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- 0:10Here in Austin, you can call 311
- 0:12to deal with or report a
- 0:14variety of things, and Austinites
- 0:16did that this year, to the tune of
- 0:18nearly 300,000 requests,
- 0:21covering everything from garbage and
- 0:22loud music to animal bikes and
- 0:24scooters.
- 0:25We've got more about those requests
- 0:27and some coyotes, plus
- 0:29KUT News launched a new desk
- 0:31in 2025, the Artbeat,
- 0:34the return of a beloved outdoor
- 0:35gallery and the venues that are
- 0:37planning for the future.
- 0:39We're gonna talk the year in arts
- 0:40here in Austin.
- 0:42That is coming up next.
- 0:43The Austin Signal is a production
- 0:45of KUT News, hosted by
- 0:47Jerry Quijano.
- 0:49And the Texas football team wraps up
- 0:50their season tomorrow against
- 0:52Michigan.
- 0:53It's not the ending fans and pundits
- 0:54predicted at the start of the year.
- 0:56We've got that next on Austin
- 0:58Signal.
- 1:08Howdy out there, and thank you for
- 1:10tuning in to Austin's Signal.
- 1:12It's Tuesday, December 30th.
- 1:13We're glad you're closing out 2025
- 1:15here with us.
- 1:17I'm your host, Jerry Quijano.
- 1:19Let's get into today's
- 1:21show.
- 1:23Austin handles hundreds of thousands
- 1:24of requests each year for services
- 1:26like trash pickup, parking
- 1:27violations and noise complaints,
- 1:29things of that nature.
- 1:31And 2025 was no different.
- 1:33The city handled just short of
- 1:35300,000 of those requests
- 1:37this year.
- 1:38And KUT's government accountability
- 1:40reporter Andrew Weber took a look at
- 1:42him. He sat down with host Jennifer
- 1:43Staten to talk about what he found.
- 1:46So, Andrew, how many people
- 1:48requested service through
- 1:50311 this year?
- 1:52A lot.
- 1:53I kind of want to explain just how
- 1:55301 works.
- 1:57It's calls for service,
- 1:58stuff like trash pickup,
- 2:00recycling, composting now.
- 2:02And it also is sort of
- 2:04a clearinghouse for APD
- 2:06calls. So for non-emergency calls,
- 2:08things like fender benders and
- 2:10police reports as well.
- 2:12But of those calls that were not
- 2:14handled or transferred to APD,
- 2:16a lot of people, 285,000,
- 2:19more than 285,000 people
- 2:21in this last year.
- 2:23And Andrew, do you have a way to
- 2:25know what the most popular
- 2:26asks were?
- 2:27What were people most likely
- 2:29to call 3-1-1 about?
- 2:32Mostly trash.
- 2:33It was a lot of trash related stuff.
- 2:35Uh, 67,000 people called just
- 2:38about refuse.
- 2:39I'll say, I say that because it
- 2:41could be compost.
- 2:42It could be recycling.
- 2:43It could.
- 2:44Garbage. It could be bulk pickup of
- 2:46garbage.
- 2:47It could also be dead animals.
- 2:486,200 people called about dead
- 2:50animals, uh, but it was mostly,
- 2:52mostly that, uh, was the, was a big
- 2:54chunk of a lot of the three or one
- 2:56calls and a lot of people called
- 2:57unsurprisingly, maybe.
- 2:59About live music, 22,000
- 3:01people, 22307 people,
- 3:03uh, complain about loud noises or
- 3:06loud music, specifically in
- 3:07residential areas, near venues
- 3:09or bars and stuff like that.
- 3:11Also, maybe unsurprisingly,
- 3:13a lot of people called about illegal
- 3:14parking.
- 3:15Nearly 19,000, people called about
- 3:17either illegal parking or
- 3:20towing. Another 8,700 people called
- 3:22about towing a car.
- 3:23So, Andrew, what else stuck out
- 3:25to you in the data, like any unusual
- 3:27calls, any calls that maybe you
- 3:29weren't expecting to learn about?
