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Justin Pickard’s laurels include the Best Americana award from last year s
Dallas Observer Music Awards and, maybe more important, the respect and admiration of every musician who has come into contact with his music. Recently, Pickard trekked with his band down to Sun Studios in Memphis where luminaries such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins also recorded to lay down his next album, to be released on Fun Guy Records, the label of Dallas’ own luminary, the Reverend Horton Heat .
Tin Man Travis
Tin Man Travis is a country-blues artist who plays around regularly. When you can’t catch him anywhere from Dallas to Decatur at any number of local dive bars playing his brand of “blues-infused psycho-folkabilly,” you can find him streaming his variety show TuPlay Tuesdays with bandmate James Kirk Hampton and guests on Facebook Live 8-10 p.m. every Tuesday.
The Fight for the Soul of Portland: Moving forward amid social, economic crisis KATU Staff
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The global coronavirus pandemic jolted the world, and also exposed the underbelly of a city on the verge of a social and economic crisis.
It wasn t long ago that the Rose City s star was rising, but now we re in the middle of the fight for the soul of Portland.
A year ago, in March 2020, the pandemic forced us all to stay home and shelter in place. Streets emptied and stores closed. It affected not just our city, but every city. However, it was the months following the COVID shutdown that left Portland s reputation bruised.
Downtown business group provides microgrants to business owners to repair broken windows
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Posted Mar 03, 2021
Downtown Portland businesses put boards up after businesses and buildings were damaged during protests on Dec. 30 31. (Dave Killen/staff)Dave Killen
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Plywood has covered the outside of Flowers Tommy Luke since May 30 when rioters smashed the window of the downtown Portland florist.
Owner Louella Scott looked into replacing the window at the time, but decided to wait after learning the repairs would cost $1,200. It wasn’t worthwhile for her to go through insurance because she has a $1,000 deductible and she worried last summer about shelling out the money to repair the damage when nightly protests were consuming downtown Portland carrying with them the risk of further damage.
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Hindsight on 2020
This year, despite many losing their means to make a living, local musicians proved the pandemic couldn’t lock down their creativity.
By JUAN R. GOVEA AND PATRICK HIGGINS -
Twenty-Twenty wasn’t fine, but it certainly was musical.
Collage by Patrick Higgins
One day, when we look back on the unholy year that has been 2000 and 10 times two, the cataloguing of unbearable tragedies, atrocities, and absolute insanities that we’ve all somehow endured this year will read more like CliffsNotes exposition from a clichéd dystopian young adult novel rather than actual historical text. Sadly, in real life, there appears to be no precocious yet aloof and mysterious female lead armed with elite and useful skills to lead us out of pending Armageddon anywhere on the horizon.