Covering Music, Film and Pop Culture
By Anna Hanks – Special to the American-Statesman Posted: 12:36 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, 2016 A giant Ferris wheel dominated Congress Avenue during the South by Southwest Film and Interactive Conferences. The neon attraction...
On the last day of early voting, I went to the Travis County Airport Boulevard Offices and stood in line a full one and a half hours to cast my ballot. I had checked...
By Anna Hanks – Special to the American-Statesman Updated: 11:01 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015 | Posted: 12:00 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015 The Austin City Limits Music Festival isn’t a place where one usually starts...
By Anna Hanks – Special to the American-Statesman Posted: 1:59 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015 When I was a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, my childhood friend Brian Hollis had...
By Anna Hanks – Regular contributor I’ve spent the first weeks of January at home with the kind of severe cold that justifies not getting out of pajamas for days. While contagiously confined to...
By Anna Hanks – Special contributor Every year I cringe when I read about the crowds on “Black Friday,” the biggest shopping day of the year. Even more terrible is reading about the various...
By Anna Hanks – Special to the American-Statesman As I was hanging my laundry out on the line on the day following the South By Southwest Eco Conference earlier this month, I realized that...
I usually love the cultural circus of the South By Southwest festival, but I’m having a hard time reconciling the party atmosphere of the event with the tragic incident on Red River Street that...
When I saw that the English electronic band Depeche Mode (known for their hit song “People are People”) was going to be to doing their first-ever showcase at the South By Southwest Music Conference...
Recently the Austin Animal Center has received more animals than they can handle. They are at full-as-a-tick capacity, with an additional 518 dogs and cats in offsite foster care. Hearing about the number of...
