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Austin Psych Fest is this weekend, April 26-28 2013, at Carson Creek Ranch.
If you are, er, directionally challenged like me, this should strike fear into your heart. Or at least get you to add an extra hour into your festival planning!
Recently there was an article in the Huffington Post by David Landsel, about how Austin is way overrated, and Houston is a lot better. I wasn’t even slightly surprised when I read this article. I don’t think the article has much truth or insight to it, it’s just blowback from the fact that the locus of our collective Americian fantasy of the “magical elsewhere” happens to be currently located in Austin, Texas.
Every era gets the magical elsewhere it deserves. The magical elsewhere is the spot where you don’t have to work overly hard and dreams come true. It’s the land of milk and honey and the promise of romance and paradise and a certain loosening of the older strict moral codes.
Just after the madness of SXSW, I was a passenger in a car accident in Florida. I was bruised, a car or two were totaled, and life still hasn’t gotten back to normal. But...
Austin Airport m4w Monday, March 18th 2013-03-23, 12:54PM CDT You had dark hair, brown eyes, a cute smile and a tattoo on your left arm. While our collective flights got delayed, we talked for...
One of the great treats of SXSW is the sheer cheek-by-jowl-ness of it. One moment you can be standing in the ladies’ room during the SPIN at Stubb’s party, complimenting someone on her fab...
The annual South By Southwest festival is a lot like the Indian parable of three blind men describing an elephant: one man, feeling the tail, describes the elephant as, “Thin, like a rope.”...
When I saw that the English electronic band Depeche Mode (known for their hit song “People are People”) was going to be to doing their first-ever showcase at the South By Southwest Music Conference...
It’s Grumpy Cat’s world, we just live in it. (Photo: Anna Hanks) We Promise That We Aren’t Making This Stuff Up: A Field Report on SXSW Interactive and Film from an Embedded...
Craigslist Wearing a bear suit at Whole Foods Bar – w4m – 27 (Whole Foods Lamar) Were you wearing a bear costume at the Whole Foods Bar a few weeks ago?...
When I heard the Flaming Lips were playing a SXSW show at Auditorium Shores, I couldn’t help think about the last time that the Flaming Lips played a large show in Austin.
Back in 2010, I was working on a column about people with disabilities at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. I ran across Wayne Coyne, the lead singer of the Flaming Lips in the festival’s media area. He was waiting for an interview with MTV, I was trying to stay in the shade so I didn’t melt.
