Craft Work

The Roosevelt Room primes West Fifth revival

"...years has broken away from the college-oriented bars of Dirty Sixth. Championing that shift are proprietors Justin Lavenue and..."

Oct. 30, 2015 Food Feature by Adrienne Whitehorse

Future

"...do, tell her I wish that I met her." Dirty Sprite 2, Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn's third album, is his..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Music Feature by Luke Winkie

Bats, Mites, and Gallows: A Thumbnail Courthouse History

"...breathtaking example of 'Second Empire' architecture ... resplendent with ironwork cresting, decorative dormers, and Mansard roofs." Like its predecessor,..."

Sept. 18, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

DVDanger: The Story of Cinema, Part Two

The Editor and Reality, movies about movies

"...bearers for Canada's breaking wave of neo-exploitation. However, their quick-and-dirty shorts have always been much more accomplished than their..."

Sept. 9, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Wave 2: The Martian, The Witch, and More

New Ridley Scott flick, plus dozens more added to fest

"...own secret may reveal all which the four have worked to forget. Coz ov Moni 2 D: King Henry..."

Aug. 26, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Gay Place: Find Your Qummunity

Events for every stripe of the rainbow, especially Qumbia Queers and Going Grrls

"...six-month Crit Group program of the Contemporary Austin, featuring work by Katie Rose Pipkin, Rebecca Rothfus Harrell, Ben Jurgensen,..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

10 Minutes with Stephen Stills

CSN bandleader stops in for a lesson on the blues

"...surprise of the manager. Kenny Wayne Sheppard has to work. He’s got five kids with another on the way..."

July 23, 2015 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

News Roundup: Death and Lawsuits

Ken Paxton has a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week

"...stark reminder of the real dangers of drilling for dirty fuels, whether it is by BP in the Gulf..."

July 6, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Max

After sufferiong trauma in Afghanistan, a heroic dog is sent stateside

"...Since then, he has mostly been a Hollywood writer-for-hire, working on screenplays from Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights to the..."

July 3, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Dirty Diamonds: An All-Girl Comic Anthology

Upcoming release explores the complex theme of “beauty”

"...Because the artists (more than fifty of them!) whose work appears in the new Dirty Diamonds: Beauty anthology have..."

June 24, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Moving Mountains

Turk and Christy Pipkin are keeping busy changing the world

"...in an ongoing series of documentary films chronicling their work in building infrastructure and secondary educational outlets such as..."

June 12, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Why He Fought

New AFS series considers Frank Capra's pre-World War II films

"...he pushed. In any case, "sentimental" may be a dirty word, but does it sound better as "full of..."

May 29, 2015 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Other Worlds Austin Hears The Quiet Hour

Director Stéphanie Joalland on a very British apocalypse

"...now that’s he’s gone she has to do the dirty work herself and the film is really about Sarah..."

May 27, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Flood Closes Some Lamar Restaurants

Cleanup effort ongoing

"...of 12th and Lamar on Memorial Day, I started working the phones, trying to assess potential damage. I remembered..."

May 26, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

The Eagles Come Home to Roost

Three-hour documentary spawns an epic live tie-in

"...guitarists (Frey, Walsh, Leadon, and Steuart Smith) did the work of two, and golden four-part harmonies of yore roused..."

May 20, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Lit-urday: Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own

All the single ladies: Edna, Edith, Neith, Maeve, Char ... and Kate

"...call it Lit-urday. Here's a book that takes a dirty word – spinster – and spins rousing new meaning..."

May 16, 2015 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Elliott Smith Doc Debuts in Austin

Heaven Adores You scores a limited run

"...“Who’s that guy in the white suit with the dirty hair?” he laughed. In most Heaven footage, alternately, he..."

May 13, 2015 Screens Post by Neph Basedow

Slooom’s Video Premiere

“Honey” from members of Les Rav and Capyac

"...night we were hanging at Chicon Collective, where we work, and my boss said, “I’m going to book a..."

May 4, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

To Have and Have Not

Five-year Austinite Joe Pug is paying off

"...guitar case. Neil Young once wore similar footwear, their workingman's weight fortifying his blue-collar persona. During the four years..."

May 1, 2015 Music Feature by Neph Basedow

All the Way

In Zach Theatre's staging of this epic political drama about LBJ, the fight for civil rights feels particularly urgent

"...so robust a figure that All the Way can work purely as a character study, the portrait of a..."

May 1, 2015 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Moonspell Q&A

Portuguese metallurgists never bathe in the same water twice

"...more than two decades now. The quintet, playing the Dirty Dog Bar on Saturday with Septicflesh and Deathstars, returns..."

April 23, 2015 Music Post by Michael Toland

Revving With Cora Vette

Texas Burlesque Festival MC tells dirty jokes and career truths

"...Feathered fascinators? Check. Sparkle and glitter? Check and check? Dirty joke book? Uh oh...."

April 10, 2015 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Eastward Expansion

Surfing the wave of gentrification on the Eastside

"...development. Long seen as home to a largely Latino working class, the area is quickly being transformed to appeal..."

April 10, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú

There's a THETH in My Mailbox, WTF?

The Shannon (McCormick) is a river of fiercely diverse pleasures

"...sharpest of taste. Because THETH is one gorgeous, gnarly work of sequential art, bringing out the ineluctable weirdness of..."

April 3, 2015 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Friday Picks & Sleepers

Obvious Picks and loads of not-so-obvious Sleepers!

"...The Skull 9pm, Dirty Dog Bar Led by ex-Trouble singer Eric Wagner, this..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

SXSW Thursday handicapping by the blurb

"...Johnston, whom Fair championed early on. Fair's most recent work: 2013's Surprising Wooden Clocks. – Tim Stegall..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW Music recommendations and hints

"...with a big break – of his leg, while working in a kitchen. During recovery, the Queens native (Arian..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

All or Nothing

Ian McLagan: Small Face, Face, auxiliary Rolling Stone, A-list sideman, Austinite

"...Underpinning the works is McLagan's Hammond B-3 warmth, which Bragg claims became..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Lydia Ainsworth

"...culminate in debut Right From Real, an avant, unclassifiable work of R&B filtered through classical composition. Standout "Take Your..."

March 20, 2015 Music Review by Luke Winkie

SXSWedu: Steady as She Goes

Women's rights advocates push for educational equity

"...on her roots in post-9/11 Islamabad, her “rebellious” volunteer work and scholarship to Stanford University, and her close relationship..."

March 16, 2015 SXSW Post by Jessi Cape

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