Posts by Sophie Clearwater
Austin, Fredericksburg museums among top 10 best history museums in US
[ad_1] AUSTIN (KXAN) — USA Today recently released its list of the top 10 history museums in the nation, and two of the spots were given to Texas museums. Taking the No. 10 spot was the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin. The Bullock museum, which opened in 2001, is the official history museum…
Read MoreBlack Identity Across Continents: An Interview With Artists Nolan Oswald Dennis and Deborah-Joyce Holman
[ad_1] Nolan Oswald Dennis’ “overturns” at the Swiss Institute explores decolonization, Black liberation and Indigenous resistance. Photo by Daniel Perez. Courtesy the Swiss Institute “It feels like it came out of a shared community,” the Johannesburg-based South African artist Nolan Oswald Dennis tells Observer about making his U.S. institutional debut alongside London-based Swiss artist Deborah-Joyce…
Read MoreGene Hackman’s Daughter Leslie Says He Was in “Good Health” Before His Death – E! Online
[ad_1] Gene Hackman’s Daughter Elizabeth Jean Hackman Speaks Out After Death of Actor, Wife and Dog Gene Hackman’s daughter Leslie Anne Hackman knew her father to be in prime health. In fact, according to Leslie, the Oscar-winning actor, 95, was active before he was found dead in his Santa Fe home, alongside his wife Betsy…
Read MoreOpenAI Co-Founder Andrej Karpathy Is Making Waves in the A.I. Startup World
[ad_1] Andrej Karpathy speaks at the Train AI conference in San Francisco in 2018 while serving as Tesla’s head of A.I. Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images Andrej Karpathy, an OpenAI co-founder and research scientist who has quit the A.I. powerhouse twice, has been making waves in the startup world since his last…
Read MoreHoda Kotb Makes Surprise Return to Today Less Than 2 Months After Leaving Show – E! Online
[ad_1] Savannah Guthrie Opens Up About Hoda Kotb’s Departure from Today Show (Exclusive) Hoda Kotb is letting the good times roll. The former Today cohost made a surprise return to the NBC morning news show less than two months after she bid farewell to her longtime workplace after nearly 17 years. Hoda appeared during the…
Read MoreHistoric lunar landing by Austin-area based Firefly Aerospace is this weekend
[ad_1] This image captured by Blue Ghost One shows the lunar surface in greater detail. (Credit: Firefly Aerospace) Cedar Park, TX (KXAN) — In the early morning hours of Sunday, March 2, a lunar lander built just north of Austin, Texas will touchdown on the lunar surface. It will be the first lunar lander built…
Read MoreThe Essentials With Dan Pelosi: Carrot Cake, Ina Garten and Comfort Cooking
[ad_1] Dan “Grossy” Pelosi is hardly your typical culinary star. He doesn’t run a Michelin-starred dining room, and he isn’t trying to. Instead, the affable, design-minded tastemaker has carved out a space all his own—one that starts (and ends) around his upstate New York kitchen table. Best known to his legion of fans simply as…
Read MoreGene Hackman Investigation: Sheriff Reveals How Long Actor & Wife Were Dead Before Discovery – E! Online
[ad_1] Authorities are piecing together more information about Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa‘s deaths. After the couple and one of their three dogs were found dead in their New Mexico home Feb. 26, Santa Fe County Sheriff Adam Mendoza shared how long he believed the bodies were there before they were found. “It’s very difficult…
Read MoreInvestigation underway after 911 caller says they killed their roommate, WCSO says
[ad_1] WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — The Williamson County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a homicide Friday just outside of the Georgetown city limits. Deputies responded early Friday morning after a person reported to 911 that they “killed their roommate,” WCSO said in the release. The incident happened in a cul-de-sac in the 100 block of…
Read MoreTexas Measles Cases Rise to 146 in Concerning Outbreak
[ad_1] DALLAS — The number of people with measles in Texas increased to 146 in an outbreak that led this week to the death of an unvaccinated school-aged child, health officials said Friday. The number of cases — Texas’ largest in nearly 30 years — increased by 22 since Tuesday. The Texas Department of State…
Read MoreGene Hackman Death: Sheriff Says Prescription Bill Bottle Found Near Wife Is “Very Important Evidence” – E! Online
[ad_1] Investigators are zeroing in on new evidence in the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa. Specifically, Santa Fe County Sheriff Adam Mendoza cited an open prescription pill bottle found near Arakawa’s body, first mentioned in an affidavit for a search warrant obtained by NBC News Feb. 27, as a crucial detail authorities are…
Read MoreMattress Factory’s Danny Bracken On Eugene Macki’s ‘Reification’
[ad_1] Macki’s immersive installation forces visitors to move through the space with intention, shifting perspectives on labor, worth and the unseen. Courtesy the artist and Mattress Factory What, exactly, is reification? The exhibition notes for the show of the same name at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh through November define it like so: “The process…
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