Keeping Our Eye on the Week’s Recommended Arts Events

Art and culture abounds, even on the weekdays

"...Madsen and Marg Helgenberger give each other out-of-character “WTF???” side-eye.   – Richard Whittaker You’ve Got Mail..."

June 6, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Jamal Hussain Strings Nature, Tech, and Spirit Together With Light

New Media artist unpacks upcoming Dougherty exhibit

"...the sand crystallizes into geometric shapes, like shards of glass, and is pulled by computer-programmed gravity back into the..."

May 9, 2025 Arts Feature by Caroline Drew

Austin Yards Where Weird Finds a Home

Seven front lawns that push beyond garden gnomes

"...stance: hands on hips or clasped behind your back, eyes comically squinting or stretched open. Take a look around...."

May 2, 2025 Arts Feature by Caroline Drew

Art Prom, Pup Crawl, Eeyore’s Birthday, and More Recommended Events

A smattering of ways to fill your weekend

"...sensitivity, Texas State alumna Sydney Guzman’s “Under the Moon’s Eye,” running concurrently, asserts a less abstract approach, offering painterly..."

April 25, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Art, Eggs, Kink, and Sleaze in This Weekend’s Art Events

Recommended happenings for your calendar consideration

"...film noir a kid can ever have, with Private Eye Eddie Valiant (a never-better Bob Hoskins) forced to partner..."

April 18, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Day Trips & Beyond: April Events Roundup

All of Texas' best fests, fairs, fandangos, and fiestas

"...at the eatery. In the 1930 book, the private eye orders “chops, baked potato, and sliced tomatoes.” It remains..."

April 3, 2025 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Crow Bar Reopens on the Eastside With a New Focus on Live Music

Aryn Jonathan Black and Steve Gee rebuild after 2022 arson

"...There’s nothing eye-catching about the building’s inconspicuous exterior, but upon entry, patrons..."

March 27, 2025 Music Post by Angelina Liu

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, March 21-27

"...20-May 20): Inside a kaleidoscope, the colored shards of glass are in an ever-shifting chaotic jumble. But internal mirrors..."

March 21, 2025 Column by Rob Brezsny

SXSW 2025 Heads to The Studio With Seth Rogen

New films from Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Nic Cage added to fest

"...are films that may make new stars, and all eyes are on Max, star of Good Boy, the new..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Punk, Noise, and Dolly in This Week’s Crucial Concerts

Shows to see this weekend and beyond

"...rodeo odes and bar belters angled with a wry eye, tender heart, and winking sense of humor. Following up..."

Jan. 17, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Austin Chronic: Oh No! My High Ass Just Emailed a Dead Person

Finding the humor in my stoned missteps

"...patient parent. And during a recent interview with award-winning glassblower Jerome Baker, he shared a perspective that the act..."

Nov. 29, 2024 Column by Kevin Curtin

Turkey Day Drama, a Red Hot Patriot, and Scares for the Season in Our Recommended Events

I scream, you scream, we all scream for the weekend!

"...Glass Half Full Theatre presents Yamel Cucuy..."

Oct. 11, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

S.L. Houser, TsuShiMaMiRe, and More Crucial Concerts

Plus country jams, doom metal, and a jazz tag team

"...Raise a glass for the doomed. That genre’s American pioneers roar into..."

Oct. 11, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Visual Arts Review: “Bending Light” at Women & Their Work

Texas artists showcase the strength of a story

"...Generational Trauma. It’s a massive monolith of steel and glass, resting on salvaged debris from International Paper (a company..."

July 26, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

A Jukebox Musical, Chicken Tips, and More Weekday Events

Don't pretend like you don't need chicken tips

"...ye mateys to “grab your pirate hat, peg leg, eye patch, and pet parrot & let’s party like there’s..."

July 26, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Cinco de Mayo, May the Fourth (Be With You), and More Recommended Events

The week in community happenings

"...those four walls in any way blurred his gimlet eye as he settles into well-seasoned irascibility.   – Richard..."

