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Beachcombing Is Always Better With a Good Companion

Now that summer has officially begun, you can finally start combing those beaches without worrying that you’re doing it in, like, the wrong season or something. (J/K – any season is good.) But what’s the best way to do it, anyway, this beachcombing activity? Luckily, we know someone who knows – and she’s written a book to tell you.

7:00AM Fri. Jun. 22, 2018, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Fair Youth Make Fairer Shakespeare

I'm not saying people over the age of 18 can't do Shakespeare well – that Judy Dench sure speaks his speech trippingly on the tongue – but when youngsters get hold of the Bard, well, that's when Shakes gets real. Don't believe it? Then go sample the work this weekend by Camp Shakespeare and Austin Shakespeare's youth troupe.

5:45PM Thu. Jun. 21, 2018, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

Texas Book Festival Announces First Confirmed Authors for October Fest

We’re six months away from October’s Texas Book Festival, and two months shy of the traditional August lineup drop, but the TBF wants to get you excited now. Hence today’s sneak peek at a smattering of confirmed authors, including one that’s a dead lock for all the fiction prizes out there.

8:18PM Tue. Jun. 19, 2018, Kimberley Jones 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

Edgar Cantero Scoobies the Fhtagn Right Out the Ol’ Lovecraft

It’s here: The new paperback edition of Meddling Kids, that clever AF Edgar Cantero’s second bestselling novel, and the author will be at BookPeople this coming Monday night to present the thing.

1:00PM Fri. Jun. 15, 2018, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Five Recommended Arts Events This Weekend

OK, you survived another working week – now go out and do a thing, why don’tcha? Avail yourself, we mean, of some of the creative diversions our bustling metrop has to offer. For instance:

7:00AM Fri. Jun. 15, 2018, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

The Hidden Room Theatre Is Working With a Presidential Assassin

Austin’s Hidden Room theatre company is officially in cahoots with John Wilkes Booth, the actor who shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln back in 1865. They’re engaged in a sort of transtemporal collaboration, of course, and the Ransom Center’s Eric Colleary is partly to blame.

7:00AM Tue. Jun. 12, 2018, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Five Recommended Arts Events This Weekend

The ROT Rally’s inundating the city in record numbers, sure, but we’ve got just the usual number of suggestions for a different sort of damned good time.

9:00AM Fri. Jun. 8, 2018, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

The Critics Table's Crème de la Crème

The crowd could hardly compete with the one packed into the Erwin Center for Paul Simon Monday night, but the one at Cap City Comedy Club was large enough to fill the showroom as the Austin Critics Table gathered for the 26th time to honor outstanding work in the arts – and prove, perhaps, that its members are still crazy after all these years.

1:35PM Tue. Jun. 5, 2018, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

Accessing Personal Care While Trans, Nonbinary, or Queer in Austin

It’s been a year and a half since Claire Bow, a transgender activist and advocate, has had her hair cut. After being misgendered multiple times by a previous stylist, the anxiety of it happening again has been too much of an obstacle to overcome.

8:00AM Sun. Jun. 3, 2018, Taylor Prewitt Read More | Comment »

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