39-0 Lady Chaparral's Advance to the 6A Division II State Semifinal against Shadow Creek Texas Girls High School Basketball-Hays High School Gym-Saturday afternoon February 28th 2026-Westlake (38-0) and Judson (31-6) faced off for the UIL-6A Division II Regional Final. Westlake jumped out quickly 9-2 prompting a timeout at the 6:15 mark of the first quarter. After that Westlake went on a 14-4 run prompting another timeout at the 2:19 mark with the score being 23-6. Scoring

Texas 6A Basketball-Area Playoff-New Braunfels Texas-NB Long Creek High School, Friday Evening February 27th 2026. Westlake took an early lead on a three from #24 Mack Martin, then fouled on a three Mack completed three Free Throws for a 6-0 Westlake lead. End of Q1 Westlake 13 Harlan 12. Westlake then outscored Harlan 13-7 in Q2 to lead by 7, 26-19 at the intermission. Westlake widened the margin to 15 with a 17-9 Q3 for the 43-28 lead. In control and with the clock bec

Travel-Santa Monica-Above the Santa Monica Pier during the Golden Hour Friday February 6th 2026. See more snapshots below. Santa Monica Beach with a view of the Amusement Park, Saturday February 7th 2026. Santa Monica Beach with a view of the shoreline, the amusement park and hills of Pacific Palisades Saturday February 7th 2026.

Travel-Goliath (TV Series) landmarks include where Billy Bob Thornton's character, Billy McBride, lived and worked some of the time upstairs at the Ocean Lodge Hotel and below where Billy would have dinner next door at Chez Jay. Ocean Lodge Hotel is at 1665 Ocean Avenue and Chez Jay at 1657 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica. See Chez Jay below. Chez Jay

Travel-Around Los Angeles-Abbot Kinney Boulevard in the Venice area is a"renowned mile-long stretch known as one of America's 'coolest blocks.'" Image Saturday February 7th 2026. See more below. The Tongva "are an indigenous people of California from the Los Angeles Basin and the Southern Channel Islands." [Source Wikipedia]

Travel-Around Los Angeles-Above a view of two rows of towering Palm Trees up Bay Street. Thursday February 5th 2026. See more images below. Venice beach "boardwalk" Ukelele playing Riding and walking trail Venice Beach street art People art on the riding trail Volleyballs Venice Beach hoop action Venice "Muscle Beach" outdoor gym

Travel-Iconic Los Angeles Venues-Background left "The Forum" and center SOFI Stadium-the venue for the 2027 NFL Superbowl. Image Wednesday February 4th 2026. The Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades. Nearly 1500 trees were lost at the Villa in the Palisades Fire January 7th 2025.

Travel-UCLA Campus-Above the Janss Steps, Left Royce Hall and Right Powell Library. Saturday afternoon February 7th 2026. See more below. 42 Jackie Robinson John R. Wooden John Wooden Center for student recreation John Wooden Center for student recreation John Wooden Center for student recreation. Not much pickup basketball on Saturday evening. Pauley Pavillion-UCLA defeated visting Washington 77-73. Above #0 Trent Perry scoring in the second half. Joesphine with young fa

Texas 6A High School Basketball-Connally High School-Tuesday evening February 24th 2026-Westlake captured the Bi-District Championship with a 64-45 margin over the Vista Ridge Rangers. Above #23 Alex Allen scores in the 4th quarter. It's notable that Alex came up huge in the first two quarters for Westlake. Score by Quarters; Westlake 17-14, 27-25, 44-31 and 64-45. See more images below. #4 Blake Cannatti for three #5 Bo Ogden goes deep for three. #2 Hayes Goldman on the

Around Austin-ATX Open WTA-250 Women's Professional Tennis at the Westwood Country Club Monday morning February 23rd 2026. Above Kamilla Rakhimova with a return to sixth-seeded Anna Bondar. Kamilla advanced with a two-set win 6-3, 7-5. Kamilla Rakhimova Kamilla Rakhimova Kamilla Rakhimova. The ATX Open continues with the finale Sunday March 1st 2026. For details see https://atxopen.com

Around Austin-ATX Open-WTA-250 Women's Professional Tennis at Westwood Country Club Monday morning February 23rd 2026. Above, from the deuce court, left-hander Oksana Selekhmeteva serves to Alycia Parks in their match. Oksana won nearly seventy percent of her first serve points to defeat Alycia Parks 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. See another image below. From the ad court.

Around Austin-ATX Open-Women's WTA-250 at Westwood Country Club-Monday Morning February 23rd 2026. Above Alycia Parks serves to left-hander Oksana Selekhmeteva in their match. Oksana prevailed 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 to advance. See more images of Alycia below. Alycia served with speeds up to 113 MPH Watching a lob return from Oksana Backhand. The tournament continues through Sunday March 1st 2026. Details at https://wwwatxopen.com

Around Austin-ATX Open, WTA-250 Professional Women's Tennis at the Westwood Country Club, Monday morning February 23rd 2026. Above Anna Bondar with a forehand return to Kamilla Rakhimova. Kamilla prevailed 6-3, 7-5. See another image below. Anna Bondar with a backhand return against Kamilla Rakhimova. The ATX Open continues with the finale on Sunday March 1st 2026. See https://atxopen.com for details.

Around Austin-Culinary-TAQUERIA DE DIEZ will be opening a location in West Lake Hills. According to the Austin American Statesmen [2/19/25] D/10's WLH location will be 3736 RM2244, Suite 2. See images below from their 2110 South Lamar Blvd. Suite C location. See https://www.taqueriadediez.com

Around Austin-Sunday Morning February 22nd 2026-With Winter ending March 20th above we see early flowering on Red Bud Isle.

Around Austin-Sunday Morning February 22nd 2026-Winter ends March 20th but signs of Spring are evolving now in West Austin. Above the Sycamores below the Tom Miller Dam will begin sprouting soon.

Around Austin-Westlake Girl's High School Basketball-Area Championship New Braunfels Texas, Friday evening February 20th 2026. With the 3rd quarter running down and leading 32-12, Coach Vickie Benson calls for one shot. See the perfect result below. In the waning seconds #30 Geralynn Byers-Veal heads to the hoop being fouled on the successful shot. Geralynn, who hit all her free throws in the game, made the "1" leaving 0.8 seconds for Sotomayor. Looking on for Sotomayor i

Texas Girls 6A Basketball Playoffs-New Braunfel Texas-Friday evening February 20th 2026-Westlake took the lead for good with 6:55 remaining in the second quarter. Great team play on defense and offense led to a convincing 45-21 Area Championship over Sotomayor. Score by Quarter 8-10, 24-10, 35-12 and 45-21. Sotomayor scored first and led 10-8 after the first quarter but Westlake upped the defense and blanked Sotomayor on a 16-0 second quarter run. Westlake now 37-0 will f

Around Austin-A view of West Lake Hills from the Ann Richard's Bridge Sunday morning February 15th 2026. See another image below. On the right background a view of the water tower being constructed for The Overlook Development on Lost Creek Road and Texas 360.

Texas 6A Girl's High School Basketball-Burger Gym-Tuesday evening February 17th 2026. Vista Ridge, second in their district matched up for the Bi-District Championship with Westlake-first in their district and 35-0 overall. Back on November 21st 2025, visting Westlake captured a 55-38 win in Cedar Park. Tonight's game by final score seems similar, 53-38, but scoring by Quarter suggests a closer game early on. It was a slow start initially for both teams but then Westlake