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#Thundersleet Is Happening

5 totally serious tips for how to work from home on a Dallas snow day

Jonathan Rienstra
Feb 23, 2015 | 12:47 pm

If you haven't heard, Dallas-Fort Worth is having a weather condition. It's Winter Storm Quantum, and the signs are everywhere: Streets are quiet, there's no line at Pecan Lodge, supermarket shelves were stripped bare on Sunday night and #thundersleet is trending on Twitter.

To the dismay of parents everywhere, school districts are shut down, and many flights out of DFW Airport and Dallas Love Field have been canceled. Sleet is sleeting, and the Weather Channel predicts that it won't end until Monday night.

If you're not employed at Starbucks or some other emergency occupation, then you're probably right where we are: "working at home." We don't mean to be know-it-alls, but we're old hands at this working-at-home thing. We've weathered the pitfalls and know exactly what it takes to stay focused and use our time most wisely.

Here are our five tips on how to work from home during a weather emergency:

Really work from home
Okay, we're starting off with a buzzkill, but the sad fact is that an ice day isn't the work inhibitor it used to be. If you have an office job, odds are that you can do 90 percent of what you do in an office from your home. The difficulty lies in, you know, actually doing it at home when you have all these distractions and no boss around.

It might be tempting to stay in bed and work, but you'll likely get more done at the kitchen table. On the upside, you can skip the shower, rock the pajamas and listen to your music without headphones. It's not as great as not-working, but at least you can work knowing that your lunch won't get jacked by Susan in accounting.

Build something important
Despite your good intentions, you can feel your concentration begin to flag. In an office, that might mean taking a few laps to break your coworkers' concentration or reading company memos in the breakroom. At home, you can get more creative.

We're talking pillow forts. It's a "constructive" break. Not only do they make you feel young again, but they also offer insulation from the cold. And if you build one structurally sound enough, it can be your new office. Tack a picture of a beach inside, say three “Jimmy Buffetts” and relax.

Build a cocktail
We're not going to advocate that you work while drunk, but what's the harm in a little something-something to keep you warm while you fill out spreadsheets? An Irish coffee or a hot buttered rum will hit all the right spots, and you'll be feeling downright cozy in your pillow fort. Return to the womb, slightly buzzed and blanketed. The outside world slowly fades away, and emails go unanswered.

Watch The Shining
First of all, it's a good movie. Second, all work and no play makes you a dull boy. Plus, you'll really understand what Jack Torrance is going through. Maybe hide the knives before you start, but truthfully, your kids watching Frozen for the third time today is more likely to get to you, which is why they are now considered enemies of Pillow Fortlandia. No, you let it go.

Nap
What we said earlier about not working from bed? It still stands. But there's nothing wrong with napping from bed. In fact, it's pretty much required when it's dark and cold outside. Import your mattress into Pillow Fortlandia. Take a hard isolationist stance against outsiders. You live here now. The Pillow Fortlandia shogunate has always been at war with February.

Winter storm "Quantum" coming through town.

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Winter storm "Quantum" coming through town.
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Dallas luncheons are rolling out the red carpet for A-list stars appearing as keynote speakers. Here are some of the biggest star-studded events.

Family Place Trailblazer Awards Luncheon ft. Christina Ricci, September 23

Each Moment Matters Luncheon ft. Melissa Gilbert, September 23

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Community Partners of Dallas will highlight entrepreneur, supermodel, and Emmy Award winner Tyra Banks as the featured speaker of the 16th annual Chick Lit Luncheon.

Texas Women’s Foundation Luncheon ft. Allyson Felix, October 6

Austin Street Center Humble Beginnings Luncheon ft. Laura and Barbara Bush, October 14

A Writer’s Garden: Tales from Highclere Castle ft. Lady Carnarvon, October 18

Farrah Fawcett Foundation Tex-Mex Fiesta, October 20

Baylor Celebrating Women Luncheon ft. Patricia Arquette, October 21

New Friends New Life Luncheon ft. Julia Ormand, November 4

Council for Life presents Celebrating Life Luncheon ft. Jim Caviezel, November 14

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Let The Good Times Roll

Lake Travis indie film festival rolls credits for 2022 lineup

Brianna Caleri
Nov 13, 2022 | 7:33 pm
Lake Travis indie film festival rolls credits for 2022 lineup
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The festival makes it easy to walk between one venue and another, enjoying the small-town venues. (Pictured: Opening night film Sweet Disaster)

Movies and a weekend at the lake aren’t always on the itinerary together, so this festival is a special opportunity. The Lake Travis Film Festival returns for its third annual run from September 15 to 18. It will be hosted at several venues in Bee Caves and Lakeway, making it easy to drive from Austin, but fun to stay in one of the partner hotels, anyway.

The festival opens with a documentary about controversy at an Arkansas tourist destination by Michael Stephen Schwarz, Forever Majestic, and a dramedy by Laura Lehmus on opening night, Sweet Disaster. The latter, a chaotic and cheerfully surrealist German film follows a pregnant 40-year-old who has been abandoned by her partner. The festival will close with two selections: Jordan O’Neal’s Fabletown, about a comic book-based fairytale underground in New York City, and Sophie Miller's Ranch Water, a story about Texas and sisterhood that premiered at Austin Film Festival in 2021.

