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Moontower Adds She Bang!

If you felt the initial lineup for the second Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival was a tad heavy on the "y" chromosomes, today's announcement ought to cheer you up a bit. Eight new comics have been added to the schedule – all of them women.

1:00PM Tue. Feb. 5, 2013, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

How Literature Saved David Shields' Life

David Shields, because he didn't kill himself before he finished writing his latest book, has a lot to say about human mortality and loneliness and literature.

2:41PM Mon. Feb. 4, 2013, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Golden Hornet Project: Wolfgang-nam Style

So you know how Tom Hulce is all sweaty and coughing and writing like mad to finish that awesome Requiem Mass before he keels over from the poison F. Murray Abraham gave him? But he doesn't, and isn't that a shame? Peter Stopschniski thought so and decided the Golden Hornet Project should finish what Mozart couldn't.

2:45PM Thu. Jan. 31, 2013, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Pee-wee’s Big Adventure

Paramount Theatre

Anton Chekhov Is a Tasty Snack at Penfold Theatre

Amy’s Fest
at Bouldin Acres

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

'The Lion King' Is a Feast For the Eyes

Spectacular sets, costumes, and special effects upstage the actors in the touring production of Broadway’s The Lion King, currently running at the Bass Concert Hall through Feb. 10.

1:00PM Thu. Jan. 31, 2013, Eli Black Read More | Comment »

An Asian Mom and a Jewish Mom Walk Into a Bar …

For this, we can thank Leng Wong and Michael Ferstenfeld.

10:14AM Thu. Jan. 31, 2013, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

The Fuse Is Lit

The countdown to Austin's annual hybrid arts hootenanny began in earnest Tuesday night when Fusebox Festival Artistic Director Ron Berry announced the lineup for the 2013 edition at MASS Gallery. On the bill: dance by Deborah Hay, music by line upon line, theatre by Action Hero, and film by Peat Duggins.

1:15PM Wed. Jan. 30, 2013, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

The Queen Is Alive!

Years in the company of eclectic celebrity riff-raff like Donald Trump, Pamela Anderson, and Jersey Shore’s “The Situation” – not to mention a ballroom of dopey pornstars – has imbued Lisa Lampanelli with enough life experience on the margins of sanity and taste to roast a thousand C-Listers, as she proved at the Paramount Saturday night.

10:45AM Mon. Jan. 28, 2013, Russ Espinoza Read More | Comment »

Rain, Rain, Come Today

Sometimes there's nothing better than a rainy day. All that water falling from the sky makes you turn inward, find someplace cozy and dry. That goes for It Rained All Day, a book/music collaboration between Austin band ((SOUNDER)) and Los Angeles artist Mel Kadel, which gets a release party at Okay Mountain tonight at 6pm.

3:00PM Thu. Jan. 24, 2013, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

A Flood of Funny

How do you follow Aziz Ansari, Seth Meyers, Wanda Sykes, Steven Wright, and Nick Offerman? That was the question for the Moontower Comedy and Oddity Festival that premiered last April to great success, and this afternoon the Paramount Theatre, which produces the festival, had the answer – or at least, the first of a series of answers.

4:30PM Tue. Jan. 22, 2013, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

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