Texas first licensed Black architect John Chase left behind a modernist legacy heralddemocrat.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from heralddemocrat.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Any alert observer passing along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near Chestnut Avenue in East Austin inevitably notices two revolutionary sites. One is the David Chapel Missionary Baptist Church with its dramatically escalating roofline, color-block windows and soaring modernist steeple. The other is the radically geometrical and cantilevered residence located a bit to the east of the landmark church at MLK and Maple Avenue known as the Phillips House.
Hidden two lots behind the Phillips House is another multi-level masterpiece, one that for decades was home to the late Irene Thompson, longtime school secretary for the segregated L.C. Anderson High School, who knew just about everybody in East Austin at one time or another.
These days, musical crews dissipate as quickly as they form, but Spillage Village, a creative collective made up of a bunch of eclectic rappers, singers and producers is on the rise. After dropping three well-received albums, the members, which includes founders Olu, WowGr8 (a.k.a. the duo EarthGang) and J.I.D plus artists 6lack, Jurdan Bryant, Hollywood JB, Mereba and Benji, reached a new career milestone after releasing their major label debut LP,
Spilligion, on Interscope Records this past fall.
Spillage Village’s latest musical plateau is nearly a decade in the making. The members, five of whom are signed to solo deals with Interscope, have slightly varied accounts of when exactly they came together. According to EarthGang and J.I.D, the story goes something like this: A bunch of early 20-somethings connect during smoking sessions and block parties at Virginia’s Hampton University between 2009 and 2013. After getting bars off on campus, the group of then-five friends evolv
These days, musical crews dissipate as quickly as they form, but Spillage Village, a creative collective made up of a bunch of eclectic rappers, singers and producers is on the rise. After dropping three well-received albums, the members, which includes founders Olu, WowGr8 (a.k.a. the duo EarthGang) and J.I.D plus artists 6lack, Jurdan Bryant, Hollywood JB, Mereba and Benji, reached a new career milestone after releasing their major label debut LP,
Spilligion, on Interscope Records this past fall.
Spillage Village’s latest musical plateau is nearly a decade in the making. The members, five of whom are signed to solo deals with Interscope, have slightly varied accounts of when exactly they came together. According to EarthGang and J.I.D, the story goes something like this: A bunch of early 20-somethings connect during smoking sessions and block parties at Virginia’s Hampton University between 2009 and 2013. After getting bars off on campus, the group of then-five friends evolv
January 08, 2021
Primus Sworn In as Fourth STB Member Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
Robert Primus was sworn in as a new member of the Surface Transportation Board on Jan. 7, with House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) presiding.
Once Republican Schultz is sworn in, the STB will have its full complement of five members, a number set by the 2015 Surface Transportation Board Reauthorization Act.
Republican Patrick Fuchs’ first term expires Jan. 17, 2024. Democrat Martin Oberman’s first term expires Dec. 31, 2023. By statute, STB members are limited to two terms. Republican STB Chairman Ann Begeman’s second term expired Dec. 31, 2020, but the statute provides for a holdover year and permits her to remain until Dec. 31, 2021, or until a successor is sworn in, whichever occurs first.