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Texas swaggers into SEC and midseason break undefeated and in best shape in more than a decade
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — When Texas hosted a football recruiting weekend last summer, prospective players walked a burnt orange carpet flanked by nearly a dozen Lamborghinis with engines revving and growling and music blaring.
It was an homage to coach Steve Sarkisian’s motto since he arrived four years ago — “All gas, no brakes” — and what the program hopes to be able to deliver in the new era of excess in college football: substance with style.
Following a slow ramp-up that nearly ran off the road when Sarkisian started, Texas has hit full speed.
After winning last season’s Big 12 title in the program’s final season in that league and making the College Football Playoff for the first time, Texas entered this season ranked No. 3 in the AP Top 25. By Week 3, the Longhorns were No. 1 for the first time in 16 years. Their long-awaited Southeastern Conference debut was a smashing success, led by backup quarterback Arch Manning, the scion of one of America’s most famous football families.
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Austin Film Festival announces lineup for 2024
AUSTIN, Texas — The highly anticipated Austin Film Festival is returning to town this month, and they’ve just unveiled the lineup of films premiering during the eight-day event.
The festival will take over downtown Austin Oct. 24-31.
Barbara Morgan, the co-founder and executive director of the festival, told Spectrum News 1, “We’re particularly excited about our world premieres this year with Texas connections, films made in Texas and by Texans, and how exciting that there are so many creatives here making their own work. The indie filmmaking spirit is alive and well in this state, and Austin Film Festival is proud to be able to champion these stories.”
Some of the films to be on the lookout for this year include: Justin Kurzel’s “The Order,” Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist,” Tim Fehlbaum’s “September 5” and Jesse Eisenberg’s directorial debut, “A Real Pain”.
Badges are still available for purchase on the Austin Film Festival (AFF) website.
Here is the full list of films you can expect to see at AFF:
- A Real Pain
- Bird
- Black Dog
- Blitz
- Born For You
- Dream Productions
- I’m Still Here
- Lake George
- Maria
- Nickel Boys
- Nightbitch
- Ravens
- Santosh
- September 5
- The Brutalist
- The Kingdom
- The Knife
- The Order
- The Piano Lesson
- The Room Next Door
- Unstoppable
- Being There
- Go
- Dirty Harry
- Adjunct
- Audrey’s Children
- Color Book
- Crossword
- Green and Gold
- La Gloria
- Life’s A Bitch
- Silent Notes
- The Thawing of Ice
- The Wise Guy
- To Kill A Wolf
- Young King
- Ba
- In Vitro
- Shaman
- The Beldham
- The Fetch
- Tummy Monster
- I Hate Myself and Want to Die
- Lady Parts
- Operation Taco Gary’s
- Party People
- Raging Midlife
- Sisters
- The Perfect Club
- Time Travel is Dangerous
- Artifact War
- Champions of the Golden Valley
- Deaf Santa Claus
- Desert Angel
- Norita
- Phantoms of the Sierra Madre
- *smiles and kisses you*
- The Prison Show
- American Spirit
- SUBTOPIA: The Story of Hueco Canyon
- Texas Cult House
- The Ego Death of Queen Cecilia
- The Stones Are Speaking
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Pro-Palestine protestors disrupt traffic near City Hall
AUSTIN, Texas – A pro-Palestine protest disrupted traffic in Downtown Austin on Saturday afternoon, which prompted a police response.
Around 3 p.m. Oct. 5, Austin police were called in after a large group of protestors began marching in the roadway on Lavaca and Guadalupe streets north of Austin City Hall.
The protestors blocked parts of those streets and caused traffic backups.
Austin police responded to the area along with Texas DPS and were able to get the group to clear out shortly after 4 p.m. No injuries or arrests were reported.
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The march followed a pro-Palestine protest at City Hall around 1 p.m. A group of more than 100 people gathered on the steps, holding signs expressing solidarity with Palestinians and calling for an end to the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
Protestors also called for the US to stop sending money to Israel.
The protest and march come just two days before the one-year anniversary of the October 7th attack in Israel by Hamas.
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