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Bryant Park Summer Film Festival
All summer long, Bryant Park is showing free vintage movies every Monday night! Deena and I met up with a few of her friends in the city to catch On the Town, which might be the perfect movie for a tourist like me. There’s a catchy song they sing that can be helpful to remember directions around the city. It’s so bad, it’s good. How crazy is it to think how long the modern amenities like subways and skyscrapers of a big city like New York have been around? These things don’t define contemporary life so much. Maybe technology would. In On the Town, three young sailors (including Gene Kelly…
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Day for Night 2016 Part 2
Do you want it darker? Since the art and music festival fell right before Winter Solstice, Day for Night used early sundown to its advantage with more light installations both outside and inside this year. The festival is so ambitious in scale. You have to brave the crowds to see all of the art if you also want to catch the shows. We made it up to the second floor for a bit of time in the art installations on Sunday. The building was a nice haven considering how far the temperature dropped from the day before. Side note – did you know that there were tunnels in the old Post Office, where supervisors could…
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Day For Night 2016 Houston Part 1
Winter came gusting in on the first half of Aphex Twin’s set – the first time he performed in the US in 8 years. The swampy air on the edge of the bayou was humid and heavy all day at Day for Night until he started. At the first bursts of wind the crowd started cheering. Then the rain started and we had to live in the chill or go home. Synchronicities tumbled together, time sped up. Sometimes art borders on premonition. Last year Day for Night, Houston’s art and music festival, was awesome. In spite of that, this year Chris and I almost didn’t go until the last minute.…
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Texas Renaissance Festival
Last weekend Chris and I made it out to the Texas Renaissance Festival, with his friends Omar and Jefferson. If you don’t know what a renaissance festival is, it’s like a little town going back in time. There’s a big gathering of vendors who sell their Medieval-to-Renaissance themed wares including clothing, jewelry, home, and gifts. Even the food includes medieval-style fare like giant turkey legs and mead, although since it’s Texas there was also a fair share of Cajun style foods. The festival is made up of a little community of shops, dining, fairgrounds, and stages for plays and music every hundred yards or so. Check out this map, which…
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Festival Style Guide
Festival season is here, along with the search for the cutest yet most practical outfits to get you through the day! Anything boho and free-spirited works for festival style: crochet, fringe, long hair, braids and sunglasses. It’s time to let your gypsy soul wander in the sun (and shade). It gets so hot in the summertime. So, anything that keeps the heat off your back is good. In Houston, we have the Free Press Summer Fest every year. We joke that the difference between the summer music festivals and the winter music festivals like Day for Night are the masses of people, and that’s kind of true. How do so many…
