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  We joined Ballroom Marfa this week and are supremely happy about it.  It's a fantastic Marfa-based arts non profit that brings great music and artistic adventures, as well as conjuring up some of the most fantastic poster art ever. Whether you live there or not, this is one cause to get behind — and [...]

  In celebration of food writer and author John DeMers' new novel Marfa Shadows (a foodie murder mystery OMG!!), I'm in Marfa this weekend along with Monica Danna, Laura Mayes, Jenny Lawson, Katherine Center and Nancy Wozny — deep in the heart of West Texas' desert.   And I don't think that any of us could [...]

  We spent the weekend at the lovely Great Wolf Lodge a couple of week ago, as part of a family-focused blogger outreach event with GWL's PR team and GM (see disclosure at the end of this post).          It's not every family road trip that ends with a hotel gone cabin [...]

  happycajun anyone?  I'll be making the quick flight over to New Orleans this weekend, at the invitation of Harrah's New Orleans to take part in their Greatest Weekend Ever.  It's been years since I've been to New Orleans, before the hurricane, so this is like a re-introduction of sorts. Plus we'll be staying in [...]

Continuing on the power of Qik motif (see Congressman Culberson’s live video activity here), Noel Hidalgo (aka:  @noneck) has been off changing the world again, this time stirring up trouble (in all the best ways) in China during the Olympics. He and John Hocevar (founder of Students for a Free Tibet) were interviewed by Amy [...]