TV Eye: Oprah, Amen

Reflecting on the Gospel of Oprah

"...Center. Those episodes were dubbed "Surprise, Oprah! A Farewell Spectacular." The spectacle, the thousands of screaming fans, the special..."

June 3, 2011 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar keeps confusing the Volstead with the Mann Act

"...with stunningly beautiful sculptures in a garden of twinkling lights and bridges and a spread of divine food from..."

April 8, 2011 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Day Trips

Orion Knox's life was changed when he became the first human to view the incredible rock formations of Natural Bridge Caverns

"...west of New Braunfels is Texas' biggest and most spectacular show cave...."

April 9, 2010 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

ACL Music Fest Saturday Picks

The blurbing of ACL 2009

"...group's fourth album and Yep Roc debut, 2009's Blue Lights on the Runway. Behind frontman Dave Geraghty's mercurial croon,..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Music Feature

Off the Record

Sounding off on the ripple effect from City Council's changes to the Austin City Code regarding live music at restaurants, while Vega makes some noise with Crystal Castles

"...deafening, 80-minute reverie of shimmering guitar auroras and strobe lights that climaxed with the numbing closer "You Made Me..."

April 24, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Live to Tell

Madonna Live Shot, Houston's Minute Maid Park, 11.16.2008

"...Otherwise, Broadway iconography dominated the spectacle and spectacular. “Devil Won’t Recognize You,” from Madonna’s recent Hard Candy..."

Nov. 17, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Day Trips

Natural Bridge Caverns outside of New Braunfels has expanded their spelunking options with the new Illuminations Tour

"...new tour to a second underground chamber just as spectacular as the original cave...."

March 28, 2008 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Thursday Picks

"...H+D's psych, but the energy onstage is all city lights. Three years after the initial tease, H+D's killer sophomore..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

Fun Fun Fun Fest Preview

"...in its skinny jeans, think again. Columbia debut Oracular Spectacular pits Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser's four-on-the-floor beats against..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Music Feature

Risk for Beauty

Sally Jacques sends dancers flying off a pair of federal buildings to give us a moment of transcendence

"...designer Jason Amato, improbably transformed them into sites of spectacular, even transcendent beauty...."

June 15, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Catastrophe and the Cure

Explosions at the Hogg.

"...monumental. Its seated precursor, however, at Hogg, was singularly spectacular. For starters, for the first time ever, I could..."

March 5, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Last Shall Be First

New Year's Eve becomes a cultural extravaganza with First Night Austin

"...Acia Gray of Tapestry Dance Company..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

After a Fashion

Caroling, Mother Ginger, and teenage wildings? You know it's 'the season.'

"...party was dizzyingly beautiful – when the decorations are spectacular jewelry confections, nothing else is needed. The new pieces..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Shot in the Dark

The Texas Documentary Tour presents Paul Devlin's 'Power Trip'

"...it be necessary to risk electrocution to turn the lights on. Down came the makeshift wiring. Still, when the..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

After a Fashion

Whoa! Your Style Avatar is older than dirt! Oops, we mean, "just celebrated another b-day!" Come celebrate within.

"...venue was the new Downtown Hilton. This event is spectacular. The work put into it, the wonderful auction items,..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...an acoustic guitar and boom-box beat-maker, Britt Daniel's solo flights often throw his finely wrought sketches of fitted shirts,..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

End of an Arts Era

The most prosperous period in Austin's cultural history came to a painful close in 2003.

"...that prosperity faded, so did AMT. After a last-ditch spectacular this fall -- The Wizard of Oz, produced with..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

An era of Austin theatre ends as Austin Musical Theatre files for bankruptcy.

"...Lights Out for AMT..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...mega-mansions. Waller Creek and Shoal Creek, which could be spectacular, are for the most part drainage ditches. Look to..."

July 11, 2003 Column

Alegría

Cirque du Soleil's Alegría brings to athletic, spellbinding performances a genius of creativity unlike anything you've seen at the circus, turning a night under the big top into a magical exploration of a world of intrigue and mystery, grace and daring. And joy.

"...a formerly unknown range of mountains; within, music and lights and ropes and poles and all manner of colorful..."

May 2, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

My Funny Valentine

My Funny Valentine, Tapestry Dance Company's love-struck evening of dance, provided both seduction that appeared effortless and that was the picture of hard work, and it all thrilled.

"...love-struck evening of dance, the mood shifted -- the lights dimmed, the fog swirled, and I'll be honest: I'm..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Arts Review by Sarah Hepola

After a Fashion

If you ask Stephen out on a date and he tells you that he has to do his Hair, don't be offended, he's just obsessing about the new production at Zach Scott.

"...of stars, clouds, and planes, he sparkled under the lights like a celestial being. He ended the show wearing..."

July 19, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Day Trips

"...Avenue exit, turn right (north) and go two traffic lights to W.W. White Road, turn right on Holmgreen Road...."

March 8, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...area was bathed in an eerie color with white spotlights and red flashers. The parking lot was filled with..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Search Through the Skies

The new musical Jouét represents a journey not only for the title character, a pop star in search of a home, but one for Austin composer Allen Robertson and for the city's Zachary Scott Theatre Center, which is producing its first original musical.

"...Music Hall wants you to work on its Christmas Spectacular? "Allen had taken the gig to do the Radio..."

April 6, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

puh-LOB-o-liss!

How a handful of Dartmouth College stoners started a revolution in modern dance.

"...Berkshire foothills. The storm started with an hour of spectacular, unending lightning, instant thunder, and driving raindrops a half-inch..."

March 2, 2001 Arts Feature by John Job

TV Eye

Memories of the Jerry Lewis telethon. Also, upcoming KLRU programming for September, Hispanic Heritage Month

"...I only noticed as I got older. The Vegas lights and glitter couldn't mask what seemed to be a..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Iron Chef, the addictive and absorbing Japanese show which presents cooking as a sports event, comes to Manhattan with Iron Chef NY Battle, which pits Japanese chef Masaharu Morimoto against American Bobby Flay.

"...I didn't mention the pageantry, the smoke and lights, the play-by-play action, the melodramatic music, the egos and..."

June 23, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

A Room With a View

Steve Wertheimer prepares to open a second Continental Club -- in Houston.

"...forth. There's also the matter of procuring pool tables, lights, a sound system, tables, chairs, barstools, glasses, and artwork...."

May 26, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Rockin' Christmas Party: Party Out of Bounds

Robert Faires gets a buzz from the Zachary Scott Theatre Center production of Rockin' Christmas Party.

"...polished cones of metal studded with dozens of green lights. It also means a completely reconceived fantasy involving an..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Arts Review by Robert Faires

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