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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...
Earlier this week, I found a fun video for “Big Cat Week: Betty White: The Cougar Expert.” It’s part of National Geographic’s “Big Cat Week,” which starts today. Every time I see an ad...
Latvia doesn’t occupy a large spot in the consciousness of most Americans. It does in mine. From the first moment I first arrived on a bus in the capital of Riga, Latvia in the...
