I am NOT contrarian.
Do not get in a beer-soaked conversation about music with Chuck Eddy. You will feel stupid.
U.T. Experiment Grapples With Essence of Gravity
Prince of darkness
The $36 million Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment at the McDonald Observatory, in Fort Davis, could reinterpret the time-honored laws of gravity.
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Radio Station That Turned Hero Faces an Uncertain Future
Fire on the mountain
Marfa Public Radio saved lives with its coverage of the Rock House Fire, the largest wildfire in Texas history, yet the West Texas town’s Congressman wants to strip its funding.
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A Conversation With Billy Joe Shaver
Billy prefers duking it out
Here is the only interview Billy Joe Shaver has done since going on trial for shooting a man in the face outside a bar in Waco. Did Billy really tell the guy on the other end of the bullet, “Where do you want it?”
VOWS: Carolyn Wonderland and Whitney Brown
The couple, through the lens of Todd V. Wolfson
I got my “relationship” reporting career off to a promising start with the tale of the psychedelic union of a guitar-slinging songstress of the blues persuasion and a Saturday Night Live alum, whose marriage was officiated by a Monkee.
Richards and Her Hair Have Their Cultural Moment
Hair as headstone as dipped cone
If Dairy Queen was smart, they’d strike a deal with Ann Richards’s family to use their mom’s name for a limited edition dipped cone.
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With Words on Paper, Independent Defies Trend
BookshelfPeople
Jimmie Vaughan talks the joy of the blues
Birth of the cool
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Introducing GTT and The Drop Everything List
That ain't my meathead.
Austin pair Bobby Bergland and Taylor Green join throwback movement with their handcrafted cigar box guitars
Smokin'
Bobby Taylor cigar box guitars equip the merest of mortals with Hendrix-like chops.
