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One of the best shows to ever grace the impressive gallery at Austin’s much-missed Alien Landscape by Powell St. John (1994) That display of arcane signage from the historical doings of Masons, Oddfellows, Rosicrucians, et al., came about because Domy’s Russell Etchen, always savvy about the aesthetically odd and compelling, had hooked up businesswise with Julie and Bruce Webb of the Webb Gallery in Waxahachie. The Webb Gallery is located on the ground floor of a downtown building that was completed in 1902. It’s an internationally renowned collection of the sort of esoteri...

“Dr. Watson, I presume?” Arthur Conan Doyle never had Sherlock Holmes say, “Dr. Watson, I presume.” It’s a mix up of the first meeting of Watson and Holmes with the meeting of the colonial explorers Dr. David Livingston and Henry Morton Stanley in Africa. What Holmes actually said, Mary would like you to know, in his opening lines of A Study in Scarlet was: “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.” Mary would have thought this, and my clarifying footnote, hilarious. This was the note Mary sent me before I took the job as her second-chair here at the magazine. “Dear Jeremy�...