At SXSW, love of Duran Duran was still going strong
When I was in junior high school, I could have told you anything about the band Duran Duran. With crucial information gleaned from Tiger Beat and Rolling Stone, I could have explained how the...
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When I was in junior high school, I could have told you anything about the band Duran Duran. With crucial information gleaned from Tiger Beat and Rolling Stone, I could have explained how the...
Riga graffiti. It’s strange the impact that South By Southwest can have on our lives, in ways that sometimes go far beyond the music. View of Riga. In 2006, I did a story for...
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...
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...
Bad timing and helping my friend Byron move at the last moment killed this post for Austinist…but if the people in it ever Google themselves, they might see this! Maybe…. Valentine’s Day is a...
. . . . . . The third wave of content for Fantastic Fest was recently announced, and it totally rocks. That’s especially true if you dig vampires, ninjas and super scary stories about...
Anna knows the city and the people Monday is a quiet day for the Austin Film Festival. Nothing is scheduled before noon, and there are no features being shown until the evening. After reading...
The second day of the Austin Film Festival went by in an absolute blur. I think part of the reason was Thursday’s late-night world-premiere of the zombie-riffic Street Team Massacre at the tiny Hideout...
In light of Washington’s birthday (Feb 22), we should note that for generations American schoolchildren were force-fed the fable of George Washington fessing up to chopping down his father’s cherry tree in a spurt...
Most college polo players come to the sport knowing how to ride a horse, but never having played polo. Terry Jones, the faculty adviser for the New Mexico State club, says most of the polo players are from small agricultural communities in that state.