More April Arts Fests for Your Pleasure

Don't forget International Poetry and Texas Burlesque

"...presence of Nikki Giovanni, that eloquent voice of the civil rights movement who will read a selection of poems..."

April 10, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Showing Black Lives Matter

Facing race then and now onstage in Pretty Fire and Hands Up Hoodies Down

"...so the triumph of this landmark event in the civil rights movement was muted by the news of yet..."

March 13, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Film Announces 2015 Lineup

Circling the Thunderdome

"...who are the real-life heroes seeking to save our civilization from the next major asteroid impact? (World Premiere)..."

Feb. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Russell Brand Movie Kicks off SXSW Film 2015

SXSW Film divulges its first seven titles for 2015

"...the Staple Singers, inspired millions and helped propel the civil rights movement with their music. After 60 years of..."

Jan. 8, 2015 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hightower Report: College bowl games become corporate money games

Games now bring us to the sponsors

"...of the city's buses in 1955, igniting America's historic civil rights movement? Maybe not that big, but still, this..."

Jan. 9, 2015 News Column by Jim Hightower

William Goss' Top 10 List

"...5)Selma Ava DuVernay's docudrama restores urgency to the civil rights movement while revealing how far we still have..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Screens Feature by William Goss

The AggreGAYtor: November 10

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...of brotherly love plans a celebration of the LGBTQ civil rights movement’s 50th anniversary...."

Nov. 10, 2014 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia

Different Stages captures the small-town feel in Preston Jones' Texas drama, but the play's age is showing

"...how outdated they were in the face of the civil rights movement. But he was also sending up the..."

April 11, 2014 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The AggreGAYtor: December 27

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...Nobody deserves rape, not even prison rape...."

Dec. 27, 2013 Qmmunity Post

Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion

At the crossroads of Memphis and Civil Rights stood Stax Records

"...the segregated South at the height of the Sixties' Civil Rights movement, receives definitive telling in Respect Yourself. Colorblind..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Scott Schinder

Writers on Kennedy

What we think about when we think about JFK

"...John Birch Society. Birchers roiled with conspiracy theories. The civil rights movement was a commie plot. Water fluoridation to..."

Nov. 22, 2013 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

Art in the Park: 'American Dream'

It's the day for you to deliver MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech

"...world away from the dangers and battles of the Civil Rights Movement. He was white, and his anti-authority T-shirt..."

Oct. 22, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Polari: 'Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth'

Director Pratibha Parmar takes us on an Alice Walker tour

"...old photos and several violent film clips from the Civil Rights Movement. The film moves easily, like Walker’s beloved..."

Oct. 20, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

The Gospel Truth

Zilker Tent stage

"...The Blind Boys helped provide the soundtrack for the civil rights movement with deep and haunting harmonies. Only two..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Day Trips

Central High School National Historic Site in Little Rock, Ark. is an inspirational landmark

"...was smeared across the ornate façade to counter the civil rights movement's stand for equal education...."

July 19, 2013 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Drink/Drank/Drunk Issue: Take You to the Gay Bar

A round-up of Austin's LGBTQ bar scene

"...of rioting ensued. The patrons won, and the LGBTQ civil rights movement began in earnest. We take our bar..."

July 8, 2013 Qmmunity Post

The AggreGAYtor: June 24

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...Riots, the most visible starting point of the LGBTQ civil rights movement, at the State Capitol...."

June 24, 2013 Qmmunity Post

Black Mountain Lullaby

Catching Up With Caroline Herring

"...I thought about doing an entire album on the civil rights movement,” she says. “Then I found out that..."

Sept. 12, 2012 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Austin and the Academy

'Tree of Life,' 'Bullhead' score Oscar nominations

"...Subject) "The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement" 
Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin "God Is..."

Jan. 24, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Hairspray

Zach's irrepressibly buoyant staging may leave you dancing on air

"...quash segregation on a television teen-dance show in the civil rights movement of history and moves us to recall..."

July 22, 2011 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Come Together

Latino poets building a community at CantoMundo

"...that occurred in concert with Chicano activism during the civil rights movement. Patterned after Cave Canem and Kundiman (African-American..."

July 1, 2011 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

Res Publica

Citizens' calendar, June 2-8

"...at one of the most compelling episodes of the civil rights movement. Daily, 9am-5pm. LBJ Library, 2313 Red River...."

June 3, 2011 News Feature

Res Publica

Citizens' calendar, May 19-26

"...at one of the most compelling episodes of the Civil Rights movement. Daily, 9am-5pm. LBJ Lib­rary, 2313 Red River,..."

May 20, 2011 News Column

Arrested Development?

Young-at-heart Austin is home to a booming Young Adult literature scene

"...to powerfully realistic portrayals of Southern racism during the Civil Rights movement. After Anne of Green Gables..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Books Feature by Melanie Haupt

Austin Shorts at Sundance

David Lowery and the Zellner Bros. to do the 'Dance

"...York City."The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement" (Co-Directors: Gail Dolgin and Robin Fryday) –..."

Dec. 6, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Prison Empire

Excerpts from Robert Perkinson's Texas Tough

"...whites. Today, a generation after the triumphs of the civil rights movement, African Americans are incarcerated at seven times..."

Aug. 20, 2010 News Feature

Post Pridematic Stress Syndrome

Shaking out Austin's weekend of Pride

"...to the lineage between LGBTQI, etc., struggles and the Civil Rights movement, serving as keen validation to activists who..."

June 11, 2010 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Eye on an Icon

A new exhibit explores Walter Cronkite's life and legacy

"...Nuremberg Trials, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, and..."

May 28, 2010 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

SXSW Film Reviews

"...not be thought of as a battleground in the civil rights movement, but this Austin-made documentary proves it was,..."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Ballroom Dancing

SXSW panels

"...that we hear," Davis explained, in reference to the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. Chicago rapper Rhymefest..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

« 1    ‹ BACK    3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12     NEXT ›    20 »