REQUIEM FOR 2ND AVENUE NORTH
*ed note: this is a developing story. We’ve done our best to confirm the facts at time of publication…but things change By Jason T Sparks Early Christmas morning, 2020, and my wife and I...
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Through Space, Time and Middle America, Part One: Wind Turbines, Cheese Fries, Intermodal Stations, and Bottlezahwatahzahdollah (A trip before the Coronavirus.)
by Jason T. Sparks, Our Man in Nashville I look back now on May of 2018 as a kind of—pardon the bastardized Latin—month mirablius. I had started a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds for...
From the public outcry at the Trump Inauguration
When I was in D.C. for the Women’s March, I saw a lot of protesters during the day of the Trump Inauguration. It’s amazing how much has happened since then. These pictures are stark...
Props To The Musical Selection on Girls
Catching up on this season of GIRLS, hearing “Free Man in Paris” by Joni Mitchell at the end of Season 6, Episode 2 was just perfect. I’m way behind on Season 6, but I...
You Can Go Home Again (at Day For Night)
HOUSTON, TEXAS: I tell everyone I grew up in Houston, but I really grew up in the south eastern suburb of Deer Park, out near the ship channel and the gasoline plants and edge...
You Used to Call Me on the Pay Phone
The times, they are a’changing. Here is some evidence. And a hat tip to Drake for the title…
Why Keeping the Sekrit Theater is Important
I come from a very social family. When my paternal grandparents got married during the Depression it was the social event of the season in Chinquapin, deep in the piney woods of East Texas....
Talking About the Austin City Limits Music Festival
Today a front-page above-the-fold story “Should Austin charge ACL organizer more for use of Zilker Park?” in the Austin American-Statesman referenced my op-ed column from last fall on the Austin City Limits Music Festival. If you missed...
Too Late: An Unusual Indie Film Masterpiece
I slipped into a screening of TOO LATE on a whim at Fantastic Fest last year. I wasn’t expecting much, after all hearing that a film is shot in five “one take” events on...
