Austin’s Best Breweries of 2023, Power-Ranked

Top of the Hops VIII, baby!

"...The saying used to be: “There’s no such thing as an ex-craft beer drinker.”..."

Oct. 10, 2023 Food Post by Eric Puga

AFS Cinema Programmer Jazmyne Moreno Wants to Challenge How We Watch Movies

Shades of gray on the silver screen

"...context and comedic relief. "I'd rather you think I were an idiot than to feel like an idiot while..."

April 29, 2022 Screens Feature by Ella Martin-Gachot

A DIY Approach to Helping the Unhoused Pays Off at Camp Esperanza

No funding? No resources? No problem.

"...of all, the rain soaked the tents themselves; they were sodden, drooping. Inside them, about 150 people waited out..."

July 23, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

30 New Shows, Returning Series, and Other TV Premieres This April

Top Chef, crazy love, and sweet potters

"...service nabbed headlines when it acquired Warner Bros. movies once slated to premiere theatrically – nabbed poison darts, too,..."

April 1, 2021 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Supporting Local Farmers and Ranchers Helps Everyone

Back to the soil

"...difficult, but in Central Texas we have two growing seasons, and our markets stay open year-round (unlike in the..."

March 5, 2021 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Checking In: Beto Martinez Stays Home for the Summer

Triple threat shredder adapts from Buda

"...you sheltering and under what circumstances? Who else is there and how’s that going?..."

June 1, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Glass Half Full Theatre's Once There Were Six Seasons

Using innovative puppetry, Glass Half Full Theatre dukes it out with climate change in an invigorating way

"...Center and Instagrammed a picture of the marquee for Once There Were Six Seasons, the latest production by Glass..."

April 26, 2019 Arts Review by Laura Jones

12 Can't-Miss Austin Bands at SXSW

Hip-hop, roots rock, pop, shoegaze, and more to keep your ears ringing

"...germinated when Browne and Woodruff met in Fairview, and once the trio's jams and art-punk listening sessions started cohering..."

March 7, 2019 Music Post by The Music Staff

A Good Time to Be Lawrence Wright

With new book God Save Texas, The Looming Tower series on Hulu, and his play Cleo at the Alley, Lawrence Wright is the man of the moment

"...noted how he seemed to close in now that there were people around – not uncomfortable, just a little..."

April 13, 2018 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Banicki

In Memoriam: Ken Johnson

Remembering the versatile theatre artist, who died March 2

"...and popularity of the stage scene here in the Sixties and Seventies has left us. Ken Johnson – or..."

March 8, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Day Trips & Beyond: Twelve Weeks After Hurricane Harvey in Port Aransas

"Port A is open for business," says chamber of commerce

"...Port A’s harbor collapsed into the water and boats were flung around like toys in a bathtub. Flood waters..."

Dec. 2, 2017 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

100 Local SXSW Music Acts

A-Z list of 100 Austin acts showcasing at the Fest

"...at Hilton Garden Inn, 8:30pm Ain't a stage out there that can contain Birdlegg. The showstopping harmonica wildcat brings..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Swingle All the Way!

Stritch, Caruso deliver hit holiday cabaret from Birdland

"...the classic NYC jazz club, where it's played for six seasons...."

Dec. 20, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

DVDanger: Building The Iron Giant

Tim McCanlies talks behind-the-scenes of the animated classic

"...There are few American animated features more beloved than The..."

Sept. 7, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

10 Freaks and Geeks to Redefine Austin Music

Local passion projects with singular visions

"...Attic Ted Once upon a time in the Nineties, San Marcos artist..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Only the Fourth Wall Is Forever

After 10 years, Salvage Vanguard Theater is moving on

"...There's a full-color painting hidden beneath several coats of white..."

June 24, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

L. Shapley Bassen's "Portrait of a Giant Squid"

First Place winner

"...more distant members of their scattered family, discovering they were a clan of only children. After Donna friended Ray..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Arts Feature by l. Shapley Bassen

Peter and the Wolf Go to Texas

Lionheart Youth Theatre's new adaptation unites the music of Mother Falcon with the puppets of Glass Half Full Theatre

"...company whose acclaimed shows (Fup Duck, The Orchid Flotilla, Once There Were Six Seasons) took puppetry in adventurous, original..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

Top honors to Salvage Vanguard's Thr3e Zisters, LOLA Austin's Femme Bohème, and Texas State's Kiss Me, Kate

"...of honors for notable artistic achievements, but close behind were LOLA Austin's La Femme Bohème and Texas State University..."

June 5, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

You Are Entering Harlan County

Justified creator Graham Yost exits Kentucky for the ATX Television Festival

"...and Walton Goggins as his nemesis. In April, after six seasons, Justified ended the same way it began: facing..."

June 5, 2015 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Everything Is Exemplary

The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...outstanding artistic achievements, but this year the Critics Tables were turned, so to speak. Los Outsiders, in accepting their..."

June 3, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Art Par Excellence

The nominees for the 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...After poring over the hundreds of stage productions, concerts, and art exhibitions mounted locally between May 1, 2014,..."

May 20, 2015 Arts Post

Beethoven to Beyoncé

SXSW Music panels – topics over talent. Except they're also star-studded.

"...industry. Festivals, streaming, sampling – pick your power point. There are so many occurring at the Austin Convention Center..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Actors' Inequity

The Cost of Art IV: The artists onstage in Austin aren't just not paid what they're worth, many aren't paid at all

"...the median highest $800 (several actors had at least once made thousands more, usually in touring shows). Median "normal"?..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

The Poughkeepsie Kid

Shadowing Austin City Limits Executive Producer Terry Lickona

"...There's no clock above the stage at the Moody Theater,..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Once There Were Six Seasons

Glass Half Full Theatre employs puppets to show us a series of visions of the Earth transformed by climate change

"...moments in this beautiful art exhibit sprung to life, Once There Were Six Seasons, the latest from Glass Half..."

May 30, 2014 Arts Review by Stacy Alexander Smith

The Egg & I

How an experimental treatment for major depression introduced me to the medical magnet and the return of 'energetic' medicine

"...yourself for the rise of bioenergetic medicine. In the six-week, double-blind study sponsored by device manufacturer NeoSync, neither I..."

Aug. 23, 2013 News Feature by Greg Harman

Ten of Austin's Top Sommeliers

A guide to somm-built wine lists in town

"...and out of the last eight years, four winners were Austin sommeliers. We are lucky to have such talent..."

July 9, 2013 Food Post by Margaret Shugart

DVD Bonus: Meet the Fraggles

Jim Henson's fantastical creations dance our cares away

"...I met Red Fraggle once. No, seriously, I did...."

May 15, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Stuffed Locally

Give thanks for the local harvest with these market-fresh recipes

"...There is a certain natural affinity between Thanksgiving, a festival..."

Nov. 23, 2012 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

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