From the Music Desk

On Willie, Billy, Stevie Ray, Blaze, and more highlights from four decades of covering Austin music

"...friends and cautionary tales, and if they die, the world stops spinning for a couple beats, then we look..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Features Feature by Michael Hall

Father’s Day Gift Guide

Hop on this crop of opps for top Pops shops

"...squash orange, royal blue, purple, sky blue, and mint green. Utilitarian and style-forward? That sounds like the best kind..."

June 9, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

What Is the Livestreamed, Interactive, Cross-Country, Music-Fueled, Comedy of Natatorium?

American Berserk Theatre + Density512 really pools the talent

"...can either float, swim, or drown in this new world of always-connected-disconnectedness and look-at-your-own-face-you-idiot virtual chatting. So, pools. I..."

April 7, 2021 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Dining for One at the Rubber Repstaurant

Austin’s Rubber Repertory provided, I mean, anything you desired

"...you want to eat, whatever in the whole wide world you want to eat right then, you tell him...."

Jan. 27, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Polish Film Festival Breaks New Ground and Keeps Up With Tradition

The 14th fest focuses on the media's responsibility and the perspectives of women

"...Another Day of LifeD: Damian Nenow and Raúl de la Fuente..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Dumbo

Another Disney live-action remake, but this one has a little magic

"...Burton. Starring: Colin Farrell, Finley Hobbins, Nico Parker, Eva Green, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito and Alan Arkin...."

March 29, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

John Fogerty Won’t Back Down

From Pete Seeger and Tom Petty to the romance of the Sixties

"...so I’m wondering if Creedence ever played the Armadillo World Headquarters...."

Oct. 25, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Looking at the Lege After a Flaccid Special Session

Alpha males Abbott and Patrick can't get their red meat passed

"...very real possibility that lawmakers may be back for another court-ordered special session on congressional redistricting (see "Congressional Districts..."

Aug. 18, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

Shawn Camp: Alight in the Darkness

Shawn Camp's new show at Northern-Southern breathes in the Aphotic Zone

"...says. "Yeah, he's really got an artist's eye," says another...."

Aug. 7, 2015 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Artist Shawn Camp Offers a Hint of Light in the Darkness

New exhibition at Northern-Southern breathes in the Aphotic Zone

"...says. "Yeah, he's really got an artist's eye," says another...."

July 29, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

All or Nothing

Ian McLagan: Small Face, Face, auxiliary Rolling Stone, A-list sideman, Austinite

"...was always throwing in riffs and ideas. It was another guitar, really...."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Ingredient Fatigue

A restaurant critic's lament

"...for that week. No, eggplant and okra weren't trending (another annoying contributor to the problem entirely), they just happened..."

Feb. 6, 2015 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Becoming Drought Tolerant

Central Texas looks for ways to balance population growth with future water supplies

"...hot breath. They watched the grass slowly lose its green, then curl and fire up like dying cornstalks."..."

Aug. 29, 2014 News Feature by Lizzie Jespersen

Some of These Things Are Not Like the Others

How Thai Fresh accidentally became a mecca for gluten-free sweets

"...also a veg-an, spent a decade in the corporate world before deciding to pursue baking. Absolom is a classically..."

April 11, 2014 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

Family Food Fun

The mystical Manchaca Rancho Winslow Supper Club

"...centered around a food event of one sort or another, calendar-related or otherwise...."

Feb. 21, 2014 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

The unreleased and the oddly evasive titles from 2013

"...Another micro-budget movie (as director James Byrkit explained during Fantastic..."

Jan. 5, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Summer Fun: Woody on Ice

Nina Hernandez talks to Disney on Ice's lead skate cowboy

"...The current Disney touring production, Worlds of Fantasy, featuring the Disney Fairies and characters from..."

May 15, 2013 Chronolog Post by Nina Hernandez

True Believer

You're at SXSW today because of its late creative director, Brent Grulke.

"...asked what kinds of acts were meant for the world's largest music festival...."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Playback: ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré! ¡Cuatro!

SXSW Music begins coming into focus

"...South by Southwest storm. Two weeks out from the world's most talked about music conference, and the matrix only..."

March 1, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Two Sides to His Story

Manuel Gonzales leads the nonprofit Austin Bat Cave into uncharted territory while readying for a rapid literary ascent of his own

"...Cave President S. Kirk Walsh is beaming in a green blouse with big polka dots late on a Monday..."

Jan. 11, 2013 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Fire in the Night, Music in Bone-Deep Bassnote Throbs

Reveling among the multiform delights of Art Outside

"...DJs pump trance and dubstep and, hell, maybe even lime-green jazz into a throbbing, jerking mass of scantily but..."

Oct. 29, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

That Time of the Month

Christian Remde spans the calendar year with his Twelve Films Project

"...collectively weird eyes and brush him off as just another one of those people, perhaps we should pause and..."

July 15, 2011 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

A Night at the Opera

Opera for dummies: Name one male tenor

"...Sept. 29, another listing – finally – this one for a standard..."

May 27, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Old Soul

Bill Maddox died violently under bizarre circumstances – and left a legacy of music, love, and friendship

"...began playing drums in his first band, Maltese, with another of his childhood friends, Noel Kelton. The band –..."

March 18, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Out of Place

This group show gives a sense of what real displacement – the forced kind – can be like

"...... as 'a record of a lost or forgotten world.' He was referring to the Palestinian condition of exile..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Rambo Redux

In an unlikely passion project, one man seeks to unseat Stallone

"...just saturated with artists, and they certainly didn't need another one like me. I took that very personally, the..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Year in Books

Freedom, Finkler, and Kids of America

"...Victory (Crown), an almost indecently entertaining distillation of British World War II spy games, starring a 007 plucked from..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

The First To Question

Remembering the ultimate theatre historian, Oscar Brockett, 1923-2010

"...impact that the late Oscar Brockett had upon the world is well nigh impossible, but consider this: His books..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Beacon Blues

Since 1970 at the One Knite, Jimmie Vaughan's worn the smile of a blues savior

"...and plenty of cheap thrills. The Triple J and Green Spot covered the basics of country & western and..."

July 16, 2010 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Page Two: Kid Eternity

A tale of teenage luck in New Jersey

"...one part of my life and the beginning of another. She came over to my house just to give..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Column by Louis Black

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