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...
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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...
Romance Readers Social….at the University Hills Library
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...
Boobs Plus Liqueur=A Fine Charitable Event
Boobs Plus Liquor = A Fine Charitable Event [Drink Pink] Opal Divine’s Drink Pink Campaign to Benefit Breast Cancer Research Thursday, June 4 Opal Divines Penn Field (3601 South Congress Ave) 6-8 p.m. Free...
Wear For Art Thou, Outfit?
Every Wednesday on Austinist we feature one of our multitude of ridiculously talented writers, writing written things for your eyes to consume. The opinions expressed by the writer are strictly their own, and are...
Why Austin Shouldn’t Move the Animal Shelter
In April, a tragedy occurred in our backyard. After years of stalking and chasing, one of our dogs finally caught our neighbor’s white cat, Emma, who had slipped though our fence. The result– 120...
Hippie Austin Bonds at “Dirt Road to Psychedelia….”
Austin, Texas During The 1960s As the festival drew near a conclusion on its next-to-last day, I took a mental and physical health break from the event. Festival stress and daily blogging using my...
Last Night at the Alamo Grindhouse (aka Watching Vintage Prints with director Quentin Tarantino) (2007)
Dressed in jeans and a black hoodie– and clutching a beer– film director Quentin Tarantino paced in the spotlight of the small stage of the Alamo Drafthouse theater in downtown Austin, Texas. He told...
Focusing on Horror Films at SXSW Film 2007
At the 13th Annual South by Southwest Film Festival, science fiction, supernatural and horror films comprised an increasingly larger proportion of the festival’s 600 plus films, according to SXSW film programmer Matt Dentler, 27. Among the events at the spring festival was the “Grindhouse 101” panel where “GRINDHOUSE” director Robert Rodriguez and Harry Knowles of Aintitcoolnews.com discussed their appreciation of the vintage low-budget films with shocking gimmicks that were played in the old theaters known as grindhouses.
Fantasy Films Draw their lifeblood from Austin
For the last year, my husband has spent his Saturdays helping friends build a 9-foot copy of the TARDIS time-traveling spaceship from the BBC’s “Doctor Who” TV series. To the uninitiated, it looks like...
