Qmmunity: Ch-ch-changes

Austin's queer scene turns to face the strange as it goes through big but good changes

"...Hour Hang out with Austin queerdos across the LGBTQIA spectrum at this social event. Name tags provided. Thu., July..."

July 28, 2023 Column by James Scott

Qmmunity: Spirits of Sobriety

Austin's queer community offers intentional alcohol-free events for the sober and sober curious

"...workshops and speakers from across the experience and identity spectrum. Austin Roundup's Peter Northfelt anticipates about 100 attendees from..."

July 7, 2023 Column by James Scott

Qmmunity: The Art of Advocacy

Find a way to give your say at the Lege, plus a new drag queen portrait series

"...handwritten grocery lists and extensive interviews, exploring a nuanced spectrum of identity and experience beyond the traditional gender binary."..."

March 3, 2023 Column by James Scott

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...turn at falling in love with a sweet little dancer." Like Charley Crockett, the vocal fingerprints of Choctaw Wildfire's..."

June 11, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Qmmunity: 50 Years Queer History

Everything you need to know to make the best of Pride Weekend

"...Way Gay Video Dance Party Dance into the Pride spirit with music videos..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

Qmmunity: Austin Sparkles With Black Pride

ABP's fourth annual Pride Weekend, dykes you should know, and more events for your Summer of Pride

"...of Black Girl Love at the Vortex, history making dance parties – Drip Drop Friday, Throw It Back Saturday;..."

June 7, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

Introducing the 2019 Class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

The stories behind the art transformers of this year's Hall of Fame inductees

"...history and criticism from the University of Texas, worked with Dance Repertory Theatre, taught at the Ballet Austin Academy, developed..."

May 24, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2019 Arts Hall of Famers Announced

Bravo, Harden, Kinney, and Sawyer to be inducted this year

"...the Austin Arts Hall of Fame, honoring leaders in dance, theatre, and arts philanthropy...."

May 7, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Live Music This Weekend, Sept. 1-4

An extra day of delights for your weekend music-going

"...Griffin teamed up with DJ Zero for sardonic late-Eighties/early-Nineties dance charts hits “I’m Going Straight to Heaven” and “If..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

The Critics Speak … and Speak … and Speak

Clybourne Park, Manchurian Candidate big winners

"...Digital Greg Emetaz, The Manchurian Candidate DANCE..."

June 6, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Spectrum Dance Theater’s Rambunctious

The company’s program, with a new work inspired by the 1966 UT Tower shooting, spoke powerfully to our present moment

"...what can our country's artists tell us about ourselves? Spectrum Dance Theater, based in Seattle and headed by revered..."

Nov. 25, 2016 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Austin Creative Alliance Honors 2016

ACA salutes SVT, Byrd, Brooks, Seibert, Willenzik at the ND

"...Brooks. Janet Seibert. Lisa Byrd. Bruce Willenzik. Salvage Vanguard Theater. What do they all have in common? Well, each..."

Nov. 16, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Gay Place

Cyndi Lauper and aGLIFF just wanna have fun

"...Summer Breeze: Yacht Rock Dance Party Channel tropical breezes, boat shoes, and piña coladas..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup

Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more

"...and Brenda Greene Mitchell's loving tribute to Austin's iconic dance hall, Honky Tonk Heaven: Legend of the Broken Spoke...."

Feb. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Gay Place: I'm Not Gonna Miss You

Gay Place bids you adieu

"...safe space for ladies-only (female identified, all across the spectrum) to dance, prance, and wag those pants (see Saturday)...."

Jan. 15, 2016 Column by Kate X Messer

Top Nine Big-Bang Dance Concerts of 2015

Each of the top dance performances of 2015 created a universe of its own

"...Each one of these 2015 dances created a universe of its own. In chronological order:..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

NMASS 2015 Resounds

“We’re not fucking around! This is serious!”

"...sooner had one act moved off the Salvage Vanguard Theater stage than another played 10 minutes later. From KORG-powered..."

June 15, 2015 Music Post by Waylon Cunningham

Public Notice: Bikes, Toll Roads, TNCs

A miscellany of mostly transportation

"...Meanwhile, at the other end of the transportation spectrum, the ridiculously developer-dominated Central Texas Regional Mobil­i­ty Authority board..."

May 1, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Gay Place: $$ for Cats

Laugh out loud and support some baby Bobcats

"...of course. Thu.-Sat., through Feb. 14, 8pm. Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd., 512/474-7886. $20. www.salvagevanguard.org...."

Feb. 6, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

Protos Place

AMODA's first fest marks a new start

"...focused on developing new art forms in the digital spectrum, was the first of its kind in these parts..."

May 29, 2013 Screens Post by Nate Jackson

'Creativity in the Face of Death: The Contemporary Resonance of Terezín'

UT symposium honors and ponders art created in the Nazi concentration camp

"...history and legacy, and the premiere of a full-length dance work by Donald Byrd that was inspired by the..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Week in Gaming Events

You will have to leave the house

"...a little classical music, visual arts, or even some dance jams with your video games then here are a..."

June 15, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Critics' Picks

Recommended at AFF

"...Monday, Oct. 24, 7pm, Texas Spirit Theater 'The Descendants'..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Screens Feature

The 'Tease That Binds

The Texas Burlesque Festival builds community among those who are hip to the strip

"...not exactly built for ballet." Attending college to study dance, she was quickly attracted to forms such as hula,..."

April 15, 2011 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Not "Message Films"

Scholar Curran Nault talks BLaB

"...Saturday (6/5/10) at 3pm at the Long Center (Rollins Theater). There will be some musings from me, lots of..."

June 5, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Ballet East

The company establishes its first dance academy for students at Eastside Memorial

"...This week, Ballet East Dance Company once again provides a showcase for the talents..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Risk Immersion

Time again to sink deeply into FronteraFest's exhilarating experiments in performance

"...Feb. 14, you can savor more self-written monologues, interpretive dance, improvised comedy, slam poetry, hip-hop, musicals, and who knows..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Wake-Up Call

Looking back on the onetime heart of local hip-hop, Catfish Station, and the visuals that defined it

"...the greater downtown entertainment district) cater to the rainbow spectrum of nonwhite communities, and many local rap, jazz, and..."

July 22, 2005 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

'Pageant' Reviewed

Naughty Austin's production of the musical comedy Pageant reflects "real" beauty pageants in a funhouse mirror, with men cross-dressed as contestants, and the result is over-the-top, ridiculous, unbelievably corny, slipshod, and at times, genuinely funny.

"...Pageant Arts on Real Theater, through Jan. 3 Running time: 2 hrs...."

Nov. 28, 2003 Arts Feature by Heather Barfield Cole

The Long and the Short of It

The expansive Cinematexas short film festival

"...a cross-genre mélange of film, music, conceptual art, photography, dance, political protest, visual projection, and various permutations thereof. The..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Screens Feature by Michael Chamy

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