Art + Music

In Appreciation of Echo Bridge, the Coolest Music Venue in Texas

In Appreciation of Echo Bridge, the Coolest Music Venue in Texas

Set on the San Antonio River, where live oak, pecan, mesquite, and willow trees line the banks and create a shady, ... Read More »

Pretty as a Picture in Van Horn

Pretty as a Picture in Van Horn

On a March morning while waiting to shoot photos of the Clark Hotel Museum in Van Horn for “Weekend Wayfinder,” ... Read More »

Country Singer Kelly Willis Returns with Trio, Performing at Kerrville Folk Festival This Weekend

Country Singer Kelly Willis Returns with Trio, Performing at Kerrville Folk Festival This Weekend

Kelly Willis is feeling liberated. After decades being a wife, mother, and singer always on the verge of mainstream ... Read More »

A Musical About El Camino Real de las Tejas Cranks Out a Colorful History

A Musical About El Camino Real de las Tejas Cranks Out a Colorful History

There are two great stories of Texas, as far as Brian Beattie is concerned. One is the Alamo, about which much has ... Read More »

Austin’s Waterloo Park Is Abuzz with Dan Winters’ ‘Seeing Bees’ Photo Installation

Austin’s Waterloo Park Is Abuzz with Dan Winters’ ‘Seeing Bees’ Photo Installation

A path winds down the hillside in the Luci and Ian’s Family Hill Country Garden at the south end of Waterloo Park, ... Read More »

On His 90th Birthday, Willie Nelson Proved It Ain’t Over Yet

On His 90th Birthday, Willie Nelson Proved It Ain’t Over Yet

I don't share a birthday with Texas legend and 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Willie Nelson, but every 10 ... Read More »

Musicians Go Wild on New Album Celebrating Texas State Parks

Musicians Go Wild on New Album Celebrating Texas State Parks

A few years ago, Anne Brown had an idea. As the executive director of Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation, she ... Read More »

Freddy Fender Gets His Due with A Texas Historical Marker

Freddy Fender Gets His Due with A Texas Historical Marker

In the Rio Grande Valley town of San Benito, a small but lively crowd gathered in front of the former home of ... Read More »

Embracing Tradition and Texas Politics, Cornyation Reigns Over San Antonio’s Fiesta

Embracing Tradition and Texas Politics, Cornyation Reigns Over San Antonio’s Fiesta

This spring, the infectious spirit and vibrancy of Fiesta returns to the streets, theaters, and event spaces of ... Read More »

The Cabinet Oak Project Celebrates Art, a Historic Tree, and LBJ’s Legacy

The Cabinet Oak Project Celebrates Art, a Historic Tree, and LBJ’s Legacy

If only this branch could talk. During a 2020 thunderstorm, a giant limb of a 300-year-old live oak at the Lyndon B. ... Read More »

Austin’s Broken Spoke Dance Hall Finally Gets Its Texas Historical Marker

Austin’s Broken Spoke Dance Hall Finally Gets Its Texas Historical Marker

On what would have been James M. White’s 83rd birthday, friends of the White family, local musicians, politicians, ... Read More »

Texas Native Janine Nabers Finds Inspiration for ‘Swarm’ in Her Houston Roots

Texas Native Janine Nabers Finds Inspiration for ‘Swarm’ in Her Houston Roots

The Texas connections run deep in Swarm. The satirical, psychological thriller TV series, which premiered at South ... Read More »

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