We caught up with Academy Award-winning Austinite Matthew McConaughey Thursday to talk about the lineup and production of We’re Texas, the streaming musical fundraiser he and wife Camila Alves McConaughey are hosting on March 21 at 7 p.m.
The conversation eventually turned to one of the week’s hottest topics: whether McConaughey is considering running for governor of Texas. Below is the transcript of that part of the conversation.
Austin American-Statesman: Yesterday you threw a little gas on the fire and said that running for governor is a real consideration, a true consideration. Last time we talked you said I don’t know if politics is the right avenue to affect the kind of change I want to affect. Why are you hedging more toward running now and do you have a timeline on making a decision?
Austin 360
Dorothy Garbe sat in her South Austin home in 2019 watching the New Orleans Mardi Gras parade online with her toddler, thinking of all of her friends and family who were joyfully caught up in the annual celebration. The Fear of Missing Out on her favorite time of the year took over.
She jumped online; found the algorithm mystically working in her favor; bought an airline ticket for the price of a decent bottle of wine; and within a few hours, she was standing alongside the parade route that she’d just been watching from 500 miles away.
A native of Mobile, Alabama, the birthplace of Mardi Gras in the United States, Garbe in years past has celebrated Mardi Gras in New Orleans with her family, who’ve operated a restaurant in the French Quarter for nearly 200 years.
7 Austin stories that made us smile in 2020
OK, so, we re all agreed that there was a lot of bad news this year.
On behalf of the Austin360 team, we d like to thank you for sticking with us this year. It s been brutal. As we peer into 2021 with that little spot of light just poking out of this damned tunnel we wanted to remember some good things. There were good things! Promise.
Here are seven lifestyle and entertainment stories we reported in 2020 that gave us hope, made us feel closer to the community and, dare we say, could be called good news.
Austin s most read entertainment stories of 2020
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The entertainment scene is Austin was quieter this year and when it stirred, it often brought tears instead of joy. The coronavirus pandemic changed the way Austin ate, drank, listened and watched; Austin360 was there to cover the artists, restaurants and local businesses that make this city sing.
Here are the 10 stories people read most on Austin360.com this year.
1. Shady Grove on Barton Springs Road closes permanently after 28 years in Austin
Restaurants writer Matthew Odam reported on May 11: The plug has been pulled on an Austin institution after almost 30 years. Shady Grove, the pastoral comfort food restaurant that was home to one of the longest-running free live music series in Austin, has closed for good, restaurant co-owner Rusty Zagst told the American-Statesman on Monday.