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Texas Music Museum seeks city assistance in finding new home – Austin Monitor
The city may soon explore assistance for the nonprofit Texas Music Museum in East Austin, including finding a new location for the facility that is in danger of losing its East 11th Street home.
On Monday, the Music Commission heard a presentation from Clay Shorkey, president and caretaker of the museum’s thousands of artifacts and displays reflecting more than 100 years of the history of musicians throughout Texas. Shorkey, a retired University of Texas professor of social work who said he pays for the museum’s rent with his Social Security benefits, runs the facility with a handful of volunteers and said it is in desperate need of a larger, climate-controlled space that can better attract visitors.
“I don’t think this gonna happen tomorrow getting a world-class home, but we certainly need a much bigger space,” he said, noting the existing facility has 3,000 square feet of display area and roughly 1,000 square feet of storage space. “We have enough to have a wonderful big museum … and we have the files and the photos and the artifacts and such. We want you to try to help us make Austin a real music capital with a kind of world-class, much better facility than we currently have.”
Commissioners expressed support for finding ways for the city to assist the Texas Music Museum in the short term and long term, with funding from the Creative Space Assistance Program as an option to cover rent or basic improvements to the current space. The museum is also a recipient of funding from Cultural Arts contracts that it uses in part to fund live music performances at its events.
Looking longer term, Commissioner Anne-Charlotte Patterson offered the idea of using some of the space in the rebuilt Austin Convention Center to house the museum, with others suggesting other city real estate holdings as a temporary location until the convention center reopens in 2030.
The group ultimately decided to delay action on the item until its June meeting so a subset of commissioners could work with Shorkey and the rest of the Texas Music Museum board to determine the exact space and budgetary needs, to give City Council a specific request that would be less likely to get lost in other priorities and initiatives.
“I honestly kind of want to take a step back and recommend that we move the discussion of possible action so that no one yells at us from the city,” Commissioner Scott Strickland said, noting the Austin Economic Development Corporation is one of many city entities that could assist with the museum’s needs. “It happens time and time again where we recommend something and it’s a great recommendation and we spend months talking about it … but it just goes into a box of really good ideas, and then no one picks it up.”
While some commissioners suggested the use of creative space bond money to help the museum, Economic Development Department staff noted that the AEDC has already identified the 14 priority projects to possibly use that money for.
In 2017, there was substantial movement at the state level to create a state music museum in the Capitol complex development just north of the state Capitol. The Texas Music Museum was among the dozens of groups from around the state that participated in that effort, which appeared to have full legislative support and funding but was undone over the objections of a handful of other music museums across the state that said a state music facility would reduce their appeal and business interests to tourists.
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Texas A&M will be without its leading scorer for this weekend’s top-10 matchup against Alabama. The Aggies listed senior point guard Wade Taylor IV as out in its SEC-mandated availability report on Friday night.
Meanwhile, Alabama will be without backup guard Houston Mallette, who was listed as out for the matchup against Texas A&M. Earlier on Friday, Alabama head coach Nate Oats said Mallette is having his knees evaluated as the team decides whether or not to sit him for the rest of the season and apply for a medical redshirt.
Taylor leads Texas A&M in both scoring (15.7 points per game) and assists (4.8 per game. The 6-foot, 180-pound senior has scored in double digits in all of his 13 games this season. During Texas A&M’s 100-75 loss at Alabama last year, the Tide held Taylor to 10 points and five rebounds on 4 of 15 shooting, including 2 of 5 from beyond the arc.
According to a report from KWKT FOX 44, Taylor experienced knee tightness during Texas A&M’s 80-60 win over Texas on Jan. 4. The guard left for the locker room during the second half against the Longhorns but was able to return to action, finishing with 13 points on 25 minutes. Taylor did not play during the Aggies’ 80-78 win over Oklahoma on Wednesday. He was replaced by senior Manny Obaseki in the starting lineup.
With Taylor out, Texas A&M leaned on senior guard Zhuric Phelps, who scored a career-high 34 points against Oklahoma, making 11 of 25 shots from the floor, including 6 of 10 from beyond the arc.
Alabama (13-2, 2-0 in the SEC) is set to tip off against Texas A&M (13-2, 2-0) on Saturday at 7 p.m. CT inside Reed Arena in College Station, Texas. The game will be televised on ESPN.
On Friday night, two of college football’s iconic programs will meet with a spot in the College Football Playoff National Championship game on the line.
The Ohio State Buckeyes and Texas Longhorns have their fingerprints all over the sport’s history yet somehow have squared off only three times.
A Fiesta Bowl meeting after the 2008 season. A home-and-home series in 2005 and 2006. That’s all the history the Buckeyes and Longhorns share on the gridiron — until they take the field in the CFP Semifinal at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic on Friday.
Here’s how each of those three matchups played out.
Jan. 5, 2009: Texas 24, Ohio State 21
Although the 2009 Fiesta Bowl experienced a low-scoring first 30 minutes (the Buckeyes led 6-3 at halftime), the fourth quarter offered an ending to remember.
First, Ohio State roared back into the lead with 17 unanswered points after entering the final period trailing 17-6. With just two minutes to respond, Texas put together an impressive 11-play drive that culminated in quarterback Colt McCoy finding wide receiver Quan Cosby for the winning touchdown with 16 seconds remaining.
The McCoy and Cosby connection dominated all game, with the pair linking up 14 times for 171 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
Sept. 9, 2006: Ohio State 24, Texas 7
McCoy’s first encounter with Ohio State wasn’t as pleasant as the Fiesta Bowl.
In a battle of the then-No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the land, it was the top-ranked Buckeyes who made an early-season statement against the defending national champion Longhorns on the road in Austin. Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith, who would go on to win the Heisman Trophy that season, threw for 269 yards and two touchdowns as the Buckeyes scored in all four quarters of the win.
Sept. 10, 2005: Texas 25, Ohio State 22
The first meeting between the Longhorns and Buckeyes came with nearly the same high billing as the 2006 contest, with the two squads squaring off as the No. 2 and No. 4 teams in the country, respectively.
As in 2006, it was the higher-ranked visiting side that came out on top, although the game itself proved to be much closer. Texas jumped out to an early 10-0 lead, but Ohio State battled back and eventually entered halftime, and then the fourth quarter, ahead.
Said final quarter, however, belonged to the Longhorns. Quarterback Vince Young’s 24-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Limas Sweed proved to be the winner, with Texas adding some insurance in the game’s final moments with a safety-inducing sack of Troy Smith in the end zone.
The top-five win was the Longhorns’ first major statement in a campaign that would end with a national championship.
NORTH TEXAS – This week’s snow event will end with a “few flurries” during Friday’s morning commute, according to CBS News Texas meteorologist Jeff Ray.
“But roads will have frozen over,” Ray said.
Expect hazardous road conditions in the morning, as it will be “the worst” the roads have been since the event started on Thursday morning, Ray said.
Late in the morning, temperatures will rise above freezing, which will “help drivers get around the Metroplex,” Ray said.
A cold front is expected Friday, he said.
“We are going to have wind chills in the 20s all day,” Ray said. “By nightfall on Friday, temperatures will drop quickly and water will re-freeze on the roads across the evening. This ice will remain until mid-morning on Saturday before the sun and warmer temperatures in the mid-40s clear the roadways.”
CBS News Texas will continue to provide updates as information becomes available.
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