Tanya Tucker Christens Lucktoberfest with Intimate Country Revue

Providing goose bumps for the new fest’s idyllic bubble

"...night, second destination day trip of Lucktoberfest’s christening weekend. Installation makeover at the promoters’ natural wonder site – Willie..."

Oct. 30, 2022 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Esther's All-Stars

"...and Red River to see the treasured musical comedy revue founded in Austin 22 years ago. And just as..."

July 30, 1999 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

Where Have All the Cowgirls Gone?

Austin's Female Country Singers

"...Barn, 1960. About 14 people saw her that night, all of us spread out over the echoing dance hall..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Music Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

Improv-Educated

Out of Bounds Comedy Festival makes more room for Austin's increasingly savvy audiences

"...that the audience is very improv-educated. So performers can really play to the top of their game without having..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Who's OOB 2013

"...always hosted quality talent, whether familiar (Kids in the Hall's Kevin McDonald, 30 Rock's Scott Adsit and John Lutz)..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

General Lee and Me

My life and dirty times as a Jam & Jelly Girl with Dino Lee & the White Trash Revue

"...Three of the club's dancers, all topless, join me and the other three Jam &..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Magic Mike

Steven Soderbergh directs this story about the male strippers of Tampa, whose lead characters are played by Matthew McConaughey and Channing Tatum.

"...After draining all the prurience from The Girlfriend Experience, his 2009 film..."

June 29, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Paris

Paris, from the French director of When the Cat's Away, follows a half-dozen-plus Parisians and their interconnectedness.

"...as the linchpin, amiable, puppyish Duris, a Klapisch regular. All of these elements figure into Klapisch's latest, although Paris..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Showcases

Friday

"...deliver R&B-spiked garage rock to set the stage for Dallas' Floyd Dakil Combo and its 1964 regional smash, "Dance..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Off the Record

An all-star tribute for a Red Headed Stranger, Girl in a Coma awakens with help from Joan Jett, and Tia Carrera constructs its Electric Ladyland

"...after its local release ("Texas Platters," May 4, 2007), Girl in a Coma's debut, Both Before I'm Gone, has..."

May 9, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Qmmunity: Real Roxy Hours

Local queer comic and jill-of-all-trades Roxy Castillo talks her performance style and history ahead of her run on the Moontower Just for Laughs Fest

"...Paring down all those multitudes, Castillo describes her performance persona as a..."

April 14, 2023 Column by James Scott

Bright Lights, Inner City

When Austin's Eastside music scene was lit up like Broadway

"..."My mama would tell me, 'Now, y'all go to BYPU,' the Baptist young people's group, 6..."

July 4, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Outlandish OUTlander Lineup

Two venues, five stages, over 40 bands… whoa.

"...Lipstick24 and Rusty's with five stages featuring LGBTQ and allied artists rocking out. All this during Pride weekend (next..."

Sept. 17, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Liz Williams

Dancing About Architecture

The Austin Music Awards lineup starts to trickle out.

"...As South by Southwest nears, confirmations are finally coming in as far as the lineup for the..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Magic Mike XXL

The boys are back in town

"...stripper, was grittier in its exploration of a Tampa revue of male exotic dancers. For all its grinning about..."

July 3, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Margaret Moser Tribute: Chris Gates

The power of print – and a 20-inch dildo

"...the Texas Blondes, a roving group of insane, quasi-groupie girls that basically scared the hell outta me! I was..."

June 30, 2017 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Live Shots

"...community while pop-up thoughts and buildings glowered down from all sides. That had something to do with Bowser. At..."

Aug. 25, 1995 Music Feature

Live Music This Weekend, Sept. 1-4

An extra day of delights for your weekend music-going

"...apparition that once appeared to evangelical pastor Oral Roberts, Dallas-based UNT music grad Mark Griffin teamed up with DJ..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

BS3 Improv & Sketch Comedy Fest Schedule

"...April 20-25, with 55 different showcases in 13 venues, all of which are listed here. A $40 festival pass..."

April 17, 1998 Arts Feature

Chad Holt, Austin's Last Provocateur

The Total Badass left his mark on the city's underground

"...of the city any of us would recognize anymore: voyeuristically honest, unapologetically hypersexual, personally reckless, and willing to make..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Screens Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Carol You Don't Know

There's much more to Ms. Channing than Dolly and Lorelei

"...Nixon's Enemies List, ... Wait. You're not familiar with all these aspects of Ms. Channing's life? That's understandable, given..."

July 22, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Search Through the Skies

The new musical Jouét represents a journey not only for the title character, a pop star in search of a home, but one for Austin composer Allen Robertson and for the city's Zachary Scott Theatre Center, which is producing its first original musical.

"...Allen Robertson and I are on our way to lunch...."

April 6, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...Wilde's first feature as a director, Booksmart; Texas Film Hall of Fame 2019 inductee John Lee Hancock's period crime..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Pythia Dust

The folks at ethos boldly go where no one has gone before with Pythia Dust, an outer space musical revue that feels at once brand new and yet curiously familiar

"...and The X & Y Trilogy, and the performance installations HyperZoo and Black Tower, boldly go where no one..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Rock Around the Biological Clock

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

"...Hickman, 36, first established herself as a singer-songwriter in Dallas before moving to Austin in the early Nineties. Her..."

May 7, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Exhibitionism

Altamont Now: Maybe Later

"...(whose reptilian moves and greasy untamed mane manage to recall Jim Morrison, Michael Hutchence, and Kurt Cobain) mounts the..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Arts Review

Dancing About Architecture

The Road to Winville

"...was a 10-second listing of the three or four locally familiar names that were announced by the National Academy..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Conflicts and Contradictions

The Choices of Terry Allen

"...as big a Texan as you are/Cause there's a girl in her barefeet/'Sleep on the back seat/An' that trunk's..."

Feb. 16, 1996 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Saturday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...Picks for March 19All showcase times subject to changeCALVIN OWENS BLUES ORCHESTRA4pm, Town..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Love Bath

SXSW 2010 keynote speaker Smokey Robinson originally wanted to be a cowboy, but they didn't have any horses in his hood

"...modern R&B, a quiet storm Robinson put name to, recalling a half-century of Motown standards, 1965's "Ooo Baby Baby"..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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