The VAC Opening

"...Dr. Roberto Tejada and Dr. Andrea Giunta of the Center for Latin American Visual Studies..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Flush

Ariel Dance Theatre's Gyre Project ends on a visually thrilling but confusing note

"...in the context of reality TV, with four competitors (Andrea Ariel, Jude Hickey, Adriene Mishler, and Steve Ochoa) suspended..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

The Glory of Living

As staged by Hyde Park Theatre, Rebecca Gilman's 'The Glory of Living' walks a tightrope between offensive slurs and comical jabs over solemn social issues

"...handle: "Leapin' Lizard.") Lisa's mom, played by a rambunctious Andrea Skola, is a prostitute wearing a cut-off shirt advertising..."

March 31, 2006 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Richard III / The Rivals

In its rotating repertory of 'Richard III' and 'The Rivals,' the Austin Shakespeare Festival shifts between polar extremes: violent tragedy and frothy romance

"...this production directed by Guy Roberts and Ian Manners. Andrea Osborn makes Jack's lady love, Lydia Languish, as changeable..."

March 17, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll

Portraying the radical bastards of Eric Bogosian's one-man show 'Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll,' Ken Webster is a babbling bear on crystal meth

"...after becoming artistic director of Hyde Park Theatre. Under Andrea Skola's direction here, he's a babbling bear on crystal..."

Oct. 14, 2005 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Can't Tell the Players Without a Scorecard

"...musicals; includes Monique Daviau, Julie Lucas, Kacey Samiee, Tara White (all Heroes of Comedy), Shana Merlin (Get Up, Heroes..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Arts Feature

Naked City

Lone Star State needs to adopt Illinois reforms, group says

"...about improving the criminal justice system," TDS Deputy Director Andrea Keilen said...."

May 20, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Food-o-File

Austin is a TV town, after all; plus, Andrea Timmer is a no-show (again), and the Filling Station is out of gas

"...election, there was an hourlong program on the Bush White House kitchen that included an entire segment on the..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

In the Pocket

Tapestry Dance Company's season premiere was a swingin' jazz affair that made the Paramount Theatre feel like a smoky little club between Birdland and heaven

"...so Acia Gray appeared to be. In the warm, white radiance, she danced with a pleasure as evident in..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Sex, Lies and Fairytales

Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks' season opener seemed to be about journeys, with six choreographers charting the ways we get from here to there and what they mean

"...In Andrea Beckham's "Through the Mountain" – the most straightforward of..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Kids Are All Right

Not your parent's summer camp, rock & roll camp!

"...Tulane Day Camp in New Orleans? We wore little green-and-white uniforms and hats. We made potholders that melted on..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

A Time for Magic

The State Theater Company feels the time is right for magic, and so has a gift to offer this holiday season: the tale of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Little Prince told in story and song by John Scoullar and Rick Cummins.

"...by a beautiful boy, blond and uniformed in red, white, and blue, with stars on his shoulders and black..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

The Best Salvage Vanguard Holiday Ever

Like those Christmastime baskets full of cheese logs, summer sausages, miniature jars of jellies, etc., The Best Salvage Vanguard Holiday Ever features a diverse little gathering of tasty treats -- in this case, five-minute plays on a common theme -- and it's fun to snack on.

"...cinnamon buns soothing our olfactory nerves, and we sang "White Christmas" together; and it was more sincere and true..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Forest for the Trees

The Austin Arts Commission has never been a model of bureaucratic efficiency, but this year it seems to have become a big cliché in action, a body so focused on procedure and minutiae and the concerns of the moment that it can't see the forest for the trees. It's compounding the problems in Austin's profoundly flawed public arts funding system and demonstrating just how poorly that process serves not only the city's artists but all its citizens.

"...But before it could ever be addressed, Commission Chair Andrea Bryant and longtime Arts Commissioner Bruce Willenzik began sparring..."

July 6, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The American Demons

The murder in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1871 novel The Possessed and the 1999 murders at Columbine High School, though far apart in time and seemingly so in circumstance, become almost impossible to differentiate in The American Demons, a collaborative production of Salvage Vanguard Theater and Deborah Hay Dance Company.

"...live gunshot resonates through the space while a single white envelope flutters from above the stage. From there, The..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

"We'll Always Have 807 Congress"

The Raging of the Elements, or Indoor Theatre in Austin -- Al Fresco

"...as when it was thrown open to an audience-blinding white light while the Spanish army charged at the outnumbered..."

June 25, 1999 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Exhibitionism

Big: a Bit By-the-numbers

"...wish come true, could make it on the Great White Way and play in Peoria. And in a cute,..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Arts Review

I Wanna Take You Higher

"...unpleasant little tome must be shared by Grace's co-author, Andrea Cagan. Cagan doesn't think so much of that silly..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Books Feature by Simon Reynolds

Imagining the Scene

Christopher McCollum on Set Design

"...the Paramount Theatre and Austin Lyric Opera's production of Andrea Chénier at Bass Concert Hall were both within weeks..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...DP: Peter Blue Rieveschl; Cast: Randall Slavin, David Hayter, Andrea Roth, Alfonso Freeman, Karen Rosa...."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Estate Sale Roundup: March 29-30

Put on some sunblock and crank up the heap, we're sailin'.

"...pottery, art glass, china sets (Metlox “Sculpted Daisy”, Syracuse, Andrea by Sadek, Fitz, and Floyd), as well as silverplate,..."

March 28, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

1999 Critics' Table Nominations

"...Red, White and Tuna, Joe Sears, Jaston Williams, and Ed Howard..."

May 21, 1999 Arts Feature

The Short Unhappy Life of Sophia King

The APD shooting death of Sophia King was a tragedy waiting to happen.

"...and police bias ("They wouldn't do that to a white lady on the west side") and has shown, once..."

Aug. 2, 2002 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

SXSW’s Sixth Artist List

Bully, White Reaper, Wye Oak, and 99 more luftballons

"...of what will ultimately be around 2,000 showcasers. Kentucky’s White Reaper, whose white-hot power-pop is equally informed by garage..."

Feb. 1, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Life at the Cha-Cha Palace

Stephen MacMillan Moser takes a trip down the yellow brick-laid, disco ball-lit memory lane in the world of Austin's Seventies Disco scene.

"...orchestrations overlaid with a throbbing beat. Songs by Barry White and Love Unlimited offered an alternate approach to dance..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Is That a Biography in Your Pocket...?

Film Folios and Screen Prints

"...failed to beat out Disney's first animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, "which Mae said would have..."

March 13, 1998 Books Review

SuperFly

NYC blaxploitation classic gets an ATL reboot.

"...Kenneth Williams, Lex Scott Davis, Jennifer Morrison, Esai Morales, Andrea Londo, Kaalan "KR" Walker, Big Bank Black, Antwan "Big..."

June 22, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Definitely Not Funny

"...Editor, I found the "How to Assemble Your Armed White Male Mask" [Oct. 27] article pointless and extremely distasteful..."

Oct. 30, 2017 Postmarks

Stonewall

A Midwestern boy comes out amid the backdrop of the Stonewall Riots

"...Karl Glusman, Otoja Abit, Richard Jutras, David Cubitt and Andrea Frankle...."

Sept. 25, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film Unveils March Lineup

So much ado!

"...Alvarez, Andrew Kolker, Peter Odabashian, Paul Stekler A polarizing white politician becomes a lightning rod for racial strife in..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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