Another summer, another Latvian music festival
Going to a music festival in Salacgriva, Latvia, three years in a row is so absurd, even I don’t really believe I’m doing it. Yet, come July 16-17, I’ll again be someplace I never...
Author: Anna
Unmarked Heads Found in Southwest Airlines Cargo
. . . . . In what sounds like the setup for a horror movie, in Little Rock, Arkansas a Southwest Airlines Employee found 40-to 60 heads — or parts of human heads —...
Scare For A Cure at Eeyore’s Birthday
You may be aware that Austin’s annual hippie festival, Eeyore’s Birthday Party, was held in Pease Park this past April. You might know about the hordes of costumed revelers, some of whom attended the...
Coming of age in a time of youth
It’s one thing to be aware that you won’t live forever. It’s quite another to be made aware of your own mortality amid the youth-inspired bedlam of South by Southwest. It’s taken me a...
SXSWi: Happy Cog’aoke 2 at the Scoot Inn was Mighty Happy!
There are a lot of kinds of parties in the world: birthday parties, toddler bouncy-house parties, work parties. For South by Southwest Interactive, one of the party-est parties was the Saturday night event,...
There’ll be a lot of Latvian guests in my living room
It’s never easy getting ready for a gazillion European houseguests to stay in your small Central Austin bungalow. When your houseguests are some of the more famous people from the tiny post-Soviet county of...
Friday Fun @SXSWi: It’s All About The Cupcake
. . . . . Pastries and Pasties flyer 2nd Annual Pastries and Pasties! Friday, March 12 at 8 p.m. -1 a.m. Emos (603 Red River St) $12 online, $15 door, SXSWi badges FREE!...
Friday Fun @SXSWi: How to Rawk SXSW!
. . . . sxsw.com How to Rawk SXSW Friday, March 12 at 2:00 PM Austin Convention Center (500 E Cesar Chavez Street) Room: 18ABCD [info] | [tickets] The Washington Post recently described...
Romance Readers Social….at the University Hills Library
Bad timing and helping my friend Byron move at the last moment killed this post for Austinist…but if the people in it ever Google themselves, they might see this! Maybe…. Valentine’s Day is a...
Chuckie and the Health Care Debate…
The reality of our national health-care crisis was recently brought home to me in a sudden and dramatic fashion. In mid-October, our sweet family member Charles (aka Chuckie to his friends) was struck with...
