Bob Simmons
Aug 25, 20201 min read
New Documentary Film: The Poster Boys
A new feature length documentary by Bob Simmons San Francisco's '60s psychedelic poster scene is legendary but Austin, Texas also...
Michael Ventura
Jun 14, 202017 min read
Ventura at 4am / History as Oneself
April 4, 1968 – New York City As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love....
Clay Coppedge
Jun 10, 20209 min read
A Bolillo’s Short History of Roy’s Taxi
My sometimes exciting career as an Austin cab driver began in 1977 when, looking for something better from a base of zero, I walked to 90...
Film: David Elkins / Intro: James BigBoy Medlin
May 7, 20202 min read
Back to the Basics / The Story of Luckenbach, Texas
Have you ever been to Luckenbach, Texas? Back when Austin was becoming whatever it is that Austin became, Luckenbach represented the...
Jane Mayer / The New Yorker
Apr 15, 20203 min read
Outside Sources / How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief
On Thursday, March 12th, Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, could have insisted that he and his colleagues work through the...
James BigBoy Medlin
Apr 8, 20209 min read
WHY NOT? / BigBoy's All Something or Another Baseball Team
As of this writing, we have no baseball season. No one knows when, or if, the season will start. The ritual, distraction and meditative...
James BigBoy Medlin
Feb 26, 20209 min read
Flickers
— or A Salute to Character Actors — or How Hollywood Screwed Up My Life Before I Even Got There On November 20, 1944, the whole world...
H.H. Howze
Feb 11, 20205 min read
Interview with Leon and Babette Hale
After he got out of Texas Tech in 1946, Leon Hale made his living listening and writing. He has written two memoirs, two novels and...
Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
Jan 20, 20201 min read
On Martin Luther King Day, 2020
Martin Luther King day. The news clips I see show portions of his prophetic 'I have a Dream' speech, and make him out to be a saint. I...
Lizzie Widdicombe / The New Yorker
Oct 29, 20192 min read
Outside Sources / What Can We Learn from the Germans About Confronting Our History?
When Donald Trump recently tweeted a dark warning of a “Civil War like fracture in this Nation” were he to be impeached, it was further...
Jeff Nightbyrd Shero
Sep 3, 20193 min read
Rat Files: Looking Back at Woodstock
WITH ABBIE HOFFMAN — BECOMING PIRATES FOR WOODSTOCK Woodstock was the buzz. At RAT we were getting calls from underground papers around...
Michael Ventura
Aug 13, 201922 min read
BACK TO THE GARDEN: WOODSTOCK Across 50 Years
This beautiful world is a garden of flowers . . . This beautiful world is a city of pain . . . This beautiful evening it’s time to rock...
the Lunch Guys
Aug 13, 201918 min read
The Lunch Guys / Art, Politics and Talibanism
The Lunch Guys are: L to R, Randy Alfred (editor & writer), Dan Hubig (artist), Jeffrey Klein (former editor of Mother Jones & West...
