SXSW Is Bringing Texas to the World
As expected, South by Southwest is all digital this year. It’s bringing Texas to the world, instead of bringing the world to Texas. Singer/ National Treasure Willie Nelson is a SXSW keynote speaker, as...
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My Friends Helped Austin While Ted Cruz Vacationed
Before Covid hit, Austin, Texas was a party town. We had festivals and events and a town where people had the skills needed to create a temporary city from scratch. We even had a...
Impact of Dinner at NOMA
During these Coronavirus times so many people have turned to cooking as a way to cope. I have not. I’m the very opposite of a foodie. Maybe that’s to be expected given my upbringing....
The Soul of America
by Jason T Sparks Perhaps you’ve noticed that we have just lived/are living through an intense moment in American history? A pandemic hovers over everything, as does our recent election, which has weaponized seemingly...
REQUIEM FOR 2ND AVENUE NORTH
*ed note: this is a developing story. We’ve done our best to confirm the facts at time of publication…but things change By Jason T Sparks Early Christmas morning, 2020, and my wife and I...
THE DONUT KING
From our coverage of the 2020 Nashville Film Festival by Jason T Sparks When you watch documentaries you learn things. Here’s a thing I learned from a documentary: within the city of Los Angeles,...
NEVER TOO LATE: THE DOC SEVERINSEN STORY
From our continuing coverage of the 2020 Nashville Film Festival by Jason T Sparks Once upon a time, there was a skinny guy from Nebraska named Johnny Carson, and he was the burning-hot epicenter...
THE MYSTERY OF D.B. COOPER
Coverage of the Nashville Film Festival, by Jason T Sparks Here’s what we know: on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving in 1971, a nondescript, middle-aged man in a dark suit boarded Northwest Orient Airlines flight...
THE BEE GEES: HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART
By Jason T Sparks as seen at the Nashville Film Festival 2020 Barry, Maurice, and Robin Gibb were not unsung heroes of the music business. They weren’t eccentric geniuses toiling in obscurity, mainly known...
Nashville Film Festival 2020*
BY JASON T SPARKS About a year ago, on this very website, I wrote the following: Going to a film festival is its own experience. For the most part, it’s a positive experience. By...
