NAZI GOLD Played Red 7 on a Monday Night in Austin, Texas
For those of you who only go to shows in Austin during SXSW, this is a glimpse of what the “Austin music scene” is like on a Monday in November.
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Old Enough to Play the Austin City Limits Music Festival…But Not Always Old Enough To Vote
Of all the artists playing the 2012 Austin City Limits Music Festival, Abby Torres, 16 and Carla Pantoja 16, may be the only performers who managed to squeeze in a marching band competition that October weekend.
Torres and Pantoja are members of the Lanier High School band who also study music via Anthropos Arts, an Austin-based non-profit providing music lessons to dedicated young performers from at risk backgrounds. The project’s supporters include musician Esperanza Spalding, who popped by the Anthropos booth at ACL to pose for pictures after her Friday afternoon show.
Secret Screening: CLOUD ATLAS at Fantastic Fest
Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas in September 2012. You all know that the movie CLOUD ATLAS opens today, yes? It’s all about time and souls and spirits who...
I Miss the Ocean
Austin, Texas has a lot of things. What it does not have is an ocean. Given that I grew up fairly close to the Gulf of Mexico, near Galveston, Texas, I thought that I...
Asheville, NC Has Gotten All Hipped-Up!
Dogwood tree in Bloom, April 2012 For the last 200 or so years, my family has been living in the hills around Asheville, N.C. This means I’ve been going to Asheville ever since I...
Time Travel Weekend Party
In many ways this past weekend in Austin has felt like a stop on the time travel train. I’m convinced that sometime in the future, time travel is a functional thing, much the way...
Sex and the Secret Service
I suspect that you’ve heard about the Secret Service sex scandal where President Obama’s advance team in Cartagena, Colombia allegedly hired prostitutes, then failed to pay at least one of them. While the investigation...
ACL: I’m Excited About Seeing Twin Shadow Again!
Twin Shadow is one of the acts that I’ll totally be seeing at the Austin City Limits Music Festival, 2011
Eating in the airport
Thanks to a summer of discount travel, I’ve spent a lot of time in airports. Since I’m too cheap to buy a first class ticket–and too impatient to put up with long layovers–my frequent...
Oh look, more pictures on the Internets!
When I told my sweetie that someone else was using some of my pictures to illustrate an article on Latvia, he quipped that it must be the cousin of one of my friends there!...
