Allow Me to Introduce Myself

I'm Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, a brand new blogger for the Gay Place.

"...the '80s and '90s (my 20s and 30s) in New York studying painting, playing in bands, writing songs, singing,..."

Jan. 21, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Steven Cheslik-deMeyer

Unstable Element

Are Austin's water fluoridation policies dangerous? It depends who you ask.

"...can stop or slow their growth, help build a new coat of enamel, and kill the acid-creating bacteria. That's..."

Nov. 27, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Sex, Thugs, and Thanatos

The mad, bad bounty of Fantastic Fest 2009

"...from yesterday's cinematic Europe to the erotic and exotic new, pre-EU, they came to represent to me a more..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Drawing Focus

Ola Podrida principal David Wingo soundtracks Belly of the Lion

"...Brooklyn apartment between session work for Gentlemen Broncos, the new comedy from Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess that premieres..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Fun Fun Fun Fest kicks up some dust in Waterloo Park while Carlos Santana sets up shop in the Warehouse District

"...testament to the comfortable size of the festival. The newly added fourth stage, nestled into the corner of 12th..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Positively Serene Death of Sir Ritter Hans Von Wittenstein Zu Wittenstein

Aggressive Muse's adaptation of Ondine is long, bloated, and lacking in precision

"...There is a trend with new plays that goes something like this: 90 minutes, no..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

Res Publica

This week's civic agenda, Aug. 28-Sept. 4

"...Blvd.; Generation Obama party (RSVP online), 7:30pm, Cap City Comedy Club, 8120 Research #100, www.my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gply7m...."

Aug. 29, 2008 News Feature

'Thunder' the Dunderhead?

The "R" word controversy comes to Central Texas

"...Tropic Thunder is a new comedy that opens today. In said film, the word..."

Aug. 13, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Bonnaroo (From the Pit)

"...large tents. There are also several smaller tents, a comedy tent that's set up to look like a circus,..."

June 19, 2008 Music Post by Gary Miller

Artists' Honor Roll: Austin takes the prize

A rundown of recent honors bestowed on local artists and arts educators

"...four decades, inspiring your colleagues and peers and now new generations of choreographers and performers. Your sustained commitment and..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two: Downward Spiral

Aesthetically, we have gone insane and dull

"...as well as filmmakers -- responded to this brave new world by working with a sense of purpose coupled..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Column by Louis Black

TV Eye

Margin Material

"...Press and moderator for Ready for Prime Time: TV Comedy of Today. The couple is not as odd as..."

March 23, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

SXSW Film

Daily Reviews and Interviews

"...the Church of Stop Shopping are not your average performance-art-comedy activists. Using humor, spiritual messages, and more than 30..."

March 16, 2007 Screens Feature by Toddy Burton

Letters at 3AM

This month celebrates the 400th anniversary of Cervantes' 'Don Quixote,' the first great novel of Western literature and the most prophetic, in which deconstruction, postmodernism, and literary theory wind up bumping into one another and falling down hard

"...paradox. Derrida's "deconstruction" philosophy was ably summarized in The New York Times by Edward Rothstein: "Any attempt to explain..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Election news heats up! See p.28 for the marquee CD 25..."

Feb. 13, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

'Pocho' Patchwork

AFS's Texas Doc Tour brings the formidable Héctor Galán and his 'Visiones' to One World Theatre.

"...including Chicano! History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (1996). He'll screen 10 segments (about 70 minutes) of..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Crazy For You

With Crazy for You, Zilker Theatre Productions brings the grand songs of George and Ira Gershwin back to the park for the first time in 43 years, and the occasion seems to have inspired the artists involved to an infectious jubilation.

"...Guy Bolton and John McGowan's original book with a new one -- really a new "old" book, since Crazy..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.

"...in a dark age or the advent of a new vigorous era. Whichever it may be, 2002's vitality in..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...I'm excited about the prospect of this beautiful new addition to our neighborhood, this gateway between Zilker Park..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Column

Invasion of the Kiddie-Lit Plays

Characters from children's literature storm Austin-area stages in July.

"...the unique tools of the theatre to provide wonder anew, no matter what our age...."

July 5, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

More Than Just the Facts, Ma'am

The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum's exhibition on Davy Crockett features a short stage show with the hero of the Alamo appearing live and in person. The two Austin actors who alternate in the show describe how they bring that King of the Wild Frontier to life day in and day out.

"...really a colonel," amends Douglas Taylor, scratching at his newly thick sideburns. "Although he was a sergeant in the..."

June 14, 2002 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

2002 Summer Camps

"...off every morning in their 15-passenger vans for a new, exciting location. Depending on what session you choose, your..."

May 10, 2002 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Cine Las Americas Schedule

"...Havana's oldest Afro-Cuban music venue, La Tropical is like New York City's Broadway: If musicians can make it there,..."

April 12, 2002 Screens Feature

A Land Shaded in Melancholy Hues

The Austin Museum of Art exhibition "Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South, 1862-1999" connects the blues aurally and visually, and reveals how the South, like the blues, is full of contradictions: dark and woeful yet beauteous and jubilant.

"...time, such as Earnest J. Bellocq's portrait of the New Orleans woman contemplating a shot glass of rye in..."

March 8, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

After a Fashion

Guess who your Style Avatar flitted around town with this week? Check out this first installment about international salon god José Eber's visit to Austin.

"...clients include Wells-Fargo and Lavaca Street Bar. When I knew I was bringing a model to see the celebrated..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Art Stripped Naked

Art Stripped Naked, Wayne Alan Brenner's comedy of the relationship between a father and son -- augmented by an ongoing discourse of the nature of art -- is both sweet and simple, with a heartwarming twist, and its presentation by Hyde Park Theatre makes for a gentle evening on one's senses.

"...Wayne Alan Brenner's comedy of the relationship between a father and son --..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Book 'Em

Recent Picks From the Summer Crop

"...of Armenian-American writer William Saroyan, author of The Human Comedy, originally a screenplay for which the father won an..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Books Feature by Dave Oliphant

TV Eye

PBS delivers the goods.

"...came through once again with Six Feet Under, and Comedy Central gave us Primetime Glick. Although You Don't Know..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Little Footsteps

Excellent Muse's production of Ted Tally's Little Footsteps is not without things to recommend -- Kristi Fleming's performance is relaxed and true -- but in the end, this show about having a baby lacks exactly the kind of magic -- of life and love and innocence and joy -- that a baby can bring.

"...prepare the way, converting the dining room of their New York apartment into a brightly colored nursery. But there's..."

July 6, 2001 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Short Cuts

To auteur or not to auteur, a fabulous gay movie awards ceremony, kraut-rock!, and now boarding for Lonesome Dove.

"...Dept.: The auteur theory first broached during the French New Wave by everyone from François Truffaut to Jean-Luc Godard..."

June 29, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

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