Another summer, another Latvian music festival
Going to a music festival in Salacgriva, Latvia, three years in a row is so absurd, even I don’t really believe I’m doing it. Yet, come July 16-17, I’ll again be someplace I never...
Category: Positivus
There’ll be a lot of Latvian guests in my living room
It’s never easy getting ready for a gazillion European houseguests to stay in your small Central Austin bungalow. When your houseguests are some of the more famous people from the tiny post-Soviet county of...
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...
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...
