1980s indie music wasn’t supposed to grow into a bigger thing. “Indie was odd, misshapen, flawed and messy. It was never meant to be popular or endure,” Stephen Armstrong writes. And yet the Gen Xer recently found himself in a club, almost thinking he’d time traveled back to the decade of The Cure and Talking Heads when he saw the girls dancing and the boys lumbering. Turns out the Gen Z crowd can't get enough of it. Read more from @Independent:

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Featured story: Were it up to them, diamondbacks would pass their whole lives without making a sound. But trouble finds them anyway. https://www.texasobserver.org/consider-the-rattle/

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1980s indie music wasn’t supposed to grow into a bigger thing. “Indie was odd, misshapen, flawed and messy. It was never meant to be popular or endure,” Stephen Armstrong writes. And yet the Gen Xer recently found himself in a club, almost thinking he’d time traveled back to the decade of The Cure and Talking Heads when he saw the girls dancing and the boys lumbering. Turns out the Gen Z crowd can't get enough of it. Read more from @Independent:

https://flip.it/FvExY8

#Culture #Music #Entertainment #Indie

The #Trump admin has opened investigations into #admissions policies at 3 major #MedicalSchools, expanding the #federal govt’s pressure campaign beyond campus #culture & taking aim at the heart of #ScientificAuthority in the #US.

The #DOJ on Wednesday informed #Stanford, #OhioState & #UCSD, about the investigations & demanded that the schools turn over extensive lists of #data by April 24 or risk interruptions to essential federal #funding….

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From our magazine: Amid that automated hatred, a marked shift has occurred in scientists’ understanding of the rattler family. Increasingly, the folkloric entity and the living animal have little in common. https://www.texasobserver.org/consider-the-rattle/

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"Must we recover an alternative story about this place with a different theme other than rugged individualism at its heart? Forge a connection between the hardhat and the maverick cowboy hat, the pecan-sheller and the Ascension hospital nurse on strike?"
https://www.texasobserver.org/mythbusting-texas-reactionary-past/

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