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Five Recent Graphic Novels to End This Crazy Year Right

Sure, go ahead, binge it up with your Netflix and your Hulu and so on. We’ll do that, too, every now and then. But we’ll also be enriching our life-of-the-mind with excellent graphic novels that – chacun à son goût – have nothing to do with costumed heroes and their cosmic shenanigans …

10:00AM Thu. Dec. 14, 2017, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Local Art Gifts for Discerning Geeks

So, you want to give a gift to your favorite geeky friend this holiday season? And you want that gift to be a creative and locally made sort of thing? But still, like, geeky? To whatever value of “geeky” the gift and the friend might embody?

11:59AM Wed. Dec. 13, 2017, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

The Frank Mills Call It Quits After 500th Show

The Frank Mills, one of this city’s most acclaimed improv troupes, have been performing a weekly show at ColdTowne Theater since April of 2010. Hell, they’ve been doing their impressive and unscripted comedy thing on stages around town, anywhere and everywhere, since 2005. And all of that will end with this week’s show.

10:00AM Tue. Dec. 12, 2017, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Taylor Swift Muzingo

Upstairs at Caroline

Bride of Chucky
at Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline

Everybody Scream! Ravencraft’s Vault of Horror at Mister Tramps Sport Pub, 8565 Research Blvd.

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Five Arty Things to Do: Dec. 8-10

Holy FOMO, late-great-Adam-West-as-Batman, we’d best get our year-end recreational agenda in gear!

10:30AM Thu. Dec. 7, 2017, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Opening Night at Guzu Gallery

Who wants a scare in their stocking? Friday night, Guzu Gallery opened its latest show, holiday/horror hybrid "They're Coming to Get You," and some of the artists were on hand to discuss bringing Christmas fear to the seasonal cheer.

8:00AM Wed. Dec. 6, 2017, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Kickstartering that Lovise and Shealy

Yeah, we told you about what Leah Lovise and Vanessa Shealy have been working their creative asses off on for a while now: a kid-friendly series of comics about a young lunar citizen who's resisting the treachery fomented by the cretin currently in charge of Earth's natural satellite.

1:00PM Tue. Dec. 5, 2017, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Moontower Comedy 2018: More Comics Named

Apparently, all you Austin comedy fans have been good this year, because Santa has dropped off an early gift for you: the names of more than 40 comics slated for the 2018 Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival. Leading the list for the seventh fest are Ryan Hamilton, Preacher Lawson, and Moontower alum Janeane Garofalo.

12:30PM Tue. Dec. 5, 2017, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

Five Arty Things to Do: Dec. 1-3

… and now it’s the first weekend of the last month of the year – and, boy howdy, we’re hoping 2017 doesn’t let the door hit it in the ass on the way out. Doesn’t mean there isn’t some great creative stuff still happening up in this burgeoning burg, though. Why, look: Here’s five recommended events for this same weekend.

10:30AM Thu. Nov. 30, 2017, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

More Galleries Going, Going, …

The East Austin Studio Tour is intended to be a celebration of the city's vibrant visual arts scene. But the second weekend of the 2017 EAST felt more like a funeral as word circulated that Eastside mainstay Pump Project Art Complex was losing its home after 12 years, a move that would displace 40 artists who had studios there.

4:12PM Mon. Nov. 20, 2017, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

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