“Duran Duran” and the Ordinary World
This weekend the Austin City Limits television show aired the Duran Duran episode that was taped on October 5th of last year, making it a great time to take a look back at the...
Category: park
Why Do We Enjoy Movies In The Park?
via Jason T. Sparks, Our Man in Nashville ed note: This was written in the Before Times, then held until the summer movie season rolled around. Things changed. July 2019: It’s a beautiful June...
Snapshots and Crowd Scenes From ACL 2016
During the first weekend of the Austin City Limits Music Festival, I was busy talking to people in order to write a column for the Dallas Morning News about the festival. I grabbed a...
ACL Fest sells a watered-down version of the Texas mythos
ACL Fest sells a watered-down versionTwo years ago I flew out of Austin just after the Austin City Limits Music Festival and noticed everyone in my row was sporting an ACL wristband. It wasn’t...
Portland Japanese Garden In Fall
Last fall I spent a day photographing the beautiful Portland Japanese Garden. Here are some of the fall pictures. The garden is currently closed for a construction project, so you’ll just have to imagine...
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...
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...
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...
ACL Fest is just too much of a good thing
This is the tale of two bands. One’s country. The other, rock ‘n’ roll. Both are from Austin and both played ACL Fest on Saturday. The sultry heat made Zilker Park feel like a...
