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Review: Chris Fleming

If you’ve been on YouTube at all in your adult life, you are probably familiar with Gayle Waters-Waters, the power-walking, granola-snorting alpha suburbanite mom played by comedian Chris Fleming. Last Thursday, Gayle hung up her pantsuit for a night, and out stepped Fleming onto the North Door stage.

10:40AM Mon. Jul. 17, 2017, Courtney Naquin Read More | Comment »

The Q&A Hole: What Got You Hooked On the Weird Stuff?

Compare the joy of reading to a sort of addiction and you can find a gateway drug in there somewhere. (In the case of science fiction, maybe a person’s gateway was even Frederik Pohl’s excellent 1977 novel Gateway.) And since we always like to know where the good stuff is, we invoked our ongoing series to ask this recent gathering of SFF writers:

6:00AM Thu. Jul. 13, 2017, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Frida Kahlo Inspires Women of Color-Centered Marketplace

Frida Friday, a women of color-centered market, will celebrate Frida Kahlo’s birthday and female artisans this Friday (July 14) at Kebabalicious from 6-10pm.

4:50PM Wed. Jul. 12, 2017, Maria Mendez Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Peach Pit, Briston Maroney, Bnny

Moody Amphitheater

Happy Together + God’s Own Country at Paramount Theatre

Showgirls
at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Michener Center Director Named

In securing a new director for the Michener Center for Writers, the University of Texas has turned to a native son of the Lone Star State. Joining the center this summer will be Bret Anthony Johnston, award-winning author of the collection Corpus Christi: Stories and the novel Remember Me Like This.

11:30AM Wed. Jul. 12, 2017, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

Come Again, You Resurrection Perverts

If you’re watching the David Lynch-driven revival of Twin Peaks these days, you’re grooving, as the hippies used to say, on some iconic, creepy, and increasingly mystical shit.

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

The Full English Is a Gas, Gas, Gas

“Catch a boat to England, baby, maybe to Spain,” sang the young musician Jackson Frank in 1965, in his seminal downer ballad “Blues Run the Game.”

3:00PM Tue. Jul. 4, 2017, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Wide Awake and Brilliant

Watching eight people perform publicly when they've all been awake for 45 hours might seem a cruel way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Aren't you just there to see those exhausted husks of humanity self-destruct? Not at Hideout Theatre's 48-Hour Improv Marathon; their eight were so whip-smart and quick-witted, they left you feeling dazed.

10:00AM Tue. Jul. 4, 2017, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

Trans Comic Carina Magyar's Rising Star

Carina Magyar would tell you being a single, working mom in Texas isn't always a walk in the park, but she’s really hitting her stride in the booming Austin comedy scene. As the runner up in this year’s Funniest Person in Austin contest and Live at Coldtowne host, she’s become a comedic city gem with her unique and hilariously relatable jokes.

7:00AM Mon. Jul. 3, 2017, Courtney Naquin Read More | Comment »

Strike Up the Band!

Fireworks may provide the oohs and ahs on Independence Day, but when it comes to making your heart swell with patriotic pride, there better be music – our National Anthem, say, or an ode to America's natural splendors and democratic ideals, or a rousing military march. If you want a Fourth of July fix of patriotic music, here's where to find it.

9:00AM Sat. Jul. 1, 2017, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

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