Critics Name Cream of the Cultural Crop

The nominees for the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Austin Chamber Music Festival Virgo Veritas, Austin Chamber Music Center..."

May 14, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Star Turns

The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Acting in a Leading Role Emma Center, The Wild Party Brian Coughlin, To Kill a Mockingbird..."

May 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Making Designs On a New Library

Three finalists offer up some rough concepts for a new central public library

"...Austin projects: Harry Ransom Center, Hotel San José, Austin Lyric Opera...."

Oct. 31, 2008 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Happenings

"...A talk from UT professor Ricardo Ainslie. 7pm. Harry Ransom Center, 300 W. 21st, 471-8944. Free...."

June 20, 2008 News Feature

Happenings

May 22-29

"...for the Green Water Treatment Plant and Energy Control Center site today, or catch the public presentations (live or..."

May 23, 2008 News Feature

News/Print

Everything is illuminated extremely loud and incredibly close

"...at the B. Iden Payne Theatre, presented by the Ransom Center and UT Co-op; for free tickets, go to..."

April 1, 2005 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

Naked City

Headlines

"...going day to day." -- Dick Lavine of the Center for Public Policy Priorities, after Gov. Rick Perry made..."

April 11, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Our Recommended Events Include Broods, Books, and Barking Buddies

The weekdays are filled with events worth leaving the house

"...author reading at this campus event hosted by Harry Ransom Center with the Michener Center for Writers and the..."

March 28, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Opinion: In DEI Purge, Who’s UT Coming After Next?

And why is university leadership willing to stand down in the face of direct interference in our academic and intellectual freedom?

"...Jim Kuhn is an associate director at the Harry Ransom Center at UT-Austin where he also served as founding..."

May 3, 2024 Column by Jim Kuhn

Terrence McNally Knows About Lasting Impact

About to open a new play at Zach Theatre, the Tony Award-winning playwright talks about what endures

"...choreographer/star, Vaslav Nijinsky. That places artistic work at the center of the play – a recurring motif in McNally's..."

June 7, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Campus Hacks: University of Texas

Surprisingly, hook 'em isn't the only thing you need to know

"...of the Tower, located next to the Student Activity Center...."

Aug. 23, 2017 Chronolog Post by Maria Mendez

Day Trips & Beyond: Welcome to Joanna and Chip Gaines' Waco

Perky Fixer Upper hosts are the town's new star attraction

"...Largely due to its location on I-35 near the center of the state’s most densely populated area, Waco has..."

July 4, 2017 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

"Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia" at the Contemporary Austin

The solo exhibition celebrates Devo but also the artist's sound-machine sculptures and high- and low-tech illustrations

"...festival, but in its physical deportment within the Jones Center venue...."

Feb. 26, 2016 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Gay Place: Diva Dish

Just another "average" week in sparkly, spangly Gay Town in the A-town.

"...and Cheer Up Charlies. Thu., Oct. 8, 1-3pm. Harry Ransom Center, 300 W. 21st. www.fb.com/utcwgs...."

Oct. 9, 2015 Column

Gay Place: The Deep South

Take that as you will ...

"...you, Silvia Sandoval! Sat., Sept. 12, 8am-10pm. Dunbar Rec Center, 801 W. MLK, San Marcos. www.fb.com/SMTX.PRIDE...."

Sept. 11, 2015 Column

Res Publica

Citizens' calendar, Oct. 28-Nov. 4

"...Endowment for the Humanities Chair Jim Leach. 7pm. Harry Ransom Center, 300 W. 21st, 471-8944. www.hrc.utexas.edu...."

Oct. 29, 2010 News Column

'The Fall of the House of Usher': When Debussy was a Poe boy

With UT's hosting of the Debussy International Congress comes a Halloween treat: an operatic adaptation based on Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher'

"...directed by Robert DeSimone, head of the Butler Opera Center and a recent inductee into the Austin Arts Hall..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

End of an Arts Era

The most prosperous period in Austin's cultural history came to a painful close in 2003.

"...the plug on its props rental program. The Long Center for the Performing Arts, paralyzed by fundraising difficulties, was..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cinematexas 8 Schedule

Go see Cinematexas!

"...Harry Ransom Center, 21st & Guadalupe..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature

Postscripts

Upcoming events in Austin's literary life.

"...7:30pm in the fourth floor auditorium of the Harry Ransom Center on the UT campus (21st & Guadalupe). Open..."

April 6, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Articulations

Memorial notices for actor and talk radio pioneer Harv Morgan and UT art historian Marian B. Davis.

"...at the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Harry Ransom Center, 21st and Guadalupe. Professor Davis, who died Oct...."

Dec. 8, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Two Generations, One Art

Like twins who have grown up apart and are finally reunited, writer-performer Terry Galloway and the Austin theatre company Rude Mechanicals are creative soulmates who have at last discovered their kinship through their collaboration on Galloway's dark comedy In the House of the Moles.

"...of the Moles, opening this week at the Off Center, you might easily suppose that these and the other..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Public Notice

Club Skirt, autumn leaves, and the flu are all back!

"...Gardens, benefits Metropolitan Community Church and the HIV Wellness Center, which seems darned appropriate since it's AIDS Awareness Month..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer

Postscripts

Well I'll be damned : the Texas Institute of Letters has decided to name an award after Mr. Joe Bob Briggs his own self. Also, the news about what Tom Grimes will attempt to do in public in the near future with his new collection of writings from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, The Workshop.

"...participating in panels at Barnes & Nobles... UT's Michener Center for Writers is hosting playwright, director, and screenwriter Len..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

Gay Place: In & Out

Get in or get out! You can't lose with these Gay Place events.

"...Politics of Queer Nightlife series kickoff presented by the Center for Women's & Gender Studies at the University of..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

Thirteen Notes for Another Future Passed

So science fiction doesn't predict the future, its visions of tomorrow can still be filled with beauty

"...just note that the periodical hit a certain pleasure center in the ur-geek zeitgeist and flourished along with, eventually,..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Headlines

"...presented a new box of material to the Harry Ransom Center containing their interviews with Richard Nixon's Chief of..."

April 29, 2011 News Feature

Texas Medal of Arts

The Texas Cultural Trust honors its sixth group of notable Texans in the arts

"...Theatre (Theatre); dynamic visual artist James Drake (Visual Arts); Ransom Center Director Tom Staley (Arts Education); Asleep at the..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Counterprogramming Cupid

Stick it to Valentine's Day with these free ways to say eff off to love

"...at 4pm at the Prothro Theater at the Harry Ransom Center on the University of Texas campus...."

Feb. 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Headlines

"...MetroRail Red Line from Leander to the Austin Conven­tion Center will open for passengers March 22. The transit agency..."

March 12, 2010 News Feature

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