Top 10 Local Comedy Stories of 2023

New venues, new faces, new experiments

"...1) Austin Faces Are Just for Laughs' New Faces..."

Dec. 15, 2023 Arts Feature by Valerie Lopez

Design for Living

Fusebox Festival creates a pop-up village as part of its thinkEAST Living Charrette

"...away with that year's fest. This year, the cross-disciplinary arts fiesta is creating a space unique in its 11-year..."

April 3, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Palabras: A Latino Literary Festival

What is the state of Chicano arts and letters today? That question is part of what inspired Palabras: A Latino Literary Festival, which takes place for the first time this weekend at Mexic-Arte Museum.

"...Sixties and Seventies, Chicano activists organized Flor y Canto festivals. Literally meaning "flower and song," the festivals brought together..."

March 30, 2001 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

Live Shots

"...beginning to blow was coming from Auditorium Shores where Austin's Riverfest once reigned supreme as summer festival fare. Arguably..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Music Feature

To Expand the Convention Center or Not?

Despite unanimous support from City Council, voters will decide the answer

"...plan to expand and redesign the Neal W. Kocurek Austin Convention Center, along with additional investment in and redesign..."

July 19, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Team Risk

UT students create a safe place for their classmates to make daring new stage work

"...will tell you flat-out that the reason she's in Austin is the Cohen New Works Festival. Two years ago,..."

March 25, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fantastic Fest First Wave Films Announced (Finally)

Fantastic Fest 2009, Round One

"...country estate to celebrate the winter holidays together. Everything starts out idyllic but as the day wanes, the rambunctious..."

July 13, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

All the Hill Country's a Stage

No matter where you are in the Hill Country, you're never too far from a theatre. From Boerne to Kerrville, Marble Falls to Uvalde, community theatres are enthusiastically serving up choruses of "76 Trombones" and Odd Couples with a Lone Star twang, as well as some theatrical surprises.

"...such as Ingram's Point Theatre and New Braunfels' Circle Arts Theatre, have been serving up drama for decades, but..."

May 9, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Upsizing the Ante

Old Settlers Bluegrass & Acoustic Festival

"...age of corporate downsizing, it's heartening to see the arts upsizing. Take, for example, the Old Settlers Bluegrass &..."

April 4, 1997 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Art Transplant

The Move Toward a Cultural Center in Downtown

"...The Downtown Austin Alliance's "First Tuesday" program didn't advertise a Battle of..."

Aug. 30, 1996 Arts Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

Public Notice: In Defense of Pedophilia

CM Don Zimmerman embarks on a new crusade

"...brings above average intake rates. So through July 31, Austin Animal Center, Austin Humane Society, and Austin Pets Alive!..."

July 3, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Filmmaking Sin Fronteras

In its 18th annual edition, Cine Las Americas presents an eclectic mix

"...first Cine Las Americas International Film Festival debuted in Austin and brought with it an astonishing wealth of Latin..."

April 17, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Just Cos

SXSW Comedy headliner Bill Cosby shares his worst gigs ever

"...And he’ll remember you from previous encounters, be sure..."

March 5, 2014 Arts Post by Raoul Hernandez

Young at Art

At age 85, violinist Robert Rudié is still fiddling around – and teaching and acting and …

"...Consider this: Rudié made his permanent move to Austin at the tender age of 65, and in the..."

March 5, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2002 Summer Camps

"...to places like Discovery Zone, Zilker Park, and the Austin Zoo. Themes include but are not limited to camping,..."

May 10, 2002 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Tuvalu

"...A decrepit old swimming pool in a crumbling Beaux Arts bathhouse (Helmer found just the right location sets in..."

March 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Dialogue of Poets

Conjunto Aztlan's Movimiento Music

"...and Mexican-American heroes. Flor y Canto (flower and song) festivals gathered poets and writers from the Mexican-American community to..."

April 17, 1998 Music Feature by Belinda Acosta

Gay Culture in Focus

"..."getting out more" business. Dinger, the founder of the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival (aGLIFF), has been..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Screens Feature by Russell Smith

Articulations

Another Ballet Switch

"...It seems Austin's arts institutions rarely undergo big personnel changes in isolation...."

June 13, 1997 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

Deming Now Dean

"...the administrative flag for the UT College of Fine Arts for the past nine months following the departure of..."

May 30, 1997 Arts Column by Robert Faires

As Charlie Jones Exits C3, He Traces His Journey From College Station to Founding ACL Fest

Leaving the music promotions empire he helped build, Jones begins his new events company, Four Leaf

"...Austin Chronicle: When we met a few weeks back and..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Playback: C3 in Talks to Co-Produce Levitation Fest

ACL Fest promoters partner with psych fest?

"...Levitation, the popular Austin music festival that's been a hotbed for the resurgence..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

A Claimed Space

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

"...The call to value, treasure, examine, and keep starts with the claiming of space. For artists Sylvia Orozco,..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

Moontower Comedy 2020: Wave 3

Marlon Wayans, Chris Fleming, and more inked as headliners

"...the 2017 national tour of Showpig (which stopped in Austin at the North Door) was proof of Fleming's abundant..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Endgame

Nigel O'Hearn terminates Palindrome Theatre after three years, just as planned

"...company, but O'Hearn is an unusual guy. A native Austinite and St. Edward's University graduate – he received degrees..."

Dec. 21, 2012 Arts Feature by Dan Solomon

The House That PAC Built

"...In the children's rhyme that takes its name from..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

Yet More Dancing About Architecture

"...Following two weeks of items involving architecture and the arts scene in Austin, with another architectural tidbit - make..."

May 15, 1998 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

"...Being Seen While Waterworks makes a splash in Austin this weekend, Dee McCandless and Gene Menger are being..."

June 28, 1996 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Summer Stock Goes to the Movies With How to Musical Theatre

The youth theatre troupe's new film How to Musical Theatre brings back that MGM song-and-dance style

"...its founding in 2005, youth theatre group Summer Stock Austin has given hundreds of young performers and technicians their..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

All Over Creation: Who's on First?

Are we looking at the wrong statistics for measuring a win in the arts?

"...of data that could be more meaningful. In the arts, for instance, we place a high premium on recognition..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Arts Column by Robert Faires

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