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We get by with a little help from our friends (Photo by Beth Sullivan) Long time, no column, y'all. Writing this on a balmy, sunny morning, it's hard to believe that only a week ago I was fanning smoldering Chronicle copies in my fireplace so I could boil some water alongside the hundreds of thousands of Austinites – and millions of Texans – who lost power in last week's blizzard blitz. Lots of queer orgs and businesses in Austin sprung into action in the storm's wake, either donating proceeds to local relief efforts like The Little Gay Shop's limited T-shirt sales, or o...

It's time to welcome a new org into Austin's qmmunity: Embrace Austin, which officially launches this Friday, Jan. 22. As a coalition of LGBTQIA community members, businesses, and organizations, Embrace Austin was founded with the mission to build bridges between queer people and queer initiatives, and boost Austin's queer economy, co-founders KB Brookins and AJ Majd told me. Specifically, the coalition aims to create more opportunities for collaboration and networking that help fulfill the needs of members of Austin's queer and trans family living at the intersection of multiple marginali...

Frida Friday ATX The final Frida Friday of the year features 24 vendors offering jewelry, vintage goods, handmade artistry, homewares, unique artwork, and more. Grab shopping fuel of conchas y cafecitos or a complimentary bev by Bacardi and enjoy tunes by Chorizó Funk, Kay Cali, Zetroc, and KickIt. Bonus: Kind Clinic will be on hand offering free STD/HIV screenings. No events scheduled.

>> shepard: this is san jose, california, has a big fire burning. aircraft have been dumping retardant on the landscape. you can see a firefighter on the right-hand side of the screen trying to put water on a house that really appears to be a loss at this moment. we have seen some buildings torched around the area. firefighters working hard. updates throughout the news hour. a search is underway for a woman who disappeared while she was out camping. here she is. 60-year-old missing since frida friday. she was with her husband at a remote campsite near the nevada border with california. her hus...

May support this, saying, great. you got congress sorting out, and when the president tries to break that by doing something creative, they want to break bk them from doing that as well. that's entrepreneurial policymaking that may have some effect. and that is our laws in our system but it's got to be congress that does that. >> i agree. it will come across as creative and entrepreneurial if by frida friday, and you will be a great degree for the president. on the other hand, at this very moment, president trump has no trade agreements signed. but he has this basically