Scenes From the SPIN Party, SXSW 2012
While we’re thinking about the upcoming SXSW, it’s hard not to think about last year’s party. Here’s a couple of picture from last year’s event! Santigold Evil Eyes, after her band’s set!
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Conan at SXSW
I hope that by now you’ve seen the Conan O’Brian doc “Can’t Stop” about the time between the end of his hosting The Tonight Show and taking his talk show to cable. “This is...
Live life now — don’t waste it taking pictures
You’ve heard the one about how a picture says a thousand words? This week’s $1 billion acquisition of the mobile phone picture-sharing service Instagram by social media giant Facebook says even more. It tells...
Downtown Abbey and Cough Syrup
As I sit on my sofa, chilling with my post SXSW cold, while watching Downton Abbey, I’m really grateful for modern medicine. I so would not want Lady Grantham in charge of my healthcare...
Still recovering from SXSW…but my pictures are busy on the Internet!
Like a lot of people, I’m still recovering from SXSW, specifically the SXSW-crud.Putzing around on the internet in my feverish state, I found some of my pictures were on a site called the Flickr...
Dig those crazy grooves, daddy-o
I spent a few days loitering on the fringes of the South By Southwest Interactive festival this past week. Every year the festival blows into town, bringing a cornucopia of digital goodies that promise...
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...
Focusing on Horror Films at SXSW Film 2007
At the 13th Annual South by Southwest Film Festival, science fiction, supernatural and horror films comprised an increasingly larger proportion of the festival’s 600 plus films, according to SXSW film programmer Matt Dentler, 27. Among the events at the spring festival was the “Grindhouse 101” panel where “GRINDHOUSE” director Robert Rodriguez and Harry Knowles of Aintitcoolnews.com discussed their appreciation of the vintage low-budget films with shocking gimmicks that were played in the old theaters known as grindhouses.
When locals and luck collide
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...
Al Franken in Austin: A Broadcast from Out of the Past
Cameraphone pic of Al Franken and Paul Sicard! When my husband was the only person in town to win tickets* to the live broadcast of the Al Franken Show, I was so excited. I would...
