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Rob Thomas' Unlikely Route to Young Adult Fiction

“My eyebrows have grown in,” Rob Thomas faux-apologizes as the camera clicks.

11:00AM Thu. Sep. 26, 2013, Amy Gentry Read More | Comment »

Sarah Dessen hated high school. So how did she become a bestselling author of young adult novels? With typical Southern modesty spiced with just the faintest whiff of irony, she admits, “All people thought was any good were my stories about the prom.”

10:00AM Thu. Sep. 26, 2013, Amy Gentry Read More | Comment »

UT Crowd Welcomes Junot Diaz

The Junot Diaz event Monday night started before it ever began. Well before show time, the auditorium in the Blanton Museum of Art filled to capacity, so Diaz took matters into his own hands and brought the show to the people.

3:00PM Tue. Sep. 24, 2013, Rod Machen Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Showgirls

Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar

Summer Storytime at the Blanton at The Blanton Museum of Art

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

The Boxer Rebellion Gets Yang'd But Good

There's the ghost of the first emperor of all China, Qin Shi Huang, in full warrior gear. There's the spirit of St. Joan, Joan of Arc, bright with battle armor. And both of these are only the inspirations for the main characters – Little Bao and Vibiana, respectively – in this new graphic novel just out from publishing powerhouse First Second Books.

4:30PM Mon. Sep. 23, 2013, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

How Do You Define Soul Food?

"What’s the difference between Southern food and soul food?” That is a question I hear a lot. My answer is always the same: Depends on whom you ask.

1:48PM Fri. Sep. 20, 2013, Toni Tipton-Martin Read More | Comment »

"Stop Hitting Yourself" Again!

If you felt like you could wait to buy tickets to the Rude Mechanicals' new workshop staging of Stop Hitting Yourself, opening tonight, we have some bad news. Whether it's the excitement over the show's premiere in New York City this winter or folks just mesmerized by that queso fountain onstage, the entire six-performance run is sold out.

5:00PM Thu. Sep. 19, 2013, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

Better All the Time

You may think Barbara Cook hit the heights musically on Broadway in the Golden Age of Musicals, but the original Cunegonde in Candide, Marian the librarian in The Music Man, and Amalia in She Loves Me begs to differ. This stage treasure, performing at Bass tonight, insists she's a better singer today than she was five years ago.

12:50PM Thu. Sep. 19, 2013, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

Donny Cates Is No 'Buzzkill'

Superman is powered by sunlight. Wolverine has his mutant genes. For Ruben, the hero of Buzzkill, by Austin-based comic writer Donny Cates and Toadies drummer Mark "Rez" Reznicek, his superpowers are activated when he gets really, really drunk.

2:29PM Wed. Sep. 18, 2013, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

This Old Haunted House

Daniel McCullough prowls the House of Torment as both its its master and guardian. With the start of the haunting season imminent, he pokes at walls, notes the location of sprinklers, asks his engineering staff what's next on the to-do list.

1:00PM Fri. Sep. 13, 2013, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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