Chuckie and the Health Care Debate…
The reality of our national health-care crisis was recently brought home to me in a sudden and dramatic fashion. In mid-October, our sweet family member Charles (aka Chuckie to his friends) was struck with...
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Fantastic Fest Is Bringing Us More Fantastic-ness!
. . . . . . The third wave of content for Fantastic Fest was recently announced, and it totally rocks. That’s especially true if you dig vampires, ninjas and super scary stories about...
Observing Michael Jackson’s death in Memphis
Mourning Jackson on the streets of Boston, Mass. It’s the week of Michael Jackson’s funeral, and I’m waiting for the last flight out of Memphis. Everywhere in the deserted airport you can hear CNN...
Life in Latvia
Not every American who travels abroad visits this tiny capital, much less gets here two summers in a row. Yet having briefly worked for a newspaper in the region — and having friends in...
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...
At least Iceland’s rich in talent
It’s not often that you get a chance to sit down with rock stars from Iceland for a long chat about economics. But at South By Southwest, anything can happen. Iceland’s economy suffered a...
Is it Latvia…or ACL?
Editors’ note: Back in July, Austinist writer Anna Hanks visited Latvia and attended the PostivusAB Festival there. She reports her findings here, to you, in the ever-rarer first narrative format. Enjoy. Earlier this summer...
Skin + Bones+Tattoos = SXSW Hotness
South By Southwest is my favorite time of year. Not so much because of the music, though the music is literally what brings me my happiness. It’s because SXSW is the only time of...
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...
Cronocrimenes at Fantastic Fest
Tim League of the Alamo and Nacho Vigalondo during the Cronocrimenes Question and Answer session following one of the first screenings of the movie in the United States (2007). Growing up in the...
