This year at SXSW, Zachary was given the opportunity to experience the Film & TV Festival alongside the music festival. He was not going to this opportunity go to waste. Here are his thoughts on every premiere he went to.
2024 SXSW Recap: The one-stop shop for who’s up next
Another year, another SXSW. Join Zachary as he tells you the best of the best during this year’s SXSW
REVISITING 2023: Austin City Limits Music Festival Weekend Two Recap
Revisiting the best moments of 2023, Zachary Sorrels looks back at Weekend Two of Austin City Limits Music Festival.
An Interview with Poolside at Austin City Limits 2023
During my time at Austin City Limits this year, I got the opportunity to interview Jeffrey Paradise of Poolside prior to his Saturday set.
State Legislature considers outlawing public camping
State lawmakers are considering a pair of bills that would outlaw camping on public lands. Republicans in the House and the Senate are putting forth bills that would also penalize any local government that allows it to happen. The bills are in response to Austin’s growing problem with homeless people and their tent cities. Austin […]
Austin company sells Texas-themed face masks
An Austin company is making Texas-themed face masks for Lone Star State residents who want to put the best face on the pandemic. Texas Humor, a small family-owned business, makes the one-size-fits-all masks out of 50-50 cotton and polyester. The masks feature slogans like “Texas Tough” and “Keep Smiling, You’re in Texas.” The first run […]
3D printed gun plans may soon be available online again
Thanks to a federal rule change, it may soon again be legal to put blueprints for 3D printed guns online. Austin resident Cody Wilson first made the plans available at his website in 2013. The State Department and a federal judge separately blocked the plans from the Internet. The Trump administration has proposed shifting authority […]
Federal judge again nixes online plans for 3D printing of guns
A federal judge is again putting a stop to an Austin company’s online publication of instructions on how to make 3D-printed guns. The Trump administration had agreed last year to allow Defense Distributed to publish the gun blueprints online. Washington and 19 other states sued challenging the agreement. U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik in Seattle, […]
Nonstops to Paris coming to Austin airport
Nonstop service to Paris is coming soon to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. The airport’s executive director Jacqueline Yaft announced Thursday that Norwegian Airlines will offer the nonstop flights starting in May 2020. Fares for the new route will be 830-dollars for a premium one-way ticket, and 220-dollars for an economy one-way ticket.
Body found in Lake Travis near where teen disappeared
The Travis County Sheriff’s Office is reporting that a body has been recovered from Lake Travis near where a boater disappeared earlier this month. The Austin Police Department’s deep dive team used a deep submersible ROV to recover the body from more than 100 feet underwater on Thursday. The 19-year-old boater fell overboard on October […]