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First Quarter of 2012 Brings Rodney Crowell, Dan Weber & Cindy Cashdollar to KBOO

In January we attended the "River City Music Festival". While we enjoyed every performance we especially enjoyed Tommy Emmanuel, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Geoff Muldaur & The Texas Sheiks, Rodney Crowell and The Hot Club of Cowtown. It is sad to pass on that 2012 will be the l... Read more

SXSW Day Three: Pizza and Stories

Routines are forming, parking spots emerging, bearings rolling, names calling, dropping, stopping people in their tracks: today Al Gore is going to interview Sean Parker, founder of Napster. How is that possible? I just thought SXSW was basically a music festival. But ac... Read more

stealing an education

[for the 3/12/12 Mole] What does it mean to steal an education? According to several school districts, it means providing questionable address information, at least if you're Black. Jen Roesch, writing in SocialistWorker.org, reports on the case of Tanya McDowell, a ... Read more

SXSW Day Two: Rain, Dance Floors and Distractions

There are many facets to South by Southwest Festival. The “convergence” is the mission and the miracle of it all. From all over the world, people crowd Austin Convention Center from all sorts of disciplines and levels of interest: gamers and tech-heads see the newest co... Read more

SXSW Day One: Wikileaks and Sleeplessness

Upon receipt of the festival guides, after curving through the maze of registrants looking for their badge, and having perused three volumes of programming (Interactive, Film, and Music) detailed in paperback books akin to college course catalogues – however with a whole... Read more

Peter Bergman of (The Firesign Theatre) 1939 - 2012

I just this moment learned that Peter Bergman of The Firesign Theatre has passed away from complications of Leukemia. I am heartbroken! I had the pleasure of meeting Peter last December when he and the other Fireheads were here and we talked about radio what can be done on... Read more