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Rubber Repper Redux

Wait, do you mean … the show that we gave big ups to last year? The show that's kind of like a live episode of Biography, except it's up-close and personal and intimately interactive in front of friends and strangers? Yes, that show.

5:38PM Wed. Apr. 20, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

From the Dept. of Deeply Heartwarming Stuff

Dean Young has a new heart. The renowned poet and popular teacher in the University of Texas' Michener Center for Writers underwent a heart transplant Thursday night, April 14, at Seton Medical Center.

7:14PM Fri. Apr. 15, 2011, Amy Smith Read More | Comment »

WLT Turns 30, Throws a Party

When I turned 30, I drank too much and worked my angst out on a piñata. I suspect the Writers' League of Texas will handle its own passage into a third decade with significant more decorum and/or grace.

4:11PM Fri. Apr. 15, 2011, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Friday the 13th Pt. VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

We Luv Video

Glaze Magazine presents License to Slay w/ Daiistar, Sad Cell, more at Parish

H.M.S. Pinafore
at McCallum Fine Arts Academy Theatre

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

In the 'Pale'

David Foster Wallace’s posthumous novel, The Pale King, went on sale today nationally, but lucky you, Austin reader peoples, you get to celebrate the release with a special event at the Harry Ransom Center, which acquired Wallace's archive in 2010.

2:38PM Fri. Apr. 15, 2011, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Bedside Manner: The Captain's Quarters

Really? You want to know what's on the nightstand in this ol' patroon's quarters for this latest installment of the Books Dept.'s Under the Covers: Bedside Manner series? Point the scope abaft, mates, and a sturdy little bamboo three-shelver belonging to the dyke who runs Gay Place should come into focus…

10:12AM Mon. Apr. 11, 2011, Kate X Messer Read More | Comment »

The Merry Widows

There comes a time when every widow must cast off the black weeds of mourning: Tonight the ladies of Black Widow Burlesque will be throwing off a whole lot more as they celebrate their second anniversary in the realm of tease-o-rama.

5:07PM Fri. Apr. 8, 2011, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

A Novel Idea

The New York Times reported yesterday that J.J. Abrams, filmmaker (Star Trek) and television innovator (Lost), has tapped Austin author Doug Dorst (Alive in Necropolis) to write a new novel.

3:33PM Thu. Apr. 7, 2011, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Austin! International! Poetry! Festival!

Dozens and dozens if not hundreds of poets flocking to this river city from all over the world this weekend, to partake of and offer verse liberated or otherwise. And why here in particular? Our Litera listings man about town, Ric Williams, finds out in this interview with AIPF director Ashley F. Kim:

4:48PM Wed. Apr. 6, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Joe Ollmann's Marvelous Mid-Life Muckup!

You'd think middle-aged John's got enough trouble in his life ~ trying to save his graphic-design job, dealing with his new wife and infant son and two grown daughters, battling a vindictive housecat, facing down a stalkoholic co-worker ~ without falling madly in crush with Sherri Smalls, former indie rocker and current children's-music sensation.

3:07PM Wed. Mar. 30, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

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