Day Trips & Beyond: November Events Roundup

From Día de los Muertos celebrations to holiday lights in November

"...“High and Dry: Photography Exhibit Nov. 28-Jan. 31, Lubbock, www.depts.ttu.edu/international/events/2019/highdry.php..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Letters at 3AM: Amber's Question

The question 'What's your favorite word?' launches a contemplative journey toward the answer

"...Dinner was on me at Rockfish (best restaurant in Lubbock, in case you're passing through). We sat in a..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...I was inducted into the Walk of Fame in Lubbock, I mentioned Frank Sinatra's comment about Dean Martin. "He..."

April 4, 2003 Column

Letters at 3AM

Are the Panhandle's many roadside monuments to Christ testaments of faith or unadmitted doubt, or some of both?

"...Texas Panhandle are an apt setting to depict the lights and darks of the divine...."

Sept. 2, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Day Trips & Beyond: September Events Roundup

Find fall foliage and festivities all over Texas

"...Lights Festival Sept. 2-4, Marfa, www.marfachamberofcommerce.org..."

Sept. 6, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Jaston Williams

Before 'Tuna,' he rode with 'Maid Marian in a Stolen Car'

"...Gilmore, and Kimmie Rhodes in Is There Life After Lubbock? – where did the stories in this new show..."

Aug. 28, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Day Trips

"...time to stop by the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock. For information on Lubbock, call 800/692-4035 or visit www.lubbocklegends.com...."

Sept. 13, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Letters at 3AM

The Flatlanders' collective voice of experience still dares the odds and rings true.

"...that house we all shared on 14th Street in Lubbock. That was January of '73. Fresh out of New..."

July 26, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Day Trips & Beyond: November Events Roundup

Highland Games, Wurstfest, and more

"...National Bison Day Nov. 4, Lubbock, www.visitlubbock.org..."

Nov. 2, 2017 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Friday Night Lights

'Friday Night Lights' is the story of Odessa's Permian High School football dynasty in the 1980s. It's a good story, but did Hollywood pull off a film rendition of Odessa high school football?

"...Friday Night Lights..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Screens Review by Ed Baker

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...big-roc sounding Volumen Cero (11pm). And just before the lights come back on, The Psychotic Aztecs, led by Tito..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Austin Energy's Proposed Rate Change Draws Controversy

Critics say the base rate increase will hurt low-income customers

"...other municipal electric utilities in Texas (San Antonio and Lubbock are the two largest). "Under no circumstances should the..."

Sept. 2, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

The 2016-17 Austin Music Awards’ Texan Tower of Song

Thirty-five years of AMAs? More like 181 years of Texas on one stage, on one night!

"...Three hours of Juarez and Lubbock (on Everything) up inside A-town's grande dame shook out..."

March 10, 2017 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Postscripts

Texas politicians just decided who the state's next poet laureate is.

"...will say nice things about you, and, under the lights, waiting your turn to speak, you may think about..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

Letters at 3AM

The stakes were suddenly higher. There was more possibility in the night and in their lives than they'd yet considered. The work of art itself gave them the energy to fulfill its expectations...

"...Spirits was to be screened at Texas Tech, in Lubbock, 150-ish miles to the south. In those days who..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...one of the true gods of Austin songwriters, a Lubbock native who plied his Panhandle poetry into some of..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

O.D. Whizz!

"...died for 4 to 5 minutes. There was no lights, no beautiful music, just nothing. And then after 20..."

July 19, 1996 Music Column

Gimme Shelter: A Song for Margaret Moser

A stoned soul picnic of Rolling Stones for Wattser

"...the catwalk Mick Jagger soon pranced down. Before the lights went out, in full-on freak-out mode, I clamored up..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Band Invites, Part II

Only 112 days remaining until the Music conference begins

"...Black City Lights (Wellington, New Zealand)..."

Nov. 19, 2013 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Thursday Sleepers

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...gospel fervor. 2003's Snakes in My Veins contains crackling highlights like high-voltage come-on "Cinnamon Roll" and the aptly named..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 04 music – Wednesday only

"...to 2001's Pavement-ish Happiest of Hours. Subset kicks the daylights out of Death Cab for Cutie with a tart..."

March 12, 2004 Music Feature

Beneath a baleful,

"...Perhaps, "Pulsating from the amplified effect of brilliant night lights, the herbaceous, rain-soaked turf..." Maybe, "An angry multitude, attracted..."

Nov. 10, 1995 Column

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Eddie Taylor's 100th birthday, Dry Cleaning, and Terry Allen highlight our recommended shows

"...randy with "Knockin' at Your Door," and beams bright lights via "Bigtown Playboy," all three Taylor tunes matching covers..."

Jan. 27, 2023 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

Five Things to Do Outside of SXSW

Believe it or not, there's life outside SXSW this week

"...to activate a site-specific, room-filling, fully immersive grid of lights – a stunning, near-synesthetic evocation of percussion that surrounds..."

March 11, 2022 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Here's what we're listening to

"..."Martini" and breezy "Spring Into Summer" strike obvious early highlights, but the snappy "Here Kitty Kitty" bops lascivious undertones,..."

June 19, 2020 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth

What we’re spending time with

"...tracks by an A-team of thoughtful instrumentalists under the Lubbock native's lead, including Dailey Toliver (Molly Burch) on guitar,..."

May 1, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

10 Austin Acts to Catch at Free Week 2020

Free Week bands you’ll be hearing more about in the coming 12 months

"...Snake, Rattle & Roll, then gradually exported members from Lubbock to Austin until fully rooting locally two years back...."

Dec. 27, 2019 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Day Trips & Beyond: April Events Roundup

Spring has sprung, and here's 100 ways to celebrate

"...was as the Presidio County seat and the strange lights in desert outside of town. That all changed in..."

April 1, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Whole Woman’s Health Reopens

Reproductive health provider sees 40 patients on first days back in business

"...Health v. Hellerstedt ruling. However, clinics didn't turn the lights back on overnight. In fact, more than two dozen..."

May 19, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

News Roundup: Storms, Season's Greetings, and Open Carry

Reminder: Open carry law takes effect Jan. 1

"...time, heavy blizzards dumped five inches of snow in Lubbock, as Winter Storm Goliath pummeled the Panhandle and the..."

Dec. 29, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

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