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...
Covering Music, Film and Pop Culture
*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...
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,...
By Jason T Sparks My relationship to advertising is complicated, and I know exactly why. I grew up around advertising; my father was an account executive at an agency called Carden & Cherry for...
It’s Thanksgiving week, meaning that (many) kids are out of school, we’re thinking about fall, and it’s getting close to time to get our turkey on. It’s also decorative gourd season.
Beloved Austin veggie institution Veggie Heaven is back, this time on West 5th Street. The space is fancier, the plates are fancier, there are “Star Wars” soy sauce dispensers, but it’s great to have...
This Easter holiday has something for everyone! There’s vegan Easter candy… And cute chicks… And Easter Baskets… And sometimes things go horribly, horribly wrong…
The Rachael Ray Feedback Party is one of the landmark parties of SXSW. Every year it seems like a kazillion people line up wanting to get in…and why wouldn’t they? This year the food...
In light of last week’s spike in Google searches for “How to move to Canada” following the wins of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at the recent Super Tuesday primary, here is a guest...
I am proud to present an unusual take on Beyonce’s “Formation” video: an academic close-reading of the video by independent scholar and guest blogger Byron King: “What happened at the New Wil’ins?”: Cultural and...