The right kind of scary
I spend many October evenings as a guide at the charity haunted house “Scare For a Cure.” In what may be the only acting/hiking gig in the world, I’m responsible for safely leading groups...
Author: Anna
A festival everyone can enjoy
I had an unexpected realization during the Flaming Lips set at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Watching the Oklahoma-based band closing their show with “Do You Realize??” I discovered tears steaming down my...
Changes Brought On By A Trip of Japan, Trip to a Controversial Museum
I’ve never been the sort of person who usually thinks about World War II. I don’t watch the History channel, I don’t read books about the war, and I’ve never taken an interest in...
Another summer, another Latvian music festival
Going to a music festival in Salacgriva, Latvia, three years in a row is so absurd, even I don’t really believe I’m doing it. Yet, come July 16-17, I’ll again be someplace I never...
Unmarked Heads Found in Southwest Airlines Cargo
. . . . . In what sounds like the setup for a horror movie, in Little Rock, Arkansas a Southwest Airlines Employee found 40-to 60 heads — or parts of human heads —...
Scare For A Cure at Eeyore’s Birthday
You may be aware that Austin’s annual hippie festival, Eeyore’s Birthday Party, was held in Pease Park this past April. You might know about the hordes of costumed revelers, some of whom attended the...
Coming of age in a time of youth
It’s one thing to be aware that you won’t live forever. It’s quite another to be made aware of your own mortality amid the youth-inspired bedlam of South by Southwest. It’s taken me a...
SXSWi: Happy Cog’aoke 2 at the Scoot Inn was Mighty Happy!
There are a lot of kinds of parties in the world: birthday parties, toddler bouncy-house parties, work parties. For South by Southwest Interactive, one of the party-est parties was the Saturday night event,...
There’ll be a lot of Latvian guests in my living room
It’s never easy getting ready for a gazillion European houseguests to stay in your small Central Austin bungalow. When your houseguests are some of the more famous people from the tiny post-Soviet county of...
Friday Fun @SXSWi: It’s All About The Cupcake
. . . . . Pastries and Pasties flyer 2nd Annual Pastries and Pasties! Friday, March 12 at 8 p.m. -1 a.m. Emos (603 Red River St) $12 online, $15 door, SXSWi badges FREE!...
