After a Fashion

Slightly shopworn but still vital and acerbic fashion authority available for hire ...

"...a lot of sacrifices. Also, like art and music, the paying jobs in fashion are few and far between...."

Sept. 8, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Sirkus Maximus

Douglas Sirk's Fifties film melodramas expose a world of emotional turbulence lurking beneath the placid surface of the Eisenhower years.

"...People: You can't live with them, and you can't live without them. In a..."

May 12, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Les Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo: Ballet on the Moon ... But With Attack Swans Les Ballet de Trockadero de Monte Carlo

Using their intimate knowledge of dance and knack for slapstick physicality, the men of the Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo lampooned the dance world from Swan Lake to Balanchine, and won the laughing adoration of a packed Paramount Theatre, including reviewer Dawn Davis.

"...Les Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo:Ballet on the Moon ... But With Attack Swans..."

March 24, 2000 Arts Review by Dawn Davis

Scanlines

Practical Magic

"...with Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest, Aidan..."

May 7, 1999 Screens Feature

Psych, Blues, and Conjunto Festivals Headline Our Crucial Concerts

This week's recommended live offerings

"...Silverada and the Tender Things..."

April 25, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Live Music Recommendations for Post-Xmas and New Year's

Charley Crockett, DJ Paul, and more crucial concerts

"...At Walker Lukens’ The Last Walt on Dec. 6, Carrie Fussell, wearing a..."

Dec. 27, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

A Drag Fest, Nutcracker, and Puppets in This Week’s Events

Lots of weekend events to keep you occupied

"...child of mine would need to be appreciative of the arts. We’d probably attend the Austin International Drag Festival..."

Dec. 6, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

A T-Rex, Trivia, and Twilight, in This Week’s Recommended Events

Take those long arms and find a weekday happening

"...Spanish cinema contains some of the most eerie, beautiful, and passionate offerings in film history,..."

Sept. 20, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"..."Omnipresence," bigass word: "the presence of God everywhere at the same time." Charlie..."

June 11, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Gibby Haynes pulled focus in the Butthole Surfers, but Paul Leary set the stage for..."

April 2, 2021 Music Feature by Michael Toland

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"..."Daddy" Carper's six-year stint in Austin last decade produced the formidable Carper Family, a string trio alongside Beth Chrisman..."

March 19, 2021 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...BoomBaptist, Elaquent, Juicy the Emissary..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Day Trips & Beyond: December Events Roundup

Plenty of fun still to be had in 2019

"...There’s plenty of holiday cheer to go around as we..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

DVDanger: I Am Not a Serial Killer

Director Billy O'Brien on adapting the story of a young monster

"...The innovative and genre-busting horror/thriller/black comedy debuted at SXSW this..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Jello Biafra Raves

Dead Kennedys icon recounts punk history tonight then DJ's

"...Days after mocking Rick Perry with his Dead Kennedys’ standard “Kill the Poor” at Fun..."

Nov. 12, 2014 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Twinkies, Twerking, & Paraplegic Crowd Surfing

Fun Fun Fun Fest 8 – wrapped

"...Fun Fun Fun began Thursday night in the Red River District, an obvious starting line for a..."

Nov. 15, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

8-Bit Artisan

Party Time! Hexcellent! brings people together by getting closer to the machine

"...There's an unspoken communication between the two people needed to..."

May 4, 2012 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Letters at 3AM: My Top 10 of All Top 10s

A list of the Top 10 cultural artifacts that have shaped my life

"...An exercise in "know thyself": List the Top 10 cultural artifacts that shaped you most. Be..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two: Fuel and Frost

Nixon film and doc review response offer different kinds of surprises

"...never rested, rarely being where I'm at when I'm there. This because of a suffocatingly short attention span, leading..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Column by Louis Black

But You Can Win Her Yet

TexARTS revives a classic musical and a big musical theatre dream

"...Choreographer Robin Lewis presses the "play" button on the boom box and, for what..."

June 23, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...live in East Austin and teach at one of the shrinking schools, Allan Elementary ["Shrinking Schools," News, May 20]...."

June 3, 2005 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Cultural Tastes ContributeTo the editor,..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Michael's for 10 years, and my last two years there I worked to revive the school newspaper. Were I..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Column

Smells Like Preteen Spirit

Kid rockers Three Hourz Sleep confront their first major crisis when their drummer moves away.

"..."Fortunate Son." It rose from behind Jo's Coffeehouse up the next block of South Congress, as demanding and inciting..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Overlapping Fireworks

It’s been six long years since Frontera artists Vicky Boone, Margery Segal, and Annie Suite have all worked with each other on a play, but the threesome still send off fireworks together, as C. Denby Swanson

"...Vicky Boone. Margery Segal. Annie Suite. These three theatre artists know each other so well that..."

April 7, 2000 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

More Flava Than Juicy Fruit

Wednesday Night SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...of singer-songwriter fare on last year's Man vs. Beast. With a new album due before year's end, this one..."

March 10, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Wide Open Heart

Local accordionist Bradley Jaye Williams brings together fish and fowl in his assimulation of Texas polka and conjunto music.

"...as essential here as his sublime accordionship in both the Gulf Coast Playboys and Los Pinkys, unless this were..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Put Your Weight on It

"...Self-confidence is a powerful thing. It lifts the spirit, enhances positive energy, and bolsters credibility. It can..."

April 30, 1999 Screens Feature by Mike Emery

One More Image

Robert Earl Keen Searches For...

"...Robert Earl Keen has never had a problem with images, but what happened one rainy Nashville evening 10..."

April 25, 1997 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Motoramas in Pink Pajamas

And Other Illusions From When Life Was Mighty Swell

"...Our Secret Century: Archival Films From the Darker Side of the American Dream..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Screens Feature by Jesse Sublett

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