsul, the Tibetan Buddhist, tends to a rare and powerful statue at a dharma center in Austin.

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Shearwater Celebrate New CD With Hometown Gig in Austin

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Bird of a different feather.

For the new Shearwater album, Animal Joy, frontman Jonathan Meiburg entered a crummy practice space, turned his guitar up really loud, and set about writing songs that conveyed times in his life when his blood was running close to the surface.

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An Ode to Bach’s Genius in the Key of Stradivarius

Strad Men.

Michael Shih and Swang Lin went to the same elementary school in Taiwan but didn’t form a friendship until decades later, when they arrived in Texas, where they both play multi-million-dollar Stradivarius violins for the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.

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Chuck Eddy Gets Collected

I am NOT contrarian.

Do not get in a beer-soaked conversation about music with Chuck Eddy. You will feel stupid.

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U.T. Experiment Grapples With Essence of Gravity

Prince of darkness

The $36 million Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment at the McDonald Observatory, in Fort Davis, could reinterpret the time-honored laws of gravity.

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Radio Station That Turned Hero Faces an Uncertain Future

Fire on the mountain

Marfa Public Radio saved lives with its coverage of the Rock House Fire, the largest wildfire in Texas history, yet the West Texas town’s Congressman wants to strip its funding.

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A Conversation With Billy Joe Shaver

Billy prefers duking it out

Here is the only interview Billy Joe Shaver has done since going on trial for shooting a man in the face outside a bar in Waco. Did Billy really tell the guy on the other end of the bullet, “Where do you want it?”

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