After a Fashion

Is DIY design? Your Style Avatar weighs in ... like the 500-lb. gorilla in the middle of the room.

"...mid-Seventies there were three taxi companies: Yellow, Roy's, and Harlem. Harlem Cab primarily served the Eastside, but when choosing..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Fare Fight

The pending sale of Roy's Taxi company raises a host of Austin memories

"...launched Austin Cab in 1984 by buying the storied Harlem Cab company. Harlem was one of two black-owned cab..."

June 9, 2006 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

TV Eye

Trio tells the story of the N-word, and then Chuck D takes over

"...A Rage in Harlem (1991): Stars Robin Givens and Forest Whitaker, directed by..."

July 2, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Scanlines

"...a surprisingly superior piece of work. Hell Up in Harlem..."

March 5, 1999 Screens Feature

Eve About All

The Stunning Images of Photographer Eve Arnold

"...Arnold's photographic career essentially began in Harlem. As a student in a six-week photography course taught..."

Aug. 16, 1996 Arts Feature

Love Letters, Pro Wrestling, and More Recommended Events

Your weekdays are spoken for

"...asks readers to delve into the second of his Harlem Detective series. The series follows Grave Digger Jones and..."

Feb. 7, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Sunflower Bean, Holy Fuck, Jack’s Mannequin, and Hundreds More Added to SXSW

The third 2025 music festival announcement has landed

"...(Los Angeles CA) Makeout Reef (Los Angeles CA) Malikvm (Harlem NY) Mark Cooper (Detroit MI) Marta Cascales Alimbau (Barcelona..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Texas Performing Arts Crosses Media for 2024-25 Season

Works by David Byrne, Conspirare, Twyla Tharp, and more

"...machine, dance and calligraphy, choreography and data sets. Spanish Harlem Orchestra: Salsa Navidad..."

May 14, 2024 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

A Joe Bataan/Grupo Fantasma collab, Strand of Oaks, Christelle Bofale, a few festivals, and more recommended live shows

"...Austin's Grammy-winning Latin brass locomotive Grupo Fantasma backs Spanish Harlem soul pioneer Joe Bataan one time only – ¡solamente..."

May 27, 2022 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

Five Things to Enjoy During Black History Month

Art, theatre, music, ballet, and more

"...bright interpretation of this holiday classic – set in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance period of the 1920s and..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five Things to Do at the Texas Book Festival

Online and in-person picks, from Pinocchio to plagues to portals to Hell

"...you – for both aspects – right here ... Harlem Shuffle: Pulitzer Prize Winner Colson Whitehead in Conversation..."

Oct. 22, 2021 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Los Hermanos/The Brothers

How the Cold War divided a family, while music kept them connected

"...1998. Ilmar eventually lands a full-time gig with the Harlem String Quartet but the brothers remain separated by 60..."

May 28, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

2021 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation

The also-rans are as good as this year's animated nominees

"...from Hopper to Modigliani to Basquiat, via nods to Harlem Renaissance creators like James Lesesne Wells and Aaron Douglas...."

April 2, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...stay with the Booker T on me like it's Harlem Heat" establishes an aggressive attitude while carrying on the..."

March 19, 2021 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

"Deborah Roberts: I'm" at the Contemporary Austin

In Deborah Roberts' solo exhibition at the Contemporary Austin, we learn what it is to be seen and not seen

"...Before the year was out, the Studio Museum in Harlem, which had acquired some of Roberts' work at Volta,..."

Feb. 19, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things

The life and legacy of the First Lady of Jazz

"...as a musical Cinderella story: A 16-year-old girl from Harlem (originally Virginia) debuts at the Apollo Theater’s inaugural open..."

June 19, 2020 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Motherless Brooklyn

Edward Norton leads a stylish, meandering trip around a corrupt 1950s NYC

"...York) named Moses Randolph (Baldwin), as well as a Harlem jazz club and a civic uprising about housing policies..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Kitchen

1970s mob drama gets a #MeToo overhaul

"...still just see her as a black girl from Harlem; while battered wife Claire Walsh (Moss) sees a chance..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Shaft

Three Shafts are definitely worse than one in this failed revival of the blaxploitation classic

"...virility as he whooped ass bare-knuckled in a lawless Harlem. Back then, John Shaft (Roundtree) was a love-‘em-and-leave-‘em sex..."

June 14, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Satan & Adam

The personal and musical impact of a Harlem friendship

"...amateur musical collaborators entertaining pedestrians on the sidewalks of Harlem. The duo’s street cred soon ratcheted upward when the..."

April 26, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Playback: Walter Tragert Rises Up Singin’

Musician with MS finds hope in a songbook, Margaret Moser passes, and last shots at Bull McCabe's

"...Harlem played its first shows in five years last weekend..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Reviving Austin's Cab Industry

ATX Co-op Taxi splits the difference between traditional taxis and ridesharing

"...form his own co-op in 1984 with drivers from Harlem Cab. The idea didn't come to fruition, he said,..."

April 28, 2017 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

SXSW Unloads Headliners

Avett Brothers, Weezer, Wu-Tang Clan plus 134 more

"...Mob affiliate A$AP Twelvyy, Brooklyn MC Joey Bada$$, and Harlem’s Smoke DZA, an old head who just jumped back..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Page Two: "Fab 5 Freddy Told Me Everybody's Fly"

Out of nothing, street art achieved velocity

"...walked across the floor, I was the one remembering Harlem...."

Aug. 5, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Spectrum Theatre Company's Spunk

This Austin company weaves three classic tales by Zora Neale Hurston into a spirited service full of sass and grit

"...they face off in a smack-talk showdown on a Harlem avenue. And when those jokers try to woo a..."

July 29, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Genius

Editor Maxwell Perkins and author Thomas Wolfe collaborate in biopic

"...effective stretch starts with a scene set in a Harlem nightclub, where Wolfe takes the straight-and-narrow Perkins, who doesn’t..."

June 24, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Interview: Dion

“I don’t sing white, I don’t sing black, I sing Bronx”

"...train up on Fordham and we went down to Harlem. When you’re from the Bronx, you go down to..."

March 17, 2016 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Final SXSW List: No. 10

Nas, Vince Staples, Lucius, and 198 more

"...Dave East (Harlem, NY.)..."

March 4, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Back in Black

Capital City Black Film Festival returns for round three

"...homage to black Austinites in film. The theme is 'Harlem Lights,' named for the Harlem Theatre that opened in..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Crash Course

Cabs try to survive in the era of Uber

"...by East Austin's Means family since its conversion from Harlem Cab in 1984, lays claim to 187. It takes..."

Aug. 7, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

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