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• Blood, Sweat, and Tedium: Confessions of a Hollywood Juicer, tales of life below decks in the film and television industry, by Michael Taylor 

• Texas Observer, firebrand of liberal Texas, home of Ronnie Dugger, Molly Ivins, Billy Lee Brammer, Willie Morris and Jim Hightower among others.

• Texas Monthly magazine, Texas' long time award winning compendium of everything Texas. 

• Cartoon Art Museum, seems rather self explanatory.

• South Austin Popular Culture Center, collects, conserves, and exhibits vintage posters and live music ephemera from the 1960s through today.

• Letters at 3am Press, independent press of writers publishing writers.

• Remember Old Austin?, Lots of us do.

• Priceonomics, the Website that attempts to explain some of the bullshit.

• The Dallas Arts Review, long time high quality journal of the Dallas arts scene.

• Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer's syndicated show that originates on KOOP-FM in Austin. With links to all podcasts.

• The Rag Blog, digital age rebirth of Austin's pioneering '60s-'70s underground newspaper.

• Eve and the Exiles Band, "This is Texas music that wraps its warm arms around the whole tradition of the Lone Star State. And never looks back." - Bill Bentley 

• J.R. Compton, fantastic bird photos.

• Dan Hubig Illustration, humorous, serious, loose and lively images.

• J.R. Compton, compelling movie reviews.

• Dean Rindy, RindyMiller Media, consultants to decent Democrats anywhere.

• Austin Chronicle, Austin's great "alt" newspaper, followed in the wandering footsteps of the Austin Sun.

• Larry Gonick, world class cartoonist, historian and scientist. 

• Mary Roach, can science writing possibly be intelligent & funny? .... Yes! 

• Michael Bartalos, amazingly fun and fascinating illustrations, designs and fine art.

• Ward Schumaker & Vivienne Flesher, illustrators and fine artists worth paying attention to. 

• California Magazine, intelligent, insightful and totally interesting.

• Michi Toki, exquisite designer, lovely person ... or lovely designer, exquisite person ... take your pick.

• Dorothy Yule, visual, word and book artist of the first order. 

• Mark Ulriksen, beautiful paintings (particularly the baseball & dog images!) many for The New Yorker. 

• Michael Wertz, artist who combines humor with perfect, yet quirky design.

• Henrik Drescher, illustrator, fine artist, world traveler.

• Jacob Garchik, musician, composer, inspiration.

• Bill Russell, illustrator, fine artist, humanist. 

• Jim Parkinson, type design genius .... and a painter of exquisite sign landscapes.

• John Hersey, illustrator & fine artist combo that challenges both categories. 

• Marcos Sorensen, illustrator-artist, creator of Jeeves (of Ask Jeeves) and reflector of the haute courant. 

• Bob Staake, master of the simple yet fascinating form.

• Marsh Theater, only monologues but it's the best theater in San Francisco.

• Isabel Samaras, artist with a gleaming eye for the sensual, erotic & neurotic .... beautiful!

• Laurie Wigham, watercolor artist, info-graphics whiz and leader of S.F. Sketchers.

• Maureen Gosling, documentary filmmaker, long time associate of filmmaker Les Blank.

• John Mattos, master of illustration.

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