Public Notice: The Month of Armed Rebellion

Bastille Day and other events

"...in a month when, historically, tempers fray and civic unrest tends to boil up, we celebrate violent revolutions at..."

July 8, 2022 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Labor Unrest Ensues as Via 313 Fumbles Worker Appeal

A hot, melty mess

Jan. 14, 2022 News Feature by Melanie Haupt

Austin at Large: At the Bottom of the Well

Greg Abbott's still making horrible things happen, but at least now he's in charge!

"...Abbott not turned the icy hose on the festering unrest over his "dictatorial" COVID restrictions from his party's unpoliced..."

March 5, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Robert Faires' Top 10 Works That Spoke to Me About 2020

Throughout 2020, performances and books seemed to contain messages about the year – its trials, its traumas, and its echoes in history

"...1) (RE)CURRENT UNREST (dance theatre X) Not even COVID could stop Charles..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Election Day Live Coverage for Travis County

Tracking the local races

"...City Council’s Public Safety Committee are bracing for potential unrest following what could be a tightly contested and uncertain..."

Nov. 3, 2020 News Post by the News Staff

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...police violence, racism, religion, and wall-building into an inner unrest that's palpable. "Our savior lives in the mirror/ Looks..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Election Ticker: Are We There Yet?

The latest – and last! – news from the campaign trail before Election Day

"...are on standby to help in the event of unrest (over the election outcome, one presumes)... The Texas Democratic..."

Oct. 30, 2020 News Feature by the News Staff

For His Dance (Re)current Unrest, Charles O. Anderson Keeps Moving

Through the pandemic and other obstacles, the choreographer and UT teacher continues to adapt

"...this is the right time for that work, (Re)current Unrest. Because 2020 has also been the year in which..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

City Council District 6: Flannigan Faulted for Progressive Politics

Challengers run to incumbent’s right on homelessness, police spending

"...the killing of George Floyd sparked a summer of unrest across the country over police brutality. In August, Council..."

Oct. 9, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Texas Performing Arts and Fusebox Make Space to Create

The two organizations partner on a residency program to support Austin artists making adventurous new work

"...the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. In (Re)current Unrest, Anderson speaks to social conditions experienced by Black Americans..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

What Are the "Next Normals" for Scooters in Austin

The pandemic takes on personal mobility

"...COVID crash. Then more things happened – protests and unrest, reopenings and now re-closings, with masks and without. As..."

July 10, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin-Based Choreographer Hopes to Make a "Social Justice Summer"

With some crowdfunding support, Charles O. Anderson will be able to make dances for this time

"...especially tragic for the United States in 2020. (Re)current Unrest, Anderson's completed work that would have toured the country..."

June 12, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

CBD Stands for Self-Care

Austin's green rush is booming

"...Our country is struggling with unrest and fights for justice, and we have hard work..."

June 5, 2020 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Faster Than Sound: Austin Music Video Festival Reaches 5

Local DIY videos mingle with the big leagues, Austin Music Commission forecasts 2020, and Federico Pacheco leads KOOP into its next quarter-century

"...25 years ago. After decades running the company, political unrest complicated the broadcasting biz and prompted Pacheco's emigration in..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Nightmare Scenarios for Austin's Possible End

Some of the ways that our beloved town could become no more

"...our water? Let's look at some nightmare scenarios. Civil Unrest!..."

March 8, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Critics Table's Crème de la Crème

The winners of the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Concert (Re)current Unrest, Charles O. Anderson/Fusebox Festival..."

June 5, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Critics Name Cream of the Cultural Crop

The nominees for the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Offerings, Performa/Dance Parade, Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company (Re)current Unrest, Charles O. Anderson/Fusebox Festival..."

May 14, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Fusebox Festival Review: (Re)current Unrest

This dance grapples with cultural appropriation and racism

"...In a way, his dance (Re)current Unrest began with Beyoncé, said choreographer Charles O. Anderson during..."

April 24, 2018 Arts Post by Jonelle Seitz

UT Dance Repertory Theatre’s Fall for Dance

Work after work in this program emphatically spoke to current events, to the here and now

"...of walls and lives shattered like glass, and "(Re)current Unrest Pt. 3: Clapback," by Charles O. Anderson, dance program..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Dance Repertory Theatre's Momentum

This program of dances informed by African American experiences and culture was highly physical and emotionally urgent

"...that flooded the floor and walls during Anderson's "(Re)current Unrest, pt. 2: In D'Nile." Against this flat and inanimate..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Zach Theatre's The Great Society

Robert Schenkkan's smart script and remarkable ensemble work make this a powerful look at LBJ's White House years

"...whites who feel oppressed in the face of deepening unrest, it's clear that playwright Schenkkan wants to show that..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

The Rebirth of Doyle Bramhall II

For his first solo LP in 15 years, Eric Clapton’s top lieutenant may have put out the blues album of 2016

"...thinking. There's no empathy or understanding to combat the unrest and suffering...."

Nov. 18, 2016 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

Hidden Room Theatre Resurrects King Lear

The once-popular but now obscure revision of Shakespeare's play by Nahum Tate is revived, complete with happy ending

"...were allowed onstage. Reeling from years of division and unrest, society begged, "Enough doom and gloom," and sought graceful..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Arts Feature by Stephanie Carll

A Starring Role: Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Our man Brenner talks with the famed astrophysicist, because science.

"...there's a Civil Rights movement still unfolding, there's campus unrest – yet we found time to think about the..."

Nov. 26, 2013 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Climate Change Stories: A Traveling Sisterhood

The Climate Wise Women visit SXSW Eco

"...she continued. Fighting and mass protests ensued, and the unrest, fueled by a new taste for democracy, empowered the..."

Oct. 14, 2013 News Post by Jessi Cape

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...– and some say ignited – the worst civil unrest of the 20th century. (World Premiere)..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Aztex Make House Park Home

The Austin Aztex make House Park home, a 2010 primer

"...all levels of U.S. soccer. Not to mention the unrest within the league...."

April 9, 2010 Sports Feature by Nick Barbaro

Travis County 'Death Spiral'

Facing a personnel dilemma, the commissioners respond: Fire everybody!

"...on HRMD employees or withdraw." Gómez firmly believes the unrest in human resources originated from a conflict between Perez..."

Oct. 2, 2009 News Feature by Amy Smith

A Claimed Space

Mexic-Arte blazed a trail in Texas by making a place for Mexican culture in a museum

"...was one of many precursors to the turbulent social unrest of the 1960s and 1970s but one that had..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

Growing Pains

Rapidly expanding Austin Green Art works to sustain its mission and identity

"...environmental activism right now. Paul Hawken's new book, Blessed Unrest, is working to outline the largest social movement in..."

April 18, 2008 Arts Feature by Nikki Moore

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