

Bob Simmons
- Aug 25, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 17 min
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, 2020
- 9 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 9 min
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, 2020
- 9 min
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, 2020
- 5 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 2 min
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, 2019
- 3 min
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, 2019
- 22 min
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, 2019
- 18 min
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...