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Review: Spinning

Here’s a coming-of-age story that’s not made exclusively of words nor exclusively of images, but of those two things in masterful combination. A graphic novel, yes. It’s called Spinning.

11:50AM Fri. Nov. 3, 2017, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Texas Book Festival 2017: Samantha Irby

The title of Samantha Irby’s latest essay collection might be We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, but that doesn’t mean it’s never going to happen for us Austinites. At this year’s Texas Book Festival, the hilarious and unapologetically candid writer will offer die-hard fans and new readers the chance to hear her discuss her raunchy tales IRL.

10:00AM Fri. Nov. 3, 2017, Beth Sullivan Read More | Comment »

Five Arty Things to Do: Nov. 3-5

It’s our “Best of Austin” issue this week, hell yes – but you know the goodness just keeps on keeping on in this bustling metrop of ours, is relentless to the point of oh-shit-how-do-I-choose?, is enough to make a citizen look below for a quintet of suggestions re: the more culturally vibrant parts of the weekend immediately ahead …

2:50PM Thu. Nov. 2, 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

Tillie Walden: Talking Comics

Tillie Walden, that Ignatz-winning author of the new graphic novel Spinning, will be at the Texas Book Festival this weekend. (For times, see below.) Until then, and after that, she’s – where? Los Angeles? Tokyo? Berlin? The new Central Library in this city’s own Downtown?

3:00PM Wed. Nov. 1, 2017, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Tom Gauld at the Texas Book Festival?

Here’s the 2017 Texas Book Festival, taking over the State Capitol grounds on Saturday and Sunday, flooding the area with nationally renowned authors and editors and publishers and so on, the whole madding literary crowd, and, somewhere in the middle of it all: Tom Gauld.

2:00PM Wed. Nov. 1, 2017, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Lake|Flato's Impact on Austin

The city's Central Library that opened Oct. 28 has generated much buzz for Lake|Flato, the San Antonio/Austin-based architectural firm that partnered on the project with Boston's Shepley Bulfinch. But it's just one of many major projects here that Lake|Flato has designed – projects that have changed the look of the city in the 21st century.

4:30PM Tue. Oct. 31, 2017, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

EAST Austin Studio Tour Run-Down

Austin’s favorite annual, self-guided art tour is back! The 2017 EAST Austin Studio Tour, hosted by Big Medium, will feature over 500 participants, including 241 artist studios, 66 galleries, 155 temporary exhibitions, 26 happenings, 10 libraries, and 7 schools.

2:32PM Tue. Oct. 31, 2017, Savannah Opre Read More | Comment »

Halloween Is Serious Business

Halloween comes but once a year – but Austin's haunted house scene delivers twice the terrors, as the old evil of the House of Torment, and the rising menace of Scream Hollow set the standard for shrieking scares.

10:37AM Tue. Oct. 31, 2017, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Review: What Unites Us

If you think you’re unfamiliar with Dan Rather, you’re probably not. His career as a journalist stretches back decades and spans what feels like every major American moment: Watergate, the Kennedy assassinations, 9/11. From his CBS work through Dan Rather Reports, this newsman has been on your TV and taught you something about the world.

10:04AM Mon. Oct. 30, 2017, Katarina Brown Read More | Comment »

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