Covering Music, Film and Pop Culture
Living in Austin, Texas in the weeks leading up to the South by Southwest Music Festival, it’s hard not to think about music. A lot has been written about the musical offerings of Austin,...
True confession #21: I’ve always loved Valentine’s Day more than the other holidays, maybe even more than Halloween. Then again, I’m usually EXHAUSTED on Halloween. While Valentine’s Day is my favorite holiday, but I’m...
Last year I was lucky to be a guide at Scare For A Cure’s haunted theatrical charity fundraising event, “Fairy Tale Nightmare.” Before I started guiding most nights of our sold-out run, I grabbed...
I don’t know if anyone planned it this way, but I find it very interesting that Dylan Farrow’s open letter to Woody Allen came out just a few days before Super Bowl XLVII. Now...
Last summer at the Positivus Music Festival, I had a casual backstage chat with a European music industry friend about the band Imagine Dragons. The band had sparked the biggest interest of any act...
Yesterday I had another doctor’s visit to take care of the ick I had over the holiday season. I learned two things at the doctor’s office. One is that I seem to be an...
Every year it’s all I can do to make it through the endless Christmas season. The days are short, the expectation is that you’ll shop with glee for loved ones. Forget it, I can...
When my favorite Estonian band “Ewert and the Two Dragons” were on their Fall 2013 US tour, I managed to catch them in Austin. I’ve seen the band several times, including at both Summer...
For the last month, I haven’t done much of anything. Not much writing, not much photo editing, not even much reading of longform articles. I had a cyst that got infected and turned into...
After a show, a lot of people try to take home the setlist from the event. Since a lot of times my tickets have been comped–sometimes because I’m taking pictures of the show–there’s no...
