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Hosted by Mark Long | Waco Insider · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 49 episodes
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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.
Mark Long | Waco Insider hosts Your Waco Weekend, a society show with 49 episodes published.
Craft breweries didn't invent chalkboards with beers listed on them, but over time what began as a practical way to keep up with constantly changing beer selections became shorthand for something else entirely: local own
Movies too often tell us up front who to trust, who to fear, and what everything means before the characters—or the audience—have a chance to discover those things for themselves. But what happens when a story refuses to
We typically experience public art at the end of the creative process: walking past a completed mural or stepping into an installation without thinking much about the months—or years—of planning, collaboration, and probl
Every local music scene has calendars. Far fewer have the stories that turn unfamiliar names into must-see shows by answering one question: Why should anyone care? This episode traces the path from a punk show at Austin’
The summer after high school, a Texas drive-in projection booth seemed like the perfect job, and home video was the future. Four decades later, after years of cable television, Netflix DVDs, and streaming services, a COV
A Little Free Library on North 43rd Street doesn’t look like that much: a blue wooden box on a post filled with donated books, puzzles, and whatever else happens to land there. But after stumbling across its decade-long
A picture on Facebook of a hot dog buried beneath guacamole, carne asada, sour cream, and pico de gallo raises a simple question: Where’s the actual hot dog? What begins as a close look at the “Cali Dog”—available for “o
Darrell “D-Rail” Ray has spent more than three decades performing around Central Texas, becoming one of the most familiar names on local music calendars. Catch one of his appearances, and you’ll hear an eclectic setlist
On May 11, 1953, an F5 tornado destroyed much of downtown Waco, killing 114 people. This episode looks back at the disaster through oral histories in a 1980s documentary recorded by survivors decades later—stories about
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. Al
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 r
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 co
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 routi
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 Geo
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
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
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
Creative work doesn’t wait for permission—and it doesn’t wait for the perfect space. Some kinds of work can adapt. Theater can’t—not easily. It takes people, coordination, and a room that lasts long enough for everything
A small tortilla factory a few blocks from Waco’s Magnolia Market offers a different way to understand how the city has changed over the past decade. As new development reshapes downtown, long-standing businesses continu
A repurposed vending machine at a burger restaurant in East Waco quietly offers a different path for art to move through the city. One purchase leads to an unexpected connection that reveals how creative communities ofte
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