Our Country Mapped in Music

The Austin Symphony's concert with Grantham's Southern Harmony, Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite, and Gershwin's Second Rhapsody gives audiences a chance to hear how some composers describe an American sense of place through music

"...green and pastures like soft carpets. Turning to the east, you make your way into the City That Never..."

March 19, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Big Mischief

Like the protagonist in his latest novel, Miss Spellbinder's Point of View, novelist Edward Swift is still battling the "disease of the literal minded."

"...autocratic moments like that, it is clear that at least one of his characters, Clarissa Spellbinder, is not only..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...Ballet Austin announced it will purchase -- for $3.5 million..."

Oct. 4, 2002 News Feature

The Taste of Mexico

International culinary diplomacy, Austin-style.

"...from our firefighters to theirs, and other times, it's Ballet Folklorico. The new Plaza Saltillo in East Austin was..."

May 3, 2002 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...Since I'd seen the beast and lived to tell the tale, I started dropping..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Articulations

Austin artists and arts companies continue to hit the road at a breathless pace.

"...Jason Neulander: Salvage's other co-artistic director is headed east to direct a reading of a new play, The..."

May 4, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Writing Rebel

Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Stewart Stern remembers writing Rebel Without a Cause:"I was caught up in the same kind of fervency and speed that the characters were."

"...friend Leonard Rosenman, who had composed the music for East of Eden and would do the same for Rebel...."

June 16, 2000 Screens Feature by Chale Nafus

2000 Kids Summer Fun Guide

Listings

"...the UT Robotics lab; and last but certainly not least, "weird" ologies, which will cover a grab bag of..."

May 5, 2000 Features Feature

Postmarks

Bikes, Beets, and Bastrop.

"...same league economically? The wall in our city dividing east and west still stands and it is called I-35!..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Column

Public Notice

Hallo, Ween!

"...Hinojosa and Lourdes Pérez, a performance by Roy Lozano's Ballet Folkórico, and a Day of the Dead Altar exhibit..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Column by Kate X Messer

Saturday Night Live

Mayor Kirk Watson takes his downtown vision to the streets

"...put it in the backyard of the people of East Austin? Well, that doesn't work...."

Oct. 2, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Six-String Reverb

In the Beginning ...

"...really wanted to do something that was done like ballet, similar to the way John Woo and a lot..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

City Centerpiece

"...is extremely crowded. My understanding is that the Symphony, Ballet, and Opera (that are city-based and not with the..."

July 31, 1998 Column

Articulations

Yet More Dancing About Architecture

"...marimba music by Alberto Rangel, traditional dances by the Ballet Folklórico, and more. Tickets are $25 ($15 for museum..."

May 15, 1998 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Think Positive

"...places as a musician and Austin has become the least musician-friendly of them all. In fact after this latest..."

May 8, 1998 Column

Scanlines

Men In Black A Chorus Line

"...most tender moment is the heartachingly lovely "At the Ballet," and you almost think it will be redeemed, but..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Screens Feature

Live Shots

"...Elias Haslanger Septet has assembled the best, or at least the freshest, sets of traditionally instrumented modern jazz to..."

May 30, 1997 Music Feature

Dance

Ongoing Dance Events

"...Middle Eastern Dance & Drumming is presented every other week at..."

March 14, 1997 News Feature

Crisis at the Rape Crisis Center

Has Idealism Become the Victim of Financial Reality?

"...The center's minority outreach efforts extended to East Austin until 1995 when ARCC closed a small satellite..."

Dec. 20, 1996 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

La Historia

"...the same fear that others also have, but at least he does not hide this fear nor does he..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Food Feature

Food-o-File

"...Peña, and ALLGO/Informe-Sida will host a Multimedia Performance Art Feast curated by artist Rene Anguiano on Friday, October 25,..."

Oct. 25, 1996 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

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