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Your Waco Weekend

Your Waco Weekend

By: Mark Long | Waco Insider
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Forget booster-club pep talks about FOMO. Your Waco Weekend is a quick dive into being there—whether “there” is a beer joint where time stopped in 1978, a stage so small the band might end up in your lap, or a film shoot that once turned Waco into Hollywood South. Part travelogue, part dive-bar sermon, every episode packs in the grit and detail that make Central Texas worth paying attention to. New stories every week. For more—including our events calendar and newsletter—check out wacoinsider.com.Mark Long | Waco Insider Social Sciences
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  • Food Trucks, Data Centers & How News Takes Shape in Waco
    Jan 6 2026

    This episode begins with two stories that seem unrelated—new regulations for food trucks in Waco and a proposed 520-acre data center north of town—but collide once you pay attention to how information spreads locally. What looks like confusion or overreaction is often something else: people trying to orient themselves before anything feels settled.

    Local reporting doesn’t just produce facts; it produces a shared reality—and this is about what happens when that reality forms unevenly, late, or not at all.

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    9 mins
  • Waco's Performing Arts Community Center: Pictures Not in an Exhibition
    Dec 30 2025

    At the Performing Arts Community Center (PACC), Russell Campbell’s paintings aren’t shown under spotlights or separated from daily use. They hang on a wall where people go to and from classes, work on laptops, and leave half-finished projects behind them. There’s no signal telling you how to look or what kind of attention the work expects.

    This episode considers what happens when art isn’t framed as an event but exists inside a creative space in motion.

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    8 mins
  • The Art of Looking: Washington Gallery to Waco Drive
    Dec 23 2025

    Washington Gallery in downtown Waco has serious art waiting for you. On the surface, it’s simple enough: you see paintings. In practice, the encounter is shaped by pressure about how to look, how to feel, how to say something that proves you were paying attention. Then, art shows up again without ceremony on a utility box at a Waco Drive intersection. Seen once, it’s odd. Seen repeatedly, it becomes familiar, then personal.

    This episode explores the difference between art you face once and art you live alongside—and what it means not to stand still long enough to interpret it, but to pass by often enough for meaning to take root.

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    8 mins
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