In Spain, and Getting There
Here is Anna’s long piece on Primavera Sound and summer travel that appeared in the Dallas Morning News. Read all about seeing the band Ghost and a Gothic Cathederal on the same day AND...
Category: foodandsociety
The Formula Formula
You can read Anna’s column on the baby formula shortage in the Dallas Morning News. From the column: “Problems at a single company shouldn’t impact America’s youngest citizens. It’s difficult to get data about...
Impact of Dinner at NOMA
During these Coronavirus times so many people have turned to cooking as a way to cope. I have not. I’m the very opposite of a foodie. Maybe that’s to be expected given my upbringing....
REQUIEM FOR 2ND AVENUE NORTH
*ed note: this is a developing story. We’ve done our best to confirm the facts at time of publication…but things change By Jason T Sparks Early Christmas morning, 2020, and my wife and I...
THE DONUT KING
From our coverage of the 2020 Nashville Film Festival by Jason T Sparks When you watch documentaries you learn things. Here’s a thing I learned from a documentary: within the city of Los Angeles,...
Alas, Poor Peanut; I Knew Him Well
By Jason T Sparks My relationship to advertising is complicated, and I know exactly why. I grew up around advertising; my father was an account executive at an agency called Carden & Cherry for...
Get those decorative gourds started…
It’s Thanksgiving week, meaning that (many) kids are out of school, we’re thinking about fall, and it’s getting close to time to get our turkey on. It’s also decorative gourd season.
The Return of Veggie Heaven
Beloved Austin veggie institution Veggie Heaven is back, this time on West 5th Street. The space is fancier, the plates are fancier, there are “Star Wars” soy sauce dispensers, but it’s great to have...
Easter Is Coming…and Easter Candy!
This Easter holiday has something for everyone! There’s vegan Easter candy… And cute chicks… And Easter Baskets… And sometimes things go horribly, horribly wrong…
Rachael Ray Feedback Party 2016
The Rachael Ray Feedback Party is one of the landmark parties of SXSW. Every year it seems like a kazillion people line up wanting to get in…and why wouldn’t they? This year the food...
