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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
  • 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
  • 3 Silos, 2 Wacos & Jesse's Tortilla Factory
    Mar 17 2026

    A small tortilla factory a few blocks from Waco’s Magnolia Market offers a different way to understand how the city has changed over the past decade. As new development reshapes downtown, long-standing businesses continue operating as always, creating a layered landscape where tourism and everyday work intersect.

    This episode looks at what happens when the places that feed a city remain largely invisible—even as everything around them becomes a destination.

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    7 mins
  • East Waco's Art Vending Machine
    Mar 10 2026

    A repurposed vending machine at a burger restaurant in East Waco quietly offers a different path for art to move through the city. One purchase leads to an unexpected connection that reveals how creative communities often operate through chance encounters rather than formal venues.

    This episode examines how the distance between artist and audience can be far smaller than it first appears.

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    6 mins
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