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Joey Waldon: In Memoriam

Senses of humor and artistic outlooks don't come much weirder – or more Austin – than Joey Waldon's. During his days as a Velveeta Room regular and local cartoonist, Waldon routinely took the most ordinary subjects and gave them an offbeat spin that that tickled the brain just as much as the funny bone. Alas, that wonderful talent has left us. Read More | Comment »

Jokers Wild 4:20PM Wed. May. 22, Robert Faires

Gender, Sex, and Fabric

The problem of the skirt – at least the long, voluminous skirt, as demonstrated in Nicole Roerick’s Morose Beauty – is one of access. Designed for the ease of the other, not the wearer, the skirted woman paws at the fabric, twisting and groping like an injured dog at its cone. Read More | Comment »

Shows to Go Ya 11:00AM Wed. May. 22, Jonelle Seitz

Mac & Cheers

"I was in a Walgreen's … at night. So already I fucked up," opined Mac Blake in leading off a very funny story about a mouth-breather shopping for a belt at the drugstore. Where the comedian didn't fuck up was walking into Cap City Comedy Club on Monday night. Because he walked out wearing the crown of Funniest Person in Austin 2013. Read More | Comment »

Jokers Wild 11:45AM Tue. May. 21, Robert Faires

This Is a Blogpost About Austin's Jennymarie Jemison

That's right: Partly. Read More | Comment »

Limelight 2:00PM Mon. May. 20, Wayne Alan Brenner

After the Battle

When photojournalist Erin Trieb traveled to Afghanistan to embed with U.S. troops, she wasn’t expecting to find her calling. Over the course of three years, from 2009-2012, she traveled three times to Afghanistan, most extensively with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 10th Mountain Division based in Ft. Drum, N.Y. Read More | Comment »

Frame Up 11:00AM Sat. May. 18, Natalie Zeldin

Moms the Word

Moms Mabley is inside Whoopi Goldberg. You can see for yourself when the multitalented, what-hasn't-she-done comedian/Oscar-winning actress/co-host of The View/drinkslinger on the starship Enterprise takes the Dell Hall stage at the Long Center on Saturday night. Read More | Comment »

Jokers Wild 4:00PM Fri. May. 17, Robert Faires

The Very Last Night at Wardenclyffe

Even Nikola Tesla, that genius and master of strange forces, had to leave us eventually. And now so does the Eastside artistic epicenter named after his laboratory. Read More | Comment »

Works in Progress 1:51PM Thu. May. 16, Wayne Alan Brenner

East Austin Arts Puts It Into a FRAME This Weekend

Four venues, twelve hours, a few hundred more stories in this nacred city. Read More | Comment »

Frame Up 12:59PM Wed. May. 15, Wayne Alan Brenner

Is Tonight's 'Pie and Ear Show' All Wet, or What?

They're back for one last show, and the God of Thunder can go fuck himself. Read More | Comment »

Shows to Go Ya 11:30AM Wed. May. 15, Wayne Alan Brenner

David Lindsay-Abaire: The Interview

Tonight is your last chance to see the Different Stages production of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People, the most produced play in the U.S. now. It was a departure for the writer: the first time he's written about his South Boston neighborhood. Read More | Comment »

Limelight 5:30PM Sat. May. 11, Robert Faires

Nothing's Obscure: Five Local Art Treasures You May Have Overlooked

Some of these things are current and fleeting. Read More | Comment »

Frame Up 3:00PM Thu. May. 9, Wayne Alan Brenner

Review: ASO With Quattro Mani

The rest of Austin may have been experiencing unseasonably cool temperatures, but inside Dell Hall last Friday night spring was in the air, as the Austin Symphony Orchestra brought forth the freshness and vitality in a pair of overtures by Beethoven, a prelude by Delius, and 21st century works by Paul Lansky and Graham Fitkin. Read More | Comment »

Shows to Go Ya 10:20AM Wed. May. 8, Robert Faires

Peter Stopschinski CD Release

As Peter Stopschinski explains it, about a year ago, his friend and co-conspirator in the Golden Hornet Project Graham Reynolds suggested that Stopschinski make an album of instrumental music that was just for Stopschinski's personal pleasure. So he did, and tonight at the North Door, he'll unveil the results in a free live show. Read More | Comment »

Limelight 5:40PM Fri. May. 3, Robert Faires

Twitter Comedy Fest Starts … Now!

Twitter is a funny place, y'know? And not just funny-peculiar – funny-haha, too. Read More | Comment »

Jokers Wild 2:59PM Mon. Apr. 29, Monica Riese

Thanks for the Memories, Moontower

The second annual Moontower Comedy & Oddity Fest bowed out on Saturday, but there are plenty of ways to hit rewind and relive so much funny. Read More | Comment »

Jokers Wild 11:03AM Mon. Apr. 29, Kimberley Jones

Moontower, Day 3: Bill Burr

There are comics, and then there's Bill Burr, a guy on a way higher plane than just about any. Burr strides onto the stage and grabs the audience by the collar – and that includes you out there with your smart phone-illuminated faces, stupid enough to be texting during Burr's shrill, high-pitched brilliance. Read More | Comment »

Jokers Wild 1:30PM Sun. Apr. 28, Anne S. Lewis

Moontower, Day 3: Live Podcast of 'WTF'

Marc Maron’s WTF podcast taping at the Stateside on Friday was an eventful and star-studded spectacle. By the time taping wrapped and the host bade farewell, comedians Jim Norton,Michael Ian Black, Maria Bamford, Todd Barry, Janeane Garofalo, and Dom Irrera had been interviewed. Read More | Comment »

Jokers Wild 11:25AM Sun. Apr. 28, Russ Espinoza

Moontower, Day 3: She-Bang

What can you say about Maria Bamford that hasn't been said before? The spirit animal of neurotic white single ladies took the stage Friday night following a talented line-up of her neurotic sisters that included Mary Patterson, Alice Wetterlund, Emily Heller, Kerri Lendo, and Morgan Murphy. Read More | Comment »

Jokers Wild 10:37AM Sun. Apr. 28, Amy Gentry

Moontower, Day 3: IFC Screening of 'Maron'

“That was the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” Marc Maron said upon emerging from backstage at the Stateside, after the premiere screening of an episode from his forthcoming IFC sitcom, Maron . Which sounds intense, coming from him. Read More | Comment »

Jokers Wild 11:15AM Sat. Apr. 27, Dan Solomon

Moontower Extra: More Talk With Todd Barry

Veteran comedian, actor, and voice actor Todd Barry is staying plenty busy at this year's Moontower Comedy Festival: five appearances between Wednesday and Saturday, including two Friday. Here's more material from his interview with the Chronicle. Read More | Comment »

Jokers Wild 5:30PM Fri. Apr. 26, Russ Espinoza

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