- 3:31If there's a lot, there's a lot
- 3:32here, a lot of people call three on
- 3:34one for a lot of different reasons.
- 3:37394 people called three on one
- 3:38because they saw a coyote.
- 3:40A coyote.
- 3:41A coyote, which we were talking
- 3:42about this just a few minutes ago.
- 3:44Like I just saw a coyote for the
- 3:46first time in years in
- 3:48my apartment complex parking lot.
- 3:50Did you call 3-1-1?
- 3:51I didn't call 311.
- 3:52It made me think, should I have
- 3:54called 311?
- 3:55Cause a couple of my neighbors have
- 3:56tiny little dogs.
- 3:57Well, just to continue the sort of
- 3:59animal theme of 311 calls,
- 4:01I called 311 earlier
- 4:03this year because we had a
- 4:05bird flying around in our
- 4:07backyard and it flew into our window
- 4:09and the bird landed
- 4:12on the ground and could walk around
- 4:14fine, but couldn't fly
- 4:15and so we weren't sure what to do.
- 4:17So we called 3-1-1.
- 4:18They get a lot of calls for that.
- 4:20Actually, I'm glad you brought that
- 4:21up because in the numbers, we found
- 4:2423,684
- 4:26people were in maybe
- 4:28a similar situation because it's
- 4:29kind of a broad category, but they
- 4:31called for animal protection
- 4:32services, which is maybe there's
- 4:34a loose dog, maybe, maybe a bird
- 4:36flew into your window and is having
- 4:38a moment, so you weren't alone
- 4:40there.
- 4:40Now, Andrew, I do want to go back.
- 4:42You mentioned, so in addition to
- 4:44animal calls, noise
- 4:46calls, that people also
- 4:48call 3-1-1 for
- 4:50things that may require police or
- 4:51maybe they're not sure.
- 4:53You know, things like traffic
- 4:54crashes or you talked about towing
- 4:56or even police reports.
- 4:57Talk a little bit more about that
- 4:59category and what that looked like
- 5:01in 2025.
- 5:02Yes, ma'am. Those calls were just
- 5:04traffic related.
- 5:05So you get an offender bender and
- 5:07you need to work something out
- 5:08through insurance, you need have
- 5:09documentation of that.
- 5:11That was pretty on par
- 5:13with last year, but these sorts
- 5:15of calls for non-emergency
- 5:16services have increased over
- 5:18the last couple of years because
- 5:19just the Austin police department
- 5:21has been struggling to staff.
- 5:23And 301 is sort of, like I said
- 5:25earlier, kind of been like a
- 5:27clearinghouse for some of these
- 5:28non-emgency calls and that's
- 5:30something that the city has.
- 5:32Continued to lean in as it's
- 5:34sort of struggled to staff its
- 5:35police department.
- 5:36So, Andrew, 311, it's a
- 5:38city department, folks call
- 5:40311 and ask all kinds of questions
- 5:42we've been hearing about, get those
- 5:43questions answered.
- 5:45Did 311 have anything happen
- 5:47to its budget in
- 5:49this current budget cycle?
- 5:50Do they expect to maintain similar
- 5:52staffing?
- 5:53They do, they expect to maintain
- 5:55similar staffing.
- 5:56I think it was maybe two, three
- 5:57years ago that they had turnover
- 5:59and that was within 301
- 6:01and within 911, so emergency
- 6:03and non-emergency communications.
- 6:05But the city has done a very, very
- 6:06good job of staffing up that
- 6:08department.
- 6:09And they obviously have a
- 6:11lot of demand.
- 6:12Well, and given the types of calls
- 6:13you've been describing,
- 6:15noise complaints, animal,
- 6:17trash collection, doesn't sound like
- 6:19that's probably gonna abate next
- 6:20year.
- 6:21It would be, it would be incredibly
- 6:23strange if for some reason
- 6:25people stopped complaining about
- 6:27noise, maybe stopped seeing coyotes,
- 6:29um, or, you know,
- 6:30needed a bulk trash pickup.
