Reliable Execution

Why it's easy to like Eddie V's Edgewater Grill

"...rooms are very inviting, with warm wood paneling, deep curved leather banquettes, and softly suffused light from the curved..."

May 11, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

UT's Master Plan Disaster?

So Far, School's New Buildings Receive Low Marks

"...facade, in blobby medallions joining the windows, along the curved and bloated panels that decapitate the entryway, and up..."

Aug. 29, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Reflections

"...BLIND LIGHT Dir/prod/scr/ed: Pola Rapaport; DP/co-prod/co-scr: Wolfgang Held; Cast: Edie Falco,..."

March 19, 1999 Screens Feature

Street Lighter

Andy Coolquitt gives urban waste a second life as art

"...convenience. Whatever the product is, they crow – razor, lighter, diaper, plate, pen – just use it and toss..."

Nov. 23, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

In Creative Hands

How artists shape the ancient medium of clay into works of stunning variety

"...thin lip on a cup will be a thin light version of the glaze color. The white shows through..."

May 6, 2005 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Ellsworth Kelly's Austin Opens at the Blanton Museum of Art

By building this structure, the Blanton enabled a major modern artist to realize his masterwork

"...in the grid's center suggests a prism splitting "white" light into a rainbow of hues. Together, the windows represent..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

After a long wait -- some 17 years -- the Austin Museum of Art has a final design for its new downtown facility. And it's a good thing.

"...contemplative experience of the artwork inside it, and yet delightfully open to the world, using copious amounts of glass..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Faster Than Sound: Erwin Center Replacement, the Moody Center, Opens on UT Campus

The 15,000-capacity concert/basketball arena, plus more debuting venue news

"...fortified exterior, the Moody's curvy lines let in natural light on both sides with glass encasing it. While architects..."

April 22, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Monday

Cifika in a tube, Haru Nemuri thrives live, and other highlights

"...events, there’s ample action to recount. Here are our highlights from day one:..."

March 15, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

New Studio Brings the Technology Behind The Mandalorian to Austin

Co-Production House brings science to the set

"...only that, but the LEDs also replace traditional stage lighting. Filmmakers can create immersive backgrounds, and also program the..."

March 5, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Review: dat Black Mermaid Man Lady

Let Sharon Bridgforth's performance installation wash over you

"...enchanting sculptural spaces created by Walter Kitundu – a curved open cabinet in which shelves stocked with jars full..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

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Second place

"...on through the yellow mist while Sugio was still lighting the smoke pots: the other men of the infantry..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Books Feature by William Sparks

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...the banks are much too soft, sloped, shallow, and curved. The sound carries to Hyde Park because the amphitheatre..."

May 17, 2002 Column

Pasajero

In Connie Arismendi's new exhibition "Pasajero" -- which can mean "the flight of a bird, a place that is visited frequently, traveler" -- the artist simulates the experience of traveling, opening her life to the art tourist in installations of unusual beauty.

"...Pasajero: Flight of a Lifetime..."

April 20, 2001 Arts Review by Rob Curran

Dispatches From a New Decade of SXSW

Our favorite musical moments from the fest

"...acts from roughly a dozen countries. Here are some highlights. Cifika's Swirling Hydrovox 2.0..."

March 25, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

"The Femme Abstract"

Moya McIntyre’s second edition of this group show ushers in the new year with a glorious plenitude of color and imagery

"...Under one set of stairs is another of Ward's light works, Which Way Are You Going?, in which the..."

Jan. 8, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Waller Creek Conservancy "Creek Show" 2015

"...imagery of them along with other images, along the curved stonework of the tunnel...."

Nov. 16, 2015 Photo Gallery

Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York

This trippy exhibit revisits New Frontier artists engaged in their own space race

"...blocks of black, blue, and red appearing as the lighted side of a cube projecting from the canvas or..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Beyond Black-Eyed Peas

Eating lucky for New Year's

"...where New Year's lobster decorations are prized; the lobster's curved back resembles an elderly person's posture, symbolizing a wish..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Site Unseen

"America Starts Here" shows how the pioneering artistic team of Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler made the overlooked visible

"...in New York City. Opponents argued that the 120-foot-long curved wall of steel, which ran between the street and..."

March 23, 2007 Arts Feature by Amanda Douberley

Ate Days a Week

How much more food and music can you ask for in this town around this time and after?

"...bar is usually packed for happy hour. An elegant curved and cantilevered staircase stretches to the upstairs dining room,..."

March 18, 2005 Food Feature

Summer Fun

Oh, Galveston

"...day with the complimentary continental breakfast. Because of the curved nature of the property, the rooms seem quite private..."

May 14, 2004 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

From Freedom Fries to Fess Parker

Rebecca Chastenet de Géry reflects on french fries, Grey Poupon®, and good old American apple pie.

"...decision to devour the salty fried potato batons that curved around my plate as opposed to leaving them there..."

May 30, 2003 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

A New Kind of Catering

Local businesses are marrying style with substance on the wedding table.

"...caramelized to a nutty brown. Gooey corn pudding and light-as-air yeast rolls accessorized the buffet...."

Jan. 31, 2003 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

A Piece of Work

In the Arthouse exhibition "Glow," Craig Kauffman's Untitled Donut #14 balloons out from the wall like a benign, lopsided pink inner tube, its sensuous shape and gleaming, flesh-toned color beckoning the viewer with the rounded friendliness of Baby's bath toy.

"...gives it a soft, even, iridescent sheen, while allowing light to glide undiffused across its voluptuously curved external surface...."

Nov. 29, 2002 Arts Feature by Molly Beth Brenner

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Portraying the kids from the Peanuts comic strips is trickier than you might think, but two of the performers in the Silver Star Theater Group production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown radiate the bold outline and broad humor -- the cartoon essence -- of the source material.

"...for a nose, a dash for a mouth, a curved line bending into a couple of loop-de-loops for hair...."

April 26, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Galleries in Bloom

The times being what they are, you don't exactly expect to see new galleries sprouting across Austin's cultural landscape, but two just did: Oswald Gallery, showing fine art photography, and Jean-Marc Fray, displaying paintings by French artist Robert Bourasseau.

"...almost lurid hues: pears of sunset gold, peaches with curved highlights of flame, sausage the shade of anger-flushed cheeks...."

Nov. 16, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Eating the New Economy

22 is elegant in that minimalist, California sort of way, Barbara Chisholm writes. The walls are gently curved and unadorned except for their warm, soothing colors of ocher and gray. At least she thinks those are the colors; the lighting is kept very low and intimate, so it's hard to be certain.

"...minimalist, California sort of way. The walls are gently curved and unadorned except for their warm, soothing colors of..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

A Texan Does Toscana

While it's obvious that hours of work making stocks, sauces, marinades, and custards go into the production of every meal at Siena, the end result is an array of hearty and robust peasant dishes elegant in their simplicity and true to their heritage.

"...Once inside the thick-walled edifice, patrons encounter dark wood, curved leather banquettes, soft lighting, and tables covered with crisp..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

A Long, Strange Trip

The long, strange trip of The Saragossa Manuscript, Jerry Garcia's favorite film.

"...large book that makes the Oxford Unabridged seem like light reading. Coyly, as if he's afraid it might be..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by David Lynch

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