Black Rat Swing

"...sweethearts – let the South Austin Museum of Popular Culture, marshaled by Museum mistress Leea Mechling, inside to view..."

Sept. 22, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

The Spectre of Swing

Don McCalister's Demon

"...here in Austin and all over the world: Western swing...."

June 21, 1996 Music Feature

The Man Who Would Be Swing

A new play gives Ray Benson the chance finally to chat with the King, Bob Wills

"...the Wheel, is the foremost modern purveyor of Western swing, that joyful, exuberant dance music so closely identified with..."

March 4, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Texas Culture Bash '96

"...researched, presented, and illuminated all sorts of traditional Texan cultures from every nook and cranny of the state...."

Sept. 20, 1996 Music Feature

Satchel Paige and the Kansas City Swing

The script for this baseball play is a bit wobbly, but Austin Playhouse fields a strong production for the win

"...minds of all. Satchel Paige and the Kansas City Swing, now at bat for Austin Playhouse, throws a bit..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Residential Address: Rent Party’s Hot Jazz Makes Peace With the Swing Era

Sextet merges decades on the dance floor, Fridays at Long Play East

"...that launched both the Andrew Sisters and the popular swing music era. Although largely forgotten to pop culture, this..."

April 14, 2023 Music Feature by Gary Lindsey

Culture Flash!

Esther's crowns new wits, and Chase Staggs gets a check from SVT

"..."Recruitment of Suicide Bombers Down," by Gary Miller; "The Swing," by Wendi Aarons; and "They Know Not What They..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Arts Column

Sharing the Swing

Cabaret artist Ann Hampton Callaway returns to Austin to share not only her talents in performance, but, in working with a select group of local singers, she'll be sharing her insights into the form of cabaret, ways in which they might find their own place in it, and literally sharing the Scottish Rite stage with them.

"...to see people turning to art and music and culture at a time when they felt such uncertainty...."

Nov. 1, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Culture 50 Years in the Making: The Kerrville Folk Festival Experience

Life-altering and deep-listening scenes from the oldest music festival in Texas

"...transpires onstage. It's about the people, the experience, the culture. Shhhhhhhhhh!..."

May 20, 2022 Music Feature by Hank Erwin

Austin's Conspiracy Culture Exposed in The Pizzagate Massacre

John Valley embraces the horror community with his trip into Austin's dirty little secret

"...What was once a vaguely amusing aspect of Eighties counterculture has now become fully weaponized. Valley emits a grim..."

Nov. 19, 2021 Screens Feature by Joe Gross

Passport to Italy in Full Swing at Central Market

Lucky customers can win great prizes in passport sweepstakes

"...immerse themselves in culinary traditions, wine, products, music, and culture from the boot of Europe from now until Wednesday,..."

May 7, 2014 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Culture Flash!

New theatre that aims to light a political fire under you, a new warehouse theatre for South Austin, and Central Texans sing out at Carnegie Hall

"...it to New York for that concert, you might swing up to Georgetown this Sunday, Nov. 7, when you..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Someday Still Wants More

Austin singer-songwriter Tish Hinojosa is back with a shorter, spunkier 'do after a four-year absence.

"...the folksy, culturally self-aware tunes of prior albums like Culture Swing and Frontejas. On the other hand, it's never..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Music Feature by Belinda Acosta

Larson SAFE at Home

Baseball Boosters Seek Swing Vote

"...bring the AAA Firebirds (to be renamed the Austin Swing) to town. The city would contribute some $10 million,..."

Aug. 18, 1995 News Feature by Daryl Slusher

Teenage

Beguiling and maddening in its approach, this odd doc looks at the relatively recent invention of the teenager.

"...Teenage presents a swatch of Western culture (mostly American, British, and German) from the turn of..."

March 28, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Freddy Got Fingered

"...(somehow) sat through. For those out of the pop culture loop (you lucky, lucky people), Tom Green is a..."

April 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Double Down

Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn goof around and discuss the making of Made.

"...buddy Vince Vaughn since the duo's 1996 breakout comedy, Swingers. That film -- a lovably self-conscious kind of "Rules..."

July 27, 2001 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Brassed Off!

"...the same universal workingman's heart as the English coal-mining culture it portrays. The semi-fictional story is set in the..."

June 13, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Faster Than Sound: Demons & Delights – The Art of Billie Buck

Local illustrator makes “Hot Soup” at the relocated Austin Museum of Popular Culture

"...exhibit, "Hot Soup," at the Austin Museum of Popular Culture. The show kicks off Sunday, 2-6pm, with music by..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

The Music Lover's Guide to Austin

The essential sounds, sights, and settings of Austin music

"...obligated to check out some of this vaunted music culture that everyone’s talking about, but you don’t want to..."

March 3, 2017 Chronolog Post

Swingers

“You’re so money and you don’t even know it.”

"...(Van Horn) throughout director Doug Liman's feature film debut Swingers. Being money is the thing, baby, and if you're..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

2018's Texas Pride Celebrations

Celebrate your queerness throughout the Lone Star State this summer

"...awash in rainbows and queers of all ilks celebrating culture, community, resilience, and most of all that amazing queer..."

May 22, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Mikaila Rushing

The Don Diego Trio Sends Greetings From Austin

Vittorio Bongiorno follows a rockabilly band from Italy to Texas

"...of rock and roll, bluegrass and, of course, Texas swing. Yet its global reach is how filmmaker Vittorio Bongiorno..."

April 11, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

#MeToo, Time's Up Panels Lead SXSW Speaker List

Conference speaker list also adds Sanders, Schwarzenegger

"...no small part as a barometer of the current culture. It's then no surprise that today's latest list of..."

Feb. 21, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Exibitionism

Artisans: The Art and Culture of Early Texas Handmade Furniture: Our History in Chairs

"...can shake a stick at and where you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting some incarnation of our..."

June 12, 1998 Arts Review

A Boner Bizarre, Improvised Love Stories, and More Arts Events

Get some culture and love this week

"...Austin’s ever-innovative Co-Lab Projects and Barry Stone/Porch Swing Orchestra continue to reveal this weeks-long series from eight..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Checking In: Israel Nash Sets the Hill Country Reeling

Potent C&W psych alights despite global downturn

"...Laurel Canyon folk-rock potency to a diaphanous Dripping Springs swing circa now. Israel Nash’s giddy new EP Topaz thus..."

May 5, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Local Artist Thomas Hooper Tattoos Bulleit Bourbon

Austin is one of four cities tasked with creating a limited collection

"...Austin loves bourbon. You can’t swing a brisket without hitting a whiskey bar, and the..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Food Post by Emily Beyda

HavenCon: the Happiest Fest in Texas

Cosplay madness, writing LGBT, and Janet Varney talks Korra

"...Cosplay contest in full swing, a demonic corpse pulled idly at facial wounds from..."

April 5, 2015 Qmmunity Post by Nina Hernandez

On Highway 61: Music, Race and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom

The highway of American music culture and beyond

"...Post-Civil War minstrelsy, ragtime, early New Orleans jazz, blues, swing, bebop, R&B, electric blues, rock & roll, and the..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

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