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The Luv Doc: A Situationship
Love should be an affirmation not a concession.
"...for goddamn sure. You probably haven't even argued at IKEA, got sick on Beaver Nuggets from Buc-ee's, or gotten..."

May 27, 2022 Column by The Luv Doc

A DIY Approach to Helping the Unhoused Pays Off at Camp Esperanza
No funding? No resources? No problem.
"...Baker, too, is immediately likeable. He's a musician – he sings and plays guitar..."

July 23, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

SXSW Music Review: Yard Act, Do Nothing, Squid, and the Art of the British Post-Punk Soliloquy
SXSW Music’s bread-n-butter: cutting edge UK rebellion
"...“I got a Prosecco o’clock poster half price in Ikea. It goes nicely with the existential fear that I..."

March 19, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: Venue Relief Pending as COVID-19 Spike Stalls Restarted Gigs
Also, sampling Flobama's beats, and remembering landmark pianist Margaret Wright
"...presence remains recognizable for its potted greenery and an IKEA Kallax shelf with LP recommendations...."

Dec. 11, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

The Joy of Shower Beer
Advice: Get sudsed up with these eight Austin craft brews
"...Gil Euro Pils | 4.0% ABVPre-shower Activity: Assembling Cheap-ass IKEA Furniture The irony is that first you've gotta build..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Cruelty-Free Shop Offers Totally Vegan Tattoos
Common Difference is revolutionizing animal-free art
"...South Congress shop's interior looks like West Elm and Ikea had a love child, but Common Difference is more..."

Jan. 3, 2020 Food Feature by Alisha McDarris

"The Sorcerer's Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn"
This ambitious exhibition reveals inquiring anthropologists within today’s artists
"...If you can imagine a Donald Judd collection from IKEA in the Sixties, this would be in it...."

Jan. 3, 2020 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Wayne Alan Brenner's 10 Favorite Arts-Related Things of 2019
Kinetic performances and galleries mounting great show after great show kept the year exciting
"...Lana Lesley and Peter Stopschinski have turned their jokey dramatic-reading-of-the-IKEA-catalog-while-passing-time-on-an-airplane into a fully musical and densely backstoried send-up of..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

ACL Live Review: Robyn
Everybody dance now
"...by a fivepiece, she commanded a stage resembling an Ikea clouds display. Quirky, knotted panels of stuffing and sheer..."

Oct. 14, 2019 Music Post by Christina Garcia

Grageriart: Design 4 Everyone at Crashbox
Math rock is hard, let's go shopping with some robots
"...uptick in pointedly Scandinavian consumerism (quick, don't anybody say IKEA!) presented as a delightful, devilish, product-jingle concept album come..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

On the Hunt for Chicken Parmigiana in Central Texas
Five local spots (and one in San Antonio) to feed your East Coast craving
"...“with a twist!” and dining rooms that look like IKEA’s “modern restaurant” floor model. They masquerade as down-to-earth, family-owned..."

Feb. 28, 2019 Food Post by Danny Palumbo

My Gear: The Octopus Project
Electro experimentalists swear they subscribe to less-is-more despite their density of gear
"...8) Robot head lamp: An IKEA clip lamp modified with an Yvonne-made robot head for..."

Jan. 19, 2018 Music Feature by David Brendan Hall

Playback: Straight Outta Calcutta
Sitar maestro Indrajit Banerjee, stoned synching Doom Side of the Moon and The Wizard of Oz, and a bigger Breakaway Records
"..."No," he laughs. "It's from IKEA." The Doom Side of Oz..."

Aug. 4, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

A Guide to Finding Beer Outside of Austin’s City Limits
Drinking outside of the box
"...seasonals, any of which will make that trip to IKEA bearable...."

May 19, 2017 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Luv Doc: FMB
Mouths are undoubtedly festering cesspools of bacterial flora
"...Last night I spent the night with my boyfriend,..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

“Ana Esteve Llorens: Studies for Future Objects” at Women & Their Work
The show’s mix of colored textile works and a large installation of open ovals spark an urge to interact with them
"...experiment. Even so, the thing reminds me of an IKEA couch pillow, which is why I wanted to put..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Texas Craft Brewers Festival Debuts Beer List
The Texas-only beer celebration returns to Austin
"...like the TCBF, where, for the price of an IKEA lamp, you can enjoy a rainbow of flavors made..."

Sept. 1, 2016 Food Post by Eric Puga

The Seven Skeletons of Lydia Pyne
The local science historian debuts her new book about famous fossil hominids
"...– all the way to those assemble-it-yourself things that Ikea gives adorable names to and sells by the hundreds..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

When the Movies You Loved as a Kid Don’t Hold Up
Shedding film nostalgia
"...Jerry Maguire's lessons on how to fornicate against an Ikea bookcase. While Se7en had already been elevated to perfect..."

July 29, 2016 Screens Feature by Beejoli Shah

Playback: RSD in ATX
Record Store Day local exclusives, and out-of-the-way wax emporiums that may carry them
"...previous tenant Sundance Records (1977-2012), Superfly's looks like an Ikea showroom. The Gruene transplants know the difference between red..."

April 15, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Film Review: Chevalier
A high seas game of masculine measurement
"...ranging from how fast it takes to erect an IKEA shelf to literal full-frontal dick measuring...."

March 14, 2016 Screens Post by Dan Gentile

Not in My House
List of businesses opting out of open carry
"...IKEA..."

Jan. 8, 2016 News Feature

The Luv Doc: Medicate as Needed
Nothing takes the edge off dealing with edgy people like a blissful buzz
"...haven't even made it past that holiday clusterfuck at IKEA. Believe it or not, I (and apparently several hundred..."

Nov. 20, 2015 Column by The Luv Doc

The Luv Doc: Gold Digger
It's really hard to convince someone they shouldn't be happy when they already are
"...your fucking high horse and trot it out to IKEA for a housewarming gift...."

Oct. 9, 2015 Column by The Luv Doc

Food-o-File
New beginnings
"...be twirling a rope alongside I-35 just south of IKEA by the end of 2016. "I love Hays County,..."

Aug. 21, 2015 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

The Grand Designs of Ia Ensterä and Jason Amato
"...Ia Ensterä must be some Scandinavian scene-building consortium, an IKEA for stage sets that's cornered the local market. Truly,..."

July 17, 2015 Photo Gallery

Everything Is Exemplary
The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards
"...the 7,500-sqaure-foot Museum of Human Achievement space into an Ikea knockoff, and when it was announced, artist Manik Raj..."

June 3, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Rising From the Halloween Flood
Rebuilding the homes – and lives – displaced by the 2013 Onion Creek floods
"...de Paul and the Second Pulse Society's House-in-a-Box with IKEA provided [furnishings]. The only thing missing was appliances. Austin..."

Dec. 26, 2014 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Touring the Tour
A very meta experience, guided by Heather Pesanti, senior curator of the Contemporary Austin
"...to the psuedo-secret Museum of Human Achievement, whose mock IKEA exhibition showcases hundreds of works from a large selection..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Arts Feature by Seth Orion Schwaiger

Period Piece
Sawyer & Co. rings out the old
"...fixtures, and those poppy white tabletop displayettes are from Ikea. The ahistorical shenanigans keep things interesting, so the retro..."

Nov. 14, 2014 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

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