If you threw a Halloween party that didn’t have a badass playlist, did you really throw a Halloween party? The ORANGE Music staff doesn’t think so. To help you out, we present our top picks for a haunted soiree that’s so devilishly fun, it’ll wake the dead. Spoiler alert: “Monster Mash” is noticeably absent.
At the end of a strip mall in North Austin a line of people curve around the corner patiently waiting to enter Ramen Tatsu-Ya. I take my spot at the end of the line. After nearly 30 minutes of listening to unknown fragments of an Asian language, intermixed with the recollections of ACL festival attendees, I enter the ramen shop.
I wasn’t sure how I felt about doing yoga for what I considered the first time, but rave reviews from the Austin Social Cycling community reassured my decision to experience the yoga ride for myself.
The morning after his first short film was screened at the Austin Film Festival, a showcase for both famous and indie filmmakers, Shane Ware is alert and eager to speak about his recent successes. One of the youngest short-filmmakers presented at the film fest this year, the recent University of Texas at Austin radio-television-film graduate says he is honored to be part of a group of such talented people.
Imagine a house with rooms full of squids, snakes and frogs floating in odd-shaped bottles. One room has a six-foot-tall rack of tarantulas, a tank full of beetles or an industrial-sized box of lizard corpses, bones or tortoise shells. Horror movie posters from the 1980s cover the walls. Masks of zombies, mummies, aliens and other monsters watch you with an eerie life-likeness. Behind the house, skeletons of boars, rabbits and goats lay decomposing in rows like an unearthed animal graveyard. To some, this may sound like the lab of a mad scientist, or a scene from the creepy intro sequence of the FX television show “American Horror Story: Murder House.” A nightmare. To Emma Campbell, however, it’s the dream art studio.
In times of crisis, people cling to the things they love in order to survive. Having a passion is like having a heartbeat — it can be the difference between life and death. When Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, more commonly known as Nas, first picked up an instrument at age 4, it was the beginning of a musical career that would reshape the face of hip-hop.
With Halloween only days away, many of us will be rushing to put together a lastminute costume. Who says you can’t be fly as hell and still be in costume? Here are
eight costume ideas you can pull off with on-trend pieces from your own closet.
Eccentric 22-year-old super model, Cara Delevingne launched her own clothing capsule ‘CARA DKNY’ with famous designer DKNY on Oct. 15. The anticipated collection includes pieces like sport bras, slick track pants, slouchy hoodies and crisp blazers — pieces that reflect Cara’s tomboyish street style. The clothing ranges from $150 to $750.Why should you care-a?
Austin City Limits 2014 might be over, but the best weekend(s) of your life don't have to end just yet. Our ORANGE photographers captured the performances that you waited for, cried for and screamed at the top of your lungs for. Relive those sweaty, unforgettable moments in this photo series recapping the best of the festival and the Late Night shows.
