22 Sides

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A live stage can do what a thousand “be positive” posts never will: hold real stories without rushing to fix them. We’re joined by Peyton Welch, a registered drama therapist and co-creator of Storytelling Empowers, plus poet Alex Jay Hurtado, to talk about a community show in Conroe, Texas, where people share their mental health journeys through artisti...

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You can learn a lot about a city by what it throws away and what its artists rescue. We’re joined by Houston sculptor and fabricator Patrick Renner, whose work turns curbside wood, teardown leftovers, and architectural scraps into bright, massive pieces that feel both playful and historic. We talk about why art can be a lifeline when the world feels rough, and how ...

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We sit down with Judge Jason Cox of Harris County Probate Court No. 3 to pull back the curtain on what a Texas probate court actually does and why it matters even if you think you “don’t have an estate.” We get specific about wills, trusts, estates, guardianships, and the real-world probate litigation issues that show up when families disagree or paperw...

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Josh Wallenstein decides to run for Texas House District 133

We go from international law and ethics to Texas elections and the day-to-day consequences of who holds power. We unpack culture-war distractions and get real about why voting feels scary for some people and how to make it doable. 
• the mismatch between what is legal and what is ethical, and how that ga...

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Click play and jump into a spicy Texas politics roundtable with Alexis Melvin, Jack Valinski, Hayden Cohen, Maria Gonzalez, and Robin Mack as we talk through what’s happening on the ground in Texas and Harris County as early voting approaches. We trade real-world voting tips, call out the down-ballot races that quietly control daily life, and push each other to tur...

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Shakespeare on Zoom sounded like a stopgap. It turned into a doorway. We sit down with actor, director, and Zoom Shakespeare Productions artistic director Rebecca Bernstein to talk about how a pandemic-era experiment grew into a real community for artists and audiences, including people who could finally participate from home across time zones, disabilities, and limited ...

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A slasher that’s obsessed with orgasms, a killer called Ventman, and a theater full of people laughing at totally different moments set us up for one of our most revealing roundtables yet. We’re coming at Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma from different generations and different relationships to horror, and that gap becomes the story: when a movie is built...

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We catch up with Colin on building Pass the Salt Presse. He shares on how  connecting over cake at Empire Cafe lead to starting a new life time project. His Montrose Grace Place poetry project shifted from academic-style workshops to paying unhoused LGBTQ youth to write, by focusing on practical ways to keep creating when you feel stuck.

• building Pass the ...

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A poetry book doesn’t just “come out” one day. It’s built in public, one reading, one community connection, and one crucial preorder at a time. Kathi Crawford joins us again at 22 Sides to share what’s changed since her last visit and to introduce her next collection, "running with the beasts", published by Finishing Line Press with preorder...

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We sit down with Houston City Council District C candidate Joe Panzarella and campaign communicator Christos Patelis to talk about why they stepped into local politics and what they are hearing from neighbors across the district. We focus on safer streets, affordability, transparency, and the small-turnout reality that makes local elections a fast way to change daily lif...

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What if a city council office ran like an ER—fast triage, clear priorities, and measurable outcomes? That’s the vision physician and mom Dr. Audrey Nath brings to Houston’s District C as she shares how hospital lessons translate into street-level fixes: safer roads that actually slow cars, an end to non‑safety traffic stops that drain trust and budgets,...

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We invited Patrick Oathout, a born-and-raised Houstonian, Army armor officer veteran, and technologist working in AI safety, to make it concrete. He breaks down how a council member can actually change daily life in District C without grandstanding: organize neighbors before storms hit, clean up illegal dumping quickly, and push 311 from “addressed” to &ldquo...

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A simple question—can we light City Hall for Intersex Awareness Day—turned into a global spark. That moment captures the spirit of this conversation with the founders of the Houston Intersex Society: start small, show up, and keep going until doors open. We get personal about how two teens who once sat side by side in a youth group became artists, organizers,...

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Melanie Miles for Justice of the Peace- Precinct Seven, Place 2 click here: https://milesforhouston.com/

Courts shouldn’t feel like a maze. They should feel like a place where neighbors are heard. We sit with attorney and candidate Melanie Miles to unpack how a Justice of the Peace can turn a stressful day in court into a fair, navigable process—and why Precin...

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What if peace isn’t a finish line but a muscle you train, one breath at a time? Robin sits down with Raye Lynn—teacher, studio owner, intuitive—to map a life shaped by meditation, yoga, and listening closely to that quiet inner nudge. From a fidgety seven-year-old learning to sit still in 1968, to sensing the Enron storm before it broke, to owning belov...

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Four voices trade ghost stories, queer horror, and cultural myths to ask what fear is really for. We swap jokes about cursed jars and rapture beds, then get serious about real danger, empathy, and how horror mirrors power and identity.

• ghost encounters as energy, memory, and suggestion
• Mr Aikman’s attic warning and childhood intuition
• consciousne...

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A simple door knock turned into one of our most energizing conversations as Judge Steve Duble stepped inside and unpacked how a local court can make justice easier to reach. We go beyond slogans and get into the nuts and bolts: eviction diversion that starts before anyone steps into a courtroom, hybrid hearings that reduce missed appearances, and clear ability-to-pay pol...

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The news makes everything feel bigger than your hands. So we zoom in—way in—to the rooms where decisions actually get made, from a rainbow crosswalk on Westheimer to the Governor’s office, the county clerk’s rules, and the federal courts willing to say “no.” We walk through how Harris County collides with state leadership, why executiv...

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We sit with Wilma Schindler—artist, writer, and West Texas host—as she reads Tiny White Snake and two new poems, then talk about grief softening anger, art as repair, and the way symbols can hold a family’s history without erasing its truth. The desert, the body, and a flute in the key of C round out a conversation about making, meaning, and being seen....