Laid Back with Mirage

Part two of Summer in the City

"...Thompson jumps into the phone booth and emerges as Mirage, a rapper out to redefine the way the city..."

June 18, 2008 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

“Island Oasis Mirage” at Big Medium

The exhibit by Michael Krueger, Kathleen McShane, and Barbara Weissberger seems a planned mess, but one that echoes a greater scheme

"...Michael Krueger's, Kathleen McShane's, and Barbara Weissberger's "Island Oasis Mirage" is in Weissberger's Slant and Bent Pencil. It is..."

June 30, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Sir! No Sir!

The GI anti-war movement during the Vietnam war is recounted in this revelatory documentary whose current implications cannot be underestimated.

"...from the present becomes little more than a desert mirage...."

May 19, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Suture

"...Suture draws inspiration from the great paranoid thrillers like Mirage and Seconds and, obviously, the work of Hitchcock. The..."

April 29, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fleetwood Mac

Mirage Deluxe (Rhino)

"...Mirage pools the procedural sound of drug-addled and otherwise preoccupied..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

What Is This?

"...a decidedly Seventies, AOR-style punch, while 1987's "psychedelic epic" Mirage sparkles mirror-ball-like just as Huevos, also released in '87,..."

April 9, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Austin's Hip-Hop Pioneers, in Their Own Words

The Austin History Center-archived rappers and industry innovators share stories

"...| DJ Cassanova | FLOMOB | Tee Double | Mirage the Gr8 | NOOK Turner | Hip Hop Mecca..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Mirage

"...MirageThe Savant Album (MelodicScience Recordings)..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Music Review by Thomas Fawcett

Fantastic Market Picks a Sinful 16

International co-production market draws on Fantastic Fest vets

"...favorite chronicler of ass-kicking Ernesto Diaz Espinosa (Mandrill, Kiltro, Mirage Man)..."

Aug. 22, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Beatbox

Beatbox

"...("Last Call") keep things fresh. Out of the 2-3, Mirage and his MelodicScience crew brush the dust off their..."

April 30, 2010 Music Review by Chase Hoffberger

Beat Box

Beat Box

"...valuable oral history lesson on Austin's Eastside OGs. On Mirage's self-titled disc from MelodicScience Recordings, the ATX MC with..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Music Review by Thomas Fawcett

Looking for Las Vegas

An Austin playwright discovers Sin City by going to Louisville

"...back in Louisville for the first read-through of Neon Mirage, the title we've landed on for our big crazy..."

May 5, 2006 Arts Feature by Dan Dietz

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

The Autobots get wild as their animal counterparts join the fight

"...of Pete Davidson for some reason and is actually Mirage, part of the crew of Autobots led by Optimus..."

June 9, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Austin Hip-Hop Pioneer Tee Double Perseveres

Holding the vision through institutional racism, isolation, and a double transplant

"...Lounge." Johnson sharpened his skills there alongside Bavu Blakes, Mirage the Gr8 (Dana Thompson), and Traygod (Tray Frazier)...."

Feb. 12, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Summer in the City

Live hip-hop in the ATX

"...from focusing on the night's event. MelodicScience top dog Mirage did his part, picking three of Austin’s best MCs..."

June 6, 2008 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

No Country for Old Men

The Coen brothers display magnificent form with this Cormac McCarthy tale about intransigent evil in the modern West.

"...too foolish to see that it's only a desert mirage. Almost immediately on his trail is Anton Chigurh (Bardem),..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Life Is a Rhythm

Ground zero for Austin hip-hop: University Hills' 2-3

"...rapping," explains former LBJ High student turned Austin wordsmith Mirage, "there were only maybe five or six kids in..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

2-3 Proliferation

"...many years signifies his most accomplished work to date. Mirage..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

Beatbox

Beatbox

"...dark tryna get a ray of light to himself." Mirage, DJ Kunal M, and DJ Tats demonstrate The Other..."

April 29, 2005 Music Review by Robert Gabriel

TCB

SIMS and Alejandro Escovedo on the mend, plus more hip-hop and SXSW for your shoulder-to-shoulder

"...toe while Double and guest MCs like Bavu Blakes, Mirage, and Traygod Shekhem bring the knowledge. It's actually divided..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Dream of a New Circus

In the two decades it has taken for Cirque du Soleil to reach Austin for the first time, this Montreal-based troupe has not only reinvented circus as performance art but grown into one of the most unexpected and unlikely of entertainment empires.

"...presenting Nouvelle Expérience in a yearlong residency at the Mirage Hotel. Its success was so overwhelming that a theatre..."

May 2, 2003 Arts Feature by Michael Point

Beatbox

Texas Platters

"...Melodic Science of ATX, comes the bloodshot Bonifide MC Mirage, spitting continuously calm perspectives into his laxed life of..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Music Review by Christopher Coletti

Local Flow

Austin hip-hop in the house -- really

"...securing a record deal for his junior high buddy Mirage on his label Goodvibes...."

Sept. 8, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Coach's Corner

Aging stars and aging boomers spell an ongoing decline in the popularity of tennis, Coach muses, while dropping a bundle in a Vegas sports book.

"...week's column, born inside the sports book of the Mirage Hotel, where I sullenly sip another bad -- but..."

April 28, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Hearth & Soul

A Pain in the Sash

"...looking through them very akin to looking at a mirage. Well, I have several cracked or broken windows, but..."

May 12, 1995 Column by Suzy Banks

Lost in Austin Chronicles the City’s Rapid Rise

Journalist and former Austinite Alex Hannaford takes a hard look at unaffordability and a disappearing culture

"...transformed the city. The cultural oasis had become a mirage that obscured the realities happening over the past 20..."

Nov. 15, 2024 Arts Feature by Doug Freeman

Residential Address: The College of Hip-Hop Knowledge Schools Austin on Homegrown and National Talent

Organized Konfusion's Prince Po joins Fresh Fridaze on July 14

"...and camaraderie appears in the distance. Like a desert mirage, but with a booming breakbeat. You have to rely..."

July 7, 2023 Music Column by Gary Lindsey

Otis Wilkins & Jake Lloyd’s Rock Star Collab and Four More Songs from Austin Artists

New music picks from More Eaze, promqueen, Being Dead, and RF Shannon

"...pull of mellow after-hours camaraderie, sinking into a dreamy mirage somewhere between Iron & Wine and Beck's "The Golden..."

April 21, 2023 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

Greatness Beyond Genre at This Is Austin, Not That Great Festival

The hardcore-and-more convergence returns next weekend

"...assembled riff warriors. Silva recommends hardcore acts Sociedad Bastarda, Mirage, and the Passing, as well as locals Flower City...."

Feb. 24, 2023 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Vel Nine, Sam Dimov Quintet, Rococo Disco, and more recommended shows

"...Angren jet in from the Netherlands. Gaerea's third LP, Mirage, grinds BM misanthropy originating from Portugal. Don't let that..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

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