Playback: Holy Mountain Closing Oct. 1

Holy Mountain falls prey to skyrocketing rents Downtown

"...East Cameron Folkcore, Harvest Thieves, Ben Ballinger, and Mike & the Moonpies, who'll be the last band to play..."

June 26, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Showing Black Lives Matter

Facing race then and now onstage in Pretty Fire and Hands Up Hoodies Down

"...said we are, he included this: "We are storytellers, writers, poets, and artists who abhor unfairness, and despise hypocrisy,..."

March 13, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Film Announces 2015 Lineup

Circling the Thunderdome

"...THE BOY Director: Craig Macneill, Screenwriters: Craig Macneill, Clay McLeod Chapman THE BOY is an..."

Feb. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Soundpainting Bowie

In The Bowie Project 2, everyone is Bowie, and nothing stays the same

"...a reprise of 2014's The Bowie Project: A Rock & Roll Sound­paint­ing – these elements will be manipulated as..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Ringing in the New Year With Raw Paw

Austin art collective parties out 2014

"...Musicals, lighthearted new wave songsmiths Big Bill, chilled-out garage poets Milezo, and guitar-wielding instrumental loop duo Chipper Jones...."

Dec. 29, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Strong and Talented and Young

Austin's Raw Paw collective inhales life, exhales art

"...out of place in a collection from, say, Drawn & Quarterly or Fantagraphics. And the thing's printed on a..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Gay Place: Christmas Bacon

Christmas bacon is on the menu at the ND again

"...AGLCC Holiday Party & Awards Dinner Year-end chamber awards and a chance to..."

Dec. 19, 2014 Column by Kate X Messer

Where the Girls Go/ATX: Extended Holiday Edition

Queertastic grrrl events this weekend, and every weekend

"...bookstore promises one hell of a solstice party with poets, a ritual by the one and only Abe Louise..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Telling Stories

Bill Wittliff seeks the "yes" in his debut novel, The Devil's Backbone

"...think everybody knows everything anyway. What artists do and writers do, poets do, songwriters do, and musicians do is..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Arts Feature by Joe O'Connell

Fun Fun Fun Fest 2014 Friday Reviews

"...a dream world where English folk slides against French poets and Miley Cyrus, whose "4X4" they manage to suavely..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Texas Book Festival: Kids' Corner

A quartet of children books by guest authors reviewed

"...might be just the way to engage some budding poets. Roberts’ illustrations employ thin black lines filled with vibrant..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Books Post by Jessi Cape

The Luv Doc: No Strings Attached

If we didn’t try so hard to live up to our unattainable ideals the world would be a boring place

"...OK, I am going to have to ask you..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Column by The Luv Doc

ACL Music Fest 2014 Friday Reviews

"...mother, griot – Ana Tijoux does the land of poets proud. (4:15pm, Sculpture stage)..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Weird City Hip-Hop Festival: Dilated Peoples

Rakaa Iriscience: “People demand better, they’re gonna get better”

"...influenced by listening to John Coltrane, Gil-Scott Heron, Last Poets, Watts Prophets. Bad Brains, Fishbone, Johnny Cash, Bob Marley,..."

Sept. 25, 2014 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

99 Poems for the 99 Percent

edited by Dean Rader

"...when members of an isolationist culture vigil together. The poets comprise a neighborhood watch for the people, keeping tally..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

The AggreGAYtor: September 15

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...Ever had trouble finding a literary journal for queer poets of color? Look no further. The Bad..."

Sept. 16, 2014 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

DJ Shadow on Afrika Bambaataa

Sampling the godfather turntablist

"...A lot of people like Malcolm X, the Last Poets, Jim Ingram – a lot of socially aware, political..."

Sept. 11, 2014 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Texas Book Festival 2014: The Full Party List

Among the 275 authors: Oates, Ellroy, Mosley, Lear, Dean

"...(Monday, Monday), Rolando Hinojosa (The Valley), James Magnuson (Famous Writers I Have Known), Philipp Meyer (The Son), Elizabeth McCracken..."

Sept. 11, 2014 Books Post by Robert Faires

Austin Film Festival Showcases Linklater, Cumberbatch

First round of films announced mixes world and Texas premieres

"...and Tom Schulman presenting a timely screening of Dead Poets Society...."

Aug. 20, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters Like You've Never Seen Before

Northern-Southern Gallery goes graphically abecedarian

"...with typographical improvements of quotations from the work of poets, raconteurs, and other artist-types. (Full disclosure: A bit of..."

June 26, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Hip Girl's Guide to the Kitchen: A Hit-the-Ground-Running Approach to Stocking Up and Cooking Delicious, Nutritious, and Affordable Meals

Cookbooks and cultural conversation starters top our summer reading list

"...Lorine Niedecker, Rilke, and Elizabeth Bishop as her favorite poets, and a recent "fiction frenzy" included Wallace Stegner, Larry..."

May 23, 2014 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

One With Others

Karen Sherman's surprisingly funny, moving dance and text work was poetry in motion

"...Karen Sherman's arresting One With Others was this: "Only poets have it worse than dancers." In that case, Sherman..."

May 2, 2014 Arts Review by Stacy Alexander Evans

Letters at 3AM – Manifesto: A Radical Aesthetics

Get stuff out there; work with cause: That's the genesis of LettersAt3amPress

"...Of course, I know writers whose professed politics are nothing like the aesthetics implied..."

March 21, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

SXSW Tuesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW blurbing

"...man to his years as jive-talking DJ on hometown R&B station KKDA. With Austin's scrappy Disciples backing him and..."

March 7, 2014 Music Feature

Gidion's Knot

Top-notch acting powers this claustrophobic confrontation between a dead boy's grieving mother and his teacher

"...suicide note reads "I've gone to stand with the poets," you know it's going to be good, and you..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Arts Feature by Stacy Alexander Evans

Slam It All On The Stage

Poetry comes alive at Austin Poetry Slam!

"...So grab some drinks at the bar and hear poets perform their spoken word pieces!..."

Jan. 30, 2014 Events Post by Josette Chen

Everybody Wants a Few Good Dates

Two paper-based calendars for this year's stream of days and nights

"...before the notion was reheated in Robin Williams' Dead Poets Society mouth. But you don't have to grab just..."

Jan. 16, 2014 Design Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Meet J Wagner

‘Californication’ fan: ‘Keep writing, keep touring, be thankful’

"...this great music floating around town – great tacos, writers and poets – and just a bunch of great..."

Dec. 23, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Gay Place: Hop, Bop, Shop

Nothing like gifts for the fam made by your other fam ...

"...AUSTIN WRITERGRRLS BOOK FEST Poets! Writers! Authors! Grrrrlz! Oh, and books, books, books. Great..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

The Replacements: Waxed Up Hair & Painted Shoes

Long hair, flannel, torn jeans – who influenced who?

"...The Replacements: Waxed Up Hair & Painted Shoes: The Photographic Historyby Jim Walsh & Dennis..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

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