Perfect Expression

Erik Ehn on Making Big, Cheap Theatre With Frontera

"...you ask for. At last year's RAT Conference in Seattle, where artists from independent theatres throughout the U.S. gathered..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

A-B-C-Gastronomy

"...Seattle food writer Robert Clark selected the perfect biographical subject..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Books Feature

Lucy Dacus, a Gary Floyd Retrospective, an EXTC, and More Crucial Concerts

Sounds all over town and all over the musical spectrum

"...ticket.   – James Scott The Phantom of the Opera (1925) with Live Score by Invincible Czars..."

May 9, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Is Austin’s New Arts Umbrella Organization Just in Time or Too Little, Too Late?

After two decades of treating culture and creativity as an afterthought, the city of Austin finally has a real arts department

"...would result in massive changes to how the district operates. “We are tied at the hip constantly with city..."

April 25, 2025 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Free Week Announces January 2024 Lineup, and More Music News

Power Trip reunited at Mohawk; Sonic Guild divvied grants at ACL Live

"...vote to determine fund allocation. With branches in Austin, Seattle, Colorado, and the Ozarks, the nonprofit applies the community-supported..."

Dec. 7, 2023 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...staggering performance as Luke, a man who refuses to cooperate with a failed system, eats a whole bunch of..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Culture Flash! March 2016

Honors for Dietz, compassion for ASO, and China for the ballet

"...Bloomsday, which was commissioned by A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle and received its world premiere there this past September...."

March 23, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Thursday SXSW Picks

"...fills provided Deep Purple pathos to Watt's semi-autobiographical rock opera based on Dante's Inferno. A pensive cover of "Shit..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

SXSW List No. 8

Chvrches, Mike Watt, MSTRKRFT, and 123 more

"...of Fire, Rebecca Loebe, Graham Reynolds (performing his chamber opera Pancho Villa From a Safe Distance), the Ripe, Sour..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music List 10

The Damned, 2 Chainz, War on Drugs, and 242 more added

"...The Black Opera (Detroit/Atlanta/Chicago/NewYork/L.A.)..."

March 6, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Saturday Picks and Sleepers

"...11pm, Brass House Since the sun set on Seattle's the Posies – one of the defining acts of..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

SXSW Friday Picks & Sleepers

Friday blurbs are down from Thursday's, but how are you holding up at this point?

"...reverb. Imagine a softer Midlake. Led by former Metropolitan Opera singer Matt Iwanusa, the NYC quintet put out CoCo..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog)

A Valentine's Day mix for KOOP

"...– his yodel – comes as rare as Italian opera tenors whose names end in Pavarotti. They didn't call..."

Feb. 14, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Thursday Showcases

Thursday night showcases, trips to Austin, Colombia, Mexico, Scandanavia, and Staten Island (RIP ODB)

"...a slew of similarly sassy bands rock the lineup: Seattle duo Smoosh, Minneapolis' Sick of Sarah, and Colorado's classically..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

SXSW Friday Showcases

Friday night's SX showcases are bar-the-door-Katy good

"...sad songs for happy people. Split the difference between Seattle's Telekinesis and L.A.'s Apex Manor, and you get one-man..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Who Knows Where the Time Goes

Both sides now – 50 years ago and now the iGeneration

"...By her Fifth Album in 1965, the Seattle native was the template for female folksingers – a..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...to the true blue classics, the Hong Kong Blood Opera serves up its punk rock hard and fast, still..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Off the Record

The British and Transmission Entertainment invade SXSW, Speeding Motorcycle rides into Zach Scott Theatre, and Spot opens Trailer Space

"...The Daniel Johnston-inspired rock opera Speeding Motorcycle at Zach Scott Theatre is a ticklish..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Remembering blues drummer 'Uncle' John Turner, tracking the devil and Daniel Johnston, on-air with Seattle's KEXP, Abandoned Love Records, and more

"...Daniel Johnston, not to mention Infernal Bridegroom Productions' rock opera, Speeding Motorcycle, there's now talk of a possible Daniel..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

Drive, He Said

In its 13th year, Jason Neulander shifts Salvage Vanguard Theater into overdrive

"...a Toyota Camry too. And we drove straight to Seattle – which is a 48-hour, nonstop drive – then..."

April 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

TCB

Welcome to Deadwood: Sorting SXSW's cocksuckers from the hoopleheads

"...locales referred to by some as "people's republics" – Seattle, Berkeley, Madison, Williamsburg, etc. – where diversity and tolerance..."

March 18, 2005 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Girlie Action

Girlie action

"...("Roommate") and Ramones-like punk ("Trashed"). With one foot in Seattle and the other in Austin, her music is hellbent,..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Music Review by Margaret Moser

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...his badass band's van windshield, and more Southern rock opera poetics than all the other "alt.country" concerns combined. –..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Trachtenburg Family Slide Show Players

Music Showcase

"...the photogenic carousing of two retired military nurses from Seattle named Kathy and Jean. The latter wins bonus points..."

March 14, 2003 Music Review by Greg Beets

To Infinity and Beyond!

The year 2001 saw a host of local cultural types taking journeys beyond their homes, traveling to other communities to share their art and finding new venues locally in which to produce their work and expand their creative sensibilities.

"...scripts to new levels via the Playwrights' Center. And Seattle and Wilmington, Del., both got visits from Dietz, who..."

Jan. 4, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

Memorializing The Public Domain Theatre Company, 1993-2001

"...producing plays, The Public Domain is going to cease operations." He offered no formal explanation, instead he used the..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

Arts companies are pulling in the green, playwright Dan Dietz is on the road again, and the stork delivers a couple of new artists.

"...groups. W&TW is one of eight groups with annual operating budgets of less than $1 million to receive a..."

July 13, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

Austin artists and arts companies continue to hit the road at a breathless pace.

"...The Salvage Vanguard Theater co-artistic director is off to Seattle May 12-27 to participate in Annex Theatre's "HotHouse," a..."

May 4, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

Christmastime comes to Austin.

"...Muse organization. Performances take place at the Austin Lyric Opera's Armstrong Community Music School (901 Barton Springs Rd.) this..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Armchair Adventures

"Good adventure books do the same thing as a good adventure," Chronicle writer Dan Oko writes in this roundup of recently published adventure books.

"...of adventure literature into little more than a soap opera about human nature. But this loosely defined genre is..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Books Feature by Dan Oko

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