Covering Music, Film and Pop Culture
Sharing thoughts about a film, a band, a friend, a bar, and a pretty city. Ever since high school I’ve been into the distinctively mopey music that emerged from economically depressed Manchester, England in...
The second day of the Austin Film Festival went by in an absolute blur. I think part of the reason was Thursday’s late-night world-premiere of the zombie-riffic Street Team Massacre at the tiny Hideout...
The screenings for the 14th annual Austin Film Festival started last night at Austin’s historic and glamorous Paramount Theatre. Before the evening got properly underway, I spent some time staring up at the painted...
As much as we’d like to change a few things about our first time, we regret we’ll never be able to repeat the experience. We also can’t change history, so catching the currently playing,...
. . . . . In our culture, children are usually considered innocent until sullied by the grown-up world. Otherwise, why would we have family-friendly TV programming, G-rated movies, and continual furor about “inappropriateâ€...
Austinist Reviews: Wyrd Sisters We admit that when it comes to being entertained, we have the attention span of a kitten. We’re happily distracted by bright shiny costumes, jingly bells, and the occasional gilded,...
Oh how we love our brooding bad-boys, full of emotional conflicts and divided loyalties. From James Dean to Marlon Brando, we just adore our theatrical time-bombs ticking down to an eventual emotional explosion. Black...
Earlier this month, I was standing at the bar at the Hole in the Wall with JoDee Purkeypile, lead singer/songwriter/lead guitarist of Austin’s quintet the Alice Rose. The band was playing the club near...
For the last year, my husband has spent his Saturdays helping friends build a 9-foot copy of the TARDIS time-traveling spaceship from the BBC’s “Doctor Who” TV series. To the uninitiated, it looks like...
We live in a culture of abundance, a society drowning in stuff. Off-site storage units are a growth industry, while houses keep getting bigger to contain the avalanche of possessions. Magazines such as Real...
