I survived Burning Man 2025
Every year going to Burning Man gets just a little bit harder. Some years it’s because of my own life and some years it is because of the weather. This year my friends and...
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Lifeguard!
Catch the new band Lifeguard at the Mohawk in Austin tonight! Get tickets here! Several of the band members have to go back to high school soon, so make sure to catch them as...
Lord, this country
Update: The drummer who was arrested had an active warrent against him, which does still not make his being taken off the plane the correnct thing for Customs and Border Control to have done....
New Pope Energy
I’m not even Catholic and I’m really loving all the “new pope energy” that I’ve been seeing around the internet. From the stories about him playing priest with an ironing board when he was...
A Small Light Isn’t So Small
“I don’t like being called a hero because no one should ever think you have to be special to help others. Even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can turn on...
Will mini-fest’s be the new trend?
This weekend Austin is having the first version of the “HolidayHootenanny,” which is billed as a “mini-fest”What makes it unusual is the holiday timing, as well as the additionof things like ornament-making to the...
Halloween Season = Playtime
We’re just getting to the end of a looooog Halloween -time. Halloween has been becoming a bigger & bigger holiday over the years, evolving into a whole Halloween season these days. Why is this?...
The Politics of Dancing
There’s the super “sounds of the 60s & 80s” music event Levitation that happens to be happening the weekend before the election. That seems fitting.The last time we were in such a divided time...
ACL Dispatch 2024
Read Anna’s take on the 2024 Austin City Limits Music Festival in the Dallas Morning news here.
