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"...to do on the lengthy agenda, including several city charter amendments, a public hearing on the November bond package,..."

Aug. 3, 2012 News Feature

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

Neighborhoods, Schools, and Budgets
Austin ISD's looming financial crisis is a statewide story
"...collapsed into a $27 billion hole – and AISD started bracing to absorb its share of the abyss. And..."

Feb. 11, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

East Austin Studio Tour
The city's autumn marathon of art covers work by some 300 artists in 175 venues
"...Hope you've been training for Austin's annual autumn art marathon. With this year's East Austin Studio Tour, your..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rent
A Broadway-quality staging of the popular rock musical with energy to spare
"...to produce a coherent whole. Steakley, Zach's longtime producing artistic director, has both the means and the wherewithal to..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

At the Drive-In
An East Austin art compound reviews the magic of outdoor screening
"...bright as they used to be, deep in this heart of Austin...."

Oct. 1, 2010 Screens Feature 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

Joystick Junkies Unite
Pixelated panels and tourneys with no save point in sight
"...spend 40 hours shooting impeccably rendered aliens to be part of the club. Now is your chance to spend..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

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

Tim Miller Has a 'Lay of the Land'
Miller performs his new work at the Vortex, Jan. 29-30.
"...consciousness of the United States. Known for monologue-ish performance art pieces, Miller is always fresh, engaging, and politically savvy...."

Jan. 26, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Feed an Artist, Nourish the World
Austin School of Film underground and avant-garde shorts
"...their way into being. It is, in short, the art of filmmaking in its purest and most virginal form,..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Forgotten Radical
Thornton's plays are Wilder than you might remember
"...George Gibbs and Emily Webb may play a prominent part in the story. But as for the rest, well,..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Department of Angels
A bureaucratic heaven, as envisioned by a couple of charming clowns, is sweet
"...Department of Angels..."

July 3, 2009 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

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

Motherland
"...and bonding. Through feeding, playing with, and dancing with starving, disabled, and orphaned children, the women learn the art..."

March 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Che: Part Two
Steven Soderbergh concludes his two-part biopic with Che's Bolivian endgame.
"...Joaquim de Almeida and Lou Diamond Phillips. At the start of Steven Soderbergh’s two-part epic about the life of..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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

Saturday Sleepers
"...a little musical influence from John Darnielle. The Amsterdam quartet's 2007 debut, Footnotes (Excelsior), weaves quirky, detailed narratives through..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

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

Starving and Art in Marfa, Texas
Sonic Youth plays Marfa, turns on the bright lights.
"...main street. Then the desert sky opens and it starts pouring. Thousands descended upon the small town of Marfa,..."

Oct. 8, 2007 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

A Long, Watt Summer
The citywide Kill-a-Watt Challenge kicks off
"...you're worried about global warming, you wish you weren't part of the problem, but you're about as optimistic about..."

May 25, 2007 Features Feature by Nora Ankrum

Saturday Showcase Picks
SXSW Music Fest preview guide
"...on a Lungfish cover. Arclight's Austin neighbor and showcase partner, Australian Cattle God, takes things even further out to..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

Saturday Picks
SXSW Music Fest preview guide
"...of their Moby Dick-inspired Leviathan in 2004. The Atlanta-based quartet then inked a deal with Warner Bros. and crafted..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

La Mujer de Mi Hermano
Soap melodramatics masquerade as high art in this south-of-the-border drama about a love triangle and marital infidelity.
"...Christian Meier and Manolo Cardona. Soap masquerades as high art in this south-of-the-border romantic drama, which has nevertheless proved..."

April 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Shostakovich's 'Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk' burns with violent passions and dark deeds, and Austin Lyric Opera brings this torrid tale to blazing life
"...The bored bride, stifled inside a loveless marriage and starving sexually, finds her inner fires stoked by a strapping..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires

King Kong
Jackson's remake is a corker of an action/monster movie: part RKO serial; part square-jawed, manly romp; and part classic journey into the unknown that recalls and references Heart of Darkness.
"...godhead is more than the sum of its gargantuan parts (big budget, bigger stars, biggest simian ever); it’s also..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rent
Despite the grating, workmanlike direction of Chris Columbus, this boisterous film is a vivacious, wiseacre musical and an inarguable morality lesson: Love is all you need.
"...Adam Pascal, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel, Anthony Rapp and Tracie Thoms. Playwright Jonathan..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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

Luv Doc Recommends: Rude Mechanicals' Black Eye Ball
The Off Center, Saturday, August 20, 2005
"...biker bar in Baytown instead of a trendy performance art warehouse in East Austin. You’ll find colorful people in..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Column by The Luv Doc

One Holiday, Two Gifts, 100 Years
Dan Welcher's pair of Yuletide operas shows what a difference a century makes
"...Woodruff and set in the same New York City apartment as Della's Gift but 100 years later, when two..."

April 22, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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