James BigBoy Medlin
- Jan 22, 2018
- 5 min
WHY NOT? / Three Notes Searching for a Tune
November: Befuddlement Perhaps you might have a cure for my case of Chronic Befuddlement. The first symptoms appeared after hearing...
Michael Ventura / Art: Dan Hubig
- Jan 17, 2018
- 16 min
THE OBVIOUS, THE EVIL, AND THE E-STREET SHUFFLE / Ventura at 4am
We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools. - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1. The Obvious “Well, just so you...
Michael Ventura
- Jan 1, 2018
- 2 min
No One's Ever Made A Good Movie of Don Quixote
I am as full of sinning as Mack the Knife – I am as full of carelessness as Falstaff – I am as full of idiocy as Juliet on that balcony –...
H.H. Howze
- Nov 18, 2017
- 14 min
Incidents of Travel in Mexico and Central America With Doug Breeding: A Journal
“Dogs bark but the caravan passes …” Douglas Breeding was a true Austin original. Raised on the banks of the Colorado River, he partnered...
Jan Reid
- Oct 31, 2017
- 4 min
Spain's Troubles
Because my novel Sins of the Younger Sons delves into Basque separatism in Spain, several friends and readers have asked for my outlook...
George Rains
- Sep 30, 2017
- 10 min
Doug Sahm: Family Man & Night of the Living Blues
Family Man My friend Charley and I went to see Doug Sahm at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go on Sunset Boulevard. Doug was there with his band, The...