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How to Adult: Advice for New Grads, and Anyone Else Still Trying to Figure This Thing Out
100 things we know now that we wished we knew then
"...Cool homes make for good hangs. Balance out your IKEA furniture with some nice vintage stuff from Facebook Marketplace..."

May 10, 2024 Features Feature by the Editorial Staff

The Rodeo, a Pet Pfest, Country Dance, and More Community Events
Hit the town with these non-SXSW events
"...dragged you around antiquing, and it shows in your Ikea-stuffed apartments. How about you liven up the joint –..."

March 8, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Qmmunity’s 2023 Gift Guide
Gifts for the els, bees, gees, and teas – and the pluses!
"...Hooker’s big plush crocheted rainbows to accent their coveted IKEA POÄNG chair. Coming in multiple muted colorways, this pillow’s..."

Dec. 7, 2023 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Food-Adjacent Gifts for Drinking, Cooking, and Entertaining
Stylish textiles, cutting boards, Austin bar guide, and more
"...still working with a $4 LEGITIM cutting board from IKEA? No shade to everyone's favorite Scandinavian home goods and..."

Dec. 8, 2023 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week
A BLK REVOLUTION, Channel Tres, Smashing Pumpkins, the Austin Record Convention, and more local music related shows worth seeing
"...twice annually. Homegrown institution? Consider that vinyl-friendly storage purveyor IKEA here co-signs two lounge areas, free music totes, and..."

Sept. 30, 2022 Music Column by Christina Garcia

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

The Luv Doc: Top 10 Things in Austin That Will Ruin Your Relationship
Or, how to find out if your love is double-donkey strong.
"...1) Ikea – Technically, it's not even in Austin, but I..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

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

The Luv Doc: The Via Dolorosa
When is it acceptable to use the L word?
"...Has he even gone to IKEA with you? I hope not. That is a terrifying..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

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

An Idiot at FronteraFest
Diary of getting a homegrown 25-minute play onto the stage for Austin's biggest annual performance festival
"...can do with a white canvas wardrobe model from IKEA. I'll use Christmas lights to create constellations inside the..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Arts Feature by T. Lynn Mikeska

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

The Luv Doc: A Rock-Solid Friend
Any wedding planner who claims to actually know the difference between shrimp and flamingo is blowing puce up your rosebud
"...rather spend a week picking out a lamp at IKEA – which, to anyone who isn't a hardcore materialist,..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

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

Chevalier
The latest playful foray from the Greek filmmaking avant-garde
"...as cleaning chores on the vessel and putting together Ikea-like bookshelves. Each man keeps score in his head or..."

June 17, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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

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