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SXSW Comedy Review: Cavett on Comedy With Dave Hill

Dick Cavett was friends with Groucho Marx, frenemies with Norman Mailer, confidant of Bette Davis, and a character witness for John Lennon. But it was his friendship with Muhammad Ali that brought him to SXSW this year and into a hilarious and touching conversation with WFMU’s Dave Hill.

11:33AM Mon. Mar. 12, 2018, Ashley Moreno Read More | Comment »

The Horrors of SXSW Can’t Touch Nate Southard

Of course there’s a plethora of horror-genre stuff going on at SXSW. Because the festival boasts a ginormous film component – one of its original big tracks, after all – and because horror is a perennial draw, audiencewise, and even auteurwise, right?

2:30PM Fri. Mar. 9, 2018, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

In Memoriam: Ken Johnson

One of Austin's most versatile theatre artists and a key player in elevating both the quality and popularity of the stage scene here in the Sixties and Seventies has left us. Ken Johnson – or Kenneth O. Johnson, if you read any of the novels he penned – suffered a heart attack at home on Friday and died. He was 82.

6:00PM Thu. Mar. 8, 2018, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

The Night of the Hunter

Paramount Theatre

Rainbow Girls, B.R. Lively at Radio/East

Just for Teens: Captive Creatures at Terrazas Branch Library

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Music to Celebrate Women By

If you're looking to get an early jump on International Women's Day, we have just the event for you: The University of Texas' Butler School of Music is bringing together some of its most illustrious faculty members and singers from its student choirs for a celebratory concert at 5:30pm today, March 7, at Bates Recital Hall on the UT campus.

1:12PM Wed. Mar. 7, 2018, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

Five Recommended Austin Arts Events This Weekend

The calm, so to speak, before the storm. The calm, but not the doldrums – because this is Austin, see, and there’s always plenty of worthwhile diversions from the quotidian blahs available to local citizens (and art-seeking tourists) regardless of any, ah, dedicated festival-based program activities. For instance:

1:00PM Fri. Mar. 2, 2018, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

SXSW Comedy: Your 2018 Lineup

Tradition has March coming in like a lion and going out like a lamb, but here in Austin there's also a part when March goes full hyena, laughing like crazy, and that's all due to SXSW Comedy. The 2018 lineup shows just why that's so with the presence of such comedy greats as Rachel Bloom, Jim Gaffigan, Nick Offerman, James Adomian, and … Dick Cavett?

3:05PM Tue. Feb. 27, 2018, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

Laguna Gloria to Get New Entrance

Start saying your goodbyes to the cramped, awkward approach to the Contemporary Austin's Laguna Gloria site. In a month, the museum will break ground on a project to transform the entry to its 14-acre lakeside home, adding sidewalks along 35th Street, a garden, an outdoor cafe, shade canopies, and, of course, art to make the site more welcoming.

2:31PM Thu. Feb. 22, 2018, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

Five Recommended Arts Events in Austin This Weekend

Starting this thing off with a Thursday reco, yes. Because, for the majority of workaday toilers, the weekend can never begin soon enough, right? And also because:

9:00AM Thu. Feb. 22, 2018, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Moontower Comedy 2018: Podcast Fever!

Podcasts have been a steadily growing presence at the Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival in recent years, and it appears that the Moontower masterminds have been listening to how many of you are listening to all these audio series, because they've just announced that they're cranking the podcast dial up to 10 for the seventh fest this April.

5:00PM Wed. Feb. 21, 2018, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

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