Qmmunity: Recouping From the Horrors

How do you heal from the headache of our current hellish world?

"...start picking up more active amusements, whether that’s reading, dancing, or bebopping around town to various queer events. If..."

May 16, 2025 Column by James Scott

Squirrels, Girls, and Other Pearls in This Weekend’s Recommended Events

Acro-Cats, Earth Day, and all manner of arts and culture happenings

"...bites from Zee’s Weiner System.   – Carys Anderson Dirty Rotten Scoundrels..."

April 11, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Rolling Stone Wraps, billy woods Plays a Red River Patio, and More Music Reviews From Friday of SXSW

Fest winds down with a lot of hip-hop

"...the night. Every attendant was on their feet and dancing to the record holder’s breakneck rhythms and lightning vocals...."

March 15, 2025 Music Post by Miranda Garza

Qmmunity: Lavender Thug Talks Returning to Event Organizing

With her new-to-ATX variety show, she welcomes you to the House that Lavender built

"...Monica Monae Davenport – as well as DJ sets, dancing, and chances to buy cool local art. Produced under..."

Feb. 28, 2025 Column by James Scott

Live Music Recommendations for the Week

Shoegaze, hip-hop, jazz, and three days of Wilco

"...presents a cathartic night full of queer music and dancing for World AIDS Day, honoring both the lives lost..."

Nov. 29, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

The Austin Chronic: Your Dreams Die With Marijuana

Plus, Lockhart wants to loosen up and Olympians want to get high

"...Greek thinkers saw dreams as big stuff: divine messages, dirty tricks, and valuable missives from hidden aspects of your..."

Aug. 23, 2024 Column by Kevin Curtin

Mother’s Day Events and More in This Week’s Community Events

Lots to celebrate this week around Austin

"...re-imagined parody” of classic works like I Love Lucy, Dirty Dancing, or The Smurfs.   – Brant Bingamon Bike..."

May 10, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Storytelling, a Book Trail, Markets, and More Arts Events

Get reading, go shopping, or just enjoy a gala this week

"...– Richard Whittaker Put Baby in the Corner: A Dirty Dancing Drive-In..."

April 26, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Austin Dive Bars That Are Neighborhood Icons

Come for the cheap drinks, but stay for the community

"...offers a chill, unpretentious respite from the chaos of Dirty Sixth. Regulars keep coming back for the inexpensive drinks,..."

March 15, 2024 Food Feature by Taylor Tobin

Recommended Austin Events

Highlights for your week in music, arts, community, and more

"...Will Johnson, David Ramirez, etc., hopefully previewing March’s Echo Dancing, a Suicide-like odyssey through time, space, and Escovedo’s discography. ..."

Jan. 26, 2024 Column

Crucial Concerts at Hot Summer Nights 2023

Highlights from the no-cost, high-temp annual music festival

"...Texas. Once as a kid, totally obsessed with break dancing and the breaking movies, I went outside in a..."

July 21, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

The Luv Doc: Grabbers

Men are not at all civil

"...any place near the Capitol, Unbarlievable, large swaths of Dirty/West Sixth, Rainey, and pretty much any place where the..."

April 14, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

Trusting Your Gut: Texas Film Awards Honoree Michael de Luca on a Life in Cinema

From New Line to Warners, the exec discusses his career

"...Miramax of course, but there was also Vestron with Dirty Dancing, there was New World, there was Atlantic Releasing,..."

March 2, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sharper

A stylishly smart and satisfying con artist drama

"...the movie’s fleeting homage to the three crooks spontaneously dancing the Madison in a French cafe in Jean-Luc Godard’s..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Cactus Lee’s New Phase of Folk Realism

With Perfect Middle Hall, songwriter Kevin Dehan steps out of honky-tonk confines

"...to say, the music is more inspired by the dirty realism of Seventies Americana-makers than country counterparts...."

Jan. 6, 2023 Music Feature by E. Ryan Ellis

Day Trips & Beyond: August Events Roundup

Finish out a hot summer with a cool adventure

"...need to come ready to get down and get dirty in the dark. The 2.5- and 4-hour tours in..."

Aug. 3, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Review: Alchemy Theatre’s Mack & Mabel

Intimate staging bests Broadway’s Hollywood tragedy

"...without cause or provocation (except, perhaps, at 2am on Dirty Sixth) to one where everyone does, and that takes..."

May 26, 2022 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Qmmunity: A Step Toward Reconnection

Getting back into going out with the latest Austin queer events

"...and BIPOC talent, plus SXSW's first official ballroom competition, Dirty South Ball. Wed., March 16, 8pm. Coconut Club, 310-B..."

March 11, 2022 Column by James Scott

The Luv Doc: A Low Tolerance for Inaccuracy

Further proof that Latin is a trash language

"...in his mid-30s who said he was into swing dancing, French cooking, and hiking. What's not to love, right?..."

Jan. 28, 2022 Column by The Luv Doc

Belfast

Kenneth Branagh's stunning if messy look back at his childhood in Northern Ireland

"...together as if auditioning for an Irish remake of Dirty Dancing. The first is lyrical and truthful; the second..."

Nov. 12, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Sex Sells: 40 Years of Forbidden Fruit

Terri Lynn Raridon gives Austin over to absolute pleasure

"...Places where men would go to see, you know, dirty movies or peepshows or whatever. But Forbidden Fruit was..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

We Asked Writers to Review Bands They’d Never Seen Before at Hot Summer Nights

Going into the unknown with TV's Daniel, xBValentine, Holy Death Trio, Frederico7, and Los Kurados

"...presence, wrapping a mic cable around his neck while dancing on a speaker for "Life of Crime" and striking..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Live Review: With Nothing Left to Prove the Black Crowes Shake Their Moneymakers – Front-to-Back

Robinson brothers invoke a good old-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll bash

"...as the audience, not only due to Chris’ unselfconscious dancing, but to the unforced smiles between bandmates, with even..."

Aug. 16, 2021 Music Post by Michael Toland

Titane to Open Fantastic Fest 2021

Cannes winner heads up this year's lineup

"...AFTER BLUE (DIRTY PARADISE) D: Bertrand Mandico France, 2021, US Premiere, 130..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Screens Post

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...one should leave cracks in the floor from the dancing. An equally catholic rock & soul act who parlayed..."

June 11, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...new release titled for late Wu-Tang Clan member Ol' Dirty Bastard. Now based in Austin, the MC links with..."

March 19, 2021 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...proper intervals. Closer to Grover Washington Jr. than the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, "Roux" would fit in nicely on..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...Demi Lovato’s deeply confessional new YouTube series Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil was confirmed last month as this..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

IPic Will Be Second Austin Cinema to Reopen

Local branch of luxury chain firing up starting June 11

"...11 with a mixture of repertory screenings (such as Dirty Dancing and Jurassic Park) under its Flashback Cinema banner,..."

June 9, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Alamo Drafthouse Goes Into the VOD Business

Alamo on Demand to offer curated selection of films

"...La Land, A Simple Favor, Apocalypse Now: Final Cut, Dirty Dancing)..."

May 7, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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