Amarillo native, actress Mercer dies

06/01/11 When Ernestine "Ernie Babe" Mercer was still a kid singing and dancing at the Paramount Theater in downtown Amarillo in the 1930s, she already had star quality. That's how her childhood friend, Jane Parge, remembers her from the time the girls met in 1936. Mercer, an Amarillo native who was a popular cabaret singer and made a late-in-life resurgence on television and film, died Friday in Adams ...

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John Lasseter and Caroline Thompson to Receive 2011 Austin Film Festival Awards

06/14/11 John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, will receive the 2011 Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award at the 2011 Austin Film Festival. Past winners include Danny Boyle and the late Sydney Pollack. Caroline Thompson, whose writing credits include "Edward Scissorhands," "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Corpse Bride," will receive the 2011 ...

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Crews re-stripe South Congress parking spots

07/06/11   AUSTIN, TX -- City Construction teams are taking over South Congress Avenue. Crews worked overnight Tuesday into Wednesday to begin re-striping parking lanes. The new parking spots are back-angled design. Those spaces now stretch northbound on S. Congress Avenue from Leland to James Street. The new parking design is similar to parking along W. 6th Street and Dean Keeton. Some business owners ...

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