The Reporting Life

Oh, the places you'll go

"...Our reporting has taken us everywhere from the Supreme Court and death row to up and down..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Features Feature by Chase Hoffberger

KMFA's New Home Brings the Community Into Contact With Music

Austin's classical music radio station has a new building where people can see the sounds

"...Ann Hume Wilson has the sun in her eyes...."

Jan. 29, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Symphony Orchestra Keeps Playing From Beyond the Stage

For the second time in its 109-year history, the ASO weathers a global pandemic

"...contemporary music acts explore alternative avenues to engage with their audiences, what does a nearly 80-member musical group with..."

June 19, 2020 Arts Feature by David Sotelo

Qmmunity: The Queer Stories That Made 2019

Looking back, enjoying gelato, and the return of Middle School Dance Party

"...decade. At midnight, I didn't realize this year marked the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, and I certainly..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

Trumpet Colossus Kenny Dorham Towers Alongside the Jazz Gods

The Austin musician stands alone in showing up Miles Davis in his autobiography

"...In Miles Davis' autobiography, one of the mightiest forces in music, let alone jazz, recounts a..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

The Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2016

These inductees – Ballet Austin's Cookie Ruiz and Stephen Mills, and the Austin Symphony Orchestra's Peter Bay – are cultural heroes who lead by example

"...That the vitality of Austin's cultural scene is owed to its..."

May 6, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Bo-Keys’ Memphis Soul

“The collision of gospel, blues, jazz, country”

"...The Bo-Keys have carried the torch for Memphis soul music..."

April 28, 2016 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

DVDanger: The Story of Cinema, Part One

Four documentaries examine four film legacies

"...Recent documentaries like Jodorowsky's Dune and Lost Soul detail the near-misses on legendary projects that almost happened the way..."

Sept. 2, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Breaking the Chains

Slavery may be illegal, but it's not eradicated

"...in a restaurant for a short time to repay their $1,500 smuggling fee, the victims were forced into prostitution...."

June 19, 2015 News Feature by Lizzie Jespersen

DVDanger: 'Devil's Pass', 'Die, Monster, Die!', 'The Whip and the Body', 'Birth of the Living Dead'

A modern shocker, two vintage terrors, and a history lesson in zombies

"...The years change, the decades fall away, but here at..."

Jan. 11, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Drink/Drank/Drunk Issue: Stages of Inebriation

To drink or not to drink – for local thespians, no question

"...Want to hear some good drinking stories? Ask theatre people. Between their research for playing soused characters, work..."

July 3, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Fables of the Reconstruction

Todos Santos Music Festival, on the edge paradise & progress

"...About 45 miles north of Cabo San Lucas, on the resort-riddled southern tip of the Baja Peninsula, sits Todos..."

Feb. 1, 2013 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Fire in the Night, Music in Bone-Deep Bassnote Throbs

Reveling among the multiform delights of Art Outside

"...I want to tell you about the men and women with the live fireworks exploding off..."

Oct. 29, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

South-of-the-Border Speculation

Three Messages and a Warning presents a broad swath of Mexican SF

"...The notion of Mexican science fiction may, to some minds,..."

Jan. 20, 2012 Books Feature by Roberto Ontiveros

Where the Beards Are

Meet the Austin Facial Hair Club, reality TV's unlikeliest new stars

"..."There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Top of the Line

The nominees for the 2011 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...For the 19th year, an informal affiliation of local arts critics..."

May 27, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two: The Suburbs

Growing up with Phoebe Snow, whose presence and music transcended the ordinary

"...It's a music story – a story of the blues and jazz and even rock – but one..."

May 6, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Things Not To Fear: 1) The Reaper, 2) The World Horror Convention in Austin

An Interview with Convention co-chairs Nate Southard and Lee Thomas

"...here's that interview with Nate Southard and Lee Thomas, the co-chairs of the annual World Horror Convention that's invading..."

April 27, 2011 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

'The Main Treatment Options'

Short Story Contest: First place

"..."Oh, shit, Ramey," was the first thing I said when I walked in the..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Books Feature by Katie F. Perry

The Sound and the Fury

Monsters of Folk drummer Will Johnson continues demonstrating monstrous musical and compositional gifts

"...Keeping beat for the Monsters of Folk at a sold-out Stubb's on a..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Gifts of the Magi

A conversation about community and creativity with three wise men of the Austin arts

"...As Dave Steakley works in theatre, Stephen Mills in dance, and Craig Hella Johnson in..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The World Is Flat

How King of the Hill helped make Texas three-dimensional again

"...– a baffled Hank Hill to son, Bobby, in the series finale of King of the Hill..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

The Man in the White Hat

Larry Joe Doherty rides into the battle for CD 10

"...The strategy was supposed to solidify power for Tom DeLay...."

Oct. 3, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Mighty Hannibal Sees All

The Atlanta soul man has stories to tell, and who cares if they're true?

"...“I want somebody to tell my mother and go down yonder in Georgia and tell my..."

Aug. 27, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Can the Bands Play On?

The Live Music Task Force tunes up to protect Austin's claim to fame

"...That's the alarm sounded for 2008 by Troy Dillinger. The longtime..."

July 18, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

The Present Beware! The Future Beware!

Austin animator Brad Neely drinks beer, hates British children

"..."He'll save children/but not the British children." My conversation with Brad Neely at Crown..."

June 13, 2008 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Josh Rosenblatt Has Seen the Future, and It Isn't Pretty

Magic eight-balling 2008, month by month

"...The Year 2008 in Film, Culture, Uprising: Speculation This week,..."

Jan. 3, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

The Shins' James Mercer: Fond of Y-O-U

The Shins' James Mercer winces upon a star.

"...My rave review of the new Shins album, Wincing the Night Away, was less..."

March 1, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Welcome to the Jungle

Metal and alt-rock collide and flourish during the Back Room's glory years

"...its 30-plus-year run was it Austin's classiest venue, but the Back Room definitely had balls; in the self-proclaimed Live..."

July 28, 2006 Music Feature by Ray Seggern

The 'West' Shall Rise Again

A new generation creates its own take on the show that changed Austin theatre

"...One by one, these individuals take the stage of the Austin Community College..."

April 7, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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