Hot fun at the Hot Sauce Festival

 

Kaela Garcia, 14, and her boyfriend Eric Govea, 14, sample some salsa at the 19th annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival at Waterloo Park on Sunday Aug. 29, 2009. Photo by Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman

 

Julie Ahearn grimaces as she samples an extra-hot salsa at the 19th annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival at Waterloo Park on Sunday Aug. 29, 2009. Photo by Jay Janner/Austin Ameican-Statesman

 What better way to spend a sizzling hot summer day than to eat salsa? Thousands came out to Waterloo Park for the 19th annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival where they sampled about 350 salsas that were entered in the hot sauce contest. Two of the salsas were so hot that they came with a warning sign. That didn’t stop many from trying them – and paying the consequences.

Bowie Bulldogs charge into the season

 

Bowie High School players run through their bulldog tunnel to take the field against Vista Ridge in the first game of the season on Thursday Aug. 27, 2009, at Burger Stadium. Bowie won 38-7. Photo by Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman

The cut always hurts

 

Travis Coxe of Baton Rouge, La., looks disgustedly at his putter on the 18th green after finishing his round at the Horseshoe Bay Resort Classic on Wednesday Aug. 26, 2009. Coxe was among half of the 122 competitors who missed the cut. Photo by Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman

From Kevin Robbins’ story examining the cut in golf:   Baseball has its seventh-inning stretch. Football has a halftime. Professional golf has a cut: a pruning of the field that eliminates more than half of the players who began the tournament planning, hoping, dreaming or praying to play at a level that allows them to play the weekend.

Winningest coach in Texas history comes out of retirement

 

Head coach G.A. Moore watches his team practice at Aubrey High School in Aubrey on Tuesday Aug. 18, 2009. Photo by Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman

 

Head coach G.A. Moore prays with his team after practice at Aubrey High School in Aubrey on Tuesday Aug. 18, 2009. Photo by Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman

I took a drive to Aubrey, Texas, last week to photograph legendary high school football coach G.A. Moore with his new team at Aubrey High School. Moore, 70, is the winningest high school football coach in Texas history. He decided to come out of a five-year retirement to coach Aubrey, a team that has never been to state. Moore begins his 43rd season coaching small town Texas football on Friday.

See the video shot by Kevin Robbins and produced by Jenni Jones.

Hutchison kicks off gubernatorial campaign

 

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison announces her bid for Texas governor on the University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas, on Monday Aug. 17, 2009. Photo by Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman

“Shorts” movie premier

 

Stars of the movie "Shorts", left to right, Jolie Vanier, Director Robert Rodriguez, Jimmy Bennett, Rebel Rodriguez and Racer Rodriguez arrive on the red carpet at the premier of "Shorts" at the Paramount Theatre on Sunday Aug. 16, 2009. Photo by Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman

 

"Shorts" director Robert Rodriguez takes some photographs at the premier of his movie at the Paramount Theatre on Sunday Aug. 16, 2009. Photo by Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman

My last two assignments have been on the red carpet.  On Thursday I photographed Latin music stars arriving for Premios Texas, and today I photographed the premier of Robert Rodriguez’ movie “Shorts.”  I’m starting to feel like a Hollywood paparazzo.   For a moment Rodriguez joined us photographers in taking his own snapshots of his two sons who are stars in the movie.

Olga Tañon lights up Premios Texas Latino music awards

 

Two-time Grammy award winning Latin pop star Olga Tañon gets a hug from a fan Marisabel Martinez, 9, on the red carpet at Premios Texas at the Long Center on Thursday Aug. 13, 2009. Photo by Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman

 

Olga Tañ–on performs at Premios Texas at the Long Center on Thursday Aug. 13, 2009. Photo by Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman

 

I spent a couple of hours last night on the red carpet at Premios Texas Latin music awards photographing a some of the hottest Latin pop stars.  There were bursts of screaming as each limo pulled up to the red carpet, but the loudest was saved for the last –  two-time Grammy award winning Latin pop star Olga Tañon.

See the complete photo gallery here.

Finally rain

 

A short but heavy rainstorm hit downtown Austin on Wednesday Aug. 12, 2009. Photo by Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman

Bishop Aymond says goodbye

 

Bishop Gregory Aymond conducts his last Mass in Austin at San Jose Catholic Church on Monday Aug. 10, 2009. He is leaving to become the Archbishop of New Orleans. Photo by Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman

 

Keeping his cool

 

Ruben Carcamo, 5, emerges from the Colorado River after snorkeling under the Highway 183 bridge on Sunday Aug. 9, 2009. Photo by Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman