Gladiator
These Coliseum slavery capers earned a Best Picture Oscar.
"...effects, but sadly, the small plaster model of the Coliseum that Commodus keeps fingering in his lair is more..."
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May 12, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Best of the Best Two
"...also houses a no-holds-barred testosterone pit known as the Coliseum where challengers -- for a prize of actually assuming..."
March 12, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce
Saturday Night Live
Mayor Kirk Watson takes his downtown vision to the streets
"...Elise: It was about renovating the Coliseum.1 It's not a great piece of architecture but it's..."
Oct. 2, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy
Dancing About Architecture
SXSW needs venues, and the TABC keeps shutting 'em down. Public Enemy would be proud.
"...Sixth Street, a funny thing happened over at the Coliseum. A press release from the folks who put on..."
Feb. 1, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck
Hissing Fits
Bryan Mealer sinks his teeth into the 1999 Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup.
"...By 7am Friday, the parking lot behind the coliseum is already crowded with farmers and ranchers trying to..."
Sept. 17, 1999 Features Feature by Bryan Mealer
Live Music Soundtrack for Your Weekend
Austin Reggae Festival, and more if you're not too high
"...The Coliseum Fri., April 20..."
April 20, 2018 Music Post by The Music Staff
Naked City
Off the Desk:
"...brewing controversy over the future of the Palmer Auditorium-City Coliseum area - should beg off its $17 million offer..."
Aug. 28, 1998 News Feature
Primary Colors
Shades of the Travis County Elections
"...could almost see the tumbleweed blowing across the city coliseum floor as news crews and scribblers waited impatiently for..."
March 13, 1998 News Feature
Chaos in Tejas Live (Saturday): Metalcore Mohawk
Rotten Sound, Baroness, Kill the Client, and Coliseum rip
"...With Sister Faith, Coliseum crossed over from doom-influenced hardcore to post-punk-soaked Nineties alt.rock,..."
June 2, 2013 Music Post by Michael Toland
Revolution Rock
At the crossroads of the Clash and the great state of Austin, Texas.
"...first-night opening slot for the Clash at the City Coliseum in 1982. "We were warned that the Clash's audience..."
Jan. 17, 2003 Music Feature
The Arts-Park Plan
"...a new and better public-events facility to replace the Coliseum. This shed will house the folks currently in Palmer..."
Oct. 23, 1998 News Feature
Man of the People
"...At this year's Fiesta held at the City Coliseum, Roux-López decided to have a very formal ceremony honoring..."
Sept. 25, 1998 News Feature by Mary Jane Garza
Live Shots
"...Fair Park Coliseum, Dallas, November 18..."
Nov. 28, 1997 Music Feature
Runoff Roundup
"...The defeated Eric Mitchell marches into the Coliseum to unleash his fury on Austin. photograph by Jana..."
June 6, 1997 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy
Battle of the Sexes
Billie Jean King takes on Bobby Riggs
"...gladiators faced off against each other in a rounded Coliseum. For the 55-year-old loud-mouthed Riggs (Carell), a hambone hustler..."
Sept. 29, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Live Music This Weekend, Sept. 1-4
An extra day of delights for your weekend music-going
"...The Coliseum Fri., Sept. 1..."
Sept. 1, 2017 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe
Live Music This Weekend, Aug. 25-27
Your auditory agenda for the next three days
"...The Coliseum Fri., Aug. 25, 9pm..."
Aug. 25, 2017 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe
Live Music This Weekend, Aug. 18-20
Soundtracking this weekend’s sweat-fests
"...The Coliseum Fri., Aug. 18, 9pm..."
Aug. 18, 2017 Music Post by James Renovitch
Exclusive Interview With Wrestling Legend Duke “The Rooster” Cartwright
Deposed local champ tells it like it is before Soul Grudge Showdown VI
"...ready to rock the crowds at the Off Center Coliseum this Friday and Saturday night – and only yours..."
Aug. 9, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Folk Music Fireball!
Sixty years ago this month and next, Elvis Presley destroyed Austin
"...played both those venues, plus the Sportcenter and City Coliseum on Barton Springs Road. He made waves across Dixie..."
Dec. 25, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall
Gay Place: Drag Central
Dressed down or up, this weekend in Austin is a drag, drag, drag
"...Royalty, and perhaps you? Fri.-Sun., May 1-3. Fair Park Coliseum, 1438 Coliseum Drive, Dallas. $20-150. www.tgra.org...."
May 1, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer
Gay Place: Cheeky
This is the week to dance cheek to cheek
"...Royalty, and perhaps you? Fri.-Sun., May 1-3. Fair Park Coliseum, 1438 Coliseum Dr., Dallas. $20-150. www.tgra.org...."
April 24, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer
The Man
Bobby “Blue” Bland (1930-2013) made me one too
"...time, Bobby Bland played a concert at the City Coliseum. Myself and some friends got hired to do “production,”..."
June 28, 2013 Music Post by Bill Bentley
Coliseum
"...Coliseum Sister Faith (Temporary Residence)..."
May 31, 2013 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez
Station to Station
Fattening up the Thin White Duke
"...and live CDs and LPs from the epic Nassau Coliseum concert in '76? Ironically, you would probably need to..."
Dec. 17, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder
Gypsy Caravan
Billed as the “Gypsy Caravan,” five bands travel across America making music from across the Romani diaspora.
"...to smoke and fish in the pond outside a coliseum in Ann Arbor, Mich. Backstage the groups have their..."
Aug. 10, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Town Lake Park Update
Artists want some credit
"...pass two propositions: one that razed the war-era City Coliseum and replaced it with a $48 million events center,..."
July 7, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves
Naked City
The council member appeals to history to keep Town Lake Park alive and the boat races dead.
"...between arts groups, incumbent users of Palmer and the coliseum, south-side neighbors, parks advocates, and the city. That agreement,..."
Oct. 10, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Dancing About Architecture
One week after the Hole in the Wall closes, the Black Cat burns down.
"...fielding the acts that used to play the City Coliseum -- which also shut its doors for good last..."
July 12, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck
Rigoletto
With Rigoletto , Austin Lyric Opera once again executes in bold strokes a classic opera in the vaulting openness of the City Coliseum, with director Joseph McClain again showing a flair for the theatrical and finding a degree of intimacy in that vast space.
"...Rigoletto: Intimacy in a Vast SpaceCity Coliseum,..."
May 17, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar
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