- 6:32I know you will be tracking all of
- 6:34that, Andrew. Andrew Weber is KUT's
- 6:36Government Accountability Reporter.
- 6:38And Andrew, thanks for joining us
- 6:39with all this 311 data.
- 6:41Yes, ma'am. Thank you, Jim.
- 6:42And you can keep up with more of
- 6:44Andrew's work at KUT.org.
- 6:51Texas football is ringing in the
- 6:53new year in Florida, where they'll
- 6:55play the Michigan Wolverines in what
- 6:56typically would be seen as a marquee
- 6:58game. But as the season ends,
- 7:01KUT's Jimmy Maas reports both teams
- 7:03enter the matchup with perhaps more
- 7:05questions than answers.
- 7:07If in August, you said Texas
- 7:10would be playing Michigan in
- 7:11December, Texas fans would
- 7:13have guessed, great season,
- 7:15they are in the playoffs.
- 7:16But the season that started so
- 7:18promisingly in Columbus, Ohio.
- 7:20This is a gift from the football
- 7:22gods take
- 7:22Meet Awake with
- 7:25the preseason top ranking.
- 7:26The expectations could not be
- 7:28any higher.
- 7:29They say everything's bigger in
- 7:30Texas. Well, the expectations for
- 7:32Arch Manning are bigger.
- 7:33Is ending in the Cheez-It
- 7:35Citrus Bowl and part
- 7:37of that reason is Texas pressing
- 7:40their luck with the schedule.
- 7:42The school is not shied away from
- 7:44taking on big blue blood schools
- 7:46in non-conference play, beating
- 7:47Michigan and Alabama on its way to
- 7:49the college ball play off the last
- 7:51two seasons.
- 7:52But this year?
- 7:55Offensive Jim.
- 7:57But in the end.
- 8:00The national champions prevail
- 8:0314
- 8:05to 7 Ohio
- 8:07State defeats
- 8:09Texas.
- 8:09A loss to Ohio State is not
- 8:11irredeemable.
- 8:13All Texas had to do was hold on
- 8:15through conference play.
- 8:26And a valiant effort from Mark
- 8:28Spanning, Lewis.
- 8:31This is a heartbreaking loss so
- 8:34many expectations for Texas
- 8:36Despite this, all was not lost.
- 8:37Texas turned the season around.
- 8:39Red River belongs to Texas for
- 8:41the second consecutive year
- 8:43knocking off their
- 8:45unbeaten arch rivals 23
- 8:48to 6.
- 8:49And picked up some bragging rights
- 8:50along the way, beating its rivals
- 8:52and three of the five teams ranked
- 8:54in the top 10 they faced this
- 8:56season, more than any other team
- 8:58in the NCAA.
- 9:07But Texas was down to its
- 9:09last spin, arguing its case
- 9:11to the selection committee.
- 9:13You want us not to schedule Ohio
- 9:14State? Because if we're a 10 and 2
- 9:16team right now, this isn't
- 9:18a discussion.
- 9:19We're in the playoff.
- 9:20But we were willing to go up there
- 9:21and play that game.
- 9:23And so now, when you play five
- 9:25top 10 ranked teams in the regular
- 9:27season, and you go three and two,
- 9:29you beat three of them, and your
- 9:31schedule in Ohio State at a
- 9:32conference play, I surely don't
- 9:34think we want to punish us to do
- 9:35that. Because what are we all going
- 9:37to do? We're all going get out of
- 9:38those games. Just like a lot of
- 9:40other teams in the country have
- 9:41done. Stop! Oh, you're
- 9:45out!
- 9:49Texas was not selected to the
- 9:50college football playoff for the
- 9:51first time since the 2022 season,
- 9:54which meant change for the program.
- 9:57Despite their defense carrying them
- 9:58through several key moments of games
- 10:00this season, defensive coordinator
- 10:01Pete Kwikowski was let go in favor
- 10:03of former Texas coordinator,
- 10:05Will Muschamp.
