Sean Saldaña

3 weeks ago | texasstandard.org | Sean Saldaña |Patricia Lim

Carrie Rodriguez has recorded and shared the stage with the likes of John Prine, John Mayer, Bruce Hornsby, Los Lobos, Patty Griffin, Lucinda Williams and more. She’s a native Texan and Texas is infused in her music, but she regularly curates unique performances in collaboration with other musicians ready to embrace experimentation. One ongoing project is called Laboratorio, and the latest from this lands at Austin’s Paramount Theater this weekend.

3 weeks ago | kut.org | Sean Saldaña

When I sat down to chat with Molly Hale, she had spent part of her morning pushing pieces of string through a small wooden loom. “I am working on a tapestry, weaving out of different types of threads,” she said. “It just comes randomly what I want. I got three done over there and I also add charms to them.”Hale is an artist who produces work at SAGE Studio & Gallery, an organization in East Austin that supports and shows the work of creators with developmental and intellectual disabilities.

3 weeks ago | kut.org | Sean Saldaña

In 1939, Irish author James Joyce published Finnegans Wake, a piece of literature that defies comprehension. “riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s,” it begins, “from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”The book starts and ends with a sentence fragment, combines multiple languages and has no clear or linear plot. It’s a work that’s so dense, one group that started in Austin has been working on it for more than a decade.

1 month ago | dentonrc.com | Sean Saldaña

If you want to understand how researchers and policymakers are thinking about the economy, you’d want to look at things like price indices, GDP figures and monthly jobs reports. You would also want to look at consumer spending habits, which in many ways reflect how everyday people are thinking about their own economic futures. If people are optimistic, they may buy more. If they’re worried, they may buy less. But how do we make sense of consumer spending when there’s no one clear trend?

1 month ago | dentonrc.com | Sean Saldaña

In February, more than a thousand people associated with Texas Craft Brewers Guild met up in Austin to drink beer, hand out awards, and talk about a growing issue in their industry: Many breweries are closing their doors. For the past few decades, the world of craft beer has boomed, but last year, for the first time since 2005, more breweries shut down than opened in the United States – that’s according to the Brewers Association.