Making Trouble Look Good

How Kurt Volk got to be Robert Rodriguez's go-to poster designer

"...be more creative. If it were just a blank canvas, I feel like I would be paralyzed."..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Dames, Turtles, and More

The dog days of summer meet the heat of Austin film news

"...Turtles. It’s a 40' tall x 75' wide concrete canvas that you can't miss...."

Aug. 8, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Doug Benson's Total Scam of a Life

The 411 on the 420 comedian

"...profession and passion have blurred into a Magic Eye canvas of food, film, and fatties – that’s marijuana cigarettes,..."

July 2, 2014 Arts Post by Russ Espinoza

Make My Head Sing

Jessica Lea Mayfield brings new album to Stubb's inside tonight

"...the first time. I felt like I have the canvas to myself, I don’t want to share...."

June 24, 2014 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Film What You Know

'Ping Pong Summer' draws on filmmaker Michael Tully's own experience

"...other stuff that hadn't yet registered. 1985 was Tully's canvas – his own adolescence was what he'd paint with...."

June 20, 2014 Screens Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Groover's Paradise

The Hole in the Wall has seen it all

"..."The Hole in the Wall has been this canvas that everyone's painted their own masterpiece on, and I..."

June 20, 2014 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Studio Visit: Terri Thomas

"...of the heavy pancake make-up that clowns wear. Thomas' canvas is white on white... with texture being one of..."

June 4, 2014 Photo Gallery

Estate Sale Roundup: May 22-25

Take Monday to admire your loot.

"...panel; three large Lupori Italian scenes in oil on canvas; vintage wood side table; Italian gold accented table; Italian..."

May 22, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Antony and Cleopatra

Poor Shadows of Elysium boils this powerful Shakespearean tragedy down to its essential elements

"...Campus. The set is little more than a blank canvas. Yet these rudiments aid rather than hinder Poor Shadows'..."

May 16, 2014 Arts Review by Stacy Alexander Smith

Pat Snow: Monologue

The exhibition weaves anecdotes into a story of the artist's life and also his creative range

"...tale about how he procured much of the watercolor canvas for this particular exhibition. And we're off again, ever..."

May 2, 2014 Arts Review by Caitlin Greenwood

Absolutely Confabulous

Austin Public Library's New Fiction Confab focuses on buzz over brawn

"...landscape, the New Fiction Confab is a small, abstract canvas, precise yet exuberant, a slice of what makes fiction..."

April 18, 2014 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

Estate Sale Roundup: March 21-23

Rested up from the fest? Let's explore residences, past and present.

"...camera; two double book shelves; white office desk; large canvas cow and pig painting; Kenmore washer and dryer; GE..."

March 20, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Foster the People

"...buddies to the disco. Working on an epic, operatic canvas, Foster and his bandmates hide the spinach of existential..."

March 14, 2014 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

In the Room

First-place winner

"...there's more oil on my face than on the canvas.'" Rainey is nodding. "Cut to wipe of painted water..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Books Feature by Raul Garza

And All the Country Wept With a Loud Voice

Second-place winner

"...stand of scrub oaks they would see a green canvas tent on a large wooden pallet and, should they..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Books Feature by Greg Koehler

Shining Star: Dripping Springs Conquers Light Pollution

Ranch town awarded for outdoor lighting ordinance

"...of contemporary Texas, the sky has become a flat canvas; the "big and bright" stars have faded to barely..."

Feb. 14, 2014 News Feature by Brandon Watson

Field Trip

Ben Wheatley's historical horror tackles the English Civil War

"...Painting his story on a small canvas didn't mean he was prepared to cut corners. During..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Threat of Ice Means Austin Goes Nowhere Fast

UPDATE: Third day of school and city closures: Is this a record?

"...However, the commissioners court will start at 11:30am to canvas results from the House District 50 special election run..."

Feb. 6, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Estate Sale Roundup: February 7-9

Four big sales dominate the weekend

"...art including a 46 " X 95 oil on canvas by AD Greer, game mounts, a large selection of..."

Feb. 6, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Secrets to Tony Bennett’s Success

What keeps the crooner going? Loving his job, and painting

"...when I paint, it is just me and my canvas and it's very introspective – I can paint for..."

Jan. 16, 2014 Music Post by Robert Faires

ZZ Top

Tracking the beards

"...I reach into my small briefcase and pull out canvas grocery bags I carry around with me always as..."

Dec. 27, 2013 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Ichi Ni San Shi

"...becomes a foregone conclusion on Slow Truth. Against a canvas of faraway guitar and sleek keyboard mechanics, Jeffrey's plaintive,..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Music Review by Greg Beets

Blood Wedding

The air of rural Spain pours forth from the entire ensemble in this riveting production of Lorca's drama

"...in particular stands out, wherein splotches of radiant color canvas the entire stage floor. It's a moment worthy of..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

Farenthold Weighs Cost of Shutdown

Congressman calls vet disability checks a "small sacrifice"

"...Watch below as Farenthold chooses his own adventure...."

Oct. 21, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

ACL Interview: Parquet Courts

11:30am, Bud Light stage

"...just-baked freshness. The quartet's second album ably conjures the canvas-slashing spirit of vintage Lower East Side art-punk, but their..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Studio Visits: Sam Sanford

This painter logs long hours at his easel in an open, airy space at the front of his apartment

"...preparing to mix and lay paint on a small canvas – a large black and white photograph serving as..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Arts Column by Andy Campbell

Two Actresses, Fat and Thin

Staging Neil LaBute's 'Fat Pig' is a heavy proposition

"...of money and so these umbrellas, all wood and canvas and metal, they're gorgeous. And you guys: Gorgeous. But..."

Oct. 2, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Reissues: Roky Erickson

"...lyrics whose lurid horror-movie imagery serve as a vivid canvas for the artist's tortured psyche. The common thread is..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Music Review by Scott Schinder

It's On! Tim League Vs Keanu Reeves

Fantastic Fest debate to feature "Man of Tai Chi" star

"...easy on me. My goal is to hit the canvas and not be able to come back up."..."

Sept. 6, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A 'Prince' Among Men

David Gordon Green makes himself at home in Bastrop for 'Prince Avalanche'

"...doing, and making something that is on a larger canvas, and probably, just based on the property, more largely..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

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