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So Fab
The New Fiction Confab has developed a reputation for bringing stellar literary novelists to town to talk it out. This year’s just-announced lineup includes Ben Marcus, Heidi Julavits, Walter Kirn, and Peter Orner.

3:55PM Wed. Mar. 28, 2012, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Fotos De Mi Alma Photo Auction Tomorrow
Latinitas, the first digital magazine made for and by young Latinas, celebrates 10 years of operation this spring. In order to fund its programs – the girl-empowering website, which nets 30,000 readers a month, and vigorous community outreach – the organization will hold its annual Fotos de mi Alma photography auction tomorrow.

12:22PM Wed. Mar. 28, 2012, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

A Lone Gunman Beget By 'The Good Father'
Fans of Noah Hawley's TV work, which includes Bones and The Unusuals, know well his ability to nimbly move back and forth between suspense and emotional drama. He reads from his literary novel The Good Father tonight at BookPeople.

3:54PM Mon. Mar. 26, 2012, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Film Flam
Austin-based but Madrid-born, filmmaker Mario Troncoso has a great excuse to re-cross the Atlantic come May: He's going to Cannes.

2:28PM Mon. Mar. 26, 2012, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Poetry To Ponder the Universe To
Locals may recognize Nick Courtright's byline from his features work at the Austinist, where he serves as Interviews Editor and once asked Weird Al about method acting, but he considers more philosophical matters in his new collection of poetry, Punchline (Gold Wake Press).

2:45PM Fri. Mar. 23, 2012, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Unraveling Shakespeare's Life
Whether or not you believe William Shakespeare really wrote all those plays, you can probably concede that writing his life story is a challenge all its own. But Columbia professor of English James Shapiro has devised a cunning approach, one he's laid out in his acclaimed history, 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare.

11:00AM Fri. Mar. 23, 2012, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

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Model Citizens Bland and Keffer
Among the various women featured in the paintings (to be precise: the stunning and gorgeous paintings) by Austin artist Jennifer Balkan in her "Peep Holes" exhibition at the Wally Workman Gallery are Kelli Bland and Michelle Keffer.

5:09PM Wed. Mar. 21, 2012, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Something to Chew On
As season 2 of Bob’s Burgers was premiering on Fox last Sunday, several cast members – Eugene Mirman (Gene), Dan Mintz (Tina), Kristen Schaal (Louise), Larry Murphy (Teddy), and Kurt Braunohler – took the stage for the first of back to back SXComedy shows. It wasn’t a panel. Because as Mirman asked the audience, “Who would want to hear that?”

11:24AM Tue. Mar. 13, 2012, Ashley Moreno Read More | Comment »

TMNT creator Kevin Eastman on the next Rodriguez project
 
Heavy Metal, Turtles and Troublemakers
Last year at San Diego Comic Con, Robert Rodriguez announced that he had picked up the rights to make a movie of legendary adult anthology comic Heavy Metal. So with publisher/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman in Austin last weekend for Staple!, we had to ask him: Where's the film?

3:21PM Thu. Mar. 8, 2012, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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