- 10:07Other assistant coaches were let go.
- 10:08Among the players, many of the
- 10:10defensive starters and featured
- 10:11running backs are opting out of the
- 10:13bowl game to prep for either the NFL
- 10:15draft or the transfer portal,
- 10:17such as Modern College Football.
- 10:19And that may not be all the changes
- 10:21for Texas this off season.
- 10:23And as tumultuous as the month has
- 10:24been since Texas beat Texas A&M,
- 10:27it is nothing compared to what's
- 10:28happened at Michigan.
- 10:29The Michigan Wolverines have
- 10:32fired its head coach, Sharon Moore,
- 10:35for cause, citing
- 10:37quote credible evidence, end
- 10:39quote, of an inappropriate
- 10:40relationship with
- 10:42a staff member.
- 10:43The woman involved was not
- 10:44identified.
- 10:45But as word of his termination was
- 10:47spreading, police were called to the
- 10:49home of his executive assistant.
- 10:51Now he faces charges of stalking
- 10:52and home invasion.
- 10:54Go back and forth between,
- 10:57my gosh, the football aspect
- 10:59of it, but more importantly,
- 11:01the personal aspect of it.
- 11:03Because right now, family
- 11:04and lives are shattered.
- 11:06Michigan hired its new head coach
- 11:07Kyle Whittingham over the weekend.
- 11:09The Wolverines will be led in
- 11:10Orlando at the game by interim coach
- 11:12Biff Poggi, who has had his
- 11:14hands full. With everything but
- 11:16football.
- 11:16It's just a lot of listening,
- 11:18a lot of talking, a lot
- 11:20of talking to the kids.
- 11:23And we have
- 11:25we've changed basically everything.
- 11:28So both teams.
- 11:28Take the field New Year's Eve
- 11:31afternoon looking toward the
- 11:33future looking to press their luck
- 11:34once again Michigan Texas
- 11:37in one of the
- 11:38top snack sponsored bowl games of
- 11:41the season the Cheez-It Citrus
- 11:43Bowl
- 11:43Who's ready to show who's
- 11:45the cheesiest? I woke up feeling the
- 11:47cheeziest, coach!
- 11:48I'm Jimmy Maas.
- 11:50And we have more Austin Signal
- 11:52coming up after this break.
- 11:54Thank you for tuning in today.
- 12:00You're listening to the Austin
- 12:02signal.
- 12:03Hi, I'm Rene Chavez, an audio
- 12:04engineer for KUTKTX.
- 12:07And one of my favorite songs out of
- 12:08Austin from 2025 is Bravo,
- 12:10featuring Ile by Adrian Quesada.
- 12:13Adrienne hardly needs an intro.
- 12:15He is a former founding member of
- 12:17Grupo Fantasma, who has gone
- 12:19on to have a...
- 12:20Very successful and storied solo
- 12:22career, putting out records that
- 12:23explore, celebrate,
- 12:25and fuse various sounds and
- 12:27genres from American and Latin
- 12:29American music styles.
- 12:31Bravo!
- 12:35His current frontier is the bolero,
- 12:38the heartbreak love song ballads
- 12:40made famous by groups like Trio Los
- 12:41Panchos, Juan Gabriel, Luis Miguel,
- 12:44and others.
- 12:47Quesada, alongside the other really
- 12:49talented musicians and artists that
- 12:51he collabs with, are bringing a
- 12:53decidedly psychedelic tone to
- 12:55the format and
- 12:57have put out a second record called
- 12:59Boleros Cicadelicos II,
- 13:01on which is Bravo,
- 13:03itself being a cover of a rendition
- 13:05of a classic bolero tune.
- 13:07The arrangement is fantastic on the
- 13:08track, of course, but where the
- 13:09magic really lies is Ile's vocal
- 13:11performance.
- 13:12It's an incredibly emotional,
- 13:14heartbreaking delivery.
- 13:15And it guts me every time I hear it
- 13:17in a really great way.
