Saul Elbein

  • What is Fantastic?

    This week marks the mid-point in Austin’s fourth annual Fantastic Fest, the largest genre film festival in the country. Over the next couple of [...] Full Story

  • Like A Bad Neighbor

    This spring, Texas’ biggest insurance company took the unusual step of trying to hike homeowner’s insurance rates for the second time in eight months. [...] Full Story

  • This State Runs on Clean Natural Gas

    As the oil slick blooms across the Gulf, you are going to start hearing calls that we switch to a safer, cleaner form of [...] Full Story

  • Film Festivals and the Myth of Marfa

    Why Marfa? I don’t know. I wanted to put on a film festival, and here we are. -Robin Lambaria,MFF organizer   To understand why [...] Full Story

  • Conversion Story

    Abby Johnson was the 29-year-old executive director of Planned Parenthood in Bryan when she resigned in October. A month later, she was on Mike [...] Full Story
  • Demonstration of traditional amaranth cooking techniques.

    The Seeds That Time Forgot

    Once, amaranth was a staple of Mesoamerican civilization. Now a Oaxacan nonprofit is trying to bring it back. Full Story
  • Keystone XL Pipe Line: Pipe Dream

    Iron Hands Behind the Pine Curtain

    I watched him being loaded into the van. The pepper spray had not been washed off; his face was swollen and contorted, with long ropes of mucus hanging from his nostrils. Full Story
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    Keeping Time In Lockhart

    The story of how Galbraith ended up devoting his life to the care and restoration of antique clocks reads like a fairy tale. It dates back 30 years to a now-vanished neighborhood in Austin, to the day when a simple act of kindness changed Galbraith’s life forever. Full Story

  • Fehrenbach’s Texas

    When I met T.R. Fehrenbach, the fam-ous Texas historian, I found an old man given to gloomy pronouncements about mortality wearing a camel hair [...] Full Story

  • No Shows: Why So Few Texans Bother to Vote

    I WAS SITTING IN A COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER in the Houston suburb of Alief trying to get a glimpse of the state’s future. Alief [...] Full Story