James BigBoy Medlin
Jul 26, 201916 min read
Vietnam: Getting In / Getting Out
A Three-Part Account of My Experience PART I: Dreams, Schemes and the End of Innocence 1969 was a year of contrasts and contradictions....
Bob Brown
Jun 16, 201911 min read
The Rent Horse Kid
At some point during my fourteenth year I decided I wanted a life on the range; riding a horse, chasing dogies, strumming lonesome cowboy...
Bob Simmons / Photos: Dan Hubig
Jun 14, 20194 min read
You Can't Go to Cuba Again ... Again
“The right to depart from and re-enter one’s country should be viewed as an intrinsic part of what it means to be a citizen of our...
Bill Bentley / Photos by Ken Hoge (top) and Bob
Jun 13, 20196 min read
Never Another / Roky Erickson, R.I.P.
Every 15-year-old needs a hero. It's a year when the world really starts turning at a faster rate: a lot of the old toys of childhood...
James Medlin / Art: Dan Hubig
May 15, 20198 min read
'WHY NOT?' / The Path to the Florida Years
From the Writer Formerly Known as "BigBoy" Yes, I was born on a mountaintop (no longer there) in Santa Anna, Texas. No, I was not ridden...
David Talbot
Dec 22, 20182 min read
Talbot / War Liberals
Before I run off and start swilling the egg nog, just one more comment from me about the war liberals who are heaping praise on their...
Michael Ventura / Photo Art: Dan Hubig
Dec 4, 20188 min read
No Hiding Place - An Election Notebook
There’s no hiding place down here — traditional Gospel song November 3 I look up at a clock: In more or less eighty hours the polls will...
Michael Ventura / Photo Art: Dan Hubig
Oct 18, 20186 min read
Ventura at 4am / The Politics Of Helplessness – Part II
They strewed white flowers of cowardice, as they passed… ~ Anne Spencer If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced...
Peter Chapa
Oct 16, 201812 min read
El Casino
Peter Chapa wrote this childhood reminiscence of Hebbronville’s El Casino Theatre in 1973 El Casino was the Mexican cine or “el mono,” as...
Michael Ventura
Sep 21, 20187 min read
The Politics of Helplessness - Part 1
Art/Photo: Dan Hubig © 2018 This essay begins with poetry by Tadeusz Rozewicz (1921-2014). For most Americans, he needs an...
Michael Ventura
Aug 20, 20187 min read
Ventura at 4am / Naunie, 1935 - 2018
I’ll fly away, Oh Glory! I’ll fly away! In the mornin’! When the shadows of this life have gone I’ll fly away! One of her Gospel...
Clay Coppedge
Jul 25, 20189 min read
Unsafe at Any Rate or How I Moved To Austin
The first car I bought after I left home was a 1961 Corvair station wagon, the car that Ralph Nader wrote about in Unsafe at Any Speed....
Frank Browning
Jul 24, 20186 min read
Sartre, Spinoza ... and Cruising at the Café de Flore
I was 21 and eager to experience the Paris of my intellectual heroes. In some ways, I got more than I asked for. May '69. Hardly a year...
