Settling in but Never Settling at the Old Settler's Music Fest

Executive Director Jean Spivey looks back at three decades of roots music

"...gear and accelerates down the dusty path that'll soon act as a landing strip for thousands of roots music..."

April 12, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: KVRX Launches the Largest College Radio Festival

KVRX station manager Gab Soong starts the largest ever student-run radio fest, national phone theft ring uncovered from ACL Fest, and Big Thief’s Buck Meek settles down outside the city

"...Square, trailblazing indie usage of the latter's Waller Creek-side amphitheatre. Relying on sponsorships without university financing, the two deejays..."

March 1, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Playback: Hanging in the House of Songs

The House of Songs, Hotel Vegas on tour, and Terminator Too: Judgment Play

"...than ever, the House of Songs was at capacity last Wednesday with five Danish musicians lodging there. While one..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

All Over Creation: Laugh Lines

A week of unexpected comic relief brought lessons in laugh-making

"...day with a prank.) The performers of Tapestry Dance Company obliged me this past Sunday with their latest production,..."

April 6, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Otaku* Overload!!!

After Monster Island Studios sank, Austin's acting community and Houston animé giant A.D. Vision unleashed talent bent on vengeance and redemption (*otaku = animé geek)

"...to Japanese animation and monster movies, that if the character's words match their lip movements, there's something funny going..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Using the F Word: A Commentary On Feminism

In the nine choreographed dance-theatre pieces that make up Using the F-Word, REALMdanceproject fashions a collaborative yet tenaciously personal portrait of feminism.

"...Using nine choreographed dance-theatre pieces, some with minimal choreography, as well as highly..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

SXSW News: Saturday

"...of (not even Harvey Sid Fisher's like he did last year). The Daily Chronicle, however, almost found itself waking..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Austin versus Islam, Freedom and Justice (Records) for all, and that damn Ray Benson again.

"...safe to say no one was ready for the blast of dynamite provided by Williams and his band, which..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Waters' Edge

"...1972 film Pink Flamingos, the outré comic melodrama about characters who pride themselves on being the filthiest people alive..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dancing About Architecture

photograph by Todd V. Wolfson A Big Hand for a Little Lady

"...flashing that "Get this leper away from me" look). Actually, with all the bands and record company types in..."

March 13, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Job Goes on Forever

Breathing Room Producer Tim Perell

"...of time at the movies. Every Sunday afternoon, in fact, we would walk downtown to the Angelika Film Center..."

Feb. 28, 1997 Screens Feature

Ring in the HollyDaze

Holiday Movie Previews

"...All the Way, The English Patient, Star Trek: First Contact..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Saucy, Seven-Course Musical at Boggy Creek Farm

Jade Fusco’s activist interactive recruited members of Ley Line, BluMoon, and more

"...grows and sells fruits and vegetables using regenerative, no-till practices. Last Saturday, the homestead team welcomed a group of..."

Nov. 24, 2023 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

A New Cuppa Tea in Tripoli

Actress Bernadette Nason takes tales of a year in Libya and brews a potent memoir

"...held a rich vein of crowd-pleasing yarns. The award-winning actress had been mining it for years in backstage dressing..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Film Flam

Comings, goings, skunks, and lemurs

"...attendance on May 2 at the Marchesa Hall & Theatre, sponsored by the Austin Film Society. Church, a two-time..."

April 17, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond

"...recent changes to their employment policies: Workers say the company makes it tougher to take sick leave but easier..."

April 16, 2010 News Feature

'Porgy and Bess': Lawd, it's on its way

Despite some offstage storms, Zach's production made a big splash – and may win a second life

"...and Bess up before the public, the Zachary Scott Theatre Center came to feel a kinship to the hurricane-blasted..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Scripting the War

Susan O'Connor's journey to game writing

"...a 200-page script for a production that no movie theatre will ever play. The script involves actors, a consuming..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Screens Feature by Carson Barker

In Memoriam: Bill Fagan

"...(in a gorilla suit), in a UT Department of Theatre revival of Company, and, in 1985, in the Groucho-inspired..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

Despite the economic downturn, Arts Center Stage is moving forward in its campaign to build the Long Center for the Performing Arts, and two of Austin's gay playwrights have cause to be happy.

"...This time last year, Austin was still celebrating the unprecedented number of..."

March 8, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

The Player

With Adventures of a No Name Actor, a comic memoir of his adventures in the screen trade, anonymous player Marco Perella is finding literary stardom.

"...from his new book, Adventures of a No Name Actor, comic tales from the life of a featured player...."

July 6, 2001 Books Feature by Katherine Catmull

Dancing About Architecture

The Austin Music Network changes administrations once again.

"...He wasn't kidding. As of right now, Melchior and company are gone, daddy, gone, the Commission having assigned the..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Articulations

More money for the Long Center, more art for AMOA, and more national exposure for a Flaming Idiot.

"...and Teresa Lozano Long Center for the Performing Arts. Last week, arts patrons Bill and Bettye Nowlin joined the..."

May 12, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Save the Music

Power Plays

"...resources with which to beat out the Music Management Company, Melchior was doing his own counter-intelligence, requesting through city..."

Sept. 4, 1998 News Column by Jenny Staff

Exibitionism

The Life of Galileo:body, Motion, Color

"...curious man blessed with a keen understanding of life's galactic truths...."

May 1, 1998 Arts Review

Any Way You Slice It

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation

"...That would be cause for celebration, except for the fact that the film's executive producer, attorney Robert Kuhn, has..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Devil and William Friedkin

The director's journey from The Exorcist to a real exorcism

"...him steadily drift away from cinema and increasingly into theatre, Friedkin will always be synonymous with The Exorcist, his..."

Jan. 5, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback: Five Nights on Dirty Sixth

Is Dirty Sixth Street the wasteland the music scene makes it out to be? Five straight nights answer loud and clear.

"...a giant beard. Time to hit the Vulcan Gas Company, which has little connection to the historic Congress Avenue..."

July 17, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

We Remember What the Dormouse Said

Ten authors cut you a little slice of their own personal Wonderlands

"...past 150 years, the book's narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been – as Wikipedia rightfully asserts..."

March 31, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW: A Cold One With Joe Swanberg and His 'Drinking Buddies'

The festival's oddest and most comfortable press gathering

"...way from debuting Silver Bullets to a half-full Rollins Theatre at SXSW 2011. But the high point must be..."

March 14, 2013 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

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