- 13:18De odio tanto,
- 13:22que yo misma me espanto
- 13:24De mi forma
- 13:27de odio
- 13:28Now, Ile, who's
- 13:30an incredibly successful artist and
- 13:31performer in her own right, brings
- 13:33in a depth of pain into
- 13:35the song that makes it
- 13:36heartbreakingly beautiful.
- 13:38Now, those things are defining
- 13:39features of these kinds of songs,
- 13:40but what I really like about this
- 13:42one is the character of the song
- 13:44is applauding their heartbreaker
- 13:46at being so devastatingly
- 13:49efficient and crushing them.
- 13:51And towards the end of the songs,
- 13:52the band chokes when they reprise
- 13:54the first verse and Ile
- 13:56just drops the word bravo.
- 13:57Kind of spoken word.
- 13:58And it's, it's just amazing.
- 14:01It's such a it's such it's my
- 14:02favorite part of the song.
- 14:03And she does it so well.
- 14:08They all do your
- 14:09The vibe is devastating.
- 14:11But you don't have to take my word
- 14:12for it, there's video proof.
- 14:13Adrian Quesada and Ile and the full
- 14:15band came by KUTX's Studio
- 14:171A back in August of 2025 and
- 14:19performed it for us.
- 14:22You can find that video and more of
- 14:24our favorite songs from 2025 over
- 14:26at KUTx.org.
- 14:27I'm Rene Chavez, and this is the
- 14:29Austin Signal.
- 14:33El infierno
- 14:35resulta un
- 14:37cielo
- 14:40This is Austin Signal.
- 14:41Thank you for making us part of your
- 14:43day. As we are bringing 2025
- 14:46to a close, we're looking and
- 14:48listening back to some of our
- 14:49favorite things from the year that
- 14:51was. One very fine thing that
- 14:53happened this year was the addition
- 14:54of a dedicated arts desk to the
- 14:56KUT newsroom.
- 14:57Stephanie Federico is the editor of
- 14:59that arts desk and she's with us now
- 15:01on Austin Signal, howdy Stephanie.
- 15:02Hey, Jerry.
- 15:04Avid listeners of KUT
- 15:06and KUTX are no doubt familiar
- 15:08with how federal budget cuts
- 15:10have impacted local businesses in
- 15:112025.
- 15:13The Austin art scene was not immune
- 15:15to those struggles, correct?
- 15:18Yeah, a lot
- 15:20of arts organizations were
- 15:22notified by the National Endowment
- 15:24of the Arts early this spring that
- 15:26their funding was going to be clawed
- 15:28back.
- 15:29And they were expecting $20,000
- 15:31grants, whatever size grants.
- 15:33And suddenly, they were told that
- 15:35their mission no longer aligned with
- 15:37the administration's priorities.
- 15:38And so I think that was a
- 15:40bit of a surprise for a lot of
- 15:41folks, a shock for a lots of folks
- 15:43who were depending on that money to
- 15:45thrive in this year.
- 15:46Out.
- 15:47I'm not sure if federal funding cuts
- 15:49had anything to do with
- 15:51what happened with the Hideout
- 15:52Theater, but I know they're having
- 15:53to move their location, right?
- 15:55Yeah, they are.
- 15:57Yeah, rents went up and that's
- 15:59a familiar story.
- 15:59A lot of other little theaters
- 16:02that got pushed out over
- 16:04the past decade or so, you know,
- 16:06this is, you know, Austin
- 16:08is one of the wealthiest cities in
- 16:09the country.
- 16:10You know, we had a big tech boom and
- 16:12you've got millionaires and
- 16:13billionaires moving here and what
- 16:15that does is it raises the cost
- 16:16of living.
- 16:17And so rents go up and
- 16:19folks who cannot afford to
- 16:21pay those rents are getting pushed
- 16:23out in the hideout theater.
- 16:25They are moving down a little bit
- 16:27south of the river on I-35 on
- 16:29the frontage road there with like
- 16:31Good Dad Studios is over there too.
