Austin Film Festival Announces Second Wave of Programming

Local voices are spotlighted in the new round of eight fest films

"...Greg Kwedar, the film explores the world of horse racing as an aging jockey attempts to win one last..."

Sept. 9, 2021 Screens Post by Kat McNevins

Austin Music: What We're Listening to This Week

El Combo Oscuro, KVN, and Mike & the Moonpies are some of our favorite local sounds this week

"...gas cut with just enough diesel to roar (the racing rollover of "Rainy Day" and swanky growl "The Vein"),..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Music Column by Doug Freeman

Day Trips & Beyond: June Events Roundup

Pho on the coast, statuesque women in Dallas; June is time to hit the road

"...Live Thoroughbred Racing June 1-July 11, Grand Prairie, www.lonestarpark.com..."

June 3, 2021 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...and pulsing electrifying movements, HOTR and RP leave hearts racing and the souls of the unappreciated empowered. – Alyssa Quiles..."

May 28, 2021 Music Feature by Michael Toland

The Verde Report: Ring’s Red Steers Austin FC Season Off Track

Team captain’s red card leaves ATXFC vulnerable in upcoming LA Galaxy match

"...is well-acquainted with the sporting world's most famous Finn. Racing driver Kimi Raikkonen scored his 21st Formula One race..."

May 14, 2021 Sports Column by Eric Goodman

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...also on local forge 12XU to sonic exploration in racing past Faker to full-blown identity attainment. Every Beerland show..."

May 14, 2021 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Day Trips & Beyond: May Travel Roundup

Flowers, birds, and more to spy on spring road trips

"...Live Thoroughbred Racing May 1-July 11, Grand Prairie, lonestarpark.com..."

May 3, 2021 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Austin Opera Races Back Into Live Performance With Tosca at Circuit of the Americas

The company brings grand opera to the Grand Prix with an outdoor staging of Puccini's powerhouse

"...enough for the venue, Burridge and company have been racing to get their Tosca up and running by the..."

April 30, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Music Review: NPR’s Tiny Desk Charms & Swaggers

Coziness tipped into the sublimely surreal

"...while instrumental “La Culebra” coiled and slinked into a heart-racing breakdown. Mario Castro joined for closing highlight “Nuestras Raíces,”..."

March 20, 2021 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Frontline Immigrant Workers Hesitant to Receive COVID Vaccine

Missing their shots

"...Right now, Austin is racing to vaccinate the community against COVID-19, starting with health..."

March 12, 2021 News Feature by Benton Graham

Once Again, Redistricting Looms in Texas

Republicans hold all the power to draw new lines, but there's more attention on the process than ever before

"...a de-filibustered U.S. Senate. But all parties will be racing against the clock. "As soon as the data comes..."

Feb. 12, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Women's Health Advocates Brace for "Perfect Storm" at Texas Legislature

Republican lawmakers racing to further restrict abortion access

Jan. 15, 2021 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Blue Lapis Light's Beyond the Clouds

This aerial dance company's production brought its dancers down to earth but still lifted us up

"...Blue Lapis Light productions. No 20-story buildings with dancers racing across its glass face. No towering smokestacks with dancers..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Now Streaming in Austin: "Butterflies"

Director Ken Brisbois on fetishes and power

"...more. We have a TV series in the street racing world and a horror script that we would like..."

July 29, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Surviving COVID-19: Ray Benson Lives to Tell

Asleep at the Wheel turns your living room into a dance floor

"...yourself got COVID-19, did you do the mental contract tracing, thinking, “Who gave this to me?”..."

July 23, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Netflix's Home Game Catches Austin Roller Derby on the Track

TXRD rolls onto the unconventional sports show

"...Bali, where farmers compete in Makepung Lampit (imagine drag racing but with water buffalo); to Italy for the no-holds-barred..."

July 10, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

For Texas Prisoners, COVID-19 Shouldn’t Be a Death Sentence

Criminal justice advocates warn of outbreaks behind bars

"...a crisis in the state's prisons. Now, COVID-19 is racing through the system and advocates are amplifying their pleas..."

May 15, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Day Trips & Beyond: Pandemic's Effect on Travel

Out of town closings due to the threat of COVID-19

"...is contingent upon final approval from the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission...."

March 17, 2020 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

As Charlie Jones Exits C3, He Traces His Journey From College Station to Founding ACL Fest

Leaving the music promotions empire he helped build, Jones begins his new events company, Four Leaf

"...greatest country music festivals ever. It had stock car racing, barbecue and camping, multiple stages, and Willie [Nelson] played...."

Feb. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...off a spree of social-media-linked slayings that leave her racing alongside the police to uncover the university's hidden secrets...."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rolling Stones Booked for Circuit of the Americas on May 24

British Invasion co-leaders encore 2006 Zilker Park razing

"...show around the race track as they do for racing events rather than SRO’d into the amphitheater – and..."

Feb. 3, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Jarrott Productions' The Niceties

In this staging of Eleanor Burgess' drama, the frictions of American society catch fire in an academic's office

"...The heart of Eleanor Burgess' of-the-moment drama is the racing thump-thump-thump of our country's current uncivil discourse – over..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Austin Symphony Orchestra: "Rach Star"

Orion Weiss played Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto with the Austin Symphony, and we were spellbound

"...so virtuosic, that as he charged through them, fingers racing at superhuman speed from one end of the keyboard..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Day Trips & Beyond: January Events Roundup

See what 2020 has in store

"...ball. The fastest time wins. The pups will be racing at the Williamson County Expo Center in Taylor on..."

Dec. 31, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Top 10 Local Video Games

From battlegrounds to the bathroom, here are our favorite Austin games

"...would be in every bar. It's a one-button, four-player racing game that's as simple as it is charming. The..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Brutus

"...the needle off your turntable. If your heart isn't racing after Nest stops spinning, then it's stopped beating altogether...."

Nov. 8, 2019 Music Review by Michael Toland

Austin Film Festival Witnesses The Obituary of Tunde Johnson

Time travel thriller will be opening night film

"...later this year, including Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life, racing drama Ford v Ferrari, and the local debut of..."

Oct. 17, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Jesus Christ Superstar

New touring production electrifies with freshness and urgency

"...the wind. Absent an intermission, the show hurtles forward, racing toward tragedy with no opportunity to stop it. A..."

Oct. 15, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Day Trips & Beyond: October Events Roundup

Find fall foliage in Texas and stop and smell the roses

"...Quarter Horse Racing Oct. 4-5, 11-12, 18-19, 25-26, Grand Prairie, www.lonestarpark.com..."

Oct. 3, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Judah & the Lion

"...Pep Talks is all catharsis, with a barrage of racing lyrics or shouted repetitive lines that can't obscure a..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

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