Getting Political With The Tree Play and Robin Hood: An Elegy

Two new Austin plays tackle timely subjects

"...Theatre in summer can often feel like just a thicket..."

Aug. 7, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Tree Play

For this story of a rain forest over a lifetime, Robi Polgar created a living, breathing poem

"...time considering our ecological footprint. Some spend too much. The Tree Play, nurtured from seedling to sapling and beyond..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

The Tree of Life

Terrence Malick's latest film bursts with unbridled ambition and vision, and while it doesn't always reach the heights for which it aims, it soars boldly and fearlessly.

"...and Tye Sheridan. Terrence Malick’s hotly awaited new movie, The Tree of Life, bursts with such unbridled ambition, vision,..."

June 3, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Back to the Tree House

Writer Sybil Rosen and actress Alia Shawkat on falling in love with Blaze Foley again, and for the first time

"...– Excerpt from Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley by Sybil..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Features Feature by Eric Kohn

Manresa: An Edible Reflection

"..."When you find something you love to do, then Work can become the highest form of Play." –..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Food Feature by MM Pack

The Fountain

Like some epic figure of yore, writer/director Aronofsky has allowed his hubris to get the better of him: The Fountain is a dry well.

"...yore, writer/director Aronofsky has allowed his hubris to get the better of him. Whereas we indulged this filmmaker with..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Christmas With the Kranks

Holiday pap and circumstance.

"...Cheech Marin, Austin Pendleton and Felicity Huffman. It looms, swathed in clanking, rust-flecked chains of pap and circumstance: The..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In Search of the Wild Art

'Cracks in the Pavement' leaves art objects in unexpected spaces throughout the city

"...of art somewhat like animals in a zoo, isolating them in an environment constructed for the explicit purpose of..."

June 18, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Swingle All the Way!

Stritch, Caruso deliver hit holiday cabaret from Birdland

"...Jim Caruso, Billy Stritch, and Klea Blackhurst are bringing their seasonal special A Swingin’ Christmas to the Long Center..."

Dec. 20, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Secret History of Tuna

Tuna isn't the only Texas town with which actor-writers Jaston Williams and Joe Sears can be closely identified. Austin has played a significant role in the development of their town, and in return Sears and Williams have changed the face of the capital city.

"...men and a town. That pretty much sums up the careers of Joe Sears and Jaston Williams, at least..."

April 12, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The New Rites of Spring

The Last Word in Instrumental Rock

"...It's an overly romanticized notion, the idea of every generation having some sort of defining..."

April 27, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Although this sendoff to the young leads feels a little thin, the culmination of the Harry-and-Voldemort show more than satisfies.

"...Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman, Michael Gambon, Helena Bonham Carter, Matthew Lewis, Tom Felton, Kelly Macdonald, Evanna Lynch and Maggie..."

July 15, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Best Things We Saw at Austin Psych Fest 2023

Toro y Moi, Automatic, and more highlight homegrown festival’s return

"...Considering Austin’s inclement weather and the precarious state of national touring – survival..."

May 1, 2023 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Review: Zach Theatre’s The Sound of Music

New production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic tries to forget the Julie Andrews film, and finds new political relevance

"...Although The Sound of Music began as a 1959 Broadway production..."

July 1, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

'The NFL Beat': Jenkins Island

Catching up with one of the NFL Draft's top CBs

"...former University of Florida teammate Joe Haden, Jenkins possesses the ability to be a true NFL shutdown corner. A..."

April 23, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

The Real Country

In and out of Austin with honky-tonk road crew Mike & the Moonpies

"...There's a camera on Mike Harmeier. It's been on him..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Outside the Bachs

Classical sounds new when Austin artists do the composing

"...The Killer Bs must be proud of A-Town. The shades..."

May 1, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

What's on the Slab

Texas roadhouses are far from middle-of-the-road

"...buxom gals are dancing atop a cedar picnic table. The mist from a giant cooling system washes over them...."

June 13, 2008 Features Feature by Kathy McCarty

Improviser Shannon Stott Brings Some Lord of the Rings to Out of Bounds

The Gandalf of improv is all over the comedy festival

"...The Lord of the Rings metaphor was the twist I..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Into the Woods at Scream Hollow

Behind the scenes at the local destination horror house

"...The woods may be dark and deep. Yet no one..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

The Chain Drive and the Rumor Mill

A gay Austin institution holds its last hoorah, again and again.

"...The little stucco bar with the infamous tree will soon..."

June 13, 2014 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

Abandoning the Nest

Hurt by the state's inadequate incentives program, Texas film crews take flight

"...Filming of There Will Be Blood near Marfa was in its second..."

May 23, 2008 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

On the Lege

Instead of businesses, consumers and working stiffs will shoulder much of the property tax cut approved by the Senate.

"...The special legislative session doesn't end until Wednesday, but the..."

July 15, 2005 News Column by Amy Smith

Waking the Dead

Okkervil River's Will Sheff and Centro-matic's Will Johnson find common ground.

"...It's not so hot that you notice, really, but the ants in Oakwood Cemetery are unbearable. It's almost as..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Riders on the Storm

With The Leaf Storm, choreographer José Luis Bustamante and songwriter Lourdes Pérez have become the wind, blowing past boundaries between artforms to share their vision in collaboration and spinning elements of their lives into an artistic whirlwind.

"...Winds know no borders. They blow where they please -- over rivers, past fences,..."

May 5, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

If a Tree Falls on a Corndog ...

Austin novelty card company gets crushed by lawyers and money

"...As it turns out, a noxious pine scent isn't the only thing that stinks about Car-Freshner Corporation's ubiquitous "Little..."

March 24, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Oliver Tree on crying, his cowboy lineage, and his influences… which are none

Memeable alternative pop star plays sold out Stubb’s gig this weekend

"...The last time Oliver Tree graced a stage in Austin,..."

March 26, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Entertain the Family With These Thanksgiving Weekend Events Around Austin

From holiday lights to puppy yoga, there’s something for everybody

"...aunts and uncles, and we can’t keep politics off the table, either. What we can do is help you..."

Nov. 26, 2019 Events Post by Addie Costello

The Luv Doc: A Sexual Savant

On the dangers of following someone into a dark basement

"...ago, I have to say this town is something! The Greenbelt is maybe my favorite place so far, and..."

Sept. 12, 2014 Column by The Luv Doc

The Ballad of Townes & Blaze

The twisted but not-so-tall tale of Van Zandt and Foley, Lonesome Dove meets Barfly

"...The jigsaw of geography in filmmaking is such that one..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Features Feature by Sybil Rosen

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