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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, urban 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. Because what happens in Waco, Texas, is happening everywhere.Mark Long | Waco Insider Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Meeting Past & Future Selves at Waco’s Half Price Books
    Apr 7 2026

    A trip to a Half Price Books Outlet store on Waco Drive turns into something larger than a simple vinyl music run—because sometimes the things we go looking for in the bins aren’t really albums at all.

    This episode follows how old records, familiar sounds, and a few unexpected finds can bring earlier versions of ourselves back into view.

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    7 mins
  • The Last Texas Drive-In Picture Show
    Mar 31 2026

    A Friday-night trip from Waco to Gatesville’s last remaining drive-in theater turns into something less romantic and more revealing, shaped by cold wind, failing audio, and the uneasy mechanics of moviegoing by car.

    The result is a short field report from Central Texas about what remains when memory lingers longer than the experience itself.

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    5 mins
  • An Empty Space: Brazos Theatre of Waco
    Mar 24 2026

    Creative work doesn’t wait for permission—and it doesn’t wait for the perfect space. Some kinds of work can adapt. Theater can’t—not easily. It takes people, coordination, and a room that lasts long enough for everything to come together.

    In this episode, an empty theater in a strip mall opens up a bigger question about what it takes to keep something going when there’s no stable place to put it.

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    5 mins
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