I’m an unreliable narrator – SXSW passes and all. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you learned about new bands, new places to eat, new bartenders to meet to serve you a drink. I hope you got an inside track about what the Austin music scene has to offer. But it was never about you.
Read More
across Austin, cool (and SXSW ) is something we’ve been monetizing since the first hip dude slipped on a Bob Seger shirt and a cowboy hat way back in the Nixon administration.
Read More
I ventured into the bucket head-wearing throngs for night one. Accompanied by my spiritual advisor, the comic Trevor Keveloh, we dared to see what this year’s SXSW festival had in store for us, even though it was supposed to be only the “tech week.”
Read More
Many of the bars and venues of the past are now alive thanks to a savvy marketer coupling with new construction Svengali, giving the names of their suites like the “Armadillo World Headquarters” or “the Trudy’s Room,” offering a gross impression of what was in a place steeped in so much cultural history. Yet some places remain – like The Lost Well.
Read More