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Moontower Comedy 2018:
First Headliners Announced

The calendar may say ACL, but the folks at the Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival want you to know that it's not too early to be thinking about their springtime punch line extravaganza. Today, they've announced the first headliners for Moontower 7: Mike Birbiglia, Tiffany Haddish, and Mr. "Eat It," "Weird Al" Yankovic.

11:46AM Fri. Oct. 13, 2017, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

Artists, Assemble!

Generous Art, an organization that for years has been helping artists sell their work, with part of the proceeds going to nonprofits, is undertaking a new project to benefit the city's art-makers: founding a professional association for artists that will fill critical gaps in Austin's creative scene. And it'll tell you all about it on Saturday.

9:00AM Fri. Oct. 13, 2017 Read More | Comment »

Five Arty Things to Do This Weekend: Oct. 13-15

Listen: You can catch the second weekend of ACL later, vicariously, when our “Playback” columnist Kevin Curtin drags his weary ass from the Schwarzschild Radius of Resolute Partying long enough to report on what happened with what to whom. Instead, get your non-festival soul leveled-up with one or more of these worthy events:

12:55PM Thu. Oct. 12, 2017, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Friday the 13th Pt. VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

We Luv Video

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

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

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Rolling the Dice

There weren’t particularly grand aspirations when the pilot for The Adventure Zone popped up in the My Brother, My Brother and Me podcast feed.

12:03AM Thu. Oct. 12, 2017, Rosalind Faires Read More | Comment »

Dick Clark Leaves UT Major Gifts

Architect Dick Clark made a major impact on the look of Austin through his work for such local landmarks as the South Congress Hotel, 612 West, Fino, and Mezzaluna. But that didn't end with his death on Aug. 8. This week, the University of Texas announced that Clark's estate left funds to establish two new endowments at the School of Architecture.

2:30PM Fri. Oct. 6, 2017, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

Five Arty Things to Do This Weekend: Oct. 5-8

And we’re starting off with Thursday again, yes. Because we say what a weekend is: You, me, all of us – defining time and sticking it to The Man. Rar.

10:00AM Thu. Oct. 5, 2017, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Texas Teen Book Festival: This Weekend!

Here comes the Texas Teen Book Festival, a day-long feast for the relentlessly ink-hungry among us who revel in the best of what corporate marketing departments like to brand as YA fiction.

10:00AM Wed. Oct. 4, 2017, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Ghost In the Shell: Booking Major Kusanagi

Okay, look: The thing about a book like this is that it’s going to appeal to the sort of geeks who are really, really into the film and who might be moved to argue with whatever opinions the book’s author inevitably puts forth.

3:45PM Mon. Oct. 2, 2017, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Five Arty Things to Do This Weekend: Sept. 28-Oct. 1

That’s right, we’re starting the list with something on Thursday this time. Yes: Thurrrrrrrsday. And you, what, you have a problem with that? Like it’s just a little too early, weekend-wise, to start indulging in some life-enriching art?

10:00AM Thu. Sep. 28, 2017, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

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