Books, Sculpture, and Weed Lead Our Recommended Arts Events

It'd be a lot cooler if you went to one of these events this week

"...27.   – Lina Fisher “Beneath the Persimmon Tree: Poetry and Process”..."

April 19, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...poet laureate program for the city. Apropos for National Poetry Month, Brookins cites statistics like Texas ranking 42nd in..."

April 12, 2024 News Feature

Movies, Comedians, Theatre, and More Arts Options for the Week

Get out and get art

"...Chronicle interview. They’ve since developed the idea into a poetry book of the same name, and now bring an..."

April 12, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

The Off Beat: KB Brookins’ Poetry Book-Turned-Art Exhibit

“Freedom House: An Exhibition” heads to Prizer Arts and Letters

"...Haters will call it confusing. Famously figurative, poetry remains the most discouragingly mystifying format in the literary..."

April 5, 2024 Column by Carys Anderson

Soundscapes, Bat Books, and More Arts Events for the Week

Things to do when you're not staring at an interloping moon

"...However: My face when I remember April is National Poetry Month and all these poets are here on account..."

April 5, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Egg Hunts, Trans Visibility, and More Community Events

Meet your fellow Austinites as these goings-on

"...years old will be guided through “how to add poetry and art to everything you write and send positive..."

March 29, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Movies, Comedy, Books, and More Recommended Arts Events

Find an art that fits your tastes

"...years old will be guided through “how to add poetry and art to everything you write and send positive..."

March 29, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Parks, Gardens, Pisces, and More Arts Events for the Week

Get out and get arty, away from the SXSW crowds

"...one of the first trans masculine memoirs in his poetry collection A queda para o alto. He passed at..."

March 8, 2024 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Opera Fights, Puppet Plays, and More Arty Events

Get an arts fix this week

"...wellness. The former Hairpin self-care columnist celebrates her second poetry release, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination, at Best of..."

March 1, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Austin FC Season Kickoff, Black History Month, and More Community Events

Get out and about in Austin while the weather's good

"...Sandra Mae Frank, among many others, will perform songs, poetry, and more at this fundraiser, all of which serve..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Cassette Roulette, Some Bitchcraft, and More Arts Events

Get arty this week with our recommended happenings

"...Sandra Mae Frank, among many others, will perform songs, poetry, and more at this fundraiser, all of which serve..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Plethora of Riches: How Richard Samuel Turned an Art Gallery Into a Community Center

RichesArt launches annual Black History Month exhibit with new philanthropic initiative

"...classes, as well as comedy shows, jazz performances, and poetry readings...."

Feb. 9, 2024 Arts Feature by Carys Anderson

Day Trips & Beyond: February Events Roundup

Texas travel news and more

"...Lone Star Cowboy Poetry Gathering Feb. 15, Alpine, www.lonestarcowboypoetry.com..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Qmmunity: News of the Queer Austin World

Updates and new creative opportunities in Austin’s queer scene

"...Yes, this erotic institution is accepting “yer smuttiest art, poetry, long fiction, flash fiction, recipes, personal essays, research articles,..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Column by James Scott

Recommended Austin Events

Highlights for your week in music, arts, community, and more

"...by Kilgore Trout, nosh from Mama Kong Cambodian, micro poetry readings, and a special surprise zine release.  – James..."

Jan. 26, 2024 Column

El Tule’s Final Show and More Crucial Concerts This Week

Catch Lucinda Williams, Escuela Grind, or Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold

"...tome reads like Bob Dylan's Chronicles, burnished. Buzzed on poetry, prose, life, words roll over its pages until they're..."

Jan. 19, 2024 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

Five Free Art Exhibits for Your Aesthetic Delectation

Free Week may have wrapped, but there’s still plenty of gratis entertainment in this town

"...fine presses and artists, examples of typographic and concrete poetry, and experimentations in pop and surrealism, the exhibition puts..."

Jan. 12, 2024 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Qmmunity: Holigay Movie Review

Three LGBTQ holiday movies to throw on, plus one bad queer movie challenge

"...on the line. Categories include a Santa lap dance, poetry remixes of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," and talent...."

Dec. 22, 2023 Column

Qmmunity’s 2023 Gift Guide

Gifts for the els, bees, gees, and teas – and the pluses!

"...Written by previous Qmmunity interviewee KB, this collection of poetry structures Brookins’ personal journey as a queer Black trans..."

Dec. 7, 2023 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Everything Everywhere All at Once Directors Return to South By Southwest

Daniels, Kara Swisher, AI, Mobile Suit Gundam for fest

"...Intelligence at Microsoft John Maeda. • Explore Space & Poetry With NASA & Poet Laureate Ada Limón featuring 24th..."

Dec. 5, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Austin Chronic: A Guide to the Pre-Thanksgiving Dinner Weed-Walk

There is an etiquette to getting baked before the big meal

"...we should all hold in higher esteem. Walks are poetry: Robert Frost fuckin' loved walks – William Wordsworth, too..."

Nov. 24, 2023 Column by Kevin Curtin

A New Chapter for Austin’s Small Bookstores

From serving neighborhoods to serving wine, how innovative local booksellers are filling the shelves

"...the afternoon; and a meaty selection of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and a surprisingly vigorous art book section. [inset-3-right]..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Arts Feature by Joe Gross

AFF Review: Summer of Violence

Poetry as redemption in this historically based tale

"...Then there's the poetry. Naomi has become consumed with this oldest of art..."

Oct. 30, 2023 Screens Post by Rod Machen

Amyl & the Sniffers, Beach Fossils, the Veldt, and More Reviews From Levitation’s Saturday and Sunday

Standout sets to wrap the Halloweekend music festival

"...coverage here. Amyl & the Sniffers Prompt Mosh Pit Poetry..."

Oct. 30, 2023 Music Post by Genevieve Wood

The Church, yeule, Codeine, and More Highlights From Levitation’s Thursday and Friday

Standout sets from the multi-venue Austin festival’s opening dates

"...waiting in the wings, thankfully, was the jazz- and beat-poetry-inflected eclecticism of their slowcore-trio-successors Karate. Still, before launching into..."

Oct. 28, 2023 Music Post by Genevieve Wood

Memorable Moments From ACL Fest Weekend One

For you to rewind this weekend at Zilker Park

"...the festival in 2016 on the heels of his rap/jazz/funk/poetry masterwork To Pimp a Butterfly. By that time, his..."

Oct. 13, 2023 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Austin’s Best Breweries of 2023, Power-Ranked

Top of the Hops VIII, baby!

"...by Jester King: Montmorency vs. Balaton. MvB is sex poetry. It’s gorgeous weather on a Memorial Day. It’s ’Bama..."

Oct. 10, 2023 Food Post by Eric Puga

Kendrick Lamar’s Perfect Decade at ACL Fest Snags With Delayed, Cut-Off Performance

“I heard y’all have a curfew… I told them they’d have to shut off my mic”

"...the festival in 2016 on the heels of his rap/jazz/funk/poetry masterwork To Pimp a Butterfly. By that time, his..."

Oct. 7, 2023 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

17 Texas Artists to See at ACL Fest

Lone Star acts to catch at Zilker, from Houston breakout d4vd to Austin’s Die Spitz

"...tropes, but he's also proven an ability to find poetry in the country radio lexicon. In "Shot Glass," he..."

Oct. 6, 2023 Music Feature by Nayeli Portillo

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, September 29 - October 5

"...good? Mostly good – especially if you welcome its poetry and beauty. The more you learn to love the..."

Sept. 29, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

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