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A Major League Baseball Player Got Inspired By an Austin Restaurant Phone Booth
Brett Baty, the Texas-born and Austin-raised player for the New York Mets, shared that he took technique inspiration from an Austin restaurant with sports publication the Athletic. The third baseman experienced his first phone booth (he is 24 years old, after all) at a “popular taqueria in Austin […] that makes for cool social media posts,” per the article. He saw how small a phone booth is and thought about how he would swing a bat in a tiny space. Based on those details, Eater Austin is 99.9 percent sure that Baty is talking about the bright pink taco restaurant and bar Taquero Mucho. It’s in downtown Austin and has Instagrammable decor, and — more importantly — two not-functional phone booths lined with florals and neon lights.
Tracking Austin food and drink events
Austin chef and cookbook author Jesse Griffiths is going to be talking about his latest book, The Turkey Book: A Chef’s Journal of Hunting and Cooking America’s Bird, at Hyde Park bookstore First Light Books later this month. The conversation takes place on Friday, April 26 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $50, which come with a copy of the book.
Breakfast taco machine delivery alert
Comedian Joe Pera happened upon one of those automatic food delivery machines while he is in town for his show at the Moontower Comedy festival tonight. He shared his video on Twitter, wondering if it had breakfast tacos.
Texas culinary grant winners
Nonprofit nonprofit Texas Food & Wine Alliance announced the winners of its culinary grants this week. This includes forthcoming Honduran Creole food truck Better Say Grace by chef Grace Aguilar, farmers market stand Mercado Sin Nombre’s future coffee cafe, farm nonprofit Farmshare, Eden East Farm (run by chef Sonya Cote and David Barrow), Antonelli’s Cheese, brewery Independence Brewing Company, food truck Community Vegan, and pig ranch Texas Iberico.
Local restaurant and bar awards
Local website CultureMap announced the Austin winners of its yearly Tastemaker Awards. This includes Bufalina Due’s Eli Rodriguez as the Rising Star Chef, New American wine restaurant Birdie’s for neighborhood restaurant and co-owner Tracy Malechek-Ezekiel for chef, cocktail bar and restaurant Holiday for bar of the year, East Austin bar Daydreamer’s Amanda Carto for bartender, hotel Italian restaurant Poeta for best new restaurant, and Caribbean restaurant Canje as the best restaurant of the year.
Video of new Texas Tech System chancellor home at historic Lubbock property
The Texas Tech System is acquiring the historic Tudor Revival ‘English Home’ in Lubbock to serve as the new chancellor’s residence.
Money and rankings don’t make a great university. Providing opportunities for disadvantaged students and protecting academic freedom, however, do.
Case in point: Michael and Susan Dell recently surpassed $1 billion in giving to the University of Texas at Austin, launching a plan to build a new medical center and advanced research campus in north Austin.
To be sure, this is a magnanimous gift that will fund important initiatives. While enormously grateful for this contribution, I am disappointed that this gift was not accompanied with a strong message from Michael Dell admonishing the University for gutting DEI and infringing upon academic freedom.
As a colleague of mine astutely observed: “Good luck recruiting doctors and med students. The attacks on DEI and political climates will mean a lot more than rankings and money long-term.”
UT System Board of Regents Chairman Kevin Eltife, referencing the Dell gift, is right: “We are transforming this site into a new campus the world has never seen before.” Yes, never seen, but in a very negative and dangerous way!
Last week, I received a message from the Texas Exes: “This is your last chance to show your support during 40 Hours for the Forty Acres, UT Austin’s Texas-sized fundraising event. Can we count on you?”
My answer: “No, absolutely not. I won’t give one dime to a university that no longer is committed to diversity and preserving academic freedom.”
Having proudly taught at UT for 41 years, I am sad to say this.
– Richard Cherwitz, Ph.D. is the Ernest A. Sharpe Centennial Professor Emeritus, Moody College of Communication and Founding Director, Intellectual Entrepreneurship Consortium (IE) at The University of Texas at Austin.
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AUSTIN, Texas — APD SWAT responded to a barricaded subject in East Austin Saturday afternoon.
According to police, the incident took place near the 3400 block of Kay St., and officers responded to the call at around 1:30 p.m.
Once officers arrived, they made contact with a victim who “advised of circumstances that met the state law requirement of assault with a deadly weapon family violence.” Shortly after, the suspect barricaded themselves inside the residence.
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Austin Police officers, SWAT, hostage negotiators, and Austin-Travis County EMS were still on the scene and the suspect was still barricaded as of 6:15 p.m.
People are being encouraged to avoid the area due to increased police presence, or stay in a safe location if they are unable to avoid the area.
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A 27-year-old Pflugerville man faces capital murder charges for allegedly killing his parents and his brother, according to the Travis County Sheriff’s Office. The bodies of 62-year-old Armand, 63-year-old Jami and 31-year-old Noah Dahan were found by deputies conducting a welfare check Thursday at their home on Civorno Drive. Deputies said the victims had suffered gunshot wounds. https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/tcso-pflugerville-triple-homicide/
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