After Sunday’s Grammy awards, pop culture junkies are enthusiastically recanting the three-hour concert — er, award show. If you didn’t catch the show, it’s understandable. To make it easy for you, ORANGE has compiled a list of important moments to talk about so you can fool your friends into thinking you watched the entire thing.
Thursday afternoon, a smiling girl with long brown hair leads her 3D film class in a workshop. With an intense look of concentration and an unbreakable train of thought, it’s utterly fascinating to watch her work with the camera.
Shannon Donaldson always knew that she wanted to do something unconventional with her life. The idea of a nine-to-five desk job was out of the question and so was doing anything other than living out a trade she was passionate about.
In an era dominated by digital downloads and music streaming services, the local record shop has gone the way of 8-tracks, flip phones and Atari game systems. But one local entrepreneur is bucking the industry trends by bringing a new record store to Austin.
Ray Rice. Kendall Sanders. Montrel Meander. Each man was a former high-profile football player. Each man committed an act of assault or abuse against a woman. Rice is currently out of a job after being released from his longtime team, the Baltimore Ravens. Sanders and Meander have been suspended from the University of Texas football team and are awaiting trial as well as a judicial review, which could result in their expulsion.
ORANGE Magazine met with Uli Johnston, the store’s owner, who goes by “The Boot Whisperer” because she is able to match customers with the perfect boot just by looking at their feet. Johnston says she believes that finding the perfect boot at the Wild West Store is a matter of fate.
Austin rockers Thieves are breaking all the rules. Whether they’re redrawing the boundaries of pop punk, or crawling across abandoned train tracks on government property in the dead of night while touring through Alabama, it’s clear that Thieves is well-positioned to steal the hearts and minds of everyone they encounter in 2015 and beyond.
Tucked within the neighborhoods of Austin’s eastside, a small dark blue building sits, resembling the contents it contains. Traveller Denim Co. was founded in July of 2013 and since then has served hundreds in the creation of custom, raw denim jeans.
