People

Kelly Stocker

Nobody puts Kelly Stocker in a corner. This creative, entrepreneurial dynamo with a penchant for microphones, technology and all-things-still-weird-about-Austin is hard to pin down. She’s a DJ for ...

Chet and Laura Garner

Chet Garner has made a career out of traveling the state of Texas, filming his Emmy award-winning show “The Day-tripper”—an approachable, sometimes adorably nerdy look at various characters and ...

Marshall Newhouse

A common brick wrapped in tinfoil sits atop a split chicken in a scalding hot 20-inches-or-so-wide cast-iron skillet. Getting this thing into, or out of, a 500-degree oven seems a daunting task given ...

The Broken Spoke

In “The Broken Spoke: Austin’s Legendary Honky-Tonk,” author Donna Marie Miller leads us around the dance floor (always, always counterclockwise) of one of the only remaining authentic ...

Guy Forsyth

If you’re ever in South Austin and forget the street address of your musician friend, pick the house with the beat-up van in the driveway. There’s a fairly solid chance that the person who ...

Kevin Russell

Kevin Russell might just be one of the best frontmen in America today. We’re a little light on frontmen these days, too (2016 took Prince and David Bowie; 2017 took Chuck Berry and Tom Petty). I ...

Sheriff Sally Hernandez

Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez has a lot on her plate. And right now, that means a multi-tiered wedding cake. “I do it all by myself,” she says with a shrewd smile. She bakes, she ...

Typewriter Rodeo

Think: literary prowess combined with mad improv skills, impressive stamina and an uncanny ability to uncover the deepest secrets and desires of strangers. Welcome to Typewriter Rodeo—Austin’s ...

Ben and Liz Kweller

Walking up to the homestead at Ben and Liz Kweller’s Heart Springs Ranch is like floating back in time. The door to the screened-in porch is open wide, leading to an outdoor table already set and ...

Kirk Watson

Some may not know it, but I’ve been Kirk Watson quite a bit. What I mean is that I portrayed him in the Austin-definitive original production of “Keepin’ It Weird” at the ZACH Theatre. ...