Category Archives: Culture
Chuck Eddy Gets Collected
Do not get in a beer-soaked conversation about music with Chuck Eddy. You will feel stupid.
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U.T. Experiment Grapples With Essence of Gravity
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
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
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 … Continue reading
VOWS: Carolyn Wonderland and Whitney Brown
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
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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Introducing GTT and The Drop Everything List
My new weekly column debuted Friday. The New York Times calls it GTT (that’s Gone to Texas for all you Yankees). Texas Monthly calls it The Drop Everything List. There are slight variations, but the goal of both is the same: … Continue reading
Austin pair Bobby Bergland and Taylor Green join throwback movement with their handcrafted cigar box guitars
Bobby Taylor cigar box guitars equip the merest of mortals with Hendrix-like chops.
From Getting High to High Art: The Strange Journey of Dock Ellis
Have you heard the one about the pitcher who hurled a no-hitter on LSD, in effect influencing the black power movement, the war on drugs, baseball’s free-agency era, plus a host of characters including skate and punk rock photographer Glen … Continue reading
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Doctor lives his faith operating in Haiti, Sudan
Austin ER doctor Jeremy Gabrysch’s faith drives him to travel the world, helping the needy. He’s been to Haiti, Latin America, and South Sudan. He hopes to someday move to Sudan with his wife and their adopted son, and operate … Continue reading
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