May 3, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

An Outdoor Screening, Bluey Live, and More Lead Our Recommended Arts Events

Get out and art this week!

"...Swim School. Bring chairs, dogs, and/or picnics, but no glass, styrofoam, alcohol, or smoking, please!   – Kat McNevins..."

March 15, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Restaurant Review: Bureau de Poste

Chef Jo Chan delivers delicious cuisine in former Hyde Park post office

"...My spouse enjoyed his steak frites, a large boneless rib-eye cooked medium rare but with an expert char, served..."

March 8, 2024 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Austin FC Season Kickoff, Black History Month, and More Community Events

Get out and about in Austin while the weather's good

"...club, you’ve probably spent your night under the watchful eye of Markus, the venue’s head of security. Tragically, he..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

With Mental Health Diversion Center Forthcoming, Sheriff Still Wants More Humane Jail Facilities

Can healing happen in jail?

"...high on the wall and semi-opaque due to frosted glass, though women stand on their cots to look through..."

Dec. 29, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Meat Joy Reunion Shows and More Crucial Concerts This Week

Ways to celebrate the annular eclipse, fundraise for Sarah Brown, and avoid ACL

"...Art-rock songwriter Kathy McCarty (formerly of influential post-punk quartet Glass Eye) supports their Saturday night show on the spacious..."

Oct. 13, 2023 Music Column by Genevieve Wood

Qmmunity: Queer Comedy Pipeline

Ivy Le talks the impact of Tongue in Cheek, a queer comedy open mic providing fertile ground for Austin's LGBTQ comics

"...scene, Le picks Tongue in Cheek's co-hosts with an eye toward career diversity. "I try to invite guest hosts..."

Sept. 29, 2023 Column by James Scott

Arts Review: "Floriculture"

The impermanence of floristry and the eternal nature of tattoos highlight Pastiche House’s fusion philosophy

"...Friday, May 26, saw the Shed's walls of glass fully decked with Von Lehe's monochrome watercolors of myriad..."

June 2, 2023 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Daniel, Kurt, and Jeremiah: Why “Hi, How Are You” Matters

Austin's most famous mural is a case study in art preservation and cultural impact

"...Edge about Austin music, alongside less-remembered local acts like Glass Eye and Dino Lee and the White Trash Revue...."

May 26, 2023 Arts Feature by Joe Gross

Sex, Lies, and Katie Folger

The Austin artist on her new show, Getting in Bed With the Pizza Man

"...indie world and had yet to pierce through the glass ceiling of more commercial work. Naturally, all those jobs..."

May 11, 2023 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Critics Association Announces 2022 Awards Short Lists

Everything Everywhere All At Once leads nominee pack

"...Hsu, Everything Everywhere All At Once • Janelle Monae, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery • Keke Palmer, Nope..."

Jan. 4, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Carrie Rodriguez's Laboratorio, itchy-O, Fontaines D.C., Ash Lauryn, Nas & Wu-Tang, and more

"...Pins (Carrie Clark of Sixteen Deluxe and Pam Peltz), Glass Eye's Kathy McCarty, former fellow Asylum Street Spanker Guy..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Music Column by Christina Garcia

Austin's Airport Art Program Makes Every Flight a Trip to the Gallery

Got some time at AUS? There's many distractions in plane sight.

"...come to know it. Especially soothing to rest your eyes on an array of large landscapes by Austin's Jimmy..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Review: Zach Theatre's The Inheritance, Part 1

Epic in length and ambition, this portrait of gay life in the 21st century is stunning

"...conversation about our past,” says sincere and intense Eric Glass (an absolutely riveting Christopher Joel Onken), the better half..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

What We're Listening to This Week

Otis Wilkins, Fuck Money, Cash Grab, Jake Lloyd, and more notable sounds

"...Dead Dog's Eyeball, Kathy McCarty's 1994 reimagining of Daniel Johnston songs, is..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Music Column by Doug Freeman

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