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Soderbergh and IBM's Sense of Scale
There are plenty of curious pairings we've forced by juxtaposition on this blog.

12:35PM Thu. May 2, 2013, Monica Riese Read More | Comment »

Texas Is 'Big, Hot, Cheap and Right'
"One of the fundamental truths about Texas is that, although the state is genuinely sui generis, and self-consciously different from the other states, it is, in many ways, the most American of all." – Erica Grieder, Big, Hot, Cheap and Right

1:45PM Wed. May 1, 2013, Monica Riese Read More | Comment »

Revisiting Poetry in Motion
Not quite a year ago, we wrote about Poetry With Wheels, the partnership between Capital Metro and the Austin Poetry Society that brings local poetry to placards in unused ad space.

11:30AM Wed. May 1, 2013, Monica Riese Read More | Comment »

Pub Date Announced for Doug Dorst + J.J. Abrams Collaboration
Yes, yes, we’re all very excited about J.J. Abrams’ newest project – that would be Star Trek Into Darkness, opening May 17 – but his next project should prick your ears, too, especially as it involves a collaboration with Austin writer Doug Dorst.

5:17PM Tue. Apr. 30, 2013, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

War and Pieces
Kevin Powers’ debut novel, The Yellow Birds, looks like a war novel, but it is really a novel about pieces, about the massive rents in identity caused by war, and the difficult work of repairing them.

9:00AM Tue. Apr. 30, 2013, Amy Gentry Read More | Comment »

Twitter Comedy Fest Starts … Now!
Twitter is a funny place, y'know? And not just funny-peculiar – funny-haha, too.

2:59PM Mon. Apr. 29, 2013, Monica Riese Read More | Comment »

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'Arguing for Our Lives' at BookPeople
"Opinions are like noses," the old adage goes. "Everyone has one." Indeed, and the process of changing it – either one's opinion or one's nose – is apparently rather invasive and painful.

12:57PM Mon. Apr. 29, 2013, Monica Riese Read More | Comment »

Thanks for the Memories, Moontower
The second annual Moontower Comedy & Oddity Fest bowed out on Saturday, but there are plenty of ways to hit rewind and relive so much funny.

11:03AM Mon. Apr. 29, 2013, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Moontower, Day 3: Bill Burr
There are comics, and then there's Bill Burr, a guy on a way higher plane than just about any. Burr strides onto the stage and grabs the audience by the collar – and that includes you out there with your smart phone-illuminated faces, stupid enough to be texting during Burr's shrill, high-pitched brilliance.

1:30PM Sun. Apr. 28, 2013, Anne S. Lewis Read More | Comment »

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