Each week Texas Standard Director Haley Howle hunts down new and exciting music for the show.
Follow Haley on Twitter to keep up with her favorite music picks. And let us know what you’re listening to! Tweet us@TexasStandard.
Check out the Texas Standard music playlist for January 16, 2015 via Spotify:
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Looking for something to do this weekend? Here are a few selections from contributors across the state.
Katie Friel, Managing Editor of CultureMap Austin says you should go see “The Mountaintop” at the Austin Playhouse.
If you’re near Waco, Kathryn Jones, contributing writer for Texas Highways Magazine, thinks the Mammoth excavation site should not be missed.
Folks in the San Antonio area should check out the Strauss Festival at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, per the advice of Rebecca Fontenot, Editor in Chief for San Antonio Magazine.
From NPR:
At least 10 people have died after a prison bus left Interstate 20 and crashed into a train just outside Odessa, Texas.
Eight inmates and two correctional officers were killed, Jason Clark, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said in a press release.
The eight-part miniseries chronicles the Texas Revolution against Mexico that began in 1835, as well as the rise of the Texas Rangers – with the dramatic license we’ve come to expect from the History Channel.
“Texas Rising” stars Bill Paxton as General Sam Houston, Olivier Martinez as General Santa Ana, and Brendan Fraser as a Texas Rangers member. See the full cast here.
“Texas Rising” is set to premiere on Memorial Day 2015 – watch the preview trailer above.
Each week Texas Standard Director Haley Howle hunts down new and exciting music for the show.
Follow Haley on Twitter to keep up with her favorite music picks. And let us know what you’re listening to! Tweet us @TexasStandard.
Check out the Texas Standard music playlist for January 9, 2015 via Spotify:
President Obama will be speaking from Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, Tennessee shortly. Watch his remarks live, and tell us what you think of the proposal.
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