Review: Austin Playhouse's Previews of Departing Attractions

Twenty years in the making, Lowell Bartholomee's latest collection of short plays is worth the wait

"...from cancer ("Standing Room Only"), from the pending apocalypse ("Mono no Aware"), and from the shift in Austin's culture..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Austin Playhouse Opens New Venue with Lowell Bartholomee’s Previews of Departing Attractions

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll … possibly think of Walter Matthau?

"...“There’s one piece called Mono No Aware,” says Bartholomee. “Which I’m probably pronouncing wrong...."

Aug. 5, 2022 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Faster Than Sound: Erwin Center Replacement, the Moody Center, Opens on UT Campus

The 15,000-capacity concert/basketball arena, plus more debuting venue news

"...first concert landed Saturday with intense Japanese post-rock experimentalists Mono. Renovations placed a larger stage, previously in the corner,..."

April 22, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

A New Parish Set to Open in Former North Door Location

Owners behind Empire and Resound Presents team up at Eastside Venue

"...(March 30), Naked Giants (April 7), Moonchild (April 14), MONO (April 16), Cobra Man (April 19) Greyson Chance (April..."

Feb. 10, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Prisoners of the Ghostland

Nic Cage and Sion Sono craziness is not the sum of its parts

"...Seven Samurai became The Magnificent Seven, Unforgiven became Yurusarezaru mono. That exchange has also created bizarro fusions like Six..."

Sept. 17, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sundance Review: Prisoners of the Ghostland

Cage/Sono styles clash in underwhelming cowboy/ronin/gangster film

"...Seven Samurai became The Magnificent Seven, Unforgiven became Yurusarezaru mono...."

Feb. 1, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...it all sounds like a vintage Chess or Specialty mono 45, the sound of a smokin' live band in..."

Nov. 27, 2020 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...The colorful segments, including sets by Brainfeeder label alum Mono/Poly, conceptual beat artiste Black Taffy, St. Louis avant-garde rap..."

May 29, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

National Lampoon Takes Aim at SXSW

Exclusive: Comedy institution brings podcast for 50th anniversary

"...would play this stuff on this turntable on this mono speaker on this wooden bunk in the middle of..."

Jan. 16, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rolling Stones

"...Two LPs and stand-alone CDs featuring remastered stereo and mono mixes on an album only released initially in the..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock and Mike D Talk Trap, Basketball, Bogus Conspiracies, SXSW, and Their New Book

"We realized that all we do have, before this started and after it ends, is the three of us.”

"...Dust Brothers using the very first iteration of a mono sampler, but with computer software so we could sample..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...Mono – Blackwater D: Ben Wolstenholme Mono, the former assassin..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Beatles / The Rolling Stones

"...stereo remaster redefines the psychedelic summit while making the mono mix on disc 4 superfluous, but a pair of..."

Dec. 8, 2017 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Luv Doc: Monogamous Leftovers

Polyamory, like communism, is much harder in practice than in theory

"...– Mono Polly..."

Sept. 29, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Public Notice: Glowing, Like a Nuclear Reactor

"...There are neighborhoods that are getting painted with a mono-zoning that's likely to kill them: notably East Austin, Clarksville,..."

April 28, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Curcuma

Turmeric rules at this plant-based food truck

"...ghee, seasonal vegetables, and various seasonings, contemporarily popular for mono-diet cleanses. Curcuma's version is drier than most, keeping the..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

The Time Machine: Top Hits of Every Decade for a Century

Montopolis goes multimedia and transtemporal in live concert

"...I just rented a Moog Voyager – this incredible mono synth that I’ve always wanted to play – and..."

Jan. 11, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Music List No. 3

Dead Meadow, Sad13, Cindy Wilson, Lizzo, Boogarins, and 494 others

"...The Shanks (Mono, Canada)..."

Jan. 10, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Rolling Stones

Rolling Stones in Mono (ABKCO)

"...intended man to hear early rock & roll in mono. Box sets from the Beatles and Bob Dylan prove..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Ramones

Ramones 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Sire/Rhino)

"...rhythm section. Liner notes indicate Craig Leon prepared a mono mix in '76 he much preferred. Sire demurred. The..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Too Late to Stop Now

Digital media in analog boxes – and sometimes in mono!

Dec. 16, 2016 Music Feature

Standing Rock Pipeline Protests Bring New Life to Old Struggles

“It’s about all of us”

"...stuff through. We let people destroy economies and build mono-economies and say they are creating jobs; that destroys the..."

Sept. 30, 2016 News Feature by Greg Harman

Chronicle Endorsements

"...takes the initiative. We also find disconcerting Suits' apparent mono-focus on fraudulent auto registration stickers – the anti-emissions, environmental-protection..."

Feb. 12, 2016 News Feature

The Revenant

Iñárritu’s Western loses the forest for the trees, but oh, what trees

"...that the film may leave you as near-speechless and mono-minded as its battered returnee from the dead. Not since..."

Jan. 8, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Have Love Will Travel with the Sonics

Guitarist Larry Parypa woke up 50 years later a punk godfather

"...but we did, and I think it was in mono. It was loud, because we weren’t good musicians!..."

June 12, 2015 Music Post by Tim Stegall

The Sonics

"...proto-punks are still recording in the red and in mono, with original producer Buck Ormsby replaced by Detroit studio..."

May 1, 2015 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Old Settler's Music Festival Interviews

Talking bluegrass with five OSMF headliners and a Dripping Springs dweller

"...traditional country and rock. This year's eighth studio LP, Mono, cuts through styles and melds genres more aggressively, united..."

April 17, 2015 Music Feature

Austin’s Record Store Day Picks

Local releases and where to get 'em

"...special releases, which range in quality from a 180-gram mono pressing of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes to a 7-inch..."

April 15, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Velvet Underground

Out of the basement and under the tree!

"...break. Of the three mixes here, engineer Val Valentin's mono promo mix packs the most punch. The real revelations..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Vladislav Delay’s Visa

Walled out and the sound thereof

"...the sparse decor of an interrogation room resounding in mono tinnitus. The album tracks panorama as readily as it..."

Nov. 19, 2014 Music Post by Conor Walker

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