Leave Your Body Behind
RIP Roky Erickson — in the week since his death, there have been articles and tributes aplenty to the pioneer of psychedelic music who came screaming out of Texas in the 60s with the 13th Floor...
View ArticleWill T. Massey “Slow Study” Release — 30 Years Ago @ Chicago House
The year was 1989. Despite the demise of the Dillo a decade earlier, the Austin music scene was thriving. Touring acts from rock to reggae to punk to world beat played Liberty Lunch. Antone’s hosted...
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Travel in the Time of COVID-19
with apologies to Gabriel Garcia Marquez Okay, travel ain’t love and COVID-19 ain’t cholera. But my planned travel back to Austin for SXSW Edu certainly earned some caution from friends. I must admit I...
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Live! in Your Living Room!
With ongoing social distance measures intensifying with many people ordered to take it a step further and shelter in place, it’s good to see members of the arts community step up to offer live...
View ArticleAnother Bar Bites the Dust — Farewell, One-2-One
We are sad to say that we are no longer going to continue, and One-2-One Bar is now for sale. — August 20 social media post from Gregg & Destinee Ware, owners of Austin’s One-2-One Bar Even from a...
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Hazy Memories of Dillo Daze, 50 Years On
A baggie of pot sat on the floor just a few feet away. Someone dropped it, I figured, looking around to see if anyone else spotted it yet. No, and the baggie was kinda of perched precariously in the...
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Welcome to Austin —10 Minutes Too Late…
Everyone arrives in Austin 10 minutes too late for the latest Lost Austin icon. If you arrived in Austin in the 70s (like I did), well, you missed the Vulcan Gas Company — but you caught the Armadillo...
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50 Years On & Off the Wall in Austin
“We thought it might last maybe five or ten years…With Austin changing so much it’s like, why keep this hippie mural up here? It is kind of amazing.” Kerry Awn, muralist Austintatious Celebrate the...
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Austin Again
When March roars in like a lion, it’s time for me to skedaddle down to Austin for my annual dose of SXSW Edu. Today is my travel day, flying from Colorado Springs to Denver and then to Austin by this...
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Austin in the Rear View
Except airplanes ain’t got no rear view mirrors for the passengers. Unlike last year, this time I flew down to Austin for my annual Austin excursion at SXSW Edu, the “step-child” that not even SXSW...
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