Local girl Iris Dement is profiled in the annual music issue of Oxford American, by novelist Kevin Brockmeier. You get a CD sampler, too.

Neal Pollock revisits Austin in a piece on the Music Lab.

Nicole Boddington recounts winning a Britney Spears look-alike contest at a concert, but not in a way either poignant or amusing.

Cintra Wilson interviews Richard Hell, and it would been far more interesting the other way around. Wilson’s got a knock-out piece on Lindsay Lohan, the Tennesee Williams heroine, too.

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