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Former DCist (but Philadelphian at heart) Sofia is now in Austin writing, interning with American Short Fiction and making up for 22 years on the East Coast and 4 years of college swimming by eating at least 6 tacos daily, y’all.

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Lit Out Loud

Bitchin' women writers on tour: Southern Summer Comfort kicks off at Domy

By Sofia Sokolove

07.11.12 | 12:30 pm

As if this summer weren't hot enough, a bunch of bitchin’ women writers are about to spend the next few weeks in a rental van touring the South like ...


Literature for Men

Man Made author Joel Stein visits Austin, calls Austin dudes ‘perfect hybrid’ of manliness

By Sofia Sokolove

07.03.12 | 4:00 pm

Sipping his tea and daintily eating a fig, sitting with one leg crossed over the other in the main lobby of the indulgent Lake Austin Spa and Resort, Joel Stein ...


he's still got it

Former Longhorn Olympic swimming stud Brendan Hansen returns from retirement, heads to London

By Sofia Sokolove

06.28.12 | 4:14 pm

“Hook ‘em Horns,” Brendan Hansen told the crowd of more than 12,000 at Tuesday night's U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha, Neb., while kneeling down like a ...


arts outreach

The Theatre Action Project presents its 5th annual Youth Arts Festival this Saturday

By Sofia Sokolove

05.11.12 | 10:17 am

This Saturday, the Austin based nationally recognized Theatre Action Project (TAP) is holding its fifth annual Youth Arts Festival featuring work by more than 100 students in 12 different schools ...


lit events

Listen up, lit nerds: Badgerdog Literary Publishing gives you a chance to win the book of your dreams (and support a great cause)

By Sofia Sokolove

05.02.12 | 12:50 pm

Badgerdog Literary Publishing, the Austin-based nonprofit, is devoted to inspiring and sharing great writing, and their fourth annual gala this Thursday, May 3 at The Long Center promises to do ...


Double Bill of Dance

Dance partners: Austin and Houston share a stage for this weekend's Scenes Flamboyant (and intimate)

By Sofia Sokolove

04.27.12 | 5:00 pm

When Kathy Dunn Hamrick, artistic director of the Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company (KDH), goes to modern dance concerts, she looks for inventiveness, unique choreography and unusual moments that will ...


summer swimming

Here comes the sun: Deep Eddy Pool re-opens after four month closure

By Sofia Sokolove

04.05.12 | 8:47 pm

Editor's Note: Deep Eddy is now scheduled to open Saturday, April 7 at 11 a.m. There is a special sort of giddiness that comes with that first splash ...


Literary Leanings

ASF and BookPeople host prolific author T.C Boyle

By Sofia Sokolove

03.19.12 | 4:00 pm

Exhausted from SXSW or not, there’s no excuse for missing out on a chance to see and hear from prolific author T.C. Boyle. Join American Short Fiction and ...


Artful collaborations

Great inspirations: Badgerdog translates Ballet Austin's Light/The Holocaust & Humanity Project into poetry

By Sofia Sokolove

03.10.12 | 4:00 pm

Feeling overwhelmed by the SXSW buzz? Ground yourself with a healthy dose of poetry.  On Sunday, Mar 11, Badgerdog Literary Publishing, in collaboration with Ballet Austin’s 2012 Light/The ...


a positivity project

31,000 Portraits spread message of peace across Mexico: Diego Huerta's exhibit at the Mexic-Arte Museum

By Sofia Sokolove

02.26.12 | 11:30 am

Walking through Diego Huerta’s Portraits for Peace exhibit at the Mexic-Arte Museum in downtown Austin feels, at first, more like looking at pictures of someone’s adventurous vacation through ...


literary locals

Spring signals the coming of one wild and dark issue of American Short Fiction; reading and launch on Saturday

By Sofia Sokolove

02.24.12 | 12:00 pm

Spring is almost (possibly already!?) here in Austin, and for American Short Fiction (ASF), the season means Pacific Island colonies, heists, robots and a one-armed woman at an alligator farm ...


behind the scenes

Bleach celebrates latest issue Tokyo Plum with all-guy photoshoot — and their most rockin' release party yet

By Sofia Sokolove

02.13.12 | 10:30 am

Bleach, the Austin-based online multi-media magazine that continually brings us crisp, beautiful showcases of independent artists and their work, is giving us something new to lust over in their upcoming ...


Art and Science

'Quantify' this: Artist Laurie Frick finds the beauty in scientific calculation

By Sofia Sokolove

02.01.12 | 4:30 pm

Multimedian Laurie Frick is one of those enviable geniuses whose right side of her brain is just as brilliant as her left. You know the type — they always made the ...


live at the Michener Center

A self-deprecating Poet Laureate? Mark Strand on his new collection and poets' former pop-star status

By Sofia Sokolove

01.27.12 | 4:13 pm

Less then thirty minutes into his reading on Thursday night in the Avaya Auditorium in the ACE building, sponsored by the Michener Center for Writers, former U.S Poet Laureate ...


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