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Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth, by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford. Reprinted by arrangement with Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, a Penguin Random House company. Copyright Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford, 2021.
Kaye Tucker thought she had come up with a clever idea. If everything fell into place just right, she could accomplish two things at once: transform the Alamo into a world-class historical site and help an aging British rock star clean out his basement.
The path to that strange opportunity began about a decade ago, when Tucker was given an important assignment. A mid-level bureaucrat in the General Land Office, she was tasked with helping turn things around at the Alamo, where visitor surveys show that most tourists are disappointed with the outdated exhibits and lowbrow surroundings. In 2011 the Texas Legislature had asked land commissioner Jerry Patterson to shore up the
The 2021 Texas Tribune Festival will take place virtually Sept. 20-25.
Mark your calendars: The 11th annual Texas Tribune Festival will be the third full week of September, kicking off on Monday the 20th and concluding on Saturday the 25th. We’re planning the usual array of one-on-one interviews with leading Texas and national lights from the worlds of politics and public policy, plus panel discussions and other creative formats designed to inspire you to participate civically to be a more active and productive citizen.
We’ll talk education, health care, infrastructure, energy, climate, immigration, ethics and more. We’ll focus on the aftermath of the winter storm, the winding down of the pandemic, the comeback of the economy and the persistence of systemic racism. We’ll mop up the 2021 regular legislative session and look ahead to redistricting and the coming special session, and with an election year around the corner we’ll be all about politics and #tx2022.
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Tags: The 2021 Texas Tribune Festival will take place virtually Sept. 20-25.
Mark your calendars: The 11th annual Texas Tribune Festival will be the third full week of September, kicking off on Monday the 20th and concluding on Saturday the 25th. We’re planning the usual array of one-on-one interviews with leading Texas and national lights from the worlds of politics and public policy, plus panel discussions and other creative formats designed to inspire you to participate civically to be a more active and productive citizen.
We’ll talk education, health care, infrastructure, energy, climate, immigration, ethics and more. We’ll focus on the aftermath of the winter storm, the winding down of the pandemic, the comeback of the economy and the persistence of systemic racism. We’ll mop up the 2021 regular legislative session and look ahead to redistricting and the coming special sess
As the coronavirus pandemic drags on, some forms of the arts are finding ways to continue at least in some capacity in our new socially-distanced reality. But live music, which relied on closely packing venues with fans, remains silenced. That’s why live venues are banding together to ask for help to “save our stages.” coronavirus Dec 5, 2020