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Your Waco Weekend

Your Waco Weekend

By: Mark Long | Waco Insider
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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, 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. New stories every week from Waco, Texas. Because what happens here is happening everywhere.Mark Long | Waco Insider Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Commerce & Community at Waco's Eastside Market
    Feb 24 2026

    On a windy Saturday afternoon at Brotherwell Brewing, the monthly Eastside Market looks like what it is: a vendor market with local artwork, vintage clothes, food trucks, craft beer. A rack of clothing tips in the wind. A trash can lid won’t stay put. Kids who arrived separately start playing together anyway. A dog somebody calls a “good boy” wanders from table to table.

    This episode asks: what makes someone a good guest in a shared space? Is generosity a transaction or a reflex? And when the wind picks up, what keeps a gathering from blowing away?

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    7 mins
  • Every City's "New Era" is Coming Soon
    Feb 17 2026

    Cities often describe their futures in the language of renewal, momentum, and turning points. In this episode, Waco’s current downtown redevelopment plan and a forgotten 1970s pedestrian mall reveal how civic vocabulary shapes expectations long before results are clear.

    While words like “hope” and “inevitability” recur across decades, the city itself changes more slowly and in ways no rendering of new buildings and public spaces can predict.

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    7 mins
  • If These Walls Could Talk: Concert Posters, Impermanence & Durability
    Feb 10 2026

    A visit to a concert poster exhibition at Art Center Waco becomes a starting point for thinking about what happens when things outlive their expiration dates. From disposable event listings to monthly music calendars for sale on eBay years later, this episode examines how objects designed to disappear sometimes endure.

    It’s a reflection on risk and how culture once located itself in time and place before a note was ever played.

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    9 mins
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