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20 Years of Austin Gifts
... And a slew of other local businesses celebrating significant anniversaries
"...Whoa, Bettie! Page, that is. Yeah, they've got just about anything Bettie Page ya could ever covet, from cuff..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Brant Bingamon

Heart of Glass
UT Performing Arts Center presents a Philip Glass retrospective, "Philip on Film," with Glass performing live his film compositions.
"...And so on. Get it? Who else but American minimalist (not his term, but surely it fits)..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Kids in Black
That innocuous-seeming crew of people listed beneath the actors in every program, who scurry around in black backstage and hover over the proceedings in the sound and light booth, may not be well-known to most theatregoers, but this silent, hidden army is all-powerful. Techies get almost no share in the glory, but they run the world, and here's how.
"...work long hours -- sometimes before the show even starts rehearsals, much less opens -- in their studios or..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Live Shots
The King's Singers
"...UT Performing Arts Center, April 30..."

May 5, 1995 Music Review by Jeff Parker Knight

The South Bank
"...Heading north, it means you're moving toward the city's performing arts treasure trove -- some two dozen spaces of..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Timeline
"...Nov. 22, 1963: More than 5,000 Austinites turn out to welcome President John F. Kennedy at a dinner..."

March 21, 2008 Arts Feature

A Guide to Austin Classical Music
The virtuosi who know the score and make beautiful music happen here
"...stuffy and inert to the point of lifelessness elsewhere, but here it's alive, as alive as any other kind..."

April 26, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin's Cultural Makeover: The Next Stage
How much closer we are to getting the cultural wonderland we imagined 10 years ago
"...tech, and so much money was flowing that even arts groups were seeing the green. More than a dozen..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top of the Line
The nominees for the 2011 Austin Critics Table Awards
"...For the 19th year, an informal affiliation of local arts critics has recognized the year's most exceptional achievements in..."

May 27, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks
Don't Dissolve District
"...Aquifer Conservation District, the only local government with the authority to regulate pumping and prevent pollution in the entire..."

May 1, 1998 Column

Dreaming ART
This year in Austin, autumn brings a Spring Storm, and with it Actors Repertory of Texas, the realization of the city's long-cherished dream of a locally based professional theatre company.
"...Theatre, an opening-night crowd watches student actors from the UT Department of Theatre & Dance, and Equity actors from..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The House That PAC Built
"...chain of connections all the way through -- past gluttenous rat and murderous cat, past maiden and man and..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cultural Cancellations and Postponements: The Big List
What's not happening around Austin, arts-wise
"...to watch and exhibits to view while you wait out the period necessary for us to be safe. Yes,..."

March 24, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Education of a Lifetime
A look at UT's Performing Arts Center and the process by which they bring the biggest names in jazz to Austin.
"...It was well past midnight, long after UT's Bass Concert Hall had turned off all the lights..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Table Banquet
The nominees for the 2013-2014 Austin Critics Table Awards
"...the Austin Critics Table have agreed on the most outstanding work in dance, classical music, visual art, and theatre..."

May 8, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Articulations
South Bank Update
"...The South Bank continues to inch its way toward reality. If..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Pesto, Puccini, and the Omni Talented Singing With Your Supper
"...Performing for the public - whether you are singing to..."

June 16, 1995 Arts Feature

Laurie Anderson
The musical pioneer reveals multiple facets of her artistry in multiple visits to Austin
"...Texas this semester. The post, established by the Humanities Institute, has brought such eminent artists, writers, and scholars to..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2012 Austin Critics Table Awards
For the 20th time, a big hand for the nominees if you please
"...Time flies when you're recognizing excellence. One minute, you and a half-dozen arts writers are handing out..."

May 25, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
Can a super-sized Long Center fit in Austin's Happy Meal box of civic dreams?
"...and Austin's civic dreams are now Happy Meal sized. But there still ain't enough room in the Happy Meal..."

Feb. 14, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

The Changing Face of Downtown
"...But here's an itemized look at what's headed our way..."

April 20, 2001 News Feature

Naked City
Off the Desk:
"...Palmer Auditorium-City Coliseum site to be developed into an ARTS Center Stage-funded performing arts center and hockey arena/civic center,..."

Aug. 21, 1998 News Feature

Try To Remember
How two kids from UT changed the course of the American musical
"...portends a career of earthshaking import in the fine arts. But what can you do, Posterity? That was the..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Game-Changers
The 2009 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame
"...of life here, like live oaks or Barton Springs, but all that flourishing activity in the visual and performing..."

May 29, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Decay, Preserve, Observe: The Experimental Memories of Bill Morrison
The cinematic pioneer discusses his career and filmography before his Austin retrospective
"...Since Louis and Auguste Lumière invented the Cinématographe and locked in much of what we know as..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Screens Feature by Joe Gross

'Creativity in the Face of Death: The Contemporary Resonance of Terezín'
UT symposium honors and ponders art created in the Nazi concentration camp
"...– loved ones, neighbors, your race – are being ruthlessly, systematically exterminated? What flame of inspiration can be kept..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations
Hogg Auditorium is headed for a makeover, Judy Jensen's Blue Willow is headed to the Smithsonian, and two local artists take the road to recovery.
"...Much has been said about the University of Texas closing Bass Concert Hall in..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations
Reports on The "Three 'J's" of Austin culture And Lily Tomlin At UT.
"...own way, would you spell culture with three 'J's. But given how much the local arts scene has benefited..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Showing the Way
The 2006 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame
"...of art and lead us to them. They seek out promising new talent and give them the space and..."

June 2, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations
UT Fine Arts Rates Tops
"...when a survey of the nation's grad schools ranks UT Austin's Law, Engineering, or Business Schools among the best..."

March 14, 1997 Arts Column

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