Charged Up

The 10th Fusebox Festival gets off to an electric start with 'Mozart Requiem Undead'

"...That's the kind of mental image conjured by Mozart Requiem Undead, the "reanimation" of that choral masterwork with..."

April 11, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Thursday Picks & Sleepers

S.H.I.T. – So Happy It's Thursday blurbs

"...with Eighties Australian hitmakers Mental as Anything. Far-ranging pop smarts and a slightly askew worldview makes for near-instant engagement..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

Your Coffee Table's Begging For Books Like These

Two new volumes of art from Steve Brudniak and Clifford Ross

"...gets around to producing a book that displays that artwork to the world in glossy, full-color, paper-based finery? Nigh..."

Sept. 3, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

How the Nez Was Won

Texan Monkees-tamer Michael Nesmith returns to the fold

"...quality and influence. The shows emphasize material from 1967's Headquarters and 1968's Head, the best of the albums that..."

July 26, 2013 Music Feature by Scott Schinder

Civics 101

"...of Austin's cemeteries. 2-3:30pm. Carver Library, 1161 Angelina. Free. austintexas.gov/department/cemetery-master-plan...."

June 7, 2013 News Column

Civics 101

"...in the industry, this one-day workshop has you covered. Participants learn the basics of solar power and of building..."

May 31, 2013 News Column

Civics 101

"...ART IN THE PARKS Want to wrap Pease Park in..."

May 24, 2013 News Column

Food, the City, and Innovation

Rethinking the global food system

"...for instance, Le Whif, a lipstick-like device that utilizes particle engineering to deliver breathable chocolate and inhaled caffeine, or..."

Feb. 5, 2013 Food Post by Anna Toon

So Much Specialness

David Byrne's cult classic True Stories captured a lost Texas and a prescient picture of today

"...Byrne co-wrote, directed, and starred in the film, a multimedia avant-garde extravaganza packaged in the unlikely format of a..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Screens Feature by Leah Churner

This Week's Waste of Time

You have died of dysentery

"...the original Oregon Trail at the Blanton Museum of Art of all places. In the multimedia room surrounded by..."

May 11, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Top 10 Arts Events of 2011 in No Particular Order

How festival goodness and powerful art exhibits made 2011 a year to remember

"...4) 'PRINTING MATTERS' (Slugfest Print­making Workshop & Gallery) Artemio Rodriguez provided a stark display of graphic power with..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Wish List

We've made your list, now check it twice and give to do good!

"...dump off old or broken items. 2) Consider becoming part of a year-round giving program. 3) Nonprofits always need..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Gay Place

Happy Thanksgiving, gaybirds!

"...with a ton of stuff going on. 2) Mail Art With Dandy returns to Wednesdays at Bernadette's. 3) Some..."

Nov. 25, 2011 Column by Kate X Messer

All Over Creation: Classical Alchemy

How Austin is transmuting the music of old into dance, art, and comedy

"...the Periodic Table of Symphonies or Sonatas or String Quartets and remained there, fixed and immutable...."

Sept. 30, 2011 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Team Risk

UT students create a safe place for their classmates to make daring new stage work

"...Two years ago, when the New York City-based theatre artist was looking to obtain her master's degree in directing,..."

March 25, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rise Above

SST Records' Greg Ginn jams econo in Taylor, Texas

"...the City Hall annex and post office, the new headquarters for SST Records appears almost as a mirage, with..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

love conjure/blues

Sharon Bridgforth's love/conjure blues is a ritual steeped in the magic of the Southern black oral tradition and West African spirituality but encircling all of us

"...through the space, sometimes narrating, sometimes not, while a multimedia visual-art installation moves on three large screens. The characters..."

June 22, 2007 Arts Review by Abe Louise Young

Holiday Wish Lists 2003

Presents for public service

"...things. Things that you could offer as holiday gifts! Smart Santas know that at the end of the calendar..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Features Feature

Seeking the Recipe

Hermeticism has been marginalized academia since the Enlightenment. Can a UT professor and grad student editing a journal change that?

"...When two members of UT's English department took over the editorship of Cauda Pavonis: Studies in..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Books Feature by Michael Erard

Touch

Ballet Austin's Touch, choreographed by Artistic Director Stephen Mills, was one of these rare productions that have both stunning choreography and dancing, but also seem to open a level of emotional connection with the audience that's more direct than even language-based works of art.

"...audience that's more direct than even language-based works of art. Ballet Austin's Touch, choreographed by Artistic Director Stephen Mills,..."

April 18, 2003 Arts Review by Molly Beth Brenner

Dancing About Architecture

Danny Crooks, down with the ship once again

"...club closed down its Sixth Street location.) For his part, Oveisi says he's insisting that Crooks continues to make..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The New Sobriety

SXSW Interactive Conference photos and panel reviews

"...abroad, providing all of the bells and whistles only half-heartedly delivered in the U.S. (WAP, anyone?)...."

March 22, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

The Long and the Short of It

The expansive Cinematexas short film festival

"...All the Girls With Cameras in Their Heads This eight-part program brings together seven female filmmakers from three decades..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

The Innovators

Part 2 of "Jazz," by Harvey Pekar

"...and that historians had to wait decades before judging artists and their accomplishments...."

June 15, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

After a Fashion

Welcome to our style column's third in a series on local fashion photographers. This week, find out all about Bob Sherman and why frogs , lambs, and satanic pom-pom girls love him.

"...appointed bed. Though this column on Bob Sherman is part of our ongoing series focusing on photographers, it is..."

March 16, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

After a Fashion

This week, After a Fashion goes south -- South Congress, that is, to visit with old friends and discover new faces.

"...IDoL's stable of local designers, including Judy Masliyah, Bonnie Barton, and Joy Standefer, among so many others, will be..."

March 2, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Second Annual Yoko Ono Birthday Tribute Hoot Gaby & Mo's, February 17

"...in question was a tribute to the music and art of Yoko Ono, and not only that, it was..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Music Review by Ken Lieck

CinemaTexas5

International Short Film and Video Festival Schedule

"...In past years, the sidebar presented works by Hal Hartley and Robert Altman. This year the honoree is Jim..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Screens Feature

Taking Stages

Young, optimistic, and flaky in a way that belies their revolution-for-the-hell-of-it satire, the KAiROS Co. has cultivated a name for itself as "poetic terrorists." Now, after five years in Austin, this theatrical sketch comedy troupe is readying to face down New York.

"...resulted in postponement -- of either their show, their departure date, or our meeting. One Chronicle editor reports calling..."

July 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

A Time of Recognition

An excerpt from John Cale's new autobiography, What's Welsh for Zen?

"...Morrison tribute during this year's Austin Music Awards, a heartfelt South by Southwest panel dedicated to the same, an..."

April 14, 2000 Music Feature by Victor Bockris

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