Five Arty Events: Jan. 12-14

The year continues! The present trips into the future! Who'd'a thunk?

"...2) The 25th annual FronteraFest unmasks its protean Short Fringe face on Tuesday, but we’re telling you about..."

Jan. 11, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Top 10 Creative Things I Lucked Into in 2013

Remembering the year thick with superlative works of art onstage and in galleries

"...that keeps on giving, and one of the best Short Fringe things it gave was Kyle John Schmidt's "The..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Inside Out ... Outside In

The growing influence of fringe movements on City Hall reflects either a healthy populism or the implosion of civic engagement

"...taken away," Pressley says. "The neighborhood associations: By letting short-term rentals in, you've taken the power of the safety..."

March 2, 2012 News Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Top 10 Arts Events of 2011 in No Particular Order

How festival goodness and powerful art exhibits made 2011 a year to remember

"...Lowell Bartholomee's monologue, performed by Robert S. Fisher at Short Fringe way back at the beginning of 2011, was..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Culture Flash!

A pair of Austin-penned plays are fit for an elevator, a local's little yarn scores a big win, and two receive visual-arts prizes while one helps choose a big winner

"...respectively, to Hyde Park Theatre's small stage and the Short Fringe's 25-minute time limit. But that was nothing compared..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Arts Column by Robert Faires

A 'Postmarks' 'Shot in the Dark'

"...like to respond to the review of my FronteraFest Short Fringe Best of Week performance of "Dating Big Poppa..."

Feb. 1, 2007 Postmarks

Best of the Fest, Bill B

"...of Best of the Fest at the FronteraFest 2005 Short Fringe was typically eclectic, with pieces ranging from expressive..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

Are We on the Edge?

The Austin Shakespeare Festival's Will Power: The Course of Love, a compendium of Shakespearean scenes, songs, and sonnets, is as short and sweet as a chocolate heart

"...hits, it's really more of a Shakespeare sampler, relatively short and comparatively sweet, like the chocolate hearts that the..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Are We on the Edge?

Spank Dance Company's Black Things, in which black-clad dancers dance in near darkness, is original, striking, and resonant of the shadow side of our interior and exterior worlds

"...provided are ones they themselves hold and manipulate: four short, beam-emitting cylinders and a couple of lights on sticks...."

Jan. 30, 2004 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Dispatches From the Edge

Rounding Up the 2001 FronteraFest Long Fringe

"...goal, and FronteraFest is a wonderful enterprise. Both the Short and Long Fringes offer opportunities that theatre practitioners otherwise..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Going Long

Scoping Out the Long Fringe of FronteraFest 2000

"...no longer in charge: She's got him by the short and curlies every which way. When they tango, she..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

How Parallelogramophonograph survived Scotland and became a better improv troupe

"...ingenious if unwieldy moniker, were braving the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with what they advertised as "improvised plays from Austin,..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Webb on the Web

Don Webb: Surreal but Awake

"...from Austin for many years, producing unique works of short fiction usually categorized as horror, fantasy, or science fiction,..."

July 31, 1998 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Infill On Trial

What's the Verdict on the Latest Central-City Boom?

"...1977 -- has lost patience with sprawl on the fringe and decay in the heart of town. Austinites old..."

Feb. 14, 1997 News Feature

Y Not?

The battle over AMD's move to Lantana is a one-tract skirmish in a larger war over the uncertain future of Central Texas

"...swelled, the "desired development zone" on the city's easternmost fringe sits mostly empty, waiting for the housing and retail..."

June 24, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Books on Wheels

In Austin, bookmobiles aren't just a thing of the past; they're the literary wave of the future

"...used, rare, out-of-print, and collectible books in science fiction, fringe, and fantasy. The wacky little book bus includes genre-centric..."

July 10, 2015 Arts Feature by Jessi Cape

Shrinking Schools

While the suburbs sprawl, central city schools count their children – and their blessings

"...elementary school populations are flat or declining, even as outer-fringe schools are bursting with children. Of AISD's 74 elementary..."

May 20, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Off-Off-Broadway Bound

An Austinite's account of taking the stage in New York City

"...Next month, when the New York International Fringe Festival, the largest theatrical fringe festival in North America,..."

July 29, 2005 Arts Feature by Lowell Bartholomee

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Morales are not far apart on the issues." In short the Chronicle states vote for Ron Kirk not because..."

April 5, 2002 Column

Raising the Dead

Actor Joseph Fotinos Wants to Resurrect Local Television

"...mid-Seventies, and retired KXAN veteran Mel Pennington remembers a short-lived horror show hosted by the alleged son of Peter..."

July 6, 2001 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Small-Gauge Samurai

Super-8 enthusiast Cory Ryan brings Flicker to town.

"...to Austin's Flicker Film Festival, a bimonthly mini-fest featuring short, small-gauge (Super-8 and 16mm) films by area filmmakers held..."

July 20, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Is This UTopia?

A Long-Overdue University Master Plan is Unveiled

"...nexus of the university's "nerd corner" and on the short list of the city's ugliest buildings, especially on its..."

Sept. 22, 1995 News Feature

Celis Brewery Returns

The revitalization of Austin’s first big-time brewery

"...for the candy kids, and Celis White for the fringe. And that is where the foundation of Austin's first..."

April 14, 2017 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Bastion Standard Time

Austin theatre's 'enfant terrible' swapped his poison pen for a Poison Apple and still gets people talking

"...In short, in the 18 months since he put down his..."

July 13, 2012 Arts Feature by Dan Solomon

TV Eye: Insiders Trading TV Tips

TV insiders Noah Hawley and Kyle Killen trade tips

"...Bones and later executive produced the pilot for another short-lived series, The Unusuals (ABC). His screenplays include Lies &..."

Jan. 21, 2011 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Rude Mechs: How great it was, how great

The Rude Mechs' Bush-whacking version of Get Your War On nets raves and a festival prize at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe

"...2,050 shows being offered at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, you'd pretty much expect just one to be lost..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'He's Forked Himself'

Our Full conversation with Louis Dubose about 'The Hammer'

"...He's a master of intimidation, very intimidating for a short, paunchy guy. This sort of stare, the "I-don't-believe-that-you-are-so-stupid-that-you-would-ask-me-that-fucking-question" stare,..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Big Apple Benefit

Twisted Olivia star Everett Quinton joins the cast for Zach's House Arrest

"...The local actor/playwright/ director/filmmaker is set to present his short-play collection Blah, Blah, Blah in the New York International..."

July 16, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...into club revenue, the ban would have passed in short order (does anyone really believe that Austin club-owners want..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Austin is facing the most serious budget shortfall in anyone's memory, and the costs will only increase..."

June 6, 2003 Column

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