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The Pet Rock: Rock of Ages

2 weeks ago | nextavenue.org | Anthony Head

Like my father before me, I once bought a rock and gave it to someone I love. It seemed like a humorous idea. But then again, timing is everything. Back in October of 1975, my father's gift was the hit at my mother's birthday party: a small cardboard container with air holes and the words "PET ROCK" on the sides. Our family gathered close as Mom opened the box to reveal a rock on a nest of thin wood shavings — and for the briefest of moments it actually looked exotic.
South Austin Dive Bar Boomerz Has Been a Staple for More Than 30 Years

2 weeks ago | austinmonthly.com | Anthony Head

Maybe Boomerz isn’t one of Austin’s more fabled dive bars, but it does live up to that time-honored mantra about everything being bigger in Texas. Plus, big ol’ Boomerz holds on to a lot of that special off-the-grid, Old Austin charm that’s slowly slipping away from the city. Located at the far end of a shopping center parking lot in historic Oak Hill, the warehouse-sized gathering spot—which includes a stage and game hall—has maintained its comfortable character for more than 30 years.
Coachella Afterparties: Celebs Turn Up Amid Oceanic Glamour

3 weeks ago | mycolumbuspower.com | Anthony Head |Jazmyn Summers

Power 107.5 Featured Video CLOSE Thermal, , CA – April 2025 —As Coachella took over the desert, the real magic unfolded long after the last mainstage beat dropped. This year’s most coveted afterparties—NYLON House and Neon Carnival—delivered unforgettable nights of music, beauty, and celebrity-studded scenes. The turn up continues this weekend at Coachella.
Coachella Afterparties: Celebs Turn Up Amid Oceanic Glamour

3 weeks ago | blackamericaweb.com | Nia Noelle |Anthony Head |Jazmyn Summers

Black America Web Featured Video CLOSE Source: Matt Winkelmeyer / GettyThermal, , CA – April 2025 —As Coachella took over the desert, the real magic unfolded long after the last mainstage beat dropped. This year’s most coveted afterparties—NYLON House and Neon Carnival—delivered unforgettable nights of music, beauty, and celebrity-studded scenes.
Austin’s Aristocrat Lounge Keeps the Poodle Dog’s Legacy Alive

2 months ago | austinmonthly.com | Anthony Head

Nineteen Sixty-Four was a different time, Austin was a different place, and the Aristocrat Lounge was a different bar. When it opened that year as the Poodle Dog Lounge on Burnet Road, it started a long run as a blue-collar pool hall and beer joint, equal parts George Jones and Deep Purple. The name and the tall, coiffed poodle painted on its exterior wall has confounded canine owners for decades.
These Austin Bars Keep Vintage Vibes Alive with Classic Jukeboxes

Nov 26, 2024 | austinmonthly.com | Anthony Head

It’s around midnight on an average weekday when Ramsay Midwood clears napkins and empty cigarette packs from the top of the bulky Wurlitzer jukebox at the edge of Sam’s Town Point’s dance floor. Midwood, who owns the South Austin honky-tonk, plugs in the machine—lights flicker for a moment—and presses two buttons. The warm scratchy sounds of music history pour from the front speaker.
The Tiny Chapel on the Dunes Has Withstood Many, Many Storms

Nov 19, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Anthony Head

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The Modersohn-Becker/Rilke Correspondence edited by Rainer Stamm

Oct 9, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Lesley Chamberlain |Anthony Head |Lily Herd |E. K. Myerson

The poet Rainer Maria Rilke met the painter Paula Becker in the summer of 1900. He had come to Worpswede, a village in north Germany, to join the small, vibrant artistic community established there in 1889. Both were twenty-four, and ambitious artists. The group spent an enchanted summer talking about art and drinking wine. But in October Rilke felt the need for “the big city” and returned to Berlin. So a correspondence began.
The Malleus Maleficarum by Peter Maxwell-Stuart

Oct 9, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | E. K. Myerson |Anthony Head |Lily Herd |Terri Apter

The Malleus Maleficarum is a medieval inquisition document, written in Latin by the fifteenth-century German inquisitor Heinrich Kramer (under the name Henricus Institoris) and now republished in an updated translation by Peter Maxwell-Stuart. Like many medieval manuscripts it is a compilation: it contains a disquisition on the nature of magic, a series of mirabilia (marvellous anecdotes) and a practical legal handbook.
Soviet Factography by Devin Fore

Oct 9, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Samuel Goff |Anthony Head |Lily Herd |E. K. Myerson

The Soviet Union in the 1920s was, in the words of the pioneering nonfiction film-maker Dziga Vertov, a “factory of facts”. Reality itself was in a state of revolution: a state that had been ravaged by war and upheaval was in the throes of modernization, throwing up new experiences and information at a dizzying rate.