All The Pieces Fall in to Place as SXSW Adds Tetris

New titles include experimental Visions and 24 Beats Per Second

"...and international intrigue drama Tetris to its headliners as part of today's second round of titles...."

Feb. 1, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, July 15-21

"...leap." Modern author Wendy Walker has the last word: "Fortune adores audacity." I hope I've inspired you to be..."

July 15, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, October 23-29

"...their gifts with the world. Their motivation might be artistry and generosity, not self-centeredness. In accordance with cosmic potentials,..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

Playback: Friday the 13th Reaps Austin Music

Joe Valentine, Ponty Bone, Fai Jow all pass on the same day

"...After studying art and architecture at Texas Tech, he fell in with..."

July 20, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Connecting More Than Dots With Cloud Tree Artist Brian David Johnson

Wood and resin beautifully encode philosophies in this new solo show

"...it’s a bit of a cliche, that we’re all part of one giant connected system and the universe is..."

Sept. 13, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Film Announces 2015 Lineup

Circling the Thunderdome

"...Will Ferrell Is Going to Prison comedy with Kevin Hart, Get Hard, and action-comedy Spy, Paul Feig’s third film..."

Feb. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Texas Photo Roundup

Austin photography icon Dan Winters headlines three-day confab for photo pros

"...actually geared to professionals and will be swarming with art directors, photo editors, and those folks who make their..."

Feb. 1, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Day Trips

The Berclair Mansion offers haunted tours

"...halfway between Beeville and Goliad, after inheriting the family fortune. She died in the house in 1956...."

Oct. 26, 2012 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

SXSW Eco: Beyond the Burlap Bag

Environmentalists ponder how to mainstream eco-culture

"...problem: burlap bags. Or rather, as Graceann Bennett, managing partner at Ogilvy & Mather, told the audience at the..."

Oct. 10, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Second night SXSW handicapping

"...personally and heading to New York to seek their fortune. They found it not only as part of Steve..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

A Little Night Magic

Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus

"...My circus isn't even really a circus. It's performance art and installation art, dressed up in striped tents."..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Family Affair

Akina Adderley adds her name to the family ledger

"...names, stamped on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue for starters. On this particular night, it's affixed in big, black..."

June 10, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Point Austin: What's in a Word?

Joseph Stack's terrorism calls attention to rampant political hypocrisy

"...several other government workers – and only by good fortune, no additional deaths. Stack hoped that his desperately reckless,..."

Feb. 26, 2010 News Column by Michael King

FronteraFest 2007: The lowdown

"..."Pieces and Parts," by Anne K. Gourley. Characters ask: Are we more..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Arts Feature

Love in the Time of 'Green Darkness'

Don't judge Anya Seton's reissued biographical novels by their romance and bad covers

"...Gone With the Wind, Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth, Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, and Kathleen Winsor's Forever Amber..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Fortunate Son

Bass player to the stars, past and present, Mark Andes

"...reached the elusive Everest of the music business with Heart, playing bass with them for 10 years during their..."

May 19, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Touching All Those Hands

Remembering Boyd Vance, his life and legacy

"...of the working week, the man who ran Pro Arts Collective, or the Boyd Vance of Sunday, worshiping at..."

April 29, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Never Say Die!

Austin's arts scene plays 'the comeback kid' in 2004

"...the point when he routinely suffers a reversal of fortune or encounters a new obstacle that makes it even..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...on the hybrid's former half this year. Vancouver old-school party punks the Smugglers are on hand to hype their..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

'Natural Capitalism' in the Hills

The Crossings' earth- and economy-friendly integration into the Hill Country really is something to feel good about.

"...about construction projects and developers complaining about [the U.S. Department of] Fish and Wildlife and the golden-cheeked warbler," says..."

Sept. 19, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Long Fringe @ Blue Theatre

"...material from 18 journals, his dissertation research, and a heart-opening collection of letters to share what he's experienced and..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Arts Feature

Postmarks

Notes on the music scene, the music seen, the music herd, and the music heard.

"...this God's-gift-to-women mongrel a bone and a clue ["The Art of Being Dagoberto Gilb," March 23]. The only, um,..."

March 30, 2001 Column

SXSW Web Awards

An annotated list of this year's Web Awards winners

"...This PBS project is just one part of an effort to bring "composers and communities together..."

March 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Kim Mellen

Kids in Black

That innocuous-seeming crew of people listed beneath the actors in every program, who scurry around in black backstage and hover over the proceedings in the sound and light booth, may not be well-known to most theatregoers, but this silent, hidden army is all-powerful. Techies get almost no share in the glory, but they run the world, and here's how.

"...work long hours -- sometimes before the show even starts rehearsals, much less opens -- in their studios or..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Postmarks

It's a salmagundi of responses this issue, with bits regarding dolphin bacteria, word use, national politics, and Marc Savlov's cinematic taste (or lack thereof).

"...Martha Maverick..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Column

Articulations

More Austin theatre turning up in New York: Despair’s Book of Dreams and Lipstick Traces set for spring 2001 runs.

"...which will have a two-week run at HERE, the arts center at 145 Avenue of the Americas, in early..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Daniel Stern

"...then, Stern has always been gifted with the good fortune to be in the right place at the right..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Walking the Straight Edge

Texas Documentary Tour brings Jem Cohen's documentary on Fugazi, Instrument, to the Alamo Drafthouse.

"...all the trappings that came with it (aggro flier art, micro-record labels such as Dischord Records) as by the..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Tongue-in-Cheek Terror

"...Butthole Surfers are known the world over, the local quartet's name and music as synonymous with the Lone Star..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

"We'll Always Have 807 Congress"

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

"...as often as it has been praised as an arts incubator. For shame! Ye of the air-conditioned conditioning: This..."

June 25, 1999 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

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