Booking Austin's Library Future

City hopes new Central Library will be global trailblazer

"...library of the future. Gillum said, "There's been a renaissance in central library design and construction in this country..."

May 30, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Elizabeth: Heart of a King

Lorella Loftus' ambitious new bio-play boasts strong performances by the three women portraying the Virgin Queen

"...Drawing from the robust Tudor historical fiction genre, the play..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

Take It to the Next Level

The Cultural Arts Division revives its series of summer workshops for pro creatives

"...an overview of the motivations for major gift fundraising, drawing from the book by Karen Maru File and Russ..."

May 28, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Game-Changers

The 2009 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...of our taste in the music of the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods, and in both drawing together and..."

May 29, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Animated Ladies

Signe Baumane and Sarah Jane Lapp illustrate their points

"...Lapp, on the other hand, is a 36-year-old Seattle-based Renaissance woman visual artist and filmmaker ("Chronicles of an Asthmatic..."

March 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Man and Myth

Comic-book artist Dean Haspiel set to attend Staple! Independent Media Expo

"...a party at some club Saturday night, with live drawing going on, that kind of thing. It's gonna be..."

March 2, 2007 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Recent Releases

Taking a look at recent releases, from Johan van der Keuken to the St. Louis Cardinals

"...Eye Above the Well, and Face Value are the drawing cards among the nine hours of material making up..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Screens Review by Shawn Badgley

A Moon for the Misbegotten

The Celtic Cultural Center and Renaissance Austin Theatre Company bring O'Neill's 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' to life with an authentically dark and droll Celtic sensibility

"...that already long list. The Celtic Cultural Center and Renaissance Austin Theatre Company bring O'Neill's play back to town..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Blank Generation

Amy Sedaris on 'Strangers With Candy'

"...outright and has quietly amassed her own wonderfully twisted renaissance as a playwright, author, actress, voiceover artist, and cupcake..."

July 21, 2006 Screens Feature by Steve Birmingham

See What They Do to You

How Jonathan Demme and Neil Young made a film about a concert attended by spirits

"...as our table came to order. "An-ny-thing," he repeated, drawing out each syllable...."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Making Biscuit

Punk icon Randy "Biscuit" Turner serves art 24/7

"...has spread far and wide since its Eighties heyday, drawing into its orbit punk peers and progeny such as..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Sleeping Beauty

The Vortex Repertory Company's 'Sleeping Beauty' shows the company in a playful mood, delivering a musical adaptation that is fanciful, lighthearted, and disarmingly sweet

"...of that Vortex stamp: in Ann Marie Gordon's set, drawing from nature and ancient culture, the curving shell of..."

March 25, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...the volume, and presents it on a beer-soaked platter. Drawing from the Georgia Satellites, Del-Lords, Steve Earle's Dukes, the..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Sweden's Demons, a band ahead of the Scandinavian rock renaissance with its grimy mix of Nuggets-era punk and Stooges-style..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Will Walgreens Save Taco X-Press – or Vice Versa?

Neighbors torn over union of chain store and Southside icon

"...So Walgreens developer David Darr went back to the drawing board and came up with a reconfigured proposal that..."

Feb. 27, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

A Room With a View

Steve Wertheimer prepares to open a second Continental Club -- in Houston.

"..."That's why they're having the big renaissance they're having in downtown Houston, and it's all spreading..."

May 26, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Gung Ho

Q&A with punk priestess Patti Smith.

"...beginning in the early days with theater and photography, drawing, painting. I also heard you were working on a..."

March 31, 2000 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

Too Dumb to Die

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

"...the Ramones. Then my sister in Houston found this drawing in an attic and said, "Here's Eddy.' And we..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Esther's All-Stars

"...managed to maintain a stable core of performers while drawing fresh faces from Austin's extensive talent pool...."

July 30, 1999 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

Exhibitionism

New Paintings By Sarah Higdon: Nonsense and Sensibility

"...times, Higdon's satire seems to target the Old Master Renaissance painters, as in works like The Adoration of the..."

April 23, 1999 Arts Review

A Long Time Coming

Why Now?

"...wants it to be part of the larger downtown renaissance and the Auditorium Shores redesign. In particular, the Town..."

Feb. 5, 1999 News Feature by Jenny Staff

A Cultural Hero

"...Austin Community College, and since 1990, he's been teaching drawing, design, and painting in the Art and Commercial Art..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

America's Ethnic Music Mantle

"...Brave Combo are enjoying a touch of the polka renaissance, the traditional polka scene is under siege, facing an..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Rats From a Sinking Ship

Letters at 3 AM

"...most of us have shared it. Cameron is merely drawing from that well, tapping into our desire for love..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

Dude Descending a Staircase

Four for the Read

"...Drawing from such diverse quarters as Renaissance alchemical philosophers to..."

May 8, 1998 Books Feature

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...But, to be fair, barbecue hadn't been invented in Renaissance England. There's just something about meat slow-grilling, rubbed in..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...all accounts, this politically charged 10-piece collective is L.A.'s biggest-drawing and most consistently entertaining live force - living up..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Crossing the Lines

Women Comic Strippers

"...a decidedly female form. The book heralded a veritable renaissance of women artists on the "alternative" comic planet, albeit..."

May 12, 1995 Books Feature by Kate X Messer

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