Paramount Theatre Announces Star Wars, Pink Flamingos, Sin City for Summer Classics Film Series

Plus Robert Rodriguez gets his star on Congress Avenue

"...Walker, and Ruthie Foster, and actors Jaston Williams and Joe Sears. However, that’s just one part of the first..."

April 11, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Robert Rodriguez to be Honored on the Avenue of Paramount Stars

Spy Kids, Machete director gets his plaque this summer

"...most recently Ruthie Foster) while actors Jaston Williams and Joe Sears share one for their years of residency with..."

Jan. 26, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Community-Building Musician Ruthie Foster Honored with Star Outside the Paramount

“We take care of our own, Austin!”

"...McClinton, Lyle Lovett, Jerry Jeff Walker, Jaston Williams, and Joe Sears, making Foster the first woman and first person..."

Nov. 21, 2022 Music Post by Genevieve Wood

Ethan Hawke Teams Up With Local Writer for The Black Phone

The team behind Sinister creates the summer's scariest film

"...adapted from a 2004 short story by horror writer Joe Hill that taps into the fears inculcated into the..."

June 24, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SAGE Studio Artist Rick Fleming Bags His Biggest Exposure Yet With Joe Biden Portrait

The local artist’s tote bag is now on sale in the Biden campaign store

"...began taking on custom commissions, Gross relates, with Gav Sears specializing in line drawings of homes and buildings, Sam..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Arts Feature by Kimberley Jones

In Memoriam: George Wilkerson

Remembering Esther's Follies' first sketch-writing superstar

"...to open their own space up the street where Joe Sears and Jaston Williams had a theatre, we had..."

June 17, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Portraits of Austin Musicians With Their Pets During Stay-at-Home

"...Jason Frey (Hard Proof/Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears) with Zollie..."

May 7, 2020 Photo Gallery

Review: The Santaland Diaries

J. Robert Moore's take on Crumpet sends the Macy's elf to camp

"...Along with Joe Sears and Jaston Williams in the various Tuna shows..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Arts Post by Paul Beutel

Paul Cauthen

"...deep into country funk grooves more akin to Tony Joe White or Jim Ford. "Resignation" rolls as playfully as..."

June 29, 2018 Music Review by Doug Freeman

You Were Never Really Here

Joaquin Phoenix and Lynne Ramsay renew the revenger's tragedy.

"...death dealer, within a grimy, gritty crime drama that sears through the darkest of American underbellies...."

April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Cardboard Fantasy in Dave Made a Maze

Dumpster diving and comedy for a modern fairytale

"...claim Labyrinth, Jan Švankmajer, early Peter Jackson, The Muppets, Joe's Apartment, and The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T as..."

July 18, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Paul Beutel Retires

Arts leader who ran Paramount, Long Center wraps 42-year career

"...Lyle Lovett, Jerry Jeff Walker, and "the Tuna boys," Joe Sears and Jaston Williams...."

June 7, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

35 Years of the Austin Music Awards

Living in a dream

"...About 10 minutes in, as the quartet sears into “Complete Control,” security charges from the stage wings..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature by Doug Freeman

Fast, Cheap, and in Control

Cost-of-living increases are making local artists do more with less

"...can be traced through such ATX success stories as Joe Sears and Jaston Williams' Greater Tuna, Rick Linklater's Slacker,..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin's Paramount Theatre Turns 100

As the grande dame of Austin theatres turns 100, it matters more than ever

"...Anderson, Sarah Vaughan to Stevie Ray, Chuck Berry to Joe Ely (on the same bill, no less!). You had..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Happy Hundredth Birthday, Paramount Theatre!

Austin's original vaudeville stage announces Lyle Lovett and more

"...a reunion with his old friend and creative partner Joe Sears, with a promise that the pair are only..."

Jan. 28, 2015 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Jaston Williams

Before 'Tuna,' he rode with 'Maid Marian in a Stolen Car'

"...Texas – not to mention his ongoing story-swap with Joe Ely, Jo Carol Pierce, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Kimmie..."

Aug. 28, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Abracadabra

Steve Miller brings the magic at Texas Medal of Arts

"...their own ways were hometown heroes Jaston Williams and Joe Sears, receiving a medal together for their theatrical work..."

March 6, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

No Joker: Steve Miller

Classic rocker clears the air tonight on public education

"...culture of the state” are Eva Longoria, Texas Monthly, Joe Sears & Jaston Williams, and the Houston Ballet...."

March 5, 2013 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

'Tuna' Surprise

Joe Sears and Jaston Williams to receive Texas Medal of Arts

"...gun-store owner Didi Snaveley would say. Jaston Williams and Joe Sears, the gents responsible for Didi and all the..."

Jan. 16, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Big Sweet Life

An intimate interrogation of Jon Dee Graham

"...is so special in Austin,” he says. “My friend Joe Nick Patoski is writing a book about how music..."

Nov. 13, 2012 Music Post by William Harries Graham

SXSW Scares & Shorts Revealed

Late-night fare and short film lineup announced

"...Sundance debuts for Texas filmmakers Kat Candler’s “Hellion”, Kelly Sears’ “Once It Started It Could Not End Otherwise,” and..."

Feb. 8, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

All Over Creation: Who's on First?

Are we looking at the wrong statistics for measuring a win in the arts?

"...with the Austin Symphony or some ref declares either Joe Sears or Jaston Williams the victor after each performance..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Arts Column by Robert Faires

2011 Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund Recipients Announced

2011 TFPF winners announced

"...INSTRUCTIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY Kelly Sears 10 min experimental animation $2,000 for post-production & distribution..."

Aug. 29, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Little Big Plan

The Austin Creative Alliance proves it can think big by thinking small

"...successes; think Richard Linklater and Slacker, Jaston Williams and Joe Sears and Greater Tuna. The lack of resources spurs..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Storyteller

Nobody spins a yarn like Jaston Williams

"...and fear not, Tuna-ficionados, come Thanksgiving, Williams and partner-in-stage-crime Joe Sears will be back with a newly designed production..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Harvey Pekar and Bob Swain

Remembering the man behind American Splendor and the local theatre director

"...Repertory Company, where he worked with Jaston Williams and Joe Sears early in their careers. Moving up I-35, he..."

July 16, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Let Him Entertain You

Why producer Charles Duggan is staging the biggest holiday spectacular Austin's ever seen

"...White and Tuna with the original creative team of Joe Sears and Jaston Williams for a quarter of a..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Classics Comeback

Are the great dramas of yore reclaiming their place on Austin's stages?

"...aka Now the Revolution, which caught the eye of Joe Papp and played New York and Europe in the..."

July 3, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW 09 Film Lineup Announced

What's all the ruckus? Why, it's the SXSW Film lineup!

"...Alexander the Last Director/Writer: Joe Swanberg A sensual and intimate portrait of a young..."

Feb. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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