Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe

Will Sheff gets in touch with his feminine side.

"...trying to write the next great novel in a verse-chorus-verse three-minute song. Maybe along the way some other stuff..."

Dec. 18, 2007 Music Post by Austin Powell

Adriene Mishler: Making her 'Assumption'

For this active Austin actress, there was something special about Refraction Arts' hillbilly/kung fu/rock & roll 'Hamlet'

"...outstanding musical (B. Iden Payne Awards) and outstanding comedy (Austin Critics Table). "To be perfectly honest, we were all..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

The Story Of

"...This Austin-via-Ohio quintet is nothing if not ambitious. From the moniker..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Music Review by Greg Beets

Connie Jo Kirk

"...Austin native Connie Jo Kirk has been singing since she..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Natrix Natrix

The Basement Tapes

"...is a secluded enclave amid the sprawl of South Austin. Inside the rented one-story home, plates of cinnamon buns..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

DVDnds

DVDnds

"...a holiday to showcase spectacle, but never is the Austin troupe more in its element than at their annual..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Music Review by Doug Freeman

TCB

TCB shakes a maraca in Spoon’s new video, stakes out the Belmont for a supersecret Prince show, and talks street with Krum Bums singer Dave Tejas.

"...white screens in front of the entrance, prompting a chorus of boos from the bystanders (and a warning from..."

June 8, 2007 Music Column by Christopher Gray

TV Eye

Network Failure

"...don't work, if you listen to a very loud chorus of Nielsen haters). All in all, the article fell..."

June 8, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

On the Lege

The last days of the session: a rebellion and a budget

"...After a while, the movable chorus of clue-seekers went back inside and waited for something,..."

June 1, 2007 News Column by Amy Smith

Collective Wisdom

The Tonewheel Collective spins off Austin's indie scene of tomorrow

"...a loose conglomerate that has banded together some of Austin's best young musicians in a collaborative showcase without pretense..."

May 11, 2007 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Moonlight and Magnolias

With its quick tempo, rapid-fire jokes, and backstage look at Gone With the Wind, Austin Playhouse's Moonlight and Magnolias is accessible, short, and extremely entertaining theatre

"...Larry L. King Theatre at Austin Playhouse, through May 13..."

May 4, 2007 Arts Review by Iris Brooks

The Great Pyramid

Bill Callahan can see clearly now

"...from the landscape to tell us something. Performances around Austin last year hinted there would be a follow-up to..."

April 20, 2007 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Damesviolet

"...standard second-single acoustic ballad, sans the strings and triumphant chorus. "Still" explores Coldplay dynamics through numbing lyricism ("Once upon..."

April 20, 2007 Music Review by Austin Powell

Day Trips

The Brown Ranch and Hummer House south of Christoval is the summer home of the largest concentration of black-chinned hummingbirds

"...thick canopy of pecan and oak leaves. Occasionally the chorus is interrupted by the shrill whistle of a songbird,..."

April 13, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

UK Calling

Damon Albarn leads SXSW 07's UK act armada. Again.

"...of pale, thin girls with eyes forlorn, so is Austin. Nothing makes for more memorable, meaningful art than a..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

TV Eye

The Black Donnellys knock off Studio 60

"...Joey do double duty, using him as a jester/Greek chorus. Through Joey, Haggis makes viewers understand, in a meticulous..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Page Two: A Little Light-Rain Music

A holiday meditation

"...Dorian Gray Polaroid of how I really feel, the chorus hitting it just right: "Where has a slow movin'..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Column by Louis Black

The Octopus Project/Black Moth Super Rainbow

"...beats, samples, and often-melodic guitar, passed from Pittsburgh to Austin via sonic mind-jammery. The whirl of "Lollipopsichord" is a..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Pink Nasty

"...from previous collaborator Will Oldham, brother Black Nasty, and Austin's Chepo Peña, Pink Nasty (aka Sara Beck) has progressed..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

IV Thieves Reviewed

"...raucous Britpop roundhouse with The Greatest White Liar, the Austin-by-way-of-Nottingham quartet changed its name to IV Thieves to reflect..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Music Review by Greg Beets

Streets of Love

Stalking the Stones across Europe

"...poster on a construction site barrier, hours after touchdown (Austin/Cincinnati/Paris/Berlin). "Rolling Stones, Olympiastadion." Imagine that. Olympiastadion, 21•7•06. Cursed metric/Celsius/cubit..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Van Morrison

"...aspects of Sixties Nashville country (witness the Ray Conniff-like chorus on "Big Blue Diamonds"). Yet Rodney Crowell's "Till I..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Southpaw Jones

Record review

"...Austin has its share of quirky in all art forms,..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

'Red Cans'

The performers in 'Red Cans' have to stuff themselves into tiny laundry hampers where they can't see, must use their arms to walk, and get horribly cramped and bruised, but you won't hear them complain

"..."hard to breathe." Asked if they can see, they chorus a resounding "No!" Asked if the work is difficult,..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Arts Feature by Hannah Kenah

Mozart! (Like You've Never Heard It Before)

Austin choral ensemble Conspirare marks Mozart's 250th birthday with the newly finished version of his 'Mass in C Minor' in the concert Mozart! (Like You've Never Heard It Before)

"...Mozart's other great incomplete liturgical composition for orchestra and chorus, the Mass in C Minor, at Carnegie Hall. This..."

June 16, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Rock & Roll Books

Summer reading

"...Verse Chorus Press, 144 pp., $29.95Honky-Tonk Heroes and Hillbilly Angels: The..."

June 2, 2006 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Conspirare

For Austin's sterling choral ensemble Conspirare, the first few months of 2006 has seen concerts here and far away and the release of a new and most comforting CD

"...For Austin's sterling choral ensemble Conspirare, the first few months of..."

April 28, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

David Huntsberger

Straddling all things rascally and erudite, David Huntsberger's stand-up odyssey on evolution is more fun than a barrel of Scopes Monkey Trials

"...narrative elsewhere before the "this monkey's gone to heaven" chorus – a reference no doubt lost on the audience's..."

March 24, 2006 Arts Feature by Steve Birmingham

Sean Carey, Lucas Molandes, Rob Nash

"...the swarm of activity that the streets of Downtown Austin had become. Comedy. Stand-up comedy. Not only in the..."

March 24, 2006 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Goldfrapp

"...closer, sashays across the dance floor, accompanied by a chorus that you can close your eyes to and let..."

March 17, 2006 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

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