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Jenna Elfman Puts Her Chic Austin Abode on the Rental Market for $13.5K a Month
Actress Jenna Elfman, best known for her role on the hit sitcom "Dharma & Greg," has put her Austin, TX, house up for rent or $13,500 a month. The gorgeous midcentury home has four bedrooms, 3.5 baths, and 3,600 square feet. It sits on three-quarters of an acre and is just a few minutes from the city's lively downtown.
Heartwarming celebration held for bride-to-be on Southwest Airlines flight to Austin, Texas
AUSTIN, Texas — A bride-to-be flying to Austin for her bachelorette party got a heartwarming celebration 35,000 feet in the air. The Southwest Airlines flight crew came over the PA system on the flight to honor her with a crown, sash, and sweet notes of encouragement written on napkins by other ladies on the plane who either are married or have been married before.
90-year-old man saves dying ash tree in Round Rock with elaborate carvings
ROUND ROCK, Texas - On Dove Creek Drive in Round Rock, it’s not abnormal for neighbors to stand and gape at an old ash tree. "I'm so impressed," said Cayce Merrill, who owns the tree. "He did literally the angel and owl just today. The work alone is impressive, but his age is even more impressive."
Did you go there? Help us name a lost Austin bar on East Sixth Street
Somebody should write a history of East Sixth Street. To be fair, Allen Childs did produce the slender yet instructive volume, "Sixth Street," for Arcadia Publishing's Images of America series. Crackling tales of Sixth Street turn up in books by Jesse Sublett, Michael Corcoran and Joe Nick Patoski, among others.
This Texas Home is Every Book Lover’s Dream
If a two-story bookshelf sounds like something from your dream home, you’ll want to check out this Texas residence. Located in urban Austin, Murray Legge Architecture designed this house with the collaboration of an artist and an architectural historian. An Urbanized Exterior. This home is a secondary dwelling in...
Along came Polly: How a duck missing her bill captured the hearts and minds of Georgetown residents
Nearly everyone at All Things Wild Rehabilitation, a sanctuary for injured, orphaned and displaced wildlife in Georgetown, can agree on one thing: Polly, the sanctuary's 1-year-old Pekin duck, has never known a stranger. "She's very clingy to everybody here," said Jessica Green, one of Polly's caretakers. "She loves being a...
Why do bluebonnets grow so well along MoPac?
Geeta Persad drives by thousands of bluebonnets along MoPac Expressway on her way to work in the spring. Growing up in Austin, she’s seen wildflowers her whole life. Her family kept a bluebonnet patch in their front yard. Persad said the bluebonnets bloomed every year without fail. “I don't...
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