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The non-profit Texas Tribune launched yesterday, and I must say: Wow. So that is what a newspaper’s Web site can look like when it’s designed well and not cluttered with advertising. Great story placement, great three-color scheme, great infographics … Texas Trib, by design alone, you have made a reader out of me. Plus, I’m pretty interested to see how this whole non-profit media model pans out.
Yet another thing I love about Texas: gettin’ tased at the media police academy.
(Photos by Dave Ryan/The Enterprise)
“I don’t do interracial marriages because I don’t want to put children in a situation they didn’t bring on themselves,” Bardwell said. “In my heart, I feel the children will later suffer.”
If he does an interracial marriage for one couple, he must do the same for all, he said.
“I try to treat everyone equally,” he said.
To this day I vividly remember the emotions that washed over me when I first saw Smiley N. Pool’s photograph of a body floating in post-Katrina floodwater. I’ve been a fan of his work ever since.
He is a seven-time regional NPPA Photographer of the Year and has covered the aftermath of 9/11, hurricanes Katrina and Ike, the dragging death of nearby Jasper, TX man James Byrd Jr. and has covered the last three Olympic games.
Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground
Johnson’s haunting masterpiece “Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground)” was chosen for an album placed aboard Voyager 1 in 1977 on its journey to the ends of the universe. Foreseeing an extraterrestrial intercept, astronomer Carl Sagan and his staff put together “Sounds of Earth” - including ancient chants, the falling rain, a beating heart, Beethoven, Bach and Blind Willie.
From his Wikipedia page:
Johnson remained poor until the end of his life, preaching and singing in the streets of Beaumont, Texas to anyone who would listen. A city directory shows that in 1944, a Rev W J Johnson, undoubtedly Blind Willie, operated the House of Prayer at 1440 Forrest Street, Beaumont, Texas.[2] This is the same address listed on Blind Willie’s death certificate.
Denver Post photographer Craig F. Walker follows a soldier from recruiting through his return from a second tour of duty in Iraq.
Punk Rock and Trailer Parks, a semi-autobiographical graphic novel about Akron, Ohio’s part in 1970s punk music. While in high school, the book’s author worked at the Bank, a highly regarded punk club that hosted shows from The Ramones, Joe Strummer and Wendy O. Williams, amongst dozens of other major 70s music influences.
All of the major punk figures depicted in the book have since died. The Bank was demolished in 1996 to make room for a ballpark for minor league baseball team the Akron Aeros.
The Enterprise before and after our massive redesign that happened earlier this year.
A database of executed Texas inmates and their final words.
