Michael Agresta

Sep 17, 2024 | news.utexas.edu | Michael Agresta |Audrey Webb

by Michael Agrestaphoto by Dé Randle When Mark Holt, Plan II Honors ’72, was growing up in the Permian Basin and the Texas Panhandle, he didn’t always love that his father was a doctor. He depended on his dad for rides from school to the family home outside Earth, a tiny town about 40 miles northwest of Lubbock with a population of just over 1,000. Mark remembers waiting in the car — sometimes for hours — while his father worked overtime making house calls.

Sep 13, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Michael Agresta

Reality Winner, the decorated U.S. Air Force veteran who spent three years in federal prison for leaking a classified document on Russian hacking in the 2016 election, is prohibited by her criminal sentencing from profiting from movies about her story. That’s too bad for Winner and her family, because in the past three years, three feature films have been made about the unusually named South Texas native—the most recent two with serious star power. First came the documentary United States vs.

Apr 23, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Michael Agresta

Sprawled across the shag carpet in his San Antonio living room in 1979, six-year-old Dario Robleto was convinced that extraterrestrials had made contact with humankind. Robleto, home with a mild fever and possessed of an active imagination, mixed up something he saw on a news broadcast concerning the Golden Record, a time capsule–like phonograph album that had been launched into space four years earlier by NASA’s Voyager program.

Mar 15, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Michael Agresta

“F— South by Southwest! We don’t need ’em!” shouts Fionn Reilly, lead singer of the buzzy punk band Enola Gay, named after the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. As the small but energetic crowd roars approval, his band tears into another riotous, Rage Against the Machine–influenced number on the outdoor plaza in front of Austin City Hall. Behind the stage, Palestinian flags wave in the humid breeze. This wasn’t Enola Gay’s original booking at SXSW.

Mar 15, 2024 | dfwliving.com | Michael Agresta

“F— South by Southwest! We don’t need ’em!” shouts Fionn Reilly, lead singer of the buzzy punk band Enola Gay, named after the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. As the small but energetic crowd roars approval, his band tears into another riotous, Rage Against the Machine–influenced number on the outdoor plaza in front of Austin City Hall. Behind the stage, Palestinian flags wave in the humid breeze.This wasn’t Enola Gay’s original booking at SXSW.