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April 29, 2013
Hazy Highlights From This Past Weekend's Austin Psych Fest
Ed. Note: Austin Psych Fest brought the weirdos to the state capitol this weekend for sets by big legends like The Moving Sidewalks and small ones like Silver Apples. Our friends at DC9 at Night in Dallas, writer Jesse Hughey and photographer Tracie Louck, were there to brave the mud and reverb to b ... More >>
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November 3, 2011
Tinariwen
Blogs
July 15, 2011
Hurricane Update: The Calm Before the Storm?
Let's hope not.This year has brought record droughts, killer tornados and devastating flooding, yet our hurricane season has yet to rev up. This may cause some to believe we could be spared from substantial tropical activity this year. Don't believe it. What may seem like a quiet tropical At ... More >>
Blogs
May 11, 2011
Five Reasons the Drought is Worse Than A Hurricane (i.e., Rick Perry Doesn't Make Us Pray About Hurricanes) (Yet)
Some storms are just more fearsome than others.Hurricane season opens June 1 -- unlike deer season, you don't get to hunt so much as be hunted by nature's version of Bambi on steroids -- and the collective hand-wringing from local news, nervous nellies and weather nerds will soon commence. Bu ... More >>
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February 4, 2011
Four Myths About Super Bowl Radio Row
I got to cross another item off of my list of radio career "firsts" this past week, attending my first Radio Row in Dallas for this year's Super Bowl from Monday through Wednesday. For someone that grew up on sports talk radio, the feeling I got walking around Radio Row was the same feelin ... More >>
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May 13, 2010
Dean King: Unbound On Mao's Long March
King appears tonight at Brazos BookstoreBlame it on the women in his life.Dean King, author of the just released Unbound: A True Story of War, Love and Survival, which chronicles the 30 women who participated in the Chinese Communist Army's famed Long March in 1934, has four sisters and four daug ... More >>
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June 4, 1998
Trading with the Enemy
Houston oil companies maintain their profitable ties to Libya, in roundabout ways