A Giant Dog

"...reaches for Sweet Spirit's broad gestures and more experimental bent...."

Aug. 25, 2017 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Workers Prevail on Wages at ABIA Hyatt

Six ABIA Hyatt Place Hotel subcontractors stiffed workers out of nearly $240,000

"...precedent, and complains that in both cases, "City staff bent over backwards to craft an interpretation of the relevant..."

Aug. 25, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Brandon Luedtke

"...and fingerpicked melodies. There's a touch of Tom Brosseau's bent, nasal folk ("The Cuckoo Bird") and Woody Guthrie at..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Song/Book: Grapes of Wrath vs. 1984

Rob Halverson and friends wrap live music around some heavy fiction

"...Another one, “Drones,” is a most harmonious affair with circuit-bent synths and found percussion. There’s a lot of room..."

July 18, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

2017 Revel Solstice Festival

Two recent concerts in the summerlong fest played up the informality and intimacy of Revel's approach to classical music

"...(flute), Elaine Barber (harp), and Bruce Williams (viola) – bent toward the dramatic in a recent program featuring music..."

July 14, 2017 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Fastball

"..."Good Times Roll" before Scalzo's "Best Friend" luxuriates in pitch-bent sunshine pop escapism. Lennon-esque acoustic gem "Behind the Sun"..."

June 23, 2017 Music Review by Greg Beets

Review: J.T. Youngblood's

Fried chicken joint still a little green

"...pop art and scattering the room with period detail (bent wood, aluminum table edges, tufted banquette backs) that doesn't..."

June 16, 2017 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Arkane Studios' Prey Hides in Plain Sight

New sci-fi video game wants to keep players on their toes

"...but this time one with an even more sinister bent...."

May 5, 2017 Screens Feature by Nina Hernandez

Greg Vanderpool

"...Jurado, Vanderpool slices brooding folk with a heavy, psych-drenched bent, lending an ominous air to intimate narratives, though closer..."

April 14, 2017 Music Review by Doug Freeman

"Larry Graeber: Place to Place" at de stijl

In this collection of jazzy geometric mixed-media works and sculptures, the artist conjures wild characters in a self-contained universe

"...a tall, deconstructed bird or a very thin man bent at the waist. The bright yellow pops against the..."

April 7, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Page Two: The Media Has Always Been Biased

The history of American journalism is one of slanted and limited coverage

"...well as numbers of stories and their supposed obvious bent. I know no liberal/leftist who embraces mainstream media, all..."

April 7, 2017 Column by Louis Black

Bryan Ferry Enslaves the Moody

UK romantic slays local romantics

"...the mic stand, right hand on it, left leg bent at the knee and bouncing off the floor with..."

March 23, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Las Cuatro Estaciones: A Story of Human Trees

In Sharon Marroquín's new dance, we are all gnarled and heliotropic

"...she stretches her arms above her, her torso slightly bent, her shoulders just barely tilted and facing a different..."

March 24, 2017 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Paraguayan Youth Band Turns Trash Into Treasure

From the trash heap to the concert hall with Landfill Harmonic

"...buttons get repurposed into keys on a saxophone. A bent fork finds new life as the tailpiece to a..."

March 3, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Not a Civilized Comparison

"...anyone, but the comparison of jihadists – who are bent on world control, who chop off the arms of..."

Feb. 27, 2017 Postmarks

Are City Employee Pensions at Risk?

Pension systems in Dallas and Houston have been beat up by bad spending.

"...Chronicle he thought the report "was written with a bent toward cities moving away from defined benefits plans and..."

Feb. 24, 2017 News Feature by Margaret Nicklas

Austin Punk Pioneer Steve Marsh Climbs the Star Ladder

Ex-Terminal Mind vocalist explores outré galaxies in Evil Triplet

"...Electronic explorations continued with Life on Earth, indulging Marsh's bent for unique staging by once playing on the catwalk..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Red River Clubs Grapple With Downtown Homelessness

Beggars, hustlers, and dealers make you wonder how Downtown music keeps from going under

"..."What you need?" asks the bent-back man staring at the hands of every night owl...."

Feb. 3, 2017 News Feature by Kevin Curtin

Stephen Harrigan's A Friend of Mr. Lincoln

Stephen Harrigan's A Friend of Mr. Lincoln gives us an ambitious, impetuous president-to-be we grow close to

"...while winning an escaped slave his freedom, his philosophical bent, his deep passion for poetry, and the decency that..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Breaking Down Barriers and Building Community With Impulse Austin

“Grassroots business directory” hosts queer networking event

"...first-ever event. Karma Werqs is a queer networking-meets-market experience bent on uniting local business owners, artisans, organizers, and talent...."

Dec. 14, 2016 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Rude Mechs' Requiem for Tesla

The Austin theatre collective's biography of inventor Nikola Tesla literally makes sparks fly

"...Armstrong and Lana Lesley, who most notably depict hilarious gender-bent versions of tycoons Morgan and Westinghouse...."

Dec. 9, 2016 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos

by Dominic Smith

"...does this painter supersede his or her own artistic bent, how do they grind themselves into the minutiae of..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

DVDanger: More to Watch This Halloween

Part II: Slavic rednecks, emo vigilantes, and crazed snipers

"...kind of injured innocent that he would seemingly be hell-bent on aiding. But then, has he ever really been..."

Oct. 31, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: What to Watch This Halloween

Part I: Slugs, zombies, and one-night stands

"...Mikkelsen isn’t hell-bent on reinventing the genre. However, that’s the point. If..."

Oct. 30, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Gay Place

Partake in a plethora of politically progressive parties

"...to town with not one but two illustrious events bent on gender-bending. Tonight you can catch her throwing a..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

"Lorena Morales: Urban Kaleidoscope"

At CAMIBAart, the artist's altered images of Austin hint at the fickle phenomenon of memory and its transience

"...to see how objects on the other side are bent and manipulated by the material, like objects in a..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Weekend Two Friday ACL Fest Picks

Where to be, by the hour

"...suburbanite, who sings and raps with a decidedly bohemian bent. 2015 debut All We Need is full of "Forbidden..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Music Feature

Friday ACL Fest Picks

ACL Friday by the blurb, listicle, and gospel tent testifying

"...suburbanite, who sings and raps with a decidedly bohemian bent. 2015 debut All We Need is full of "Forbidden..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Music Feature

Katherine Catmull at the Texas Teen Book Festival

Like a fairy in her YA novel The Radiant Road, Katherine Catmull keeps transforming the mundane into lovely art

"...those old, lost worlds haunting my childhood may have bent my sense of time – I mean, as a..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Silent Sky at Austin Playhouse

This luminous staging of Lauren Gunderson's play brings wonder to the universe and makes it at once vast and intimate

"...in an ever-changing universe where space and time are bent by forces known and unknown, the speed of light..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

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