Stage Top 10s

Top Ten That's Really 13 (and Could Easily Have Been 20) Theatre Experiences of 1996

"...of a midnight high dive into dark waters: you can't see where you're going, it's a fearful risk, but..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sentimental Family Band Isn’t Hung Up on the High Times

The softie ex-art-rockers arrive at Austin’s honky-tonk revival

"...The South Congress honky-tonk is full to the brim. Dancers swirl on the packed dance floor and looky-loos line..."

April 12, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

From the Music Desk

On Willie, Billy, Stevie Ray, Blaze, and more highlights from four decades of covering Austin music

"...had heard the rumor that Stevie Ray Vaughan was dead. No, we hadn't heard. We began making calls, desperately..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Features Feature by Michael Hall

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"......And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead..."

June 4, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

40 Songs to Make You Feel Better (or Worse) About Drinking

A sampling of drinking songs local, south of the border, and global

"...like a kind of religion," it doesn't downplay hooch's significant downside: "Tonight I'm wearing incontinence pants!" – Tim Stegall..."

July 13, 2018 Music Feature by The Music Staff

The Priests of Syrinx

What’s in a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame anyway?

"...of Lone Star tie-ins. The Eagles’ drummer begins typically cantankerous (“I love L.A. – it took me an hour..."

May 17, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Stranger Than Paradise

Tucked up in the Catskill Mountains, All Tomorrow's Parties stages a music festival for its own

"...no-limit Texas hold 'em, calculated yet courteous. Small stakes can still make for a big payout...."

Sept. 10, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...to the mid-Eighties. An archive of CinemaTexas program notes can be found at www.cinematexasnotes.com...."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

FronteraFest Schedule

"...Prager. Comic monologues that portray with unblinking realism "ordinary" Americans, excerpted from his Long Fringe show...."

Jan. 8, 2010 Arts Feature

Gay Place

Can you feel it? Pride is coming.

"...SUNSET BILLS CAN BECOME XMAS TREES all lit up with spangley attachments..."

May 22, 2009 Column by Ash Bell

SXSW Showcases

Friday

"...7pm, Continental Club If you can't make April's Ponderosa Stomp in New Orleans, check out..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

The Laboratory of Playmaking

Artists from different realms join forces to concoct new strains of performance in UT's New Works Festival

"...event, organized by the UT Department of Theatre & Dance and named for the influential playwright, critic, and educator..."

April 6, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

I Love My Dead Gay Son: The Musical!

With 'I Love My Dead Gay Son: The Musical!', the energy-to-burn Yellow Tape Construction Company turn this cult film 'Heathers' into a loud, amped-up send-up of everything Eighties

"...I Love My Dead Gay Son: The Musical!..."

June 30, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Requiem

"...are four stories below and many yards away, we can sense the anticipation in this person, those toes curled,..."

June 16, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Friday

"...a group of friends with a common love for American music. Their self-titled debut, a mix of covers and..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...8pm-2am, Drink Whether it's folk, garage punk, dance pop, or death metal, Scandinavia continues to churn out..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...whose 1997 debut was one of the decade's best Anglo-American pop concoctions. Kentucky's Bill Lloyd was one-half of the..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

How to Be a Popular Girl

What will shy novelist Sarah Bird do now that she's back in the limelight, Dick Holland asks in this profile of the author of The Yokota Officers Club.

"...Napster when you pry the mouse from my cold, dead hand."..."

June 22, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Postmarks

The Starbucks Showdown continues; and readers voice their opinions on last week's Best of Austin issue.

"...Dead Issue..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Column

I Am Hiphop

One of the hiphop elders delivers a sermon.

"...launched 1,000 debates, most notably: What is Hiphop? How can one MC be Hiphop? Is being Hiphop as simple..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Book Reviews

"...a young Japanese widow in Seattle caring for her dead sister's baby, Hanae. Soon the child's father sends them..."

July 23, 1999 Books Review

Live Shots

"...stage was crammed with 23 people, the Master of Dance walked untouched through the twirling center, a sun amongst..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Music Feature

Cum On Feel the Noize

The New Dessau Music Hall

"...Riot! At one of central Texas' grand ol' country dance halls, a place widely renowned for its fine wood..."

April 24, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Live Shots

"...Lindsey Buckingham. "Don't know what it is. But you can't get enough of it. Not that funny is it?"..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...Oumou Sangare, but capable instrumentalists including, in addition to African musicians, ringers such as saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis of..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Music Review

Flashback, Cash Back

The Trickle Down Economics of Eighties Music

"...Doing "The Safety Dance" at Paradox's "Retro Rage" night. photograph by Minh Whoever..."

July 18, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Hot Movie Previews

Sneaking Into Summer

"...order of $200 million) and a behemoth like that can toss anchor just about anywhere it wants. But since..."

May 23, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Reissues

"...backdrops, the resulting synthesis of European classical formality and American jazz improvisation was so well-realized that it made the..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Music Feature

In Memoriam: Gina Lalli

Pioneer of Indian classical dance in Austin dies at age 89

"...across the world to study both North Indian temple dances and South Indian court dances and then brought them..."

Feb. 19, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Witching Hour

Chorus Austin unearthed a vast repertoire of music – gorgeous, frightening, and comedic – that speaks to mortality and the dead

"...This year's celebration of the dead seems to have lasted longer than usual, stretching from..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

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