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Kevin Curtin

Austin

Music Columnist at The Austin Chronicle

Ink-stained wretch - Austin Chronicle. CEO - Manville's Non-Material Deliveries. Songwriter, hoop dreams, inventor of the Showtime Waffle Sandwich.

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  • 1 week ago | austinchronicle.com | Kevin Curtin

    Estella Castro, co-owner of Austinite Cannabis Co. “We would NEVER!” laughs Estella Castro. “25 years ago, me and you would not be chilling on the Eastside at 7:04pm.”Estella has greeted me on the front porch of her Cesar Chavez Street shop, in a converted house that her mom owns. She’s wearing a satin baseball jacket with the logo of her business, Austinite Cannabis Co., and has a tattoo of a green weed leaf on her knuckle.

  • 1 week ago | austinchronicle.com | Kevin Curtin

    Texas Lege’s draconian bills are making even the stoners frustrated Todd and Mickey Harris, co-owners of the Happy Cactus One therapeutic aspect of marijuana that I value is that it cures frustration. For me, a single hit of weed can shut off acute frustration like a light switch, which helps me be a better parent, friend, partner, and neighbor.

  • 1 week ago | austinchronicle.com | Kevin Curtin

    A black-market business owner talks pricing and how underground cannabis retail has evolved in Austin There are lots of easy ways to score an ounce these days In modern discussions about cannabis legality, we often hear the term “black market” used as a pejorative, but I still hold it in high esteem.

  • 1 week ago | austinchronicle.com | Kevin Curtin

    Of all 12, April’s the month I feel most lucky to live in Austin, Texas: perfect temps, native plants in bloom, and lots of people in high spirits getting together to do their fun outdoor activities. Plus there’s weed events happening every weekend: Reggae Fest, 4/20 parties, Eeyore’s Birthday, the Kite Festival, the Renaissance Faire... that marching band festival. But Reggae Fest – which blesses-up its 30th year this weekend at Auditorium Shores – really is an iconic weed event to me.

  • 3 weeks ago | austinchronicle.com | Kevin Curtin

    HB 28 also gives TABC regulatory authority on consumable hemp The THC drink aisle at Spec’s Among the bills arriving at the eleventh hour of the Texas Legislature’s mid-March filing deadline was House Bill 28. The proposal, authored by GOP Rep. Ken King, is, on its face, a major regulatory cleanup of the consumable hemp industry in Texas.

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Kevin Curtin
Kevin Curtin @Playback_Austin
23 Oct 23

It’s crazy that Rhode Island is a state because, phonetically, it sounds like a Mario Kart course.

Kevin Curtin
Kevin Curtin @Playback_Austin
25 Sep 23

Stuck out in the barn in East Austin when the hail started to hit. The biggest hail stones were the size of a Spaldeen. Broke a bedroom window. Feel for anyone living outside this must have fucked their world up. #hail #Austin https://t.co/O6SZKDGVjq

Kevin Curtin
Kevin Curtin @Playback_Austin
23 Jul 23

As someone who’s financial plan for the future heavily relies on getting hit by an experimental driverless car and winning a personal injury claim, I was disappointed to realize that they seem to have a 3 foot buffer around them that makes them freeze up. https://t.co/AvoRFgeNlM https://t.co/8SpOzUx83r