Fighting Climate Change
We’re living through what has been one of the hottest years on record and are constant reports of extreme weather and dangerous flooding due to climate change. It’s all so overwhelming. What can a...
Category: travel
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...
On Holiday With Mr. Covid
Read Anna’s column in the Dallas Morning News about getting Covid while she was on holiday in Spain for the Primavera Sound music festival. Original story online
Travel Troubles
After a year at home due to the no -longer-novel Coronavirus, I’ve been traveling a lot after getting my second coronavirus jab. Two weeks and two days after that last Moderna shot, I was...
Reflections in a Gas Shortage
This week I left Houston, where there was no gas crisis, to go to Asheville, North Carolina, where that’s the only thing that anyone is talking about. The fact that i just went from...
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....
THROUGH SPACE, TIME, AND MIDDLE AMERICA PART TWO: POLISH FORTUNE TELLERS, DENNY’S, AND SOLITUDE
As I roll through another international neighborhood, I begin to notice the locals are mostly in Cubs gear, and all walking towards the same thing. Turns out I’m driving towards it—Irving Park intersects with West Addison, as in 1060 West Addison, AKA Wrigley Field, AKA the official address of one Elwood Blues. I can’t believe my luck—I wanted to experience this town, and this one road appears to be giving me Peak Chicago.
Through Space, Time and Middle America, Part One: Wind Turbines, Cheese Fries, Intermodal Stations, and Bottlezahwatahzahdollah (A trip before the Coronavirus.)
by Jason T. Sparks, Our Man in Nashville I look back now on May of 2018 as a kind of—pardon the bastardized Latin—month mirablius. I had started a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds for...
Let’s Cancel Car Culture
With the movie Ford vs Ferrari (about the efforts of Ford to best Ferrari at the Le Mans race in the 1960s) coming into theaters this weekend, it might be a good time to...
Hanabi Album Release Show
According to quantum mechanics, there are an infinite number of universes that exist at the same time. Somewhere in the multiverse, 90s Britpop didn’t fade away, but is alive and well and out doing...
