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Earlier this year I was lucky enough to catch Jad Fair, featuring Brian Birzer and Cheryl Tepper at Echo Bridge in San Antonio. I hadn’t been to Echo Bridge before that show, but it’s a lovely...
Read Anna’s column in the Dallas Morning News on the 2024 total solar eclipse in Texas, and why it mattered.
For the last good while I’ve been low-key obsessed with the novel “Red, White and Royal Blue.” It’s about an alternate timeline where the 2016 election was won by a woman (Ellen Claremont) from...
This weekend the Austin City Limits television show aired the Duran Duran episode that was taped on October 5th of last year, making it a great time to take a look back at the...
As expected, South by Southwest is all digital this year. It’s bringing Texas to the world, instead of bringing the world to Texas. Singer/ National Treasure Willie Nelson is a SXSW keynote speaker, as...
During these Coronavirus times so many people have turned to cooking as a way to cope. I have not. I’m the very opposite of a foodie. Maybe that’s to be expected given my upbringing....
Click here to read Anna’s column in the Dallas Morning News on what should be the next trend in Covid home activities: a return to hanging out the laundry. Original story online https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2021/02/06/whats-the-next-homespun-covid-trend-how-about-line-drying-your-laundry/
On the Saturday where Space X became the first company to launch astronauts into orbit while my friends were out protesting the murder of Floyd George, I was out on an errand between Houston...
Anna’s Halloween column on the Mexican films at this year’s Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas is in today’s Dallas Morning News and can be read here.
Nashville Film Festival Coverage via Jason Sparks, Our Man in Nashville I’m loath to identify a favorite film from NIFF 19, but if I were to label a film as the most important one...
