Your Waco Weekend

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Your Waco Weekend isn’t about FOMO. It’s a weekly field report from a small American city in motion, where old storefronts become condos, urban master plans promise relevance, and the past never quite leaves the room. Part cultural dispatch, part civic analysis, each episode examines how places change and what holds them together. Because what happens in Waco, Texas, is happening everywhere.

  1. HACE 5 DÍAS

    Ellen Mote's Contour Lines

    Waco artist Ellen Mote has spent years moving between creative disciplines without settling permanently into any one identity. In this episode, she talks about jewelry design, cyanotypes, painting, and basket weaving. Along the way, the conversation turns into something larger about attention and creative reinvention. This episode also explores a side of Waco’s creative culture that rarely fits into tourism slogans or polished branding campaigns. From the Austin Avenue Art Walk to ad hoc galleries in coffee shops and vintage stores, it’s a look at the kinds of environments where unfinished ideas still have room to evolve. Sometimes the most important thing a city can offer artists is enough breathing room to keep exploring. ----- Hit subscribe so you don’t miss the next episode of Your Waco Weekend—and visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠wacoinsider.stubstack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to sign up for our weekly newsletter.

    9 min

  2. 12 MAY

    Sherman Ayres Steps into the Light

    At 72 years old, Sherman Ayres stepped onto the Texas Music Cafe stage last July to record a live album built from songs he’d been carrying around for decades. From sitting behind a drum kit in Ohio when he was five to recording sessions in Memphis in the ‘80s and a corporate career at M&M Mars, he discovered an unexpected second act in Waco. But this episode isn’t really a late-life comeback story. It’s about what happens when creative work survives long enough to finally find the right room, the right people, and the right moment to be heard. ----- Hit subscribe so you don’t miss the next episode of Your Waco Weekend—and visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠wacoinsider.stubstack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to sign up for our weekly newsletter.

    9 min

  3. 5 MAY

    One Grand Opening After Another

    One version of Waco appears on a smartphone screen while another is seen through time spent there in person, and the gap is wider than it seems. This episode begins with a visit to Mila Café, a recently opened Mexican coffee shop in Waco’s Uptown, and examines how places are introduced versus what stands out once novelty becomes routine. What emerges points beyond any single location to the broader patterns shaping how a city is seen. ----- Hit subscribe so you don’t miss the next episode of Your Waco Weekend—and visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠wacoinsider.stubstack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to sign up for our weekly newsletter.

    6 min

  4. 28 ABR

    Cameron Park, Disc Golf & The Cat with No Name

    This episode heads into Waco’s Cameron Park, where scenic overlooks and weekend disc golfers usually define the place people think they know. But public spaces also collect what others leave behind, and sometimes a routine morning turns into something harder to resolve. A chance encounter with a stray cat on the edge of a creek forces a choice that is less sentimental than practical: keep walking or take responsibility. What starts as an interruption becomes a fourteen-year reminder that obligation often arrives looking like inconvenience. ----- Hit subscribe so you don’t miss the next episode of Your Waco Weekend—and visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠wacoinsider.stubstack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to sign up for our weekly newsletter.

    7 min

  5. 21 ABR

    Lust, Violence, Religion: Life in Historic Waco

    Baylor’s homecoming parade knows how to sell the polished history of Waco: plenty of green and gold, marching bands, old stories told like family recipes. But somewhere between the parade route and the parking lot at George’s Restaurant, that cleaner version of the city runs into the one with blood on its shirt. This week’s episode starts with a parade float promoting a local history book called Lust, Violence, Religion, and ends with a stranger in a dark parking lot demanding to know why anyone would bother remembering the ugly parts. ----- Hit subscribe so you don’t miss the next episode of Your Waco Weekend—and visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠wacoinsider.stubstack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to sign up for our weekly newsletter.

    8 min

  6. 14 ABR

    A Walking Billion-Dollar Industry: The Levitt AMP Waco Music Series

    At the opening night of this year’s Levitt AMP Waco Music Series, Bridge Street Plaza becomes something more than a venue. What begins as a free outdoor concert turns into a meditation on what public space can be when it shifts from civic infrastructure to lived experience. Along the way, KANSO the Poet, Ryan the Son, and an East Waco crowd that seems fully present push against the usual instinct to measure everything by scale. Sometimes the question is not how many people showed up, but whether the event came alive because they did. ----- Hit subscribe so you don’t miss the next episode of Your Waco Weekend—and visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠wacoinsider.stubstack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to sign up for our weekly newsletter.

    7 min

  7. 7 ABR

    Meeting Past & Future Selves at Waco’s Half Price Books

    An impromptu visit to a Half Price Books Outlet store turns into something larger than a simple vinyl music run—because sometimes the things we go looking for in the bins aren’t really albums at all. This episode follows how old records, familiar sounds, and a few unexpected finds can bring earlier versions of ourselves back into view. ----- Hit subscribe so you don’t miss the next episode of Your Waco Weekend—and visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠wacoinsider.stubstack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to sign up for our weekly newsletter.

    7 min

  8. 31 MAR

    The Last Texas Drive-In Picture Show

    A Friday-night trip from Waco to Gatesville’s last remaining drive-in theater turns into something less romantic and more revealing, shaped by cold wind, failing audio, and the uneasy mechanics of moviegoing by car. The result is a short field report from Central Texas about what remains when memory lingers longer than the experience itself. ----- Hit subscribe so you don’t miss the next episode of Your Waco Weekend—and visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠wacoinsider.stubstack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to sign up for our weekly newsletter.

    5 min
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Your Waco Weekend isn’t about FOMO. It’s a weekly field report from a small American city in motion, where old storefronts become condos, urban master plans promise relevance, and the past never quite leaves the room. Part cultural dispatch, part civic analysis, each episode examines how places change and what holds them together. Because what happens in Waco, Texas, is happening everywhere.

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  • Creador
    Mark Long | Waco Insider
  • Años de actividad
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodios
    41
  • Clasificación
    Explícito
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