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May 26, 2016 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Lit-urday: The Realist
This is what it's like when you're a man, a husband, a father, an artist.
"...day when you can curl up with a good book – let's call it Lit-urday. How about something that's..."
Nov. 7, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
New Graphic Novel is Dark, Urban, Sorcerous
Chris Miskiewicz and Palle Schmidt’s THOMAS ALSOP rocks Manhattan
"...You know there’s a tradition of mixing the mystical arts – magick, with that tell-tale “k” on the end..."
June 1, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
The Q&A Hole: Killing a Human?
With Jon Lebkowsky, Marc English, Rowan Hagemann, and more
"...Here's the latest of our weekly Q&A Hole series,..."
Jan. 26, 2015 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
The Q&A Hole: What Does It Take to Succeed in This World?
With Rebecca Beegle, Alex Dobrenko, Asaf Ronen, and more.
"...Here's the latest of our Q&A Hole series, wherein..."
Jan. 12, 2015 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Rainbow Powers Activate
There is still time to weigh in with support for rainbow crosswalks
"...Street intersections rests in the hands of the Austin Arts Commission. A web portal for public input remains open..."
Nov. 14, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer
Ruby’s BBQ: Where Austin Music & Barbecue Legends Intersect
Campus-area mainstay celebrates its silver anniversary
"...exert a strong gravitational pull – the music, the arts, the food, the attractive surroundings. In the Eighties, Pat..."
Dec. 13, 2013 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood
Postcard From Poland
Confronting violence at the Dialog international theatre fest
"...rate coverage in The Austin Chronicle? Chiefly because its Arts Editor is one of a dozen or so Americans..."
Oct. 17, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires
Giada De Laurentiis Visits BookPeople Tonight
Celebrity chef has new children's book series, Recipe for Adventure!
"...international success as a Food Network star and bestselling cookbook author, Emmy-winning chef Giada De Laurentiis is the Italian-American..."
Sept. 11, 2013 Food Post by Jessi Cape
Not Everybody Is In This Weekend's Austin Sketch Fest
But that doesn't mean we've forgotten The New Movement
"...And as much as local comedy attention is focused..."
May 24, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Papi Tino’s Culinary Student Competition Has Its Finalists
Week Three: Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts
"...and final school, Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts, sent two of its best to cook in a..."
Sept. 22, 2012 Food Post by Gracie Salem
Why the Aggies Don't Have to Win to Win My Heart
'Pride and Prejudice'
"...In honor of the Texas A&M Arts and Humanities building scheduled to open this fall, I..."
Sept. 4, 2012 Sports Post by Emily Bevan
Remembering David Rakoff
Award-winning humorist loses long battle with cancer
"...blackly comic observations on life to rapturous accounts of arts & crafts projects, has died. He was 47...."
Aug. 10, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones
We P.2ed
Art that surprises, delights, disturbs and, yes, bores.
"...we’ve been blowing up our twitter (@dandyunicorn) and our FacePlaceBookster (/dandyunicorn))...."
Jan. 12, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell
Keepers of the Flame
RIP Manny Castillo
"...and served as Executive Director for San Anto Cultural Arts, initiating the Community Mural Public Art Program that tied..."
Jan. 12, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
In Second Youth Family Theatre's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, two energetic actors perform a brisk version of the book with ingenuity and unexpected flair
"...If you've ever read books, if you ever read books as a kid, then..."
July 16, 2004 Arts Review by Robi Polgar
"Heroines, Harlots, and Hussies: Old Testament Women in Renaissance and Baroque Prints"
The prints and drawings in the Blanton Museum's "Heroines, Harlots, and Hussies: Old Testament Women in Renaissance and Baroque Prints" illuminate the way women shape biblical history, even though it's often through their misbehavior
"...often serve as pivotal forces for good in the Book, but many – think Eve, Delilah, Lot's daughters, Potiphar's..."
May 21, 2004 Arts Review by Molly Beth Brenner
Miró Quartet
For their second concert of the season, the lavish tone
and flawlessness of the Miró Quartet served
Beethoven better than Ives and Crumb
"...Yardbirds in '66. Here players bow gongs, wineglasses, and parts of their instruments' anatomies that would have made Paganini..."
Feb. 20, 2004 Arts Review by Jerry Young
"Prints from the Leo Steinberg Collection: Part II"
The Blanton Museum of Art's "Prints from the Leo Steinberg Collection: Part II" continues the display of works from the 3,200-work collection begun earlier in 2003, and while this batch may contain fewer masterpieces, it's no less captivating or transporting.
