Words and photos by: M. Martin “God, it feels sad in here.” Yeah, it does.”  He was my neighbor.  Not a close friend, just someone who’s wife had been volunteering at a community garden with my wife.  But, not too surprisingly, we had both managed to show up to buy some stuff and what had been–and soon would not be– our neighborhood grocery store. “I was talking to the store manager.  He says it’s pretty much all going to be gone by Sunday.” He meant the current store manager, not the man who’d run the place for years before the ... Read More »

Tuesday morning, music lovers were greeted with pretty fantastic news: Run-D.M.C. is reuniting and performing for the first time in a decade right here in the Lone Star State at Fun Fun Fun Fest. Today, the FFF Fest team announced their full lineup for the 7th annual festival and BOY does it impress. The Austin-based music and comedy festival has grown leaps and bounds in the short time they’ve been doing their thing, and the greatest part about that well-deserved growth is how diverse and interesting the lineup remains year after year. In addition to the Run-D.M.C. reunion,  there will ... Read More »

It has been almost 10 years since Run-D.M.C. lost Jason “Jam-Master Jay” Mizell. It was after that notable loss that the group made the decision to officially disband and retire their name. Until now. Yep. You heard that right, folks. Run-D.M.C., the forefathers of hip hop and the guys that helped shape my love of good music, are resurrecting their name and their work this fall at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas. The remaining members of the group, Joseph “Run” Simmons and Darryl “D.M.C.” McDaniels will be headlining the main stage at the 7th annual FFF Fest taking place ... Read More »

By: Erin Dyer On Thursday, June 14, more than 450 people congregated in Downtown Houston for a peaceful protest. Most of these protestors that gathered are the men and women who mop the floors, take out the trash, sanitize restrooms, and do the dirty clean-up work at corporations such as JP Morgan Chase, Marathon Oil, KBR, Shell, Continental, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, El Paso, and CenterPoint Energy. Forbes Magazine ranks Houston as America’s fastest growing Millionaire city– this means its millionaire growth rate is higher than that of the New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. There are currently 96,700 millionaires in ... Read More »

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