Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
- Oct 28, 2020
- 3 min
SHADOW, MASKS, VIRUS AND DEATH / THE DREAM
EARLY this morning I had a mind twisting dream. I was a cranky Professor alienated in the time of the plague. My mask wearing students stare
Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
- Aug 11, 2020
- 5 min
You Can't Go Home Again, Parts 1 & 2
Part One Crash. The statue of Robert E. Lee comes tumbling down. Sir Donald says “NO MORE! I’ll protect our history from mobs of ultra...
Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
- Aug 3, 2020
- 3 min
You Can't Go Home Again, Part 3
John Lewis gave us more than his body. He gave his soul. As a late teen, around 1960, from the small town of Troy, Alabama, Lewis decided...
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...
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...
Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
- Sep 4, 2017
- 5 min
The RAT File: Kurt Vonnegut
The RAT office nested among the still Jewish and Ukrainian tenements of East 4th street. A rumpled man tentatively opened the door. At...
Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero / Photo: JR Compton
- Aug 31, 2017
- 2 min
Margaret
Second of two stories on Austin Music critic Margaret Moser. Margaret Moser certainly had a good run and she taught us all something...
Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
- Jun 4, 2017
- 3 min
Ahhh Havana – a Snapshot
An old but central water pipe sprang a leak. The water department dug up the 100 year old line to replace the section but the adjoining...
Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
- Mar 16, 2017
- 4 min
Fukushima: Dangerous to You
This week Fukushima Power plant has become the worst nuclear disaster in the history of the earth, a fact ignored by the establishment...
Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
- Feb 10, 2017
- 2 min
The Best Two Weeks of My Life
It’s been the best two weeks of my life. Well, almost. …at least the best in quite a while. I found a bounce in my step and a real zest...
Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
- Nov 28, 2016
- 3 min
Standing Up for Standing Rock
My assistant, Aleisha, asked suddenly, “Can I take off a day early? I have a chance to drive to Standing Rock with my friend.” The answer...
Jeff Nightbyrd Shero
- Oct 13, 2016
- 2 min
KUSAMA, Art and the Holes In the Universe
Kusama would bounce into the 1960s RAT office in New York with a mixture of timidity and bravado. She was years from being famous, but...
Jeff Nightbyrd Shero
- Oct 12, 2016
- 2 min
The Bodhisattva at the Saxon Pub
Friends sometimes want me to see bands, likely because at one time I wrote music crap in New York and LA …very much yesterday’s news....
