“Welcome to the battleground,” Woodrow “Woody” Wentworth said as he led me right up to the brink of chaos. Just ahead of us was Woody’s personal war zone: Sixth Street on a Saturday night.
This weekend, six of the West Campus co-ops — 21st Street, French House, Marjorie-Daw, Eden House, Seneca Falls and New Guild — will house the fourth annual West By West Campus Festival.
Don’t call Full Service a reggae band. Or a metal band, or a surf-rock outfit. In fact, trying to assign the rockers a specific genre is futile. Even the guys in the band don’t like to classify themselves as any specific type of music.
Armed with an arsenal of comical costumes, Mardi Wareham, the proprietor of “Singing Telegrams of Austin,” is spending her Valentine’s Day traveling all over the city.
David Kovacs’ mother tongue is Hungarian, but he’s also proficient in German, Spanish and French. “This is going to be my first interview in English,” he said as he set down his violin.
Clad in lightwash jeans, boots, button-down shirts and moppy curls that look tousled in an effortless sort of way, Scorpion Child gives off an air of regularity and unrehearsed sincerity.
