Tom Copeland, Behind-the-Scenes Powerhouse of Texas Film, Dies

Former Texas Film Commission executive director passed last Sunday

"...A self-described native son of Meadow in West Texas, Copeland's career seemed to..."

April 10, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Ethan Azarian, Hawaii

Seventh solo release ties the natural world to messier human passions

"...planet’s familiarity. Such are the vignettes offered by local songwriting fixture Ethan Azarian on Hawaii, the seventh solo release..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Music Feature by Genevieve Wood

Review: Austin Playhouse’s Big Fish

This charming fish tale is small in scale but huge in heart

"...incredible encounters with folklore folk, fantastical creatures, and larger-than-life personalities – the same stories told repeatedly to entertain his..."

June 13, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

The Joy of Bicycling in Austin

A one-person sociological study of springtime biking where every ride is his favorite

"...classically Dutch it looks incomplete without a large blond person riding on the cargo rack. After ascending endlessly counterclockwise..."

April 21, 2023 Arts Feature by Kevin Curtin

On the Nightshift: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Keep Running

At Moody "with the white-hot light of the oncoming train”

"...delivered here in 1974 at the Armadillo World Headquarters. Seventh show (only) out of 42 listed on the tour..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Electronic Destination Kingdom Nightclub Rises Again

Dance music venue reopens off Red River after abrupt 2018 shutter

"...East Fifth, Kingdom reopened last month at 505 E. Seventh. Doubling its past capacity, the club set up in..."

Sept. 30, 2022 Music Feature by Christina Garcia

Hot Summer Nights Reviews

Free music fest cools out record hot summer

"...to the crux of Billy Glitter: blending familiar yet sonically diverse earworms. – D.B.H. Choux Choux at Chess Club..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Five Things That Are Must-Sees at ATX TV Fest

From the newest crime drama to the return of your favorite family

"...his more lauded 2002 PBS Mystery! version of the seventh of the 18-book series, Skinwalkers. Third time may be..."

June 3, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Closing AISD Middle Schools, One Grade at a Time?

Two historically Black and Latinx middle schools set to lose sixth grade

"...Emily Sawyer's seventh-grader is the second of her five children to attend..."

March 11, 2022 News Feature by Morgan O’Hanlon

Round Rock ISD Boils Over as Superintendent Fate Is in Limbo

Board of Trustees punts its final decision

"...accused Board President Amber Feller, Weir, and Trustee Tiffanie Harrison of multiple transgressions, including abuse of power, and called..."

Feb. 25, 2022 News Feature by Morgan O’Hanlon

Stubborn With My Goals: Impassioned MC J Soulja Stays Focused on Creating Opportunities in Austin Rap

"There ain't no trophies for that kind of shit"

"...his psyche, especially when he reflects on his infant son's tragic passing in 2018 and the loss of several..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

21 Austin Rappers to Know in ’21

A hard-cut list of MCs proving the local hip-hop scene’s legitimacy

"...Austin metropolitan area and have released at least one song since June 1, 2020. Abhi the NomadRecommendations: Modern Trash..."

June 25, 2021 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...about the release and the recent birth of his son...."

April 16, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

World-Class Trombonist Andre Hayward's Spiritual Journey

"Big Butter" brings his warm sound to Austin

"...Jazz Collective (with Dave Douglas, Joshua Redman and Bobby Hutcherson), the Duke Ellington Orchestra, and the Lincoln Center Jazz..."

April 2, 2021 Music Feature by Michael Toland

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Quarantine didn't stop Aaron Sinclair from songwriting, but it did change his output. Three past albums..."

March 26, 2021 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Teeta Cosigns The Seventh Seal

Relentless wordsmith talks fatherhood, numerology & the apocalypse

"...and a grip of singles and collaborations. Friday’s The Seventh Seal combines the breakout Austin rapper with Dallas MC..."

Sept. 9, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

A Lagniappe About Mary Trump’s Book

R.U. Steinberg recalls a childhood in the distant orbit of "the world's most dangerous man"

"...things are going. We last saw each other in seventh grade at a bar mitzvah party...."

July 24, 2020 Arts Feature by R.U. Steinberg

Checking In: Ray Wylie Hubbard Heard You Shout Freebird

Wimberley bard misses his band and maybe even that heckler

"...Every seventh day, Country Sunday rolls through my house. Past Ray..."

April 12, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Austin Séance Shares the History of American Spiritualism

In their sittings, Jake Cordero and Albert Lucio give you the experience of contacting the departed

"...religions and superstition had established. It didn't take the seventh son of a seventh son or a child born..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Death Watch: As Execution Pace Quickens, a 30-Day Stay for Barbee

Meanwhile, Randy Halprin loses 5CA appeal and Rodney Reed supporters fight for justice

"...beat and suffocated his pregnant girlfriend and her 7-year-old son – but without the "conscious objective or desire" to..."

Sept. 27, 2019 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

The Satire's Still Timely in Gilbert & Sullivan Austin's Iolanthe

And the topsy-turvy team's show delivers a fanciful fairy tale, to boot

"...to record his own rendition of "Lord Chancellor's Nightmare Song" for the 1974 album Todd; Asimov to pen the..."

June 21, 2019 Arts Feature by M. Brianna Stallings

Iron Orchard Gets Its Day on Screen

Austin Film Festival shows the film adaptation of the classic Texas novel

"...shade opposite the historic John Bremond Jr. House at Seventh and Guadalupe, Lew Temple is under a tree, dodging..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Saturday ACL Fest 2018 Picks

Saturday, in the park, I don't think it was the Fourth of July

"...Laferte is Mon Laferte, a 35-year-old Chilean bellowing torch songs in the styles of bolero, tango, cumbia, and ska...."

Oct. 12, 2018 Music Feature

ZM3 Live Productions' Echo of a Refugee ... Me?

Zell Miller III's latest was a state of the city address that called out Austin for gentrification and policies harmful to its black citizens

"...project, Echo of a Refugee ... Me?, this native son let you know that, delivering a state-of-the-city address from..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

SXSW Music Review: Willie Nelson’s Luck Reunion

Outside the Downtown fray the Americana fest didn't disappoint

"...Willie Nelson drops a new album on April 27, titled Last..."

March 16, 2018 SXSW Post by Doug Freeman

Southwest Theatre Productions’ If I Forget

While the play is a compelling kitchen-sink drama, this staging doesn't quite reach the promise of the material

"...Playwright Steven Levenson's star is on the rise. At 32, he had..."

Jan. 26, 2018 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

The State of Austin Wine

Somms Under Fire lights up Austin's wine scene this month

"...(McGuire Moorman Hospitality), and New Waterloo beverage director Mandi Nel­son. Each manages a portfolio of projects ranging from high-end..."

Jan. 19, 2018 Food Feature by Tom Thornton

The Hidden Room Theatre's Henry IV

Beth Burns' latest foray into Shakespeare will school you on how to present plays penned by the Bard

"...and open your programs to page one. This evening's lesson, provided by the Hidden Room Theatre, is on how..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

Lege Lines: Bills on the Move

Tracking the fallout from the special session

"...of Austin's nominal lease to Planned Parent­hood on East Seventh. Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, stressed that the Down­town center doesn't..."

July 28, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

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

"...The season winds down with the Taming of the West (including..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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