"...Anyone in need of a getaway is advised to book passage on this exhibition. Half an hour here can..."
Dec. 5, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires
"Lo feo de este mundo: Images of the Grotesque"
The 20th-century Latin artists featured in the Blanton's exhibition "Lo feo de este mundo: Images of the Grotesque" recognize beauty's tyranny with a special fervor, creating works that directly reject it with humor, boldness, and great intensity.
"...however. In this section, Latin artist Tonel presents a comic-book-like, wacky narrative about the cultural misunderstandings and confusions he..."
Nov. 7, 2003 Arts Review by Molly Beth Brenner
Mister Z Loves Company: An X-Rated Self-Help Odyssey
Local Arts Reviews
"...In her book Purity and Danger, anthropologist Mary Douglas theorizes that the..."
Oct. 17, 2003 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole
How Late It Was, How Late
How Late It Was, How Late, adapted from James Kelman's novel, finds the Rude Mechanicals depicting a sightless, Scottish ex-con's odyssey through the humiliating and confusing bureaucracy of Britain's welfare state with intensity, hilarity, and the company's outstandingly creative theatrical vision.
"...feeds of the other characters engaging him from various parts of the room. These others appear larger than life..."
Sept. 19, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar
The Master and Margarita
Gaslight Theater is only the second U.S. company to stage Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, as adapted by Richard Helweg and Michael Franco, and while their faithful tribute beguiles in places like the original, it runs a little too long and treats the source a little too reverentially.
"...a little too reverentially. Black comedy, Russian wordplay, the bookish structure -- with so much to translate, something had..."
May 2, 2003 Arts Review by Rob Curran
Paul Badura-Skoda
The return performance by the magnificent Paul Badura-Skoda with A. Mozart Fest was like witnessing a breathtaking conversation between a master craftsman and some mysterious presence, an unseen force that attends the pianist's graceful execution of some of the world's loveliest music.
"...The second thing was the phone book. A cushion would not sit securely enough atop the..."
April 4, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar
Mamma Mia
You may love musicals, and you may love ABBA, but Mamma Mia, the hit musical that features dozens of hits by the Swedish pop band, is so treacly and so utterly invasive in its attempts to win over its audience that you may feel like you've been violated with a candy cane.
"...choreography, silly costumes) all wrapped up in a treacly book which has a character exclaim in the last scene,..."
March 28, 2003 Arts Review by Molly Beth Brenner
Twisted Olivia
You might not expect a New York drag queen to transport you into the pages of a 19th-century English novel, but that's precisely what happens in Twisted Olivia: A Meditation on Oliver Twist, a new solo show by Everett Quinton which keeps audiences alternately laughing and spellbound in a parade of wonders.
"...us that need exists outside the pages of a book, and the simplest gesture toward another can make all..."
Feb. 21, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Personals
While the material in Personals, a revue built around the ads placed by men and women desperately seeking soul mates, suffers somewhat from age, Naughty Austin's production makes a fine match with a cast that is exceedingly appealing and extremely adept at musical comedy.
"...The book and lyrics come from David Crane, Seth Friedman, and..."
Feb. 7, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Portrait of Conspirare
Local chorus Conspirare, headed to New York City for the American Choral Directors Association convention, previewed the trip with a local concert of what amounted to two programs: a collection spanning Renaissance to modern works and a mostly modern collection of songs ranging from the flowing to the formal, the basic to the brash.
"...on what amounted to two programs Friday night: a book-in-hand collection spanning Renaissance to modern works and a post-intermission..."
Feb. 7, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar
Dead Man Walking
The extraordinary new opera Dead Man Walking takes its audience on a journey from a place of horror and abhorrence to one of comprehension and compassion, a place where we may see the humanity of a murderer, and in Austin Lyric Opera's potent production we feel each step taken on its long and stony way.
"...The opera, adapted from the nonfiction book by Sister Helen Prejean, manages this through a succession..."
Jan. 17, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Lisa Giobbi Movement Theatre: What Must It BeLike to Fly?
Choreographer Lisa Giobbi seems to have found a way to affect the act of flight with grace and apparent ease, and in the intimacy of the One World Theatre, Giobbi and her company used flying and falling to describe all manner of human interaction with beautiful, hypnotic, and occasionally comedic results.
"...In his book Fisher's Hornpipe, writer Todd McEwen describes watching a goose..."
