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Glasstire's staff and contributors write about the best Texas art exhibitions and events they saw in 2021.

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Vermont unemployment rate falls to 2.9 percent The Vermont seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate fell again and at 2.9 percent in March is back under 3 percent for the first time since just before the pandemic hit in early 2020. The rate reflects a decrease of one-tenth of one percentage point from the prior month’s revised estimate of 3.0 percent. Vermont now is tied for the lowest rate in the nation with three Western states. There are still over 28,000 filing unemployment claims in Vermont...

One of the best shows to ever grace the impressive gallery at Austin’s much-missed Alien Landscape by Powell St. John (1994) That display of arcane signage from the historical doings of Masons, Oddfellows, Rosicrucians, et al., came about because Domy’s Russell Etchen, always savvy about the aesthetically odd and compelling, had hooked up businesswise with Julie and Bruce Webb of the Webb Gallery in Waxahachie. The Webb Gallery is located on the ground floor of a downtown build...

“Dr. Watson, I presume?” Arthur Conan Doyle never had Sherlock Holmes say, “Dr. Watson, I presume.” It’s a mix up of the first meeting of Watson and Holmes with the meeting of the colonial explorers Dr. David Livingston and Henry Morton Stanley in Africa. What Holmes actually said, Mary would like you to know, in his opening lines of A Study in Scarlet was: “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.” Mary would have thought this, and my clarifying footnote, hilarious. This was th...