The Next Best Thing To Time Travel
If only I could rev up my Time Machine for my historical fiction research. Instead, I made a few workarounds.
Top 5 Things To Do With A Fractured Fibula
You can exercise vicarious thrills during a period of enforced inactivity. I am.
Turning Silver at the Saxon
How does a beloved Austin music icon thrive for 25 years in a city on growth steroids?
Back By Popular Demand
Backed by a new band, The Towering Cranes, Austin’s most beloved icon appears daily on the shore of Lady Bird Lake.
Bring On The Heat, Austin!
There are some tried-and-true ways to put the summer heat behind you: the methods are shared in photos.
If It’s Wednesday, It Must Be Wordless
If it’s Wednesday, it’s wordless. Those are the rules. God Bless Johnny Cash, who was never wordless in his life.
How to Deal With the Loneliness of Creativity
“Creativity is Essentially a Lonely Art . . . An Even Lonelier Struggle” – Lou Dorfsman
Welcome to Austin. You’re Gonna Love It!
Welcome to Austin, all ye visitors to SXSW. You’re gonna love Austin. We all do. You’re about to find out why Austin, Texas makes every Top Ten list anyone ever thought of.
Making Texans Proud Since 1964
The Broken Spoke, one of the definitive Texas dance halls, is disguised in a rustic dark red building on South Lamar and now completely enveloped by new upscale development.
Unexpected Pairings
Light meets design makes shadow creates pattern bathes piano attracts musician rides bike brings color makes music becomes art = pairings, unexpected . . . “Creativity is that marvelous capacity […]
There’s an App for That: Achieve Your 2014 Tech Resolutions
Get your tech affairs together so you have more time for creativity in 2014. It’s nearly 2014. The year will begin with experts’ columns, advising us on New Year preparations, resolutions […]
Blessings for The Man in Black
A broken-down bus that long lived at Austin’s famous honky-tonk shows some respect for the Man in Black. The missing 1948 Flxible Clipper bus that once lent its retro funk to Austin’s […]
Reflections on Making a Mark
. . . There’s a complex explanation in physics for reflection. Reflection is defined as “the change in direction of a wavefront at an interface between two different media so that the wavefront returns […]
Singing the Moody Blues for Antone’s
Antone’s, the club whose name is perhaps most synonymous with The Live Music Capital of the World moniker that Austin carries, is up for sale. Though its soul left the club […]
Getting My Weekly Wacky Fix
As a self-defined seeker of the wacky, I’ve cultivated a number sources I follow online to get my Weekly Wacky Fix. These are some of the more creative bits I’ve […]
