Great Lake Swimmers Ongiara (Nettwerk) Ongiara sees Great Lake Swimmers move a little further into country with prominent banjo strums and unforgiving Nashville-esque male/female harmonies. The themes are still dark, open and intimidating, never belying the band's daunting name. Production-wise, the songs are gorgeous: layers of acoustic guitars over a banjo and reverberating snare never sounded better. Tony Dekker's voice is straight out of the old dance hall and as slide guitars subtly make......

Could this be the good life? Sitting downtown in a coffeeshop, drinking a mocha, eating s'mores for lunch? Yes, we think this is the good life and you too can have the good life at Halcyon. It's where Ruta Maya used to be--that old brick building on Lavaca and 4th, sandwiched between Lavaca St. Bar and Fado. We hadn't been in a while and we were downtown and in need of coffee and a place......