The lineup spreads 92 films over four days, focusing on input from the independent film community, both in the United States and internationally. Two thirds of the titles are short films, including student films, and there are eight narrative features. Keeping everything in “walking distance” and mixing in masterclasses, awards, and mixers, the schedule is packed at each venue. An attendee could easily choose to stay in one place all day, if they have the stamina. Every day, there will be announcements connecting guests with filmmakers.

“The third year brings an opportunity to hone into what we [do] best … curating an overall cinematic experience,” says festival founder and executive director Kat Albert says in a press release. “We do not sell individual tickets. The suburbs don’t have a traditional downtown, so we’ve worked to make our pop-up style festival work with three walkable hubs. … The festival is young but garnering a reputation as a unique experience for filmmakers, screenwriters, and the local community.”

Although the festival does not ticket individual movies, it does divide itself by day, which it vaguely themes. Thursday is when things kick off, with a light day of programming, a “Family Values” short films block, and an opening party. An all-day masterclass that first day with screenwriter Owen Egerton has its own tickets. Friday includes themes “Outdoor Sports” and tenser phrases that hint at suspense and grit. Events include script readings and an industry mixer.

Saturday is for “young, experimental, and musical filmmakers,” divided into those categories at three different venues: Bee Cave City Hall, Contracommon, and Goga Yoga, respectively. Wherever visitors spend the day, they can all come together at Contracommon for karaoke at night. Sunday includes brunch at Star Hill Ranch, the customary last location for the festival, with mostly narrative features in one building and more of a variety of features and shorts in the other.

Wristbands for the Lake Travis Film Festival are available by day ($60 for Thursday, $100 for Friday, Saturday, or Sunday), and can be purchased at laketravisfilmfestival.com. Four-day badges ($225) are also available on the website.

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Re-released documentary explores the greatest Texas musician you've probably never heard of

Hannah J. Frías
Nov 11, 2022 | 2:01 pm
Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove explores the life and times of Doug Sahm.
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Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove explores the life and times of Doug Sahm.

What do Guy Clark, Hank Williams, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, ABBA, and Freddy Fender all have in common? Apart from being icons in their own right, each legend's name has at one time or another been in the same sentence as one Texas musician you may have never heard of. Why? One documentary, Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove, explores this and more, and it's available to stream again this week.

"Has San Antonio lost its soul? Has Austin lost its groove? Dough Sahm is the answer," reads a recent release for the documentary ahead of its re-release.

Born on the same day as Guy Clark in 1941, San Antonio native Dough Sahm started singing at age 5, playing steel guitar at age 6, followed by the fiddle and mandolin at age 8. At 11, he joined Hank Williams at Austin's Skyline Club for what turned out to be Williams' final show before his untimely death. As a teen, Sahm had hit country western radio records before reaching international fame (and a nod from Bob Dylan) with his rock-and-roll, Beatles-inspired band, Sir Douglas Quintet.

Sahm started playing steel guitar at age 6, followed by the fiddle and mandolin at age 8.Sahm started playing steel guitar at age 6, followed by the fiddle and mandolin at age 8.Courtesy of Arts+Labor

A bust up over cannabis possession sent Sahm to California right before the "Summer of Love" in 1967, where the band explored the psychedelic San Francisco scene. Returning to Texas in the '70s, he joined Willie Nelson on his Shotgun Willie record and became an integral part of the new Americana genre emerging out of Austin at that time. He moved to Sweden in the '80s, knocking ABBA off the top charts with the song Meet Me in Stockholm. And in the '90s, his new group, the Texas Tornadoes, featured fellow Texas musicians Freddy Fender, Flaco Jimenez, and Augie Meyers.

Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove explores the enormous variety of genres Sahm absorbed into his own music, and the impact he left behind in each genre in return. Originally screened at South by Southwest in 2015, the film's website summarizes its portrait of Sahm as an "artist who had so much music inside himself that he had to play all the varied sounds he was schooled in in order to satisfy his soul."

Directed by noted historian and author Joe Nick Patoski, who also co-wrote the film along with Jason Wehling, the documentary won multiple awards at film festivals around the world, landing on Amazon Prime before disappearing from circulation altogether in 2020 after initial music and visual licensing rights expired.

Thanks to the Society for the Preservation of Texas Music (SPTM), the documentary was re-released on November 6, 2022, in honor of what would have been Sahm's 81st birthday. For the re-release, SPTM partnered with Austin-based production company Arts+Labor and digital distribution platform seer.la, which also produced the groundbreaking Guy Clark documentary, Without Getting Killed or Caught.

Doug SahmA still from the documentary Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove.Courtesy of Arts+Labor

“The revival of the film comes at a critical moment for Doug’s hometown of San Antonio, and his adopted home of Austin,” says Patoski in the release. “Both cities have grown rapidly and are growing towards each other, becoming a single metropolitan area of five million people touted as America’s next great metroplex. Nowhere else in the United States are two connected metro areas expanding so rapidly. Folks who don’t know Doug Sahm from Houdini need to see this film to better appreciate why San Antonio and Austin are such special, soulful places with a groove that fostered and championed the artistry of the greatest single musician to ever represent the state of Texas.”

The documentary is available for worldwide streaming at sirdougfilm.com.


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