Cap City Comedy Club Closes

COVID closure shutters the venerable stand-up home for good

"...Yesterday, Cap City Comedy Club, the venue that's kept you – and all of..."

Sept. 9, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

First Look: Inside the New Cap City Comedy Club

Mary Lynn Rajskub gets opening night honors at new Domain site

"...far-north outpost for laughs. Tuesday night, Cap City Comedy Club reopened at its new location with a show by..."

July 14, 2022 Arts Post by Rod Machen

Cap City Comedy Club Returns

Knock, knock. Who's there? Austin's comedy big dog reopens this week.

"...New home, same laughs. Cap City Comedy Club, the cornerstone of Austin's comedy scene for nearly four..."

July 11, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Indoor Queers Club: History’s No Mystery!

Qmmunity recommends readable & watchable media about queer history

"...intellectual refueling. This month, the Qmmunity crew's Indoor Queers Club is looking to the past to find our queer..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Clearly Stating the Sierra Club's Position

"...and Randi Shade continue to mischaracterize the Austin Sierra Club water policy position, particularly regarding Water Treatment Plant No...."

June 10, 2011 Postmarks

Can Cap City Comedy Club Reclaim Its Throne?

The Austin comedy institution is back, but it returns to a radically changed stand-up scene

"...published a farewell love letter to Cap City Comedy Club when, after 35 years as a cultural icon, the..."

July 29, 2022 Arts Feature by Valerie Lopez

The Hightower Report: Rabbits, Endangered Rhinos, and the Dallas Safari Club

Rabbits, endangered rhinos, and the Dallas Safari Club

"...I read that an outfit called the Dallas Safari Club had come up with a truly novel idea for..."

Nov. 15, 2013 News Column

"Shoot Like a Grrrl" Takes You on a Club Crawl Through Lost Austin

Photographer Martha Grenon's exhibit at SouthPop covers the Austin music scene in the Eighties and Nineties

"...on the print: "Joe Ely and (Little) Charlie Sexton, Club Foot, Austin, June 1982," adding that Charlie is 13...."

Aug. 30, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Good Eye: Mid-Century Masterpiece

April 3, 2014. 9 photos.

"...This week, "The Good Eye" visited the recently restored mid-century modern Starr Building. Originally built in 1954 to house..."

April 3, 2014 Photo Gallery

The Explorers Club

Austin Playhouse's sublimely silly satire of Victorian pomposity ventures where other comedies fear to tread

"...The Explorers ClubAustin Playhouse at ACC Highland campus, 6001 Airport, 512/476-0084 www.austinplayhouse.com..."

April 22, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

The Drink/Drank/Drunk Issue: Half a Century of the Carousel

Austin's beloved BYO club celebrates 50 years

"...dance a jig and mingle with every sweet, smiling club-goer I could possibly meet in this… what, circus venue?..."

July 10, 2013 Chronolog Post by Nate Jackson

Culture Club

Dances inspired by three legendary women cross cultures and generations

"...of modern and classical Indian dance, accompanied by 13th century sacred music, contemporary compositions, and the songs of Edith..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

The Hightower Lowdown

Brazil's indigenous people battle corporate biopirates; the Bush appointee calendar is 12 months of ugly; and the Century Club lets in the riff-raff.

"...Brouhaha at the Century Club..."

Feb. 15, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

Panic Room

"...Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam and Jared Leto. Fight Club. Se7en. The Game. Say what you will of David..."

March 29, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Greil Marcus and the Mad Parade

In his book Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century, Greil Marcus explained punk to the world and created a bible for that music's true believers. As Austin theatre company Rude Mechanicals opens its stage adaptation of Marcus' book, the author talks about the Stones, the Sex Pistols, and the "mad parade" of history.

"...Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century was just the sort of Greil Marcus writing to..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Arts Feature by Margaret Moser

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared

A bestselling Swedish novel jumps to screen with inevitable Forrest Gump comparisons

"...whimsical comedy based on the bestselling Swedish novel (and book-club fodder) by Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed..."

June 5, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Sunshine

"...as much as it is the story of a century, Sunshine has the kind of sweep and scope that..."

July 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Motherless Brooklyn

Edward Norton leads a stylish, meandering trip around a corrupt 1950s NYC

"...urban planner known as the “master builder” of mid-20th century New York) named Moses Randolph (Baldwin), as well as..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Room With a View

Steve Wertheimer prepares to open a second Continental Club -- in Houston.

"...soon to be the stage of the Houston Continental Club, which, provided all goes according to plan, will bring..."

May 26, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Chinese women's relationships in the past and the present are told in parallel stories in this film based on Lisa See's bestselling novel.

"...broad-scale melodramatic strokes. One story is set in 19th century China, while the other is set in present-day Shanghai...."

July 29, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Brick Lane

Brick Lane shows us the life of a Bangladeshi woman, who moves to London to marry a man she's never met, keep house, raise a family, and eventually act on her squelched yearnings.

"...is a primer on race relations in late 20th century England, a remembrance of lost time and lost places,..."

July 18, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Moulin Rouge

This musical sucks you in with its own brand of willful illogic and breathtaking visuals. Set in turn-of-the-century Paris, a penniless poet falls madly in love with a nightclub's star performer, a chanteuse-cum-courtesan who has a heart of gold and is an incipient consumptive. The music is a combination of restructured modern pop tunes manhandled into clever new forms.

"...industry in the world. Moulin Rouge is set in turn-of-the-century Paris, which, to Luhrmann's mind at least, is a..."

June 1, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

30 Years Ago, GG Allin Cleared Austin’s Scuzziest Punk Venue in 24 Minutes

Witness accounts of the notorious shock rocker’s antics and arrest at the Cavity Club

"...– the night pervo-punk GG Allin played the Cavity Club, 615 Red River, current home of Swan Dive –..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Walk Away From the Light

Cinema Club showcases overlooked noirs

"...the Ritz as part of the Drafthouse's ongoing Cinema Club, a classic film series that pairs underseen movies with..."

July 9, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Ninth Gate

"...past. All the action, promisingly enough, revolves around a 17th-century book called The Ninth Gate of the Kingdom of..."

March 17, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

New Year, Old Films

Mid-20th-century must-sees: Part I

"...All About Eve (1950; on DVD: 20th Century Fox, $14.98): If you haven't seen this, stop reading,..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Time to Bounce

Rapping with Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, the funkiest Connecticut Yankees in King Arthur's Court

"...Nearly a quarter of a century later, Weymouth reflects on days long past from the..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Music Feature by John G. La Briola

Food-o-File

Kendall Melton takes Paris

"...Margaret Vera, the creative director and concept developer for Century Club – the company she shares with business partners..."

July 3, 2015 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Latin Beat

Five recent releases mostly en Español

"...mortal coil to the heavenly Havana ballrooms of last century, but their life force is forever preserved on the..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Hello, Aztex

"...News of the century! Well, OK, it's a young century so far, but..."

Jan. 23, 2008 Sports Post by Nick Barbaro

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