- 16:35Folks are getting pushed out because
- 16:36rents go up.
- 16:38And, you know, with the lack of
- 16:39funding from the federal government,
- 16:42a bunch of different organizations
- 16:43got letters saying that their, that
- 16:46their priority is no longer aligned.
- 16:48Zach theater, Museum of Human
- 16:50Achievement, AFS,
- 16:54among other folks, women in their
- 16:55work also lost
- 16:57their funding this year from federal
- 16:58government. So it's been tough.
- 17:00And on the flip side of that,
- 17:02we're talking about the tinier
- 17:04theaters. We also have these bigger
- 17:05theaters in downtown Austin, the
- 17:07Paramount and the state side.
- 17:09They are looking for a lot more
- 17:11money as well because they're gonna
- 17:12be undergoing some renovations,
- 17:13right?
- 17:14Yeah, they announced back, I think,
- 17:16last month, was it? I believe so.
- 17:18$55 million capital
- 17:20campaign.
- 17:22They're looking for money to
- 17:23completely redo the state theater
- 17:25and then renovate the
- 17:27Paramount Theater.
- 17:29And when they're asking for
- 17:31that money and then there are the
- 17:32little organizations that are asking
- 17:33for money, it's kind of like where,
- 17:36if you do have that money
- 17:38to donate, who are you going to
- 17:39donate to?
- 17:40And everybody wants the
- 17:42same slice of the pie.
- 17:43So. It's going to be tough.
- 17:45It's gonna be a tough choice.
- 17:46Let's talk about a little bit
- 17:48happier, lighter news.
- 17:49We did lose some things like that
- 17:51federal funding in 2025, but we
- 17:53gained other things, including
- 17:54another return last month of an
- 17:56Austin tradition.
- 17:56What was that?
- 17:58Oh, yeah, the Hope outdoor gallery
- 18:00reopened down south out
- 18:02near the airport on Dalton Road.
- 18:04And it's not the
- 18:06same thing.
- 18:07So people can't go expecting that,
- 18:09you know, you have the same thing
- 18:11that you did over at Castle Hill,
- 18:12where there's just like these big,
- 18:15you know,
- 18:17slabs of concrete and people just
- 18:19putting up murals left and right and
- 18:20everything. It's an actual gallery,
- 18:22you you There's a 6,000
- 18:24square foot gallery that has
- 18:26curated exhibits and it
- 18:28can be used as an event space.
- 18:31And then on the
- 18:33outer sides of the property,
- 18:35you can bring
- 18:36your spray paint and do
- 18:39your tagging or do your own
- 18:41creations on the outside.
- 18:42But yeah, it's pretty cool.
- 18:44But it's not something that you
- 18:45would just stumble over, like just
- 18:47walking along.
- 18:48You have to make a trip out of it
- 18:50and go down there.
- 18:51And it's not the same physical space
- 18:54like you're saying not the old space
- 18:55of people were used to But it sounds
- 18:57like the people behind it are trying
- 18:58to keep the same spirit
- 19:00of what used to be a castle hill,
- 19:01right?
- 19:02Yeah, they want to keep the same
- 19:03vibe, you know, and like Castle
- 19:04Hill, it's free.
- 19:06So that's a great thing.
- 19:07Um, and they want
- 19:09it to be a space where people can
- 19:10try things and be weird.
- 19:12So yeah.
- 19:13Excellent. Well, Austin is a great
- 19:15place to be weird.
- 19:17And speaking of that, you took on
- 19:18this new role and
- 19:20next to your desk, there's been a
- 19:22very weird, simple question
- 19:23plastered on a whiteboard.
- 19:25It says, what is arts?
- 19:26I think that's too big of a question
- 19:27for us to tackle here in Austin
- 19:29signal, but in what
- 19:30new ways are you seeing and
- 19:32interacting with art since taking on
- 19:33your new role?
- 19:34I wasn't expecting this question.
- 19:38Well, that's okay.
