Inaugural Austin Theatre Critics Awards Drop 2024-2025 Nominees

Delicious drama of awards anticipation

"...Nominations for Outstanding Touring Show: MJ, the Musical ~ Texas Performing Arts, Broadway in Austin Frozen ~ Texas Performing..."

May 21, 2025 Arts Post by Cat McCarrey

Fashion, Heritage, Ballet, Puns, and More Weekend Events

Arts and culture to fill your days

"...author Jess Smith – who also currently teaches at Texas Tech – digs into the relationship between women, their..."

May 9, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Opportunities to Amplify, Educate, and Trailblaze in This Week’s Events

The week ahead is looking bright

"...Building and Strengthening Tenant Action – was established by Texas RioGrande Legal Aid in 2016 to build tenant power..."

Feb. 28, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

SXSW 2025 Taps the Ting Tings, Jad Fair, and Colin Newman of Wire

Multimedia fest returns March 10-15

"...multi-instrumentalist/composer Yasmin Williams. Prolific musician, visual artist, and Manor, Texas resident Jad Fair – who’s collaborated with Daniel Johnston,..."

Oct. 29, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Austin’s Best Breweries of 2024, Power Ranked!

Welcome to Top of the Hops IX

"...Top 25 brought home medals from the third annual Texas Craft Brewers Cup – hosted by the Texas Craft..."

Oct. 17, 2024 Food Post by Eric Puga

The Off Beat: ACL Weekend One Was Hot, Dusty, and Gay as Hell

Notes from the ground at Zilker, plus tips for weekend two

"...Sure enough, as I marveled at the low (for Texas) temp, alt-country belter Katie Pruitt confirmed I wasn’t crazy...."

Oct. 11, 2024 Column by Carys Anderson

I’ll Be Here to Lay Down Beside You

An Austin widower’s take on coping with loss

"...They were a family now. Vacations together, camping in Texas, skiing in Canada...."

Oct. 11, 2024 Features Feature by Jonah Lemm

Glen Powell Clears His Throat for The Best Man's Ghostwriter

Austin's movie A-lister on his new Audible audiobook comedy

"...While the show is driven by Powell’s bourbon-smooth Central Texas tones; because it’s audio only, there’s no sign of..."

Sept. 11, 2024 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Movies, Mothers, and 4th of July Fun Highlights the Week's Events

Make your holiday weekday worth it

"...by Get It Games. In tribute to our favorite blonde bedhead babe, draw your eyebrows as thin as possible..."

June 28, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Six Great Breweries Off the Beaten Path

In tumultuous times for Austin beer, these undersung gems are worth seeking out

"...the damp, camel’s buttcrack that is Austin By God Texas. It helps to have good beer and a recreational..."

March 1, 2024 Food Feature by Eric Puga

SXSW Adds Ho99o9, Kikuo, Sofia Kourtesis to 2024 Music Lineup

243 artists make up the festival’s second artist announcement

"...Pelvis Wrestley, Redbud, San Gabriel, San Saba County, Skateland, Texas String Assembly, The Tiarras, and Water Damage. Fort Worth’s..."

Dec. 6, 2023 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Eight Lineups to See at Levitation This Halloween Weekend

Our picks at the venue-based festival, from Panda Bear to Flying Lotus

"...featuring DJ sets from lineup artists like Ty Segall, Blonde Redhead, Shannon & the Clams, and Die Spitz, as..."

Oct. 27, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Austin’s Best Breweries of 2023, Power-Ranked

Top of the Hops VIII, baby!

"...of brewers: oatmeal coffee porters, barrel-aged raspberry sours, Belgian blonde ales inside taxidermy squirrels. The number of American craft..."

Oct. 10, 2023 Food Post by Eric Puga

The Exquisite Torments of Ken Paxton

Why is everybody so mean to the Texas Attorney General?

"...was the outlandish claim of Ken Paxton, newly restored Texas Attorney General, following his acquittal Saturday on all 16..."

Sept. 18, 2023 News Post by Michael King

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Slow Pulse EP release, Austin Afrobeats Fest, Border Kindness Benefit, and more recommended shows

"...prestigious placements (notably at Alabama's Furnace Fest and Houston's Texas Hell Fest), but their EP release show is pure..."

