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When I was a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, my childhood friend Brian Hollis had already graduated from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas and had gotten a Fulbright grant to study Francophone African theater in...
By Anna Hanks – Special to the American-Statesman Posted: 1:59 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015 When I was a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, my childhood friend Brian Hollis had...
Last night I had what must have been a fever dream, because there’s really no way that I was at a boxing match at Randy Palmer’s South Austin Gym, where Guillermo del Toro, Elijah...
Some years at Fantastic Fest the lineup is all about torture porn, or science fiction, or damsel-in-distress films. This year Fantastic Fest is all about dark whimsy, and I couldn’t be more excited about...
I bet you all know that Thee Oh Sees have a show in Austin at Hotel Vegas tonigh and tomorrow night. They are a really fun band! A couple of years ago, I got...
This Saturday night my husband took me to see The Minus 5 at The Continental Club in Austin. While I had heard him talk about the band–as well as about Scott McCaughey‘s earlier group...
Cleaning off some photo drives, I found these pictures from the Austin City Limits Music Festival last year. These ribbon decorations were in the Austin Kiddie Limits area, and I just love them. I...
Last year at Fantastic Fest, I did a small series of portraits that I thought might be like a Fantastic Fest Yearbook, as the festival is sort of like high school. So in the...
One of the reasons I love Fantastic Fest is that the Closing Night Party is always awesome–although sometimes if you are on deadline you can’t get there! This year the Fantastic Fest closing night...
Every so often you see a film that is so misguided that you wish you could travel back to the meeting where the people who brought you the film decided to go ahead with...
