One of the most memorable columns from “Austin Untold Stories,” an American-Statesman series about city parks and a predecessor to the current “Austin Answered,” was a report about three families who raised their children in the Zilker Caretaker’s Cottage, a sweet house located just downstream from Barton Springs Pool. Once hidden behind overgrowth and stored […]
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Biden Loves to Tell Tall Tales. We Cut Them Down to Size.
WASHINGTON — In President Joe Biden’s telling, he was a teenage civil rights activist, a former trucker, the first in his family to go college and the nephew of a cannibalism victim. All of these claims stretch the truth or are downright false. But Biden persists in telling personal tales with rhetorical flourishes and factual […]
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Fired Red Lobster Employees Have Quite the Tales About the “Endless Shrimp” Debacle
Red Lobster officially filed for bankruptcy Monday, after a grim week that saw nearly 100 stores shut down around the country. The restaurant chain has cycled through multiple owners and leadership cabals over the past 10 years, and each of them attempted to stabilize the chain, to no avail. One of these rescue plans was […]
Fired Red Lobster Employees Have Quite the Tales About the “Endless Shrimp” Debacle
Red Lobster officially filed for bankruptcy Monday, after a grim week that saw nearly 100 stores shut down around the country. The restaurant chain has cycled through multiple owners and leadership cabals over the past 10 years, and each of them attempted to stabilize the chain, to no avail. One of these rescue plans was […]
The Covid-19 public health emergency is over, but tales of loss remain. This website offers the bereaved a digital safe space
Four years ago, Jody Settle and his partner toasted over Guinness beers and a takeout meal they had picked up from a normally bustling Irish pub in New York City left deserted by the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. It was the last St. Patrick’s Day meal the couple would share. Settle, 58, died from […]
Tales of horror as floods hit Brazil
In all her 74 years Lorena Martins had never seen anything so horrible: a torrent of foul, rust-colored flood water engulfing her modest home in Brazil, taking away everything but her family. With help from her son-in-law, Martins steps out of a boat manned by firefighters who managed to persuade them to abandon their home […]
Tales from his sleazy past could hurt him doubly
Donald Trump held a little rally at a construction site in New York before his trial commenced on Thursday morning. He glad-handed the workers and passed out pamphlets that claimed he would end Biden’s electric vehicle mandate. They all seemed to like him but, of course, they would, as Fox News reported that the attendees were solicited […]
Trump has shared tales of courtroom spectacles with supporters. The reality is much more subdued
An email Monday night from Donald Trump – subject line: “My farewell message” – carried a fateful warning to his backers. “Tomorrow is my GAG ORDER hearing,” it read. “If things don’t go our way, I could be thrown in jail.” Ominous? Certainly. Dubious? Yes, that too. Trump faced little risk of ending up behind […]
Tales of Wilmingtonians who, back in the day, were buried under unusual circumstances
In Wilmington, we see dead people. Not only is there a thriving “ghost tour” industry, but those tours sometimes go into stories of Wilmingtonians who died or were buried under unusual circumstances: Samuel Jocelyn, supposedly buried alive at the cemetery at Fourth and Market streets; or Nancy Adams Martin, the young woman who died at […]