Author: Anna

Wright’s Trip to Soho

The fabulous new film “Last Night In Soho” screened as the first secret screening of Fantastic Fest, 2021. Being on a strict “no spoilers” diet about the beautiful and complex film, it might be...

Cottagecore + Coronavirus

Given how difficult life has been since the Coronacrisis started, many people have turned to cottagecore to cope, both in fashion and in home decor. The #cottagecore hashtag is even big on the social media...

There’s a Blood Shortage!

With Halloween costumes and candy starting to be in the stores, many of us are starting to think about vampire costumes and blood sucking monsters, though it seems unsporting to already be planning your Vampire...

Austin Public Health is Lit

Props to Austin Public Health for speaking to their target audience! (Delta is hitting the younger folks harder than the original version of the Coronavirus.) Considering that hospitals in Texas are REALLY FULL, you...

Travel Troubles

After a year at home due to the no -longer-novel Coronavirus, I’ve been traveling a lot after getting my second coronavirus jab. Two weeks and two days after that last Moderna shot, I was...

Reflections in a Gas Shortage

This week I left Houston, where there was no gas crisis, to go to Asheville, North Carolina, where that’s the only thing that anyone is talking about. The fact that i just went from...

I Have Re-Entry Anxiety

If my new freedom from fear of the Coronavirus (via my Moderna vaccine) is what I’ve been looking forward to for the last year, then why it it so hard to use this new...

Did the BLM Protests Influence the SXSW lineup?

This past year has been a time of extraordinary changes. Following the Black Lives Matter protests, the stories and experiences of women of color seem to have been moved to the foreground of this...