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.
Filed under Culture
With Words on Paper, Independent Defies Trend
E-books don’t intimidate BookPeople. The Austin indie bookstore has already slayed (or is it slain?) one other giant, big-box chains.
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: 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
Bobby Taylor cigar box guitars equip the merest of mortals with Hendrix-like chops.
Relix Spotlight: Deer Tick
John McCauley likes to rub his fiance in mustard and run around hotel rooms. The songs on his band Deer Tick’s new album, The Black Dirt Sessions, are about the girls before her.
Filed under Music


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