Galveston Calling

This is not your father’s beach music. Meet El Lago, the region’s ‘intense’ new Island-based indie rockers.

Daniel Ortiz

Lauren Eddy, frontwoman for Galveston dream-pop band El Lago, may consider herself a latecomer to rock music. “This is my first time playing electric guitar, and this is definitely the first time doing the rock-band thing,” says Eddy, who formerly stuck to acoustic sounds. “I’m 30. I got started with this band at 27. Much later than a lot of musicians.”

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Broken Promise

For a young ceramicist, showing at prestigious Redbud Gallery this month, breaking sculptures into bits is just part of the artistic process.

Daniel Ortiz
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Emerging ceramic artist Kelly Costlow, a part-time creative hoping to make the transition to full-time artist, takes the literal bumpy roads in stride.

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Blu Period

After giving up a career as a psychotherapy Ph.D., rapper Genesis Blu uses music as a means of healing — and protest.

Todd Spoth
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It might’ve been Dr. Blu to you. But Yvette Cornish, better known to some as Houston rapper Genesis Blu, set aside her doctoral dissertation in a psychotherapy program, steering away from a life in academia and instead pursuing a dual career in hands-on counseling and music.

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