(Not that it matters too much now, but this post contains some spoilers for the final performances of No One Else Will Ever Love You.)
Here are seven things I’ve learned since stepping into the director’s role at the beginning of this project:
1. As a journalist, especially an arts writer, it’s easy to forget the difference [...]

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Took another two weeks off from the blog without even noticing it.
It’s funny how busy life gets without you even really noticing it. Kat and I moved into a new place last week, which derailed things a bit, and I’m up in Indianapolis since last Thursday, which derailed things further. I’ve been doing my [...]

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  I mentioned earlier that I’m directing a play in the late part of the summer. It’s an original work that Kat wrote called ‘No One Else Will Ever Love You’, and it has four actors and takes place in real-time in a living room.
The piece is intimate and voyeuristic (and, since Kat wrote [...]

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I was a theater kid in high school, but only because no one else would have me. I grew to develop a genuine interest in it during my time there, but I wouldn’t have ever declared it a passion. Mostly it was just a place to hang out.
Once Kat and I got together, that [...]

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I ran into this post by Spike Gillespie, who I know a little bit through Austinist, earlier today. In it, she details some of the reasons why Austin Post, a new start-up media site in Austin dedicated to “citizen journalism” (yeah, those are scare quotes) is kinda crappy. The short answer is that it [...]

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I’ve got a piece up on decider.com today, an interview with Austin City Council place 1 candidate Chris Riley. It’s for a feature called ‘Debaser’, where the subject gets to plug whatever it is they’re selling – usually a CD, or a show they’re putting on, or something like that – in exchange for telling [...]

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There’s an interesting bit of politicking going on in Austin right now regarding a ballot initiative called Proposition 2. Municipal ballot initiatives aren’t usually all that compelling, unless they deal with a smoking ban or something, but this one’s pretty great.
Background: In North Austin, there’s a development called The Domain. The name’s ominous, [...]

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