Role-Play Playing

When improv asks, 'Can we get a suggestion for something you'd slay a dragon with?'

"...Roberts is in his mid-20s but looks like a high school junior; he's got..."

June 19, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

What Becomes a Legend Most: The Architect or the Photographer?

AFS Documentary Tour: Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman

"...the case with Shulman, whose stunning photography, beginning in 1936, of the iconic Southern California houses of Richard Neutra,..."

April 3, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

It Came From the Back Yard

House of Torment's yearlong scare tactics pay off in Halloween screams

"...the actors and runs the behind-the-scenes crew, while Matt – often to be found surrounded by piles of sketches..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Features Feature by Richard Whittaker

'Inconsolable: How I Threw My Mental Health Out With the Diapers'

Marrit Ingman's new memoir: an excerpt

"...we are excerpting a chapter from Inconsolable (Seal Press, $14.95, paper) rather than reviewing it...."

Sept. 30, 2005 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Crew Stories

Prop Master Andina Aste-Nieto

"...Andina Aste-Nieto, Prop Master Drenching the formerly edible in..."

March 25, 2005 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar

The 48-Hour Film Festival

"...festival will present all the finished films made by 22 Austin teams in a 48-hour period between Nov. 1-3...."

Oct. 29, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Texas Treasures

Moody Anderson and His Western Warehouse

"...midweek, not long ago. I'm tooling westbound on Highway 2244, 20 or so miles out of town -- I've..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Exhibitionism

Another Evening with Dottie P.: Bracing Shot of Wry

"...Movements Gallery, through August 15 Running time: 1 hr..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Arts Review

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...but said it was "clear" he would reach the 270 electoral votes needed to become the 46th U.S. president..."

Nov. 6, 2020 News Feature

Travis Bonds: Roadways & Park Ways

Road and pedestrian proposals draw no opposition so far

"...quiet round of early voting begins next week (Oct. 24-Nov. 4) for the Nov. 8 general election. In a..."

Oct. 21, 2011 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...the original man in the moon way back in 1914. That pioneering hole-in-one, from Melies' silent masterpiece "A Trip..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Too Dumb to Die

A profile of Austin's longest-running musical parody, the Uranium Savages.

"...not looking to get signed at South by Southwest 2000. They're too old for MTV. They don't have a..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Once Upon a Time in Austin

The films, the filmmakers, the crews, the making of a scene

"...Meanwhile, take this as an introduction, a hint as..."

March 12, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

The Whole Package

With Margaret Wiley, you didn’t have a one-trick pony; you had a multitude of talents and personalities in one big and big-hearted woman. Wiley’s friends and colleagues at Esther’s Follies offer their memories of this exceptional Austin comedian who died November 2.

"...Faye Bakker with songs by The Who and deliver 1,001 inspired uses for a Maxi-Pad? With the costumer, the..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Reasonable Tax

"...to vote on Props A and B this election: 1) The promised 40 - 45% share of federal funding..."

Oct. 21, 2020 Postmarks

Who Will Be Nuked by the 819?

Austinites unleash a new postapocalyptic RPG on Twitch

"...Welcome, citizen, to the world of NUKED! It’s a..."

Sept. 7, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Requiem for Bulk Trash Day

Get used to the pile in your garage – Austin Resource Recovery isn't rescheduling spring bulk collection pickups

"...I feel sheepish even asking the question, given the COVID-19 pandemic and endemic racial violence by police, but –..."

June 12, 2020 News Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Luv Doc: Hot, Horny Europeans

Good or bad, cultural exchange always has consequences.

"...– Trixie..."

March 13, 2020 Column by The Luv Doc

Mary Moody Northen Theatre's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

This moving, transformative show gives its autistic hero a deep and engaging humanity

"...me. I've mentioned before in this paper that my 13-year-old daughter is autistic, and I am always struck by..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Arts Review by Laura Jones

Local Duo Harvests Up Some Hilarity in Texas Gothic

Booker & Maykus are sure ’nuff sharper than a pitchfork

"...other half of the farming couple known as Ma & Pa Gothic, the duo of rural-route provocateurs whose Texas..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

"The New Flesh" at ICOSA Gallery

It’s a body of work, but the anatomy isn’t necessarily of this Earth

"...On the other hand – that is, if we have hands – it could..."

Jan. 3, 2020 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Meet Accomplice, the Austin Startup Paving the Way Toward an Immersive Future

Striving for a world with no more boring experiences

"...glasses that reveal virtual landscapes while hiding everything else – including others standing near you impatiently waiting for their..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Screens Feature by Tom Cheredar

Review: Jesus Christ Superstar

New touring production electrifies with freshness and urgency

"...definitive, sound of it. In the decades since its 1970 debut, Superstar has been produced countless times – on..."

Oct. 15, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Zach Theatre's Matilda the Musical

With its memorable characters and energetic performances, this production connects adults with their inner child

"...children often dream of the day they'll become adults – free of bedtimes, homework, and overbearing authority figures –..."

April 19, 2019 Arts Review by Trey Gutierrez

Zach Theatre's Notes From the Field

This production of Anna Deavere Smith's provocative docudrama calls out America's criminal justice system

"...the tensions surrounding the L.A. riots (Twilight: Los Angeles 1992). Her Notes From the Field – which is receiving..."

March 15, 2019 Arts Review by Bob Abelman

On the Hunt for Chicken Parmigiana in Central Texas

Five local spots (and one in San Antonio) to feed your East Coast craving

"...Is one forced to retreat to the neon Olive..."

Feb. 28, 2019 Food Post by Danny Palumbo

Election Ticker: Don’t Listen to Us!

Midterm coverage, from the folks you love to hate

"...see what's so great about the overlooked local candidates – and what's so terrible about our News staff......"

Oct. 26, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Election Ticker: Early Voting Begins Monday

Victory for voting rights, political parties (the fun kind), the latest endorsements

"...Voters: If Mike Siegel's underdog Democratic campaign for Congress (TX-10, against longtime GOP incumbent Michael McCaul) doesn't end in..."

Oct. 19, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

Point Austin: Affordable Housing & the Promised Land

Proposition A and Austin's affordability predicament

"...talking about "affordable housing." We're all willing to admit – to proclaim – that "affordability" is our political mantra,..."

Oct. 5, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Shrewd Productions' The Madres

In Stephanie Alison Walker’s new play, women’s fight for the “disappeared” in Argentina’s Dirty War proves timely

"...immigrants crossing into America. It is set in the 1970s, in the early years of Argentina's Dirty War against..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

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