OUTsider Fest's Wild Roots

The third annual international queer arts festival returns this week

"...service dead zones. But as Curran Nault, founder and artistic director of Austin’s OUTsider Festival, points out, the woods..."

Feb. 14, 2017 Arts Post by Rachel Van Middlesworth

Manufacturing Innovation

Will the next big thing be a product of inspiration, perspiration, or just dumb luck?

"...good ideas, including some of history's most celebrated inventions, start out utterly useless. The classic example is the Post-It..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

Give Me Those Nice, Bright Colors

Scholar John Rohrbach shows how color photography developed

"...the senior curator of photographs at Ft. Worth's Amon Carter Museum revealed the hidden history of color photography in..."

March 28, 2014 Arts Post by Rod Machen

SXSW Music Announces Panel Lineup

Forty-four day sessions, March 11-16

"...and one scheduled to include founding band member Mickey Hart (Rhythm and the Brain)...."

Oct. 31, 2013 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

One Man's SXSW ... Times 4

Our intrepid correspondent wanders through all four Festivals – and lives to write about it

"...things. Or it's an ebbing, flowing tide, as one part of the Conference and Festival morphs into the other...."

March 29, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Playback: Don't Fence Me In

The Fun Fun Fun Fest schedule arrives, Flesh Lights return from touring with the Hives, and Tim O'Connor lives to fight another day

"...lived in the house and, fearing he had a heart attack from all the commotion, they entered, saw the..."

July 13, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Letting the Monster Out of the Box

Did Spalding Gray have any secrets left for his journal?

"...days it feels like everyone is practiced in the art of the autobiographical performance, from celebrities on Twitter to..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Eye on the Underground

Avant-garde pioneer Jack Smith

"...too simplistic to dub him the "godfather of performance art," as Laurie Anderson put it, and John Waters' effusive..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Day Trips

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts hosts current-day musicians while the Woodstock museum keeps alive the spirit of the '60s fest

"...The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, N.Y., hosts internationally known musicians and performers...."

Nov. 19, 2010 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Off the Record

UT pulls the plug on the Cactus Cafe

"...We come from a place where we respect an artist, and they remember that."..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Payback as Comeback

The Rude Mechs boost a resurgence with 'REVENGE!'

"...with a huge and all-star bunch of people: Lowell Bartholomee, Madge Darlington, Robert S. Fisher, Thomas Graves, Heather Hannah,..."

April 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Steve Moore

Mixing Miami With Copacabana

A profile of Brazilian superstar Gilberto Gil.

"...more than Caetano Veloso, more than any other Brazilian artist of the last 25 years, Gilberto Gil had the..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Music Feature by Mike Quinn

Day Trips

"...around. You don't have to be enthralled by the artistic beauty of hundreds of antique appliances to enjoy this..."

July 16, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

I Wanna Take You Higher

"...on the nature of the work, both of this particular body and of the larger role of a rock..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Books Feature by Simon Reynolds

Qmmunity: Rain on Me

A new era at the classic Fourth Street bar starts with Show Director Basüra

"...foot on stage ended the night they let an ex-partner paint them in drag makeup. "When [Sable] saw me..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Column by James Scott

Hard Proof’s Fela Kuti Felabration!! and More Crucial Concerts This Week

Austin Corn Lovers Fiesta, Janelle Monáe, and Mockjaw lead our recommended shows

"...Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti – Fela Kuti, to planet Earth – remains the original Afrobeat prophet, just as Bob..."

Oct. 6, 2023 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

Top 25 Austin Breweries of 2021

Our annual list of Central Texas’ top beers returns

"...considered how a brewery maintains its quality of product, particularly with its mainstay beers and the quality of experience..."

Oct. 12, 2021 Food Post by Eric Puga

Arts Events

"...going on for anyone to audience in the local arts scene right now. (It's a new world, suddenly, and..."

March 20, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

8 Austin Education Opportunities for Adult Learners

Get your GED, find your passion, take a class, or just nerd out for a night

"...and help internationally trained professionals find employment. The best part? They’re all free. Plus, as an ACC Adult Education..."

Aug. 24, 2019 News Post by Alexandra Currie-Buckner

Wayne Kramer Still Kicks Out the Jams

MC5 founder talks politics, prison, and the art of double guitar solos

"...and prison reform advocate, it’s time once again for revolution...."

Sept. 24, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Hot Shivers

New Whiskey Shivers, Butthole Surfers, Casualties, murals, and takes on American literary classics

"...one twitchy dog – to all come swimming at Barton Springs after the show...."

July 21, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...The worst part about summer is everyone demanding that you go outside...."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces New Batch of Featured Speakers

Game of Thrones showrunners join tech, health innovators, and more

"...Steve Case and Beth Comstock (Startup Village): Steve Case is America's best-known and most accomplished..."

Jan. 11, 2017 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

SXSW Film Releases First Wave of Panels

The Mr. Robot crew are back

"...with stars Rami Malek and Christian Slater, will take part in the panel “Coding on Camera: Mr. Robot &..."

Oct. 20, 2015 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Homegrown: Austin Music Posters 1967-1982

The formative years of Austin's vaunted live music scene spawned a visual soundtrack

"...sleepy university town into a veritable island of underground artistic and cultural activity in the state of Texas," writes..."

May 29, 2015 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Crapstall Street Boys

This darkly comic tale of monster slaying shows Trouble Puppet's artists at the top of their game

"...year 2000, it paved the way for a puppet revolution. Until then, puppetry for adults had been mostly absent..."

March 14, 2014 Arts Review by Stacy Alexander Evans

Food, the City, and Innovation

Rethinking the global food system

"...a leader in what he calls the “experimental food revolution,” has combined logic with creativity to develop new innovations..."

Feb. 5, 2013 Food Post by Anna Toon

Page Two: Throw Down Your Hatred

Neil Young's solo tour, Part 2

"...time of baseless but overwhelming despair, the only truly revolutionary activity is creation...."

June 18, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Thursday Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...backbone. – Belinda Acosta Todo Austin/The Austin Tejano Music Coalition/DiverseArts..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Artist in Exile

Can Bahman Ghobadi ever go home again?

"...now is not a good time to be an artist of conscience in Iran. The massive, spontaneous, and deadly..."

March 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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