The Yes Men Fix the World

These anti-corporate pranksters strike again.

"...a previous documentary. This new film is an excellent starting point for anyone curious about just how craven our..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Luv Doc Recommends: Band Together for Hope

Spider House Ballroom, Saturday, October 2, 2010

"...your love of humanity to deny the tin-can-rattling con artists at traffic lights, the cardboard-sign-carrying fauxmless dudes who work..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Column by The Luv Doc

Articulations

A weekly rundown of the latest news in Austin's visual and performing arts scene.

"...the season of giving, but a number of local arts groups got started a little early this year. Austin..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...Martha Grenon,..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

How to Be a Popular Girl

What will shy novelist Sarah Bird do now that she's back in the limelight, Dick Holland asks in this profile of the author of The Yokota Officers Club.

"...advancing the argument that he's an old cowhand, Dean Martin crooning "Besame Mucho," and Bobby Goldsboro's truly awful "Honey."..."

June 22, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Postmarks

"...issue with several statements in Lisa Tozzi's generally worthy article, "Kaplan Crunch," [Vol.17, No.15]. She raises the concern that..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Column

The Q&A Hole: What's the Use of Owning Original Artwork?

With Chris Cubas, Jill Schroeder, Shannon McCormick, and more.

"...Here's the latest of our weekly Q&A Hole series,..."

Feb. 2, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Mysteriously Happy Atmosphere

"...aren't too grown up to go looking for a party on a Saturday night have probably at least caught..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Arts Feature by John Spong

A Surreal Party, a Dead Parade, and More Recommended Events

Liven up your weekend with these undead events

"...company’s penchant for showing audiences new viewpoints on the art form. As such, you’ll find their Halloween offering quite..."

Oct. 25, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Tale of a Tale Spinner

How a ballplayer, a piano player, beatnik poetry, and Lubbock made Terry Allen an epic storyteller.

"...and three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, like the stories of the eucalyptus trees that flow..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Truth Seeker

Photographer Sebastião Salgado bears witness to the world in black and white

"...exhibition "Workers: Sebastião Salgado" at the Austin Museum of Art – Downtown, the regimes he confronts are exploitation and..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Arts Feature by Andrew Long

Luv Doc Recommends: Texas State Arts Festival

Bullock Texas State History Museum, Saturday, March 1, 2008

"...If you don’t think laser hair removal is an art, think again. It’s not all about carving landing strips..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Column by The Luv Doc

Culture Cash

Austin's artists and arts groups are working hard to survive the economic downturn, and now more than ever it's essential for the city that they do.

"..."Starving artists" isn't a term that generates much sympathy these..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

More letters about music, art, and urban planning

"...out the survey are poor, some rich, some are smart, and some are dumb. Barring a few adjustments, most..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Column

Life's Enriched Pageant

Good design, like good air, helps you breathe a little easier, and here are a few Austinites who are helping us all breathe easier through their work as graphic designers.

"...Centered within two columns of text, because it's an article about auto accidents, there's a full-color photo of a..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

DIY, and So Can I

KLRU's 'Arts in Context' mirrors the the collaboration and can-do of the artists it profiles

"...converted former tortilla factory that's also home to local artisans like East Side Glass and Hops & Grain Brewery...."

Dec. 21, 2012 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Silent Days and Nights

Discovering Live Cinema... Again

"...copying and canned music. It is not a primitive art at all, but a marvelously vivid style of cinema..."

Jan. 3, 1997 Screens Feature

To Be Conversant

Fusebox Festival gets Austin talking – with leading artists from all over the world

"...Ron Berry has an awesome job. As the artistic director of Fusebox Festival, Refraction Arts' hybrid arts extravaganza,..."

April 24, 2009 Arts Feature by Hannah Kenah

Culture, Arts, and More Recommended Weekend Events

Don't let the heat get you down

"...school I created a parody Tiger Beat-style magazine featuring articles on all the heartthrobs of my high school English..."

Aug. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

After a Fashion

Signs, signs, everywhere signs! Sigh! Is the (now) controversial Gomi Kitty really a sign?

"...WEEK: "Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Paint By Numbers

Racial Divides in Austin's Public Arts Funding

"...Art isn't always pretty, but it seems that when you..."

June 28, 1996 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Kate Shindle Talks Fun Home

The former Miss America on why she loves starring in the national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical

"...by a mile. When you come out, that lunchtime starts to feel like your entire life. Since before you..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar takes on Jean Paul Gaultier and wins

"...Sidewalk to the Catwalk" at the Dallas Museum of Art, and my head is still spinning from the divinity...."

Feb. 10, 2012 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Race to Innovation

With $1,000 each and eight weeks, five teams compete to take theatre to a new level

"...In order to start a fire, you can do the normal thing with..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Fall Film Previews

September

"...place when the intended bride decides to follow her heart and cast her fate with that of the best..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

Off the Desk

"...Cal E. Varner purchased two adjacent lots in the heart of the area to be redeveloped six weeks after..."

Jan. 12, 1996 News Feature

The Fellowship of the Tortilla

Peña Unites Central-American Folk

"..."The reason we started it," relates singer and guitarist Lourdes Perez, "was to..."

Oct. 20, 1995 Music Feature

Checking In: Seela Side Hustles

“I’m known as the South Austin Bread Fairy”

"...My 50th birthday was supposed to be a backyard party. Jon was supposed to start a monthly residency with..."

Aug. 11, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Playback: Hot Shivers

New Whiskey Shivers, Butthole Surfers, Casualties, murals, and takes on American literary classics

"...one twitchy dog – to all come swimming at Barton Springs after the show...."

July 21, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Can a Working Musician Find a Decent Job in This Town?

Musicians looking to subsidize their poverty-level passion already have one strike against them

"...When starting the local trio three years ago, I sank all..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Music Feature by Leslie Sisson

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