Six Hip-Hop Acts to See at ACL

Can’t-miss evening and afternoon acts keep the beats coming

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

Sept. 27, 2016 Music Post by The Music Staff

Fantastic Fest Review: Assassination Classroom: Graduation

A heartwarming conclusion to the Japanese blockbuster

"...what they started: studying to kill an invincible alien bent on world destruction, who just happens to be their..."

Sept. 26, 2016 Screens Post by Dan Gentile

Politics Upstaged

This election year brings out the political in Austin's arts

"...and presenters are programming material with a decidedly political bent...."

Sept. 13, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Q&A Hole: Why Isn't LSD Legal?

Trip on this with Lana Lesley, Denise Prince, Mickle Maher, and more.

"...turning your brain into the world’s greatest method actor, hell-bent on performing a remarkably detailed impression of schizophrenia. So..."

Sept. 13, 2016 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

New on DVD: Equals

Kristen Stewart sci-fi romance is long on mood and light on plot

"...and clutch each other so fiercely. Equals is so bent on making a case for the rightness of romantic..."

Sept. 6, 2016 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Fantastic Fest Snags Arrival

The Handmaiden, Sadako vs. Kayako in wave two

"...survivors find themselves stalked by an evil blobby presence bent on world domination...."

Aug. 25, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Emma Cline's The Girls

This seismic literary debut tracks a California girl drawn to a dark cult in 1969

"...than pot and acid are used. Now, Russell is bent on vengeance, meted through his underlings...."

Aug. 12, 2016 Arts Feature by Tim Stegall

Cotton Mather

"...reveals melodic gems at every turn, regardless of spiritual bent...."

Aug. 5, 2016 Music Review by Michael Toland

Shrewd Productions' Hold Me Well

Playwright Eva Suter's reworking of Othello in a world without men depicts love in many forms with power and beauty

"...the form of the Cessationists (or "Cessies"), a faction bent on finishing the job the disaster started: destroying the..."

July 22, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Retro-Futurists Reshape Austin Music

Half-a-dozen rising stars of local electro

"...'n' bass eras. Especially evident is a Nineties R&B bent, equally reminiscent of bigger acts like TLC, as well..."

July 1, 2016 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Meet the New ATX6

Austin music export project unveils 2016 performers

"...Brecht, founder of local music stream Austin Independent Radio,..."

June 20, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Too Tribal

"...will try to do, whoever she may be. Obama bent himself in pretzels in his first term trying to..."

June 13, 2016 Postmarks

Playback: Austin's Music Tech Movement

Can techies solve the problems facing Austin music?

"..."We have this tech-savvy population with a creative bent that's very mission-oriented," he says. "I think as long..."

June 10, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Cult of Personality

Filmmaker Will Allen jumps back into his Holy Hell

"...palm groves of the Hollywood Hills, "The Teacher's" acolytes bent over backwards to create a community of ritual, intimacy,..."

May 27, 2016 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

Funniest Person in Austin 2016: Lashonda Rules!

Lashonda Lester takes the title in the competition's 31st year

"...with the resistance to Target's restroom policy, which Dismukes bent into an outraged father's over-the-top rant that the chain..."

May 17, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Levitation Live Shot: Slowdive

UK shoegazers salvage some Souvlaki

"...dozen makeup shows, spillover fans cased sold-out venues, these hell-bent on seeing Slowdive. Some climbed atop cars to peep..."

April 30, 2016 Music Post by Neph Basedow

Untapped Austin Releases Full Beer List

Forget about 2016 with 334 brews

"...of The Gods – BA Imperial Porter – 11% Bent de Garde – BA Biere de Garde – 8%..."

April 28, 2016 Food Post by Brandon Watson

"Alejandra Almuelle: Locus" at Dimension Gallery

The dark physicality of these figurative sculptures brings an exquisite imposition of memories into the waking world

"...a head-and-torso if not a full body, one arm bent toward the viewer, but also full bodies among them..."

April 15, 2016 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Thursday SXSW Picks

"...Plague, Okkervil River-like in its rich instrumentation and literary bent, both of which launched the local fivepiece on a..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

SXSW Film Review: The Bandit

More like The Badasses, actually

"...Needham, a tall, tanned, talk-show narcissist with a self-destructive bent and a killer smile had, as one of the..."

March 15, 2016 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s

Kier-La Janisse and Paul Corupe's superb history Satanic Panic revives the Eighties in all its fearful hysteria Kier-La Janisse and Paul Corupe's superb history revives the Eighties in all its fearful hysteria

"...there's an immense network of social workers and lawyers bent on persuading children that they were raped."..."

March 11, 2016 Arts Feature by Marc Savlov

Making Reuse Mainstream

Austin needs a combo of government leadership, corporate responsibility, and individual commitment to meet reuse benchmarks

"...based on Montessori-influenced criteria: The toys have an educational bent, and none require batteries. They come from eBay, children's..."

Feb. 12, 2016 News Feature by Robyn Ross

The Rude Mechs' Fixing Timon of Athens

The theatre collective's latest repair job on a broken Shakespeare play is wildly accessible, welcoming, and enthralling

"...the appeal, with varying degrees of success. But a gender-bent Troilus and Cressida set on the moon, for example,..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Allan Rising

The Allan Early Childhood Center is home to a flourishing collection of nonprofits

"...movement. Unlike the self-proclaimed education reform movement, which seems hell-bent on running education on corporate metrics, community schooling is..."

Feb. 5, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The New Breed!

A DIY Dozen

"...Rebel Flesh: Very 1977, but with a B-horror film bent that suggests Johnny Thunders and Joey Ramone joining the..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

The X Files' Mitch Pileggi at Zach Theatre

What conspiracy brought X-Files star Mitch Pileggi back to Austin, Zach, and Walter Skinner all at the same time?

"...him B. Iden Payne Awards), along with roles in Bent, 110 in the Shade, Rashomon, and Lone Star. And..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

News Roundup: Petitions, Put-Downs, and Peeling Out

Council keeps its eyes on the road

"...neighboring representative; Austin joins a growing list of cities bent on cutting traffic fatalities to zero; and more......"

Feb. 1, 2016 News Post by the News Staff

John Wesley Coleman III

"...The Texan's guitar pop jukebox boasts a proud country bent, most prominently Wil Cope's plaintive, steel-guitar-imbued "Falling out of..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

Jessi Cape's Top Reads of 2015

Circling the Sun tops a list of novels featuring uncommon women

"...a gripping (read: totally bonkers!) story of revolution, one hell-bent on blowing the lid off beauty standards and gender..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Arts Feature by Jessi Cape

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company's True Story

In Kathy Dunn Hamrick's new dance, communities, like truths, were fluid and the movement was incomparable

"...returned periodically to a "ready" stance: feet apart, knees bent, elbows on knees, looking ahead. In the final vignette,..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

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