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Ghouls Do It, Fools Do It


Even people who smoke Kools do it. Read More | Comment »

3:15PM Wed. Oct. 12, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner

Short Films, Tall Screen

While the Internet's super-accessibility is tops in terms of getting eyeballs on underseen artistic endeavors like short films, the accommodations ain't ideal (headphones + YouTube + your work cubicle). We imagine, then, it'll be a special thrill for filmmakers attending Saturday's the ShowGO! to see their movies unspool at the historic Paramount. Read More | Comment »

2:25PM Thu. Oct. 6, 2011, Kimberley Jones

Nasty, Brutish, and Short?


So what do those words
have to do with expertly animated
bits of wood & cloth & paper & wire? Read More | Comment »

11:23AM Wed. Sep. 28, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner

Eye Candy: Candy Cornbread


Sure: Greater knowledge about a subject
can enhance your experience of that subject. Read More | Comment »

2:24PM Thu. Sep. 15, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner

Some Enchanted Evenings


Alice down the rabbit hole. Read More | Comment »

2:08PM Wed. Sep. 14, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner

The Pinnacle of 10 Years' Worth of Comedy Festivals?

Tell you what: They done did it. Read More | Comment »

5:59PM Sun. Sep. 4, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner

The Tom Booker Roast

Last night at midnight,
in the downstairs theatre at The Hideout,
as part of the Out Of Bounds Comedy Festival,
local improviser, Confidence Man, dog minder
and co-owner of the Institution Theatre
– Mr. Tom Booker, we're referencing here –
was treated to what the ancient Norse called a flyting.

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2:05PM Fri. Sep. 2, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner

Into the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival

It's funny, really,
how much planning this thing takes.

Look: The OOB sprawls like a citysized wino
across the five days and nights that encompass
Labor Day Weekend here in Austin, Texas.
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12:52PM Fri. Sep. 2, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner

Barrio Daze

Adrian Villegas, el Jefe of the Latino Comedy Project,
is bringing back his 2003 one-man show of character monologues about inner-city lives during a fateful day in the barrio. Read More | Comment »

5:35PM Wed. Aug. 31, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner

Out of Bounds Comedy Festival Picks


Ah, What the fuck do we know – we're just the media, right?
Regardless of how closely we follow a scene,
regardless of what Jane Goodall-level hunkering-down-with-the-subjects we do, we're not on the inside, are we? Read More | Comment »

3:16PM Tue. Aug. 30, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner

Live! Nude! Improv!

They’re getting naked at the Hideout.

WTF?
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11:07AM Thu. Aug. 11, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner

Who Is Jon Dore and Why Is He So Funny?

Jon Dore's TV show on IFC. Jon Dore's appearance on CBS' How I Met Your Mother. Jon Dore as the first featured comedian on TBS' Conan! Who is this guy? A household name in Canada – due to Canadian Idol. But to hell with Canada, he's here in Austin this week. Read More | Comment »

4:48PM Thu. Aug. 4, 2011, Mark Fagan

They Dance Like Homicide Birthday Cake

Because it's Lisa Del Rosario, Errin Delperdang, Rosalyn Nasky, and Lindsey Taylor. Because they have restless leg syndrome of the corpus callosum. Because bright brains serve madness as well as they serve sanity. Read More | Comment »

2:37PM Fri. Jul. 8, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner

You Can't MAKE This Shit Up

Okay, you know those people who run the Hideout Theatre Downtown? Read More | Comment »

1:29PM Fri. Jul. 1, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner

Sassy in the UK

It seems like it was only the blink of an eye since neo-burlesque barn burner Sassy Delure migrated to Austin from Seattle, and now she's heading to the UK. Don't worry, it's only a month-long trip across the pond, but she and her new partner-in-crime Ophelia Moore need your help tonight to get there. Read More | Comment »

10:00AM Sun. Jun. 5, 2011, Richard Whittaker

False Matters

Sure, you may have seen c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate, but we'd wager you've never seen live improv in the style of Philip K. Dick.

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4:46PM Wed. May. 18, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner

Ladies Are Funny Festival!

It's a gender-based thing, more or less. It's a comedy-based thing, most definitely. This fifth annual festival brings the funny in from all over the country – L.A.! Chicago! Boston! NYC! San Antonio! – for three days and nights (May 5, 6, 7) of unstoppered hilarity of the sketch and improv and stand-up and even short-film varieties. Read More | Comment »

11:33AM Thu. Apr. 28, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner

Rubber Repper Redux

Wait, do you mean … the show that we gave big ups to last year? The show that's kind of like a live episode of Biography, except it's up-close and personal and intimately interactive in front of friends and strangers? Yes, that show. Read More | Comment »

5:38PM Wed. Apr. 20, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner

60 in Sixty!

Sixty performances in 60 minutes, one after the other, by 60 different performers from this ridiculously creative city? Yes, you lovable dork, that's precisely what's happening – and the hour-long spectacle is a sort of brief, miniature version of the enormous, full-week, city-devouring Fusebox Festival that will arrive just a month after SXSW.

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12:39PM Wed. Feb. 23, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner

An Austin tribute to the queens of burlesque at the Alamo Lake Creek
 

A Bit of Bettie, A Little Storm

The starlets of the Austin burlesque scene will be donning their finest pasties this evening in homage to the one and only Bettie Page with a tribute show encore and a tease of a new documentary about the glamor icon. To get you in the mood, how about some snippets from their October 2009 performance? Read More | 2 Comments »

1:26AM Fri. Jan. 15, 2010, Richard Whittaker

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