Still Up the Junction

Q&A with Chris Difford of Squeeze

"...tow, they play La Zona Rosa on Friday with local popsters Fastball opening. What follows is a conversation with..."

Sept. 3, 2008 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Today Is Election Day

It's time, people. Make your voice heard.

"...the polls close, don’t forget to participate in your local precinct convention – held at your precinct polling location..."

March 4, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

Spurs to Own Toros

"...champion San Antonio Spurs have agreed to purchase our local D-League affiliate from Southwest Basketball, LLC. As the owners..."

July 11, 2007 Sports Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Taking Austin for a 'Spin'

TCBlog make the Austin rounds in the new Spin.

"...enough national recognition and that for as much coverage local bands get from the coasts, Antone's might as well..."

April 25, 2007 News Post by Christopher Gray

Long Way Home

Considering the art of the map, as inspired by two local exhibitions and a housewarming party

"...of his planning, the extreme care with which the lines (of coasts, of rivers, of mountains and seas and..."

May 20, 2005 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Much Ado About Nothing

J. Damian Gillen's take on Much Ado About Nothing derives its inspiration from Hollywood screwball comedies of the 1930s and 1940s, and almost pulls it off

"...Shakespeare used as a backdrop), and some of the lines don't sound a bit Shakespearean (that's probably a result..."

July 30, 2004 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Where Nothing Falls II

Where Nothing Falls II is a breathtaking, heart-rending parade of bodies in motion through the vast expanses of a warehouse

"...all those dancers moving back and forth in parallel lines dozens of feet apart, it lends the work an..."

June 25, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Crimes of the Heart

Onstage Theatre Company's production of Crimes of the Heart focuses on the relationships among Beth Henley's small-town Southerners and describes them simply, truly, and beautifully

"...Brian Jepson – enters the room, the weight and lines from all the disappointment suffered in Los Angeles fading..."

June 4, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

"Heroines, Harlots, and Hussies: Old Testament Women in Renaissance and Baroque Prints"

The prints and drawings in the Blanton Museum's "Heroines, Harlots, and Hussies: Old Testament Women in Renaissance and Baroque Prints" illuminate the way women shape biblical history, even though it's often through their misbehavior

"...in pen-and-ink drawings, the pieces are completely comprised of lines, which form both the über-defined figures of the engravings..."

May 21, 2004 Arts Review by Molly Beth Brenner

A Piece of Work: AquaPoint

AquaPoint is not overly arresting, but if you're leisurely walking the grounds of the Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Damian Priour's limestone arrow dripping water is hard to walk by without pausing

"...the sky, diminutive from a distance. In sharp, classical lines hewn from white Texas limestone, the sculpture juts from..."

May 14, 2004 Arts Review by Molly Beth Brenner

The House

The House, director J. Ed Araiza's third collaboration with the student artists at St. Edward's University, is unapologetically about them, which makes for the show's strengths and its weaknesses

"...limited to young people at parties – the same lines are evident in The New York Times or the..."

April 23, 2004 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

The Flying Dutchman

Austin Lyric Opera's first production of The Flying Dutchman was a solid and compelling staging of the opera that marked a turning point in Wagner's career and in German opera

"...that field mark of Wagner's orchestration, but important string lines were often hard to pick out, even when you..."

April 2, 2004 Arts Review by Jerry Young

New Works: Jack Spencer

Nashville-based photographer Jack Spencer is such a maestro in the darkroom that the prints he creates have the mysterious, almost shrouded look of Old-West silver tintypes

"...and the years of her age etched into deep lines in her forehead. The soft focus and sepia-toned veil..."

March 26, 2004 Arts Review by Sam Martin

Kiss Me, Kate

Cole Porter's 'Kiss Me Kate' is revived by the Austin Playhouse in such an atmosphere of fun (and ever-so-slightly wicked humor) that the production is rather endearing

"...a show – and having to deal with the deadlines, the budgets, the egos, and a willful public –..."

March 19, 2004 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

The Hasty Heart

In Different Stages' production of John Patrick's relatively old but charming play The Hasty Heart, quality performances help make the almost clichéd nature of the plot work

"...One of the many memorable lines in the play is, "They say that sorrow is..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Private Lives

In Austin Playhouse's production of Private Lives, an excellent ensemble mines Noël Coward's witty wordplay and his characters' spectacular self-absorption with comedic aplomb

"...maid Louise, make for an excellent ensemble, mining Coward's lines with comedic aplomb...."

Feb. 27, 2004 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Run for Your Wife

In Onstage Theatre Company's production of the farce Run For Your Wife, you get engaging performances, split-second timing, and a lot of laughs

"...of twitching nerves, but who instead just delivers his lines with sense and, when he's not running on and..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Mozart Birthday Celebration

Once again, this year's Mozart Birthday Celebration hosted by A. Mozart Fest brought out a high level of intensity and enthusiasm from some of Austin's best musicians

"...struggle and valve clatter as Hale coaxed his sumptuous lines out of classical music's most temperamental machine...."

