Page Two: A Column Where First We Ramble

Then we let others blow our horn. And with SXSW 2011 only weeks away, there's lots of horn blowing still to come.

"..."I caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of daylight's dauphin,..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Restart Your Engines...

RuPaul's Drag Race begins its second season.

"...Last night was the premiere of the second season of RuPaul's Drag Race – a..."

Feb. 2, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Qmmunity: Real Roxy Hours

Local queer comic and jill-of-all-trades Roxy Castillo talks her performance style and history ahead of her run on the Moontower Just for Laughs Fest

"...Roxy Castillo contains multitudes: a former burlesque Best of Austin nominee, wrestling manager extraordinaire, and queen of silly,..."

April 14, 2023 Column by James Scott

A Man and a Half

Hanging with music industry legend Jerry Wexler

"...near 161st Street. Gerald Wexler, running through the streets of Harlem, Queens, and Brooklyn during the Depression, and getting..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Jailbird

The Prison Diaries of the Fabulous Thunderbirds' Preston Hubbard

"...My name is Preston Hubbard. From 1984-94, I played bass..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Music Feature by Preston Hubbard

Getting the Joke

Comedy isn't the funny business it was in the Eighties, what with fewer clubs and audiences burned out by comedy on cable and hack comics. Seven Austin comics discuss the current state of stand-up in a round-table discussion.

"...month for the Austin comedy scene. That's the time of its annual rite of bloodletting and renewal: the Funniest..."

June 30, 2000 Arts Feature

SXSW 2025 Heads to The Studio With Seth Rogen

New films from Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Nic Cage added to fest

"...South by Southwest will be kicking off its 2025 Film & TV Festival with The Studio,..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

QueerBomb/Pride Roundtable: Extended Remix

QueerBomb and Austin Pride meet for a roundtable

"...Members of QueerBomb, Austin's renegade counter-Pride, and members of the official..."

June 3, 2011 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

SXSW Preview: Mary Lambert

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ ‘Same Love’ diva gets her shot

"...Two years ago, Seattle singer-songwriter Mary Lambert offered a longshot deal on Kickstarter: Donate $1,000 and join..."

March 13, 2014 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Hot Luck Music Headliners Dig Into the Festival Menu

Talking turkey with Archers of Loaf, Erika Wennerstrom, Robert Ellis, Sunflower Bean, the Suffers, and PJ Morton

"...to Austin, the Houston native is riding the release of fifth LP Texas Piano Man, which re-casts his notoriously..."

May 24, 2019 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Hideaway

A descendant of the father of our country in the Antone's House Band? For three decades now, believe it!

"...31, 2015, and I've got a rare blues double-header: My regular Thursday happy hour at C-Boy's Heart & Soul..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Music Feature by Sarah Brown

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Friday

Seventies funk GOATs, queer nu metal, and so much more

"...and sing timeless songs, we actually caught a shitload of music in between and after...."

March 19, 2022 SXSW Post by Thomas Fawcett

All Aboard for Middle Earth

Fans of J. R. R. Tolkien needn't wait until the December 12 opening of the film of Lord of the Rings to take a journey to Middle Earth. Second Youth Family Repertory Theatre, an Austin arts company acclaimed for its intelligent, highly theatrical stage shows for family audiences, will ferry you there this weekend via its production of The Hobbit.

"...if you experience an involuntary shudder at the mention of "my preciousssss," if you associate Sting more with magic..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Scene Is Gone But Not Forgotten

The Evolution of Austin's White Blues

"...rather was reflecting an unspoken sentiment among a number of Antone's aficionados -- that the white blues scene that..."

Aug. 9, 1996 Music Feature

Books, Sculpture, and Weed Lead Our Recommended Arts Events

It'd be a lot cooler if you went to one of these events this week

"...for the finer things in life with an evening of fine food, fine wine, and even finer arts. And..."

April 19, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

SXSW Hit and Run Victim Gives Back

Mason Endres champions the healing power of music

"...South by Southwest 2014. A concussion wiped out most of her memories from that evening...."

March 9, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Behind the Bars Part II

We revisit Austin's LGBTQ bars of yesteryear

"...In honor of Pride and this week's queer spaces feature, we've reached..."

Aug. 25, 2016 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Carl Reiner: The Interview

On 'The Dick Van Dyke Show,' Mary Tyler Moore, and Mel

"...his 92nd birthday, Carl Reiner is showing no signs of slowing down. On this Tuesday, March 18, the comedy..."

April 4, 2014 Screens Post by Robert Faires

'Art Should Be Convulsive'

The Austin Film Society and SXSW celebrate the films of Mexican cinema giant Arturo Ripstein.

"...contemporary filmmaker is, most likely, someone you've never heard of: Arturo Ripstein. The Austin Film Society seeks to correct..."

March 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mamrie Hart Deserves a Drink

YouTube star/author spills the beans about Beanz and John Mayer's bed

"...She’s the raunchy Lucille Ball of YouTube. Her show, You Deserve a Drink, is packed..."

June 3, 2015 Arts Post by Alexa Harrington

Becoming Johellen, Part 3

A young queen dives wig-first into the pool of Austin drag divas

"...hours to showtime and Josiah Brown is in his room finishing up his transformation into Johellen Burns, his drag..."

Dec. 26, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Jesse Mandell-McClinton

Qmmunity: 50 Years Queer History

Everything you need to know to make the best of Pride Weekend

"...a lot has happened in 50 years. In honor of this weekend's 29th annual Austin Pride and the 50th..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

Checking In: Tia Carrera Catches Some Vibes

Late-night stoner jams still see the light of day

"...split it. And yet, as the nearly 20-year-old core of uranium-grade ATX rock trio Tia Carrera, their astral improv..."

June 8, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Where Did All Those Kids Go?

From summer 1968 to ‘One Night with Janis Joplin’ in 2013

"...band Big Brother & the Holding Company arrived in my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri. This was a genuine..."

July 31, 2013 Music Post by Charles Beard

RaquasoXXX Cast a Spell on Red 7

La Lotteria whole lotta fun

"...one bill who were making their debuts as part of La Lotteria, described on the Facebook event page as..."

Aug. 19, 2010 Music Post by Mark Fagan

Double-Barrel Beautiful

Texan sweetheart of the 1960s folk rodeo, Carolyn Hester

"...Buddy was royalty, and I felt like she was my connection to it, to the rock-and-roll music that I'd..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Beat Goes On: R.I.P. Uncle John Turner

Johnny Winter drummer and the power of three

"...My job sucks today, as it does on any day..."

July 26, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Live and In Person!

Views and Reviews of Recent Author Visits

"...been reading speculative fiction, both the hard and the soft stuff, since I discovered that Animal Farm was about..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Books Feature

Feeding the Ukrainian Resistance With Varenyky and Mutual Aid

To Austin's Ukrainian community, the meaning of food has co-evolved with the war itself

"...such old-world things. Like many emerging from the worst of the pandemic, Tonya was doing her best to work,..."

Nov. 25, 2022 Food Feature by John Besche

On Holy Ground With The Green Knight

David Lowery on the weight of carrying a mythic legacy

"...Come at the king, as they say. The folklore of King Arthur have often been mangled by filmmakers, and..."

July 31, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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