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Our readers talk back.

"...input into local Austin Chronicle input and reviews of music, I noted Mr. Peak's response ["Postmarks," March 21] to..."

March 28, 2003 Column

Downtown's New Year

"...opposition to its prospective chain-store neighbor, Borders Books and Music, which many fear could drive Austin-bred BookPeople and Waterloo..."

Jan. 17, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Nominees for the 2018-19 Austin Critics Table Awards Announced

The Critics Table's picture-perfect year

"...and settled on what was outstanding in dance, classical music, visual art, and theatre in that span and announced..."

May 13, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

SoundSpace: Downtown NYC 1960

Blanton Museum's music series turns the clock back to minimalism's early years in Manhattan

"...some of its most exquisite expressions, via the Blanton Museum of Art exhibition "Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol..."

April 25, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Curiosity, Tough to Crack

The AFS Texas Documentary Tour: Don Bernier's 'In a Nutshell: A Portrait of Elizabeth Tashjian'

"...a much tamer documentary about private collections in roadside museums. Then they encountered Elizabeth Tashjian, who, at 89, physically..."

June 9, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Art of the State '98

Art & Theatre to See Around Texas This Summer

"...on me every year about this time. Even though Texas between the days Memorial and Labor is a wretched..."

May 29, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Day Trips & Beyond: March Events Roundup

Spring is full of festivals and flowers

"...unique and fun art events of the year. There’s music under the trees, food trucks lining the street, and..."

March 3, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: June Events Roundup

Pho on the coast, statuesque women in Dallas; June is time to hit the road

"...Day Trips column about the lack of monuments in Texas to women. In one fell swoop, “#IfThenSheCan – The..."

June 3, 2021 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Star Turns

The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...agreed on the most outstanding work in dance, classical music, visual art, and theatre in the past year and..."

May 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Everybody talk about: pop music, aquifer protection, police presence, even doggie do and doggie don't.

"...district's Fine Arts Academy. Yeah, yeah, I know, it's Texas, and violinists don't march on Friday nights...."

May 18, 2001 Column

Day Trips & Beyond: October Events Roundup

Over 70 Texas fairs, fests, fetes, and more

"...It’s harvest season in Texas with lots of spooky fun festivals and a round..."

Oct. 4, 2017 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

Museum preserves history of Texas polka

"...The Texas Polka Music Museum in Schulenburg still plays the old..."

March 15, 2013 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Culture Flash

Free museums, FronteraFest applications, Gray's tap award, and new Salon leaders

"...• The Austin Museum Partnership hosts the 11th annual Austin Museum Day on..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

Austin museums want you, and Richard Buckley conducts in the Windy City

"...long has it been since you've been in a museum? Well, that's too long! But since Sunday, Sept. 10..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Naked City

City prepares to solicit proposals for reusing the Art Deco power plant

"...homes – including a new central library, the Austin Museum of Art, KLRU-TV and Austin City Limits, and the..."

April 2, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Res Publica

Citizens' calendar, Feb. 11-18

"...UT campus, Joynes Reading Room, 2501 Whitis, 471-5692. Free. www.utexas.edu/cola/progs/plan2/events/13796...."

Feb. 12, 2010 News Feature

State of Wonderment

The Texas Biennial's first outside curator describes what he saw in Lone Star art

"...a survey exhibition of its own to showcase only Texas artists. Branding it the Texas Biennial, a name with..."

March 6, 2009 Arts Feature by Andrew Long

Improvisation on Four Legs and a Seat

Eighty Texas artists accept Damian Priour's invitation to riff on the idea of chair

"...Imagine a group of jazz musicians improvising – really fine musicians, let's say, and nearly..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Event Menu

April 18-20

"...Mexico 2008, the annual fundraising gala to benefit Mexic-Arte Museum (419 Congress, 480-9373, www.mexic-artemuseum.org), at the Hyatt Regency Hotel..."

April 18, 2008 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Critics Table Tops at 25

The nominees for the 2016-17 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...have settled on what was outstanding in dance, classical music, visual art, and theatre in that span and announced..."

May 22, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Austin Monuments to Pop Culture

Fiji mermaids, vintage toys, and a Cathedral of Junk

"...Museum of the Weird..."

March 3, 2017 Chronolog Post

Bill Narum: We Call That Art

ZZ Top iconographer Bill Narum moves on to the next canvas.

"...No one journeyed through Texas music without seeing Bill Narum. His splashy, bold art..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

2001 Kids' Summer Fun Guide

"...classes for all skill levels. Math, science, art, and music are brought together to help girls do things like..."

May 4, 2001 Features Feature

Day Trips & Beyond: July Events Roundup

Balmorhea is back, baby!

"...Summer’s heating up with lots of festivals, music, and a horse race or two...."

June 29, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips: Waymore’s Package Store, Littlefield

The High Plains outlaw lives on in family’s tribute museum and drive-through liquor store

"...astonishing collection of Waylon Jennings memorabilia in a folk-art museum dedicated to the town's most famous native son...."

Nov. 10, 2017 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Playing the Downtown Game

The score so far, and moves still to be made

"...side of Republic Square, currently slated for the Austin Museum of Art..."

April 9, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Day Trips

"...dinosaurs lived here 105 million of years ago, when Texas was covered by a vast coastal swamp. Paleontologists theorize..."

July 9, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

Top honors to Salvage Vanguard's Thr3e Zisters, LOLA Austin's Femme Bohème, and Texas State's Kiss Me, Kate

"...close behind were LOLA Austin's La Femme Bohème and Texas State University Department of Theatre and Dance's Kiss Me,..."

June 5, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Then But Also Now

Past meets present in Sunday's free Black History Concert

"...title, you might think it'll only be dusting off music from the distant past. Well, that's partly true of..."

Jan. 10, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

La Belle: The Ship That Changed History

"...This Saturday, October 25, the Bob Bullock Texas History Museum opens "La Belle: The Ship That Changed..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Photo Gallery

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