Jan. 30, 2004 Arts Review by Jerry Young

Topdog/Underdog

Pro Arts Collective makes Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog / Underdog -- a play dense with racial, societal, and economic queries -- into a fast-paced and engaging hour and a half

"...dealt properly or if they were fumbling over their lines. I didn't catch anything of the sort. This is..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

One Flea Spare

Newcomers Vernacurious Performance Group create some potent moments in One Flea Spare, but overall, their staging of Naomi Wallace's highly poetic drama misses its emotional mark.

"...visible to the entire house, some of the lovely lines were lost...."

Jan. 16, 2004 Arts Review by Molly Beth Brenner

"Prints from the Leo Steinberg Collection: Part II"

The Blanton Museum of Art's "Prints from the Leo Steinberg Collection: Part II" continues the display of works from the 3,200-work collection begun earlier in 2003, and while this batch may contain fewer masterpieces, it's no less captivating or transporting.

"...on display there now, he can send you to locales bucolic and tranquil or exotic and charged with mystery..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Beauty and the Beast

Second Youth Family Theatre's Beauty and the Beast is no less magical than other versions of the tale, but its real enchantment comes from the way it show us its fairy tale characters discovering each other's hearts.

"...a dance, following the flow of Robertson's fluid musical lines and using the depth of the Dougherty stage to..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Travesties

Tom Stoppard's Travesties mixes early 20th-century history, European politics, and Oscar Wilde into a typically brilliant work, and the cast of Austin Playhouse's production rises to the intellectual challenges of the script and appears to be having a fine time playing with it.

"...equally adept with the straight-ahead comedy of Stoppard's un-Earnest lines as he is at the more Wilde material. Gray..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

The Purpose of Tools

With The Purpose of Tools, Travis Holmes has penned some nasty satirical material skewering the All-American Family, religion, and work, and Loaded Gun Theory's production boasts a lot of energy, a strong cast, and some clever direction, but the play's frequent blackouts and split focus cause the inspired mania onstage to fizzle out.

"...play as a whole fizzles out. The three plot lines of the gone-nuclear family diverge, never really intersecting again...."

Aug. 1, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

The Bremen Town Musicians

Although it harbors minor inconsistencies, Allen Robertson's The Bremen Town Musicians, set in Depression-era America and scored with gospel and bluegrass music, is a fine play for family viewing. It has enough talking, singing animals to satisfy any kid and music that is highly enjoyable in and of itself.

"...they often swell with unexpected harmonies and unpredictable melody lines. "Free," the animals' anthem, and the spiritual "I'll Be..."

June 20, 2003 Arts Review by Molly Beth Brenner

Quake

Every visit to Hyde Park Theatre brings a discovery of something new, and in the case of Quake, it's playwright Melanie Marnich, whose surrealistic tale of a woman in search of a perfect love, a big love, a love that makes the earth move, is witty and perceptive.

"...to threaten while doing little more than delivering her lines with an expert sense of tempo and volume. Paul..."

June 6, 2003 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Richard Stoltzman and Emanuel Ax

Hearing clarinetist Richard Stoltzman and pianist Emanuel Ax at Bass Concert Hall is like watching chess at Memorial Stadium, but the seasoned musicians still managed to dazzle with their virtuosity and plant music in your head that could lure you into a speeding ticket on the way home.

"...playing -- deftly shaded colors and long gently flowing lines. It's hard to hear the point of articulation where..."

April 25, 2003 Arts Review by Jerry Young

Pains of Youth

In the iron belly muses production of Pains of Youth, a group of young, wealthy medical students in 1920s Austria have, well, a lot of sex with each other, and while the actors work it for all they're worth, the quick tempo and constant physical movement lead to a lack of clarity in the story and a lack of, well, sexiness in the sex.

"...a German expressionist film. Hard, exaggerated vertical and horizontal lines in forced perspective frame a fireplace, a bookcase, a..."

April 11, 2003 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

The Scarlet Letter

The Vortex Repertory Company's retelling of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter feels like it's coming from a fitful, troubled sleep, a hazy dreamscape in which director Michelle Fowler and her cast create a society of suffocating morality and the cruel reprisals that await any who violate its rigid rules of conduct.

"...reveal on closer inspection a modern, streamlined cut. The lines she speaks are not the florid, formal speech penned..."

March 21, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Texas Photographers

The "Texas Photographers" exhibit at Flatbed World Headquarters features several images by several of the artists from the show at Blue Star Art Space in San Antonio, and their relatively simple compositions manage to convey a tremendous range of contrasting colors.

"...buildings, seems trapped within a set of hard, unforgiving lines. Together, they're stunning photographs stunningly presented...."

March 14, 2003 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

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