- 19:40I've just, you know,
- 19:42there is so much
- 19:45art in this city and it's
- 19:46kind of overwhelming.
- 19:47Like I'm getting a million different
- 19:49emails and people are passing along
- 19:51things that I had no idea
- 19:53about.
- 19:55And it's just such a
- 19:57larger community than I
- 19:58ever realized.
- 19:59And it is just exciting for
- 20:01me. Like it's so, there's so
- 20:03many creative people here and there
- 20:05are so many different little facets
- 20:07and theaters and just.
- 20:09Little musical groups that I
- 20:11had no idea about.
- 20:13And it's really been kind of
- 20:15overwhelming to kind of decide what
- 20:18rises to the level of coverage.
- 20:19What do we wanna cover?
- 20:21But next year, we're gonna launch
- 20:23a newsletter.
- 20:25And I think that'll be a way
- 20:27for us to get even more
- 20:29out there to the public, to our
- 20:30audience, just to like, because
- 20:31there are so many things and I'm
- 20:32just like, let's do this, let' do
- 20:34this. And I just, I am one person.
- 20:36You know, I have a few freelancers
- 20:38and, of course, people on staff who
- 20:40are interested in the arts
- 20:41and want to contribute stories and
- 20:43everything, but there's just so
- 20:45much and I
- 20:47would love to share it with our
- 20:49audience and get things out there
- 20:50and get people going to the arts,
- 20:53and finding out about things that
- 20:54they had no idea about, like
- 20:56me.
- 20:57So, yeah, all those little hidden
- 20:59things, the little gems that are
- 21:01out there that are you know,
- 21:02accessible and maybe free and,
- 21:05you know it doesn't have to be get
- 21:07all dressed up and spend a lot of
- 21:08money and go out on the town.
- 21:10There are just like little, little
- 21:11things like they're the shed shows
- 21:13which I don't know if you know about
- 21:15Jerry.
- 21:15No, I don't
- 21:16It's over here near
- 21:18UT campus, um,
- 21:20and it's just like a shed and there
- 21:22are just exhibits that change every
- 21:24now and again. And it's something
- 21:25you could stop by for 10 minutes and
- 21:27it is free. And there, there it is.
- 21:29And it is really, really cool.
- 21:30And it sounds like something you
- 21:31might walk by without knowing
- 21:33that it was even there, right?
- 21:34Totally, totally.
- 21:36Yeah. So there are a lot of little
- 21:37things going on in this city and
- 21:39I'm excited to share them with
- 21:41our audience.
- 21:41We're happy that you're going to be
- 21:43exploring those and we'll be getting
- 21:44to take part in them here on
- 21:46Austin Signal.
- 21:47We've been speaking with Stephanie
- 21:48Federico. She is the editor of the
- 21:50Arts Desk here at KUT
- 21:52News.
- 21:53Stephanie, thank you for your time
- 21:54and let me be the first to wish you
- 21:56a happy Artsy 2026.
- 21:57Thank you,
- 21:59Terri.
- 22:00And you can find more from
- 22:02the KUT Art Beat
- 22:04over at KUT.org.
- 22:06We've had a few stories put
- 22:08out on the website since we spoke
- 22:10with Stephanie, and you can more
- 22:11from us over at
- 22:13kut.org slash
- 22:15signal, including all the episodes
- 22:17that we made in 2025.
- 22:20We've got one more to make tomorrow,
- 22:22and that's at the same time,
- 22:24one o'clock right here on KUT News
- 22:2690.5 on
- 22:28the KUT app and again online.
- 22:31Kut.org.
- 22:33Thank you to Andrew Weber,
- 22:35Jennifer Stayton, Jimmy Maas, Rene
- 22:37Chavez, and Stephanie Federico
- 22:39for their help with today's
- 22:41episode.
- 22:42Kristen Cabrera is our managing
- 22:44producer and Rayna Sevilla
- 22:45is our technical director.
- 22:48I'm your host, Jerry Quijano.
- 22:50Have a great day and we'll talk to
- 22:51you tomorrow.