“Duran Duran” and the Ordinary World
This weekend the Austin City Limits television show aired the Duran Duran episode that was taped on October 5th of last year, making it a great time to take a look back at the...
Category: Texas
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...
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....
A Return to Line Drying
Click here to read Anna’s column in the Dallas Morning News on what should be the next trend in Covid home activities: a return to hanging out the laundry. Original story online https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2021/02/06/whats-the-next-homespun-covid-trend-how-about-line-drying-your-laundry/
Bad News Outside The Bar
On the Saturday where Space X became the first company to launch astronauts into orbit while my friends were out protesting the murder of Floyd George, I was out on an errand between Houston...
Anna’s Halloween + Mexican Horror Column in the Dallas Morning News
Anna’s Halloween column on the Mexican films at Fantastic Fest in the Dallas Morning News can be read here.
ERNIE and JOE: CRISIS COPS @Nashville Film Festival
Nashville Film Festival Coverage via Jason Sparks, Our Man in Nashville I’m loath to identify a favorite film from NIFF 19, but if I were to label a film as the most important one...
Finding a SXSW Photo in the Wild
* Every so often I’ll be looking for something else, and stumble across one of my pictures in the wild. Here’s a SXSW story from VICE on “The best places to cry during SXSW”...
Thor and Friends
Have you seen Thor & Friends, the musical collective from Austin’s Thor Harris? Earlier this winter, the group played a show at the Lemon Lounge in Austin, in support of their new record, The...
My Hurricane Harvey
I was very fortunate that as Hurricane Harvey hit the Gulf Coast, my 80 year-old parents who stubbornly refused to leave their home on the coast were just fine. Their house (only 7 miles...
