Michael Hoinski

Chuck Eddy Gets Collected

Michael Hoinski — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:06:48 +0000

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

Michael Hoinski — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:31:21 +0000

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.

Radio Station That Turned Hero Faces an Uncertain Future

Michael Hoinski — Mon, 23 May 2011 03:29:22 +0000

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.

A Conversation With Billy Joe Shaver

Michael Hoinski — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:34:07 +0000

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

Michael Hoinski — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:28:23 +0000

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

Michael Hoinski — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:45:19 +0000

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.

With Words on Paper, Independent Defies Trend

Michael Hoinski — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:04:45 +0000

BookshelfPeople

E-books don’t intimidate BookPeople. The Austin indie bookstore has already slayed (or is it slain?) one other giant, big-box chains.

Jimmie Vaughan talks the joy of the blues

Michael Hoinski — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:57:02 +0000

Birth of the cool

Jimmie Vaughan is hardly just Stevie Ray Vaughan’s big brother. He is a “cat-daddy” elderstatesman of the Austin blues scene.

Introducing GTT and The Drop Everything List

Michael Hoinski — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:23:25 +0000

That ain't my meathead.

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: to highlight the must-do events around the state of Texas for the week.

Austin pair Bobby Bergland and Taylor Green join throwback movement with their handcrafted cigar box guitars

Michael Hoinski — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 02:55:22 +0000

Smokin'

Bobby Taylor cigar box guitars equip the merest of mortals with Hendrix-like chops.