Sept. 1, 2023 Music Column by Julian Towers

Fantastic Fest Gets Toxic With The Toxic Avenger

Fall of the House of Usher, The Creator added

"...ANIMALIA D: Sofia Alaoui France, Morocco, Qatar, 2023, Texas Premiere, 91 min Separated from her husband during a..."

Aug. 15, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Los Cogelones, PickleStock, Lady Dan, and more recommended Austin shows

"...soulful synth-pop and Dodo's fierce fusion, then decade-surf with Je'Texas and Pearl Z before Colombian funk wizards Superfónicos and..."

Aug. 11, 2023 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Enduring Emo of Paramore Connects Past and Future at Moody Center

Hayley Williams' “dream we didn’t even know we were allowed to dream”

"...intrastate challenge she set up between the three sold-out Texas shows...."

July 10, 2023 Music Post by Wayne Lim

Unless Abbott Interferes, Daniel Perry to Serve 25 Years

"I know it’s never going to be the same again.” – Whitney Mitchell

"...Broden, promised to appeal the guilty verdict to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and submit a clemency appeal..."

May 10, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Austin's Best Breweries of 2022, Power-Ranked

It's Top of the Hops VII!

"...breweries from highly objective sources like the newly founded Texas Craft Brewers Cup, the World Beer Cup, and, of..."

Oct. 12, 2022 Food Post by Eric Puga

Escapism and Connection: The Illustrated Life of Billy Perkins

Hustling Austin posters for 30 years, Perkins perseveres

"...comic stand hangs his 1987 Commercial Art BFA from Texas State University. What began at junior college in Temple..."

June 17, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Beergardigans Return: Austin Kids Grade Local Breweries

The second installment with your beer garden friends

"...most pressing question keeping the coffee-and-emoji-addled parents of Central Texas socially anxious: Do my children belong at the brewery?..."

May 27, 2022 Food Feature by Eric Puga

The Mystery of the Mysterines

Why did I fly 1,500 miles to see Liverpool’s sixth best act?

"...but the Mysterines reminded me of SoCal scrappers Concrete Blonde, my first roadshow here, Austin Opera House 1992. Poetesses..."

May 25, 2022 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Angélique Kidjo Punches Until Crosseyed & Painless

West African body rocker covers Talking Heads & worships Mother Earth

"...On an evening closing out one Texas Performing Arts season – welcome to the 40 club,..."

May 13, 2022 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Faster Than Sound: How Two Years Off Made Oblivion Access Festival Even Better

An interview with the truly independent booking duo on their landmark lineup

"...representatives Converge and Youth of Today, new additions of Blonde Redhead, Danny Brown, the Microphones, and Grouper push the..."

May 6, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

To Oblivion and Beyond: A Breakdown of the Bands at Oblivion Access

Translating the scrolls at Austin’s most interesting festival of the year

"...it also swings open the gates to alt-era favorites Blonde Redhead, one of rap's great characters in Danny Brown..."

May 6, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Through Steel, Wood, Glass, and Gas, Ion Art Turns Zilker Into a Glowing Wonderland

Enter the Neon Garden

"...Austin, at least, and likely no one else in Texas: supercharging the verdant acres of Zilker Botanical Garden for..."

April 22, 2022 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Oblivion Access Adds Danny Brown, Grouper, Death Grips’ Andy Morin and More

Experimental festival finalizes lineup for May 12-15

"...four-day festival confirms its full lineup. Previously-announced performers like Blonde Redhead, Carcass, The Locust, Youth of Today, Xiu Xiu,..."

Feb. 10, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Top 25 Austin Breweries of 2021

Our annual list of Central Texas’ top beers returns

"...Lavender, and Comal Blanc, a wild saison ale with Texas-grown Blanc Du Bois grapes, have been notable standouts...."

Oct. 12, 2021 Food Post by Eric Puga

South of Heaven

Jason Sudeikis and Evangeline Lilly hold on to love on the run

"...So often, romance subplots in Texas noir feel like afterthoughts, there to increase a little..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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