Frankie Crooks has roots in Courtland Church, a small 19th-century house of God set in the northeast Texas city of Atlanta ... between Houston and Austin. "I know churches.

Green beer, whiskey-soaked shindigs, and enough shamrocks to make a leprechaun dizzy — Austin's about to erupt in a St. Patrick's Day frenzy. This year, luck is found at the bottom of a pint ...