Outside the Box

Opening Closed Doors, an organization founded by artist Benné Rockett to give artists opportunities to address social conditions through their artwork, presents photographs, sculpture, assemblage, and paintings created by young adult offenders in the state Criminal Justice Division's Project Spotlight program in the exhibition "Self-Contained."

"...conducted this past fall and spring by Opening Closed Doors, an organization founded by artist Benné Rockett to give..."

April 5, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Is Anybody Laughing?

In the midst of economic hard times and a wave of terrorist attacks, the comedy business wonders what's funny.

"...anyone else to perform in; the club shut its doors in July, a victim of economic troubles of its..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...and there were eviction notices stapled to all the doors. Nick and Louis were assured by the landlord, who..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...fine arts degree, which basically opened a lot of doors to jobs in the restaurant business. I had been..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Naked City

Pissed On and Pissed Off

"...apartment rely on the cross-breeze created by the seven doors and large windows to cool the apartment. Unfortunately, the..."

July 20, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Lend Me a Tenor

Need a laugh? St. Edward's University has the cure with Lend Me a Tenor, which features a tremendous amount of acting talent, most of it student, working their butts off to entertain you.

"...provides a visually delightful set design: Numerous wrought-iron gray doors dominate the black and white set-pieces, with splashes of..."

July 6, 2001 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

It's the Village, Idiot!

The latest casualty in Regal Cinemas' nationwide overexpansion isn't just another movie theatre.

"...all four screens and 982 seats -- closed its doors for good. The floors were often coated over with..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

What's In Store

The city's self-storage business is changing as corporate giants push mom and pop operations aside.

"...the towering Extra Space Self Storage building, opened its doors two months ago with 560 units. It, too, is..."

Sept. 1, 2000 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Tying the Knot: A Drama

Yes, the merger of Austin's Paramount Theatre and State Theater Company is a business affair, but since theatres traffic in stories, human dramas that talk to us about life, this historic event deserves to be looked at as a story, the story of a wedding between two neighbors.

"...acquired the lease, and in 1975, reopened the theatre doors, hosting concerts, presenting live theatre, and showing vintage movies..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

After a Fashion

Remembering Halston on the 10th anniversary of his death.

"...closing down the showroom at lunch and locking the doors while he and his privileged guests enjoyed good food,..."

April 21, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Confronting Intimate Violence: A Dress Speaks: Heeding the Voice

Reviews of recent and ongoing exhibitions and performances around Austin.

"...and several charitable and artistic organizations, including Opening Closed Doors, the Ophelia Project, and the Clothesline Project, Rockett has..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Arts Review by Robert Faires

One Block's History

"...the Buratti building, and David Buratti Sr. lived two doors down from his store. Paz Mancha had a barbershop..."

Aug. 27, 1999 News Feature

"We'll Always Have 807 Congress"

The Raging of the Elements, or Indoor Theatre in Austin -- Al Fresco

"...prior to opening night, the A/C was installed, the doors and windows shut, and the merciless nasal impulsion of..."

June 25, 1999 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

You Do Not Tear Down Landmarks

"...estimates that upward of 150,000 patrons move through its doors annually...."

Feb. 5, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

A World in Which All Worlds Fit

"...and by the late Seventies could scarcely keep its doors open, saddled with a bloated staff, thinning crowds, and..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Luminous

"...the steps in my career have opened up new doors," says Allen, "and that association opened many doors, one..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Shelter From the Storm

Residents Find Sanctuary at Job's House

"...for the drunken brawls that took place behind its doors. Terrell even recalls hearing about people being shot and..."

Aug. 21, 1998 News Feature by Bryan Mealer

Doomed to Repeat It?

Former Students, Profs, and Lawyers Remember

"...the second-year class when Sweatt entered the Law School doors, said that although there were some overtly negative reactions..."

Feb. 6, 1998 News Feature by Cristina Smith

Megachurch Miracle

Believers Flock to Bigger, Some Say Better, Churches

"...by Jana Birchum To get the 4Bs through the doors, Mann has stripped away many "offenses." Not only did..."

Dec. 19, 1997 News Feature by Kayte Van Scoy

The Wight Stuff

Message to Love: This Ain't No Woodstock

"...well as a plethora of other big names (the Doors, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, Kris Kristofferson, Leonard Cohen, Free,..."

June 20, 1997 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Day Trips

"..."Chuckie" sits with its nose pointed out the open doors toward the skies...."

April 4, 1997 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Rocky Mountain High

Austin Brewers at the Great American Beer Festival

"...Competition Thursday's most important events took place behind closed doors. While the brewers and setup crews prepared for the..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Food Feature by Pableaux Johnson

Played Out

After 14 Years, Capitol City Playhouse Is Evicted

"...years, but its survival has been precarious, with the doors staying open sometimes seemingly through the sheer force of..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Theatre Review: Queer Madness and Mayhem in Lipstick

Austin Rainbow Theatre's production is a fast, frantic farce

"...room. The characters flit around each other, disappearing through doors and narrowly missing collisions, with cheeky grace. They navigate..."

April 25, 2025 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Death of a Unicorn

Corporate satire meets creature feature

"...blast. With the real world monsters knocking at our doors, we could all use some billionaire bludgeoning and a..."

March 28, 2025 Movie Review

MAGA Moms and the Republican Resistance to School Vouchers

Make education public again

"...that she knocked on over 20,000 of her neighbors’ doors in the 2022 and 2024 primaries in support of..."

March 21, 2025 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Treasure City Thrift Prepares to Move to New Location

Store and community space looks to continue supporting local orgs

"...Treasure City Thrift, which first opened its doors in 2006, is being forced to relocate from East..."

Feb. 18, 2025 News Post by Angelina Liu

Inside the Warehouse at Austin Printing Company Canworks

How the local-but-expanding manufacturer is kicking the can up a notch

"...when the sun hits them from the loading dock doors. The whirring of machinery and focused energy from the..."

Oct. 18, 2024 Food Feature by Hasina Shah

Alien: Romulus

Fede Alvarez speed runs through earlier Alien films in this uninspired sequel

"...to the original’s survival horror, he kicked the story’s doors open. Alvarez has just made a patchwork quilt, and..."

Aug. 16, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: Mutually Assured Destruction

A pretty bum deal if you ask me

"...married, my husband and I have maintained an “open doors” household. We don’t lock doors and we rarely even..."

June 21, 2024 Column by The Luv Doc

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