Eleven East - A Cultural Revival by Rebecca Murphy
With its ambitious plan for East Austin's 11th and 12th streets, The Austin Revitalization Authority stands at the complex juncture of idealism, economics, and local politics.

Carver Museum: The Little Museum with Big Ideas
by Cesar Diaz
The first museum of its kind in the state of Texas, the Carver Museum has its own role to play in East Austin's rebirth.

Aesthetic Bastion
by C.N. Coats
To the world weary traveller new in town for SXSW or Eeyore’s birthday, East Austin is the first thing they see. Huston-Tillotson is doing its part to make sure that this first impression is a good one.

Runnin' Changes at the Victory Grill
by Anthony Vasquez
Ask somebody about the Austin blues scene and they’ll probably tell you about Stevie Ray Vaughn...and about Antone’s—the self-proclaimed 'Home of the Blues.' What you probably won’t hear though, is about how the seeds of Austin’s world-famous live music scene were planted more than fifty years ago across the other side of I-35 in East Austin.

Notes From the Woodshed
by Paul Klemerer
I'm sure I'm not the only one who thought that fighting terrorism with guns and bombs was like stomping on a fire ant mound. In fact many folks I talked with just after the 9/11 attack had the same prescient thought: America will be at war for a long, long time.

Section Eight by Daniel Davis Clayton
See I’m 26 now and I’m writing my eulogy because in a few months I’ll be dead.

Govinda: Echoes of Eden
CD review by Anthony Vasquez

Elnorteamericano
short story by Evan Johnson