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Oct. 29, 1999 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett
An Outdoor Screening, Bluey Live, and More Lead Our Recommended Arts Events
Get out and art this week!
"...Monday 18, BookPeople..."
March 15, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott
A Boner Bizarre, Improvised Love Stories, and More Arts Events
Get some culture and love this week
"...Monday 19, BookPeople..."
Feb. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott
Five Arts Events for Wannabe Time Travelers
Journey into the past (and to one nightmarish future) with these dazzlers
"...this adaptation (score by Alan Menken and Jack Feldman, book by Harvey Fierstein) is high-energy and replete with eight..."
July 29, 2022 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner
Five Recommended Arts Events This Weekend
The shows are going on. Go on, see these shows.
"...1) Hey, you wanna see some visual art that’s..."
March 23, 2018 Arts Post
Five Arts Events in Austin This Weekend
Theatre, graphic glory, steamrollering, coffee, and the ol' brown box
"...familiar cushions of that couch and the pressure gravity imparts upon your sitting asscheeks. Live, we mean, a little!..."
Feb. 9, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Arts: Summer Snapshot
Theatre, dance, comedy, and lit events on the horizon
"...Something Rotten! Broadway in Austin presents a musical spoof..."
May 19, 2017 Arts Feature
Wicked
An election-year return to Oz finds the hit musical packing an extra punch
"...paying attention; with music by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman, Wicked has found that there's no..."
Feb. 3, 2012 Arts Review by Jillian Owens
The 101 Dalmatians Musical
Evidence that Dodie Smith's novel of heroic hounds didn't need to be remade as a musical
"...Dell Hall at the Long Center for the Performing Arts..."
Dec. 4, 2009 Arts Review by Barry Pineo
Lance Letscher Collage
This first full-length monograph of the local collagist's work is pure pleasure
"...– the faded scrawls of pencil; the glossy, medieval-looking books; the pinwheels of perfect, bewildering color – in a..."
April 24, 2009 Books Review by Cindy Widner
Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring
A fun modern satire mired in white suburbia and art-school pretensions
"...Featherproof Books, 288 pp., $14.95 (paper)..."
Aug. 1, 2008 Books Review by Sofia Resnick
'Roy Lichtenstein Prints 1956-97'
AMOA's exhibit reveals how our desires are formed by primary colors, Benday dots, and thick black lines
"..."Roy Lichtenstein Prints 1956-97" suggests the role that comic books and other pop-culture graphic arts played and still play..."
Jan. 11, 2008 Arts Review by Nikki Moore
Andy St. Martin: Selected Works From 1999 to 2007
The animated personality of painter Andy St. Martin
shines through all the careful color fields he creates in
the abstracts populating his new solo show at 4 walls fine
art
"...As the visual-arts scene in Austin continues to expand, viewers are rewarded..."
May 25, 2007 Arts Review by Rachel Koper
Clarksville-West End Jazz & Arts Festival Schedule
"...Orleans a couple of years ago, in which the DiverseArts founder mentioned his "little jazz festival," Hargrove and Crisol..."
June 6, 1997 Music Feature
Witness This Weekend's Recommended Arts and Culture Events
Sarah Silverman, 80s Night, sustainable sculpting, and more
"...Bookgroup Discussion: Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto..."
Jan. 3, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott
Book Review: Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen
New authorized biography vividly exhumes the artist’s West Texas world
"...Greaves’ study parts Allen’s life into a triptych of place: his Fifties..."
April 19, 2024 Arts Feature by Doug Freeman
Cassette Roulette, Some Bitchcraft, and More Arts Events
Get arty this week with our recommended happenings
"...son-in-law Mark Linn-Baker with music by Robert Reale and book & lyrics by his brother, Willie. This new production,..."
Feb. 23, 2024 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Texas Book Festival 2019:
On the Topic of Mothers
On the Topic of Mothers
Saeed Jones, Michele Filgate, & Angie Cruz grapple with a mother’s love
"...Poet Saeed Jones’ memoir How We Fight for Our..."
Oct. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Barbara Purcell
Texas Book Festival 2018: Real Romance: Alyssa Cole and Jasmine Guillory
The two on what makes their contemporary love stories sparkle
"...toward the end of the session, Guillory credited Cole’s books, “where black women are getting their happy endings,” as..."
Oct. 29, 2018 Arts Post by Rosalind Faires
New Street Craft Book Features Local Yarnbomber Magda Sayeg
We’d recommend it anyway, because it’s just that good
"...Thames & Hudson make a fine habit of producing books – well-researched, beautifully designed books – about art and..."
March 3, 2015 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Austin Teen Book Festival
Sept. 30, 2013. 22 photos.
"...The fifth annual Austin Teen Book Festival was held Saturday, Sept. 28, at the Austin..."
Sept. 30, 2013 Photo Gallery
Book Report Correction
"...featured in the Chronicle this week [“Arrested Development?,” the Arts, Dec. 24], we have one small correction to offer...."
Dec. 24, 2010 Postmarks
The Other Side of Sleep
Owen Egerton brings several of his characters from page to stage in hilarious style
"...two-hour, video-enhanced show only because his recent novel, The Book of Harold, the Illegitimate Son of God, is as..."
Oct. 29, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner
Canción del Cuerpo
The UT-Colombian dance collaboration proved more about process than product
"...final product, somehow more than the sum of its parts, that stands alone as a work of art; in..."
March 12, 2010 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz
Nickel and Dimed
The State Theater Company's 'Nickel and Dimed' makes Barbara Ehrenreich's book about the desperate plight of the working poor flesh and blood, immediate and urgent
"...It takes the black-and-white reportage of Barbara Ehrenreich's nonfiction book about the desperate plight of the working poor in..."
April 15, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Arts Bullets
It's the Changing of the Bard, from Dietz to Swanson,
and Tina Marsh plays it cool for CO2. Artists talk
techniques, and teens tell you where to find Good Love.
"...in the cast!). Music will be provided by Despair's Book of Dreams composer Kirk Smith. Plus, there will be..."
July 9, 2004 Arts Feature
Top 10 Arts Events in 2003
"...8) Book 'em! Regina Vater's Smile book takes us around the..."
Jan. 2, 2004 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine
Book 'Em
Recent Picks From the Summer Crop
"...first curator of ethnology at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, set out to create an aesthetic exhibit..."
Aug. 24, 2001 Books Feature by Mark Busby
Arts and Culture Events for the Week Ahead
Get up to something good
"...A cat-and-mouse game between ex-con Jean Valjean and a by-the-book policeman driven to send him back to prison plays..."
Jan. 31, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott
Visual Arts Review: “Two Births and the Afterlife”
Aimée M. Everett’s current exhibition at Carver Museum offers a refreshing switch on an all-too-familiar narrative of motherhood
"...fact, the entire exhibition is evocative of a children’s book with its surprising intensity despite a more quaint and..."
