Arthouse: A design worth the wait

After nine years, Arthouse is ready to complete the renovation of its two-story headquarters at 700 Congress

"...For nine years, we've been waiting for the other shoe to drop, and this week Arthouse finally..."

March 21, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Inexpressible

Ferreting out the local avant-garde jazz scene

"...drunken fistfights, smoke smelly cigars, sleep face down on the tables, or even pinch people in inappropriate places. Carl..."

June 15, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

The Palmer Proposal

"...If it passes, Proposition 12 of the Nov. 3 bond election will demolish City Coliseum and..."

Oct. 2, 1998 News Feature

Z-Tejas at the Aboretum

"...I learned that Z-Tejas was taking up residence at the Arboretum. It's not that I have anything against the..."

Oct. 25, 1996 Food Feature

Reality Bites: Looking Back at The Real World: Austin

Austin's film community shaped the reality show and vice versa

"...trying to make it at South by Southwest and their Avid editing program had frozen...."

July 22, 2024 Screens Post by Paul Stekler

The Sun Also Rises

Out of tragedy blooms East Cameron Folkcore.

"...Outside a fading yellow house off of Montopolis Drive, the sound of guitars, drums, and horns rattles faintly onto..."

April 3, 2015 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Town Was Hoppin'

Austin's music scene of the Fifties lives on in Ray Campi

"...rockabilly veteran Ray Campi wrote his first song on the last day of 1949 and left Austin at the..."

March 30, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Retirement and the City

Retirement is tough. Living Downtown makes it all better.

"...Like many longtime Austinites, I've watched the Downtown landscape fill up with high-rise condo towers and..."

March 27, 2009 Food Feature by Linda Ball

The Game Is All

We catch up with some major players in Austin's gaming universe

"...one. And if you are, you were likely among the attendees of the Austin Game Conference...."

Oct. 27, 2006 Screens Feature by N. Evan Van Zelfden

Turning Tricks With The Amazing Ray

With nothing up his sleeve, Esther's Follies resident magic man Ray Anderson pulls wonder -- and laughter -- out of thin air.

"...his size with only his hands sticking out, and they're shackled. Meanwhile, suspended over him is the Claw, a..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Readings From the Fringe

"...Mystery and science fiction sometimes go hand in hand. They've spent a lot of time together in the pulp..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Books Review by Mike Shea

The Abreasted Development of Russ Meyer

"...The X-rated king of softcore sex films, Russ Meyer, looking..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Screens Feature by Louis Black

The Ruta Java

Where to Go for a Cup of Joe

"...could be found inside its multitude of coffeehouses. Although the closest thing to a coffeehouse I'd experienced back then..."

March 14, 1997 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

L. Shapley Bassen's "Portrait of a Giant Squid"

First Place winner

"...to be his first cousin Donna's heir. In his mother's photo albums from the postwar 1940s, Ray appeared as..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Arts Feature by l. Shapley Bassen

Fantastic Fest: 'Zombie Roadkill'

Fearnet web series whacks some undead vermin

"...There are many reasons why new web series Zombie Roadkill..."

Oct. 5, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

States of Mind

Off the Bookshelf

"...The Source of Trouble; $10 paperback A Wild, Cold State..."

Aug. 11, 1995 Arts Feature

Sons of Fathers: Spencer Tweedy

Wilco scion Blisters

"...Spencer Tweedy and I share the fact that we’ve grown up in musical households, following..."

Aug. 21, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

An Idiot at FronteraFest

Diary of getting a homegrown 25-minute play onto the stage for Austin's biggest annual performance festival

"...proven thoroughly as I prepared a 25-minute piece for the 2017 edition of FronteraFest, the annual performance event at..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Arts Feature by T. Lynn Mikeska

Bedside Manner: Treehouse Tomes

Up in the air with Klosterman, Murakami, and more

"...Good news: I have the distinct advantage of appearing on this blog following my..."

Jan. 3, 2011 Books Post by Monica Riese

Post Marks

Muddying the Waters

"...MUD No.1, I sincerely appreciate Kayte VanScoy's attention to the issue of annexation and the history of MUD districts..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Column

Two Girls and a Guy

"...Directed by: James Toback. Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Heather Graham and Natasha Gregson Wagner. Ah Spring, when a..."

April 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Friday International Bands

Friday lists bleed both ways, backward and forward; know your lists!

"...Lady Leshurr (Fri., 12mid, Victorian Room at the Driskill)..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

We Live in Public

The Internet-based social experiments of Josh Harris, the original dot-com visionary kid, are profiled in this cautionary documentary.

"...Directed by: Ondi Timoner. In the early 1980s, Josh Harris, a young, smart, tech-savvy Nerd..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

You Are What You Art

"...like criticism, but she was right. In my house there is art on the wall, art on the furniture,..."

July 11, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Interview

Steve Buscemi directs and co-stars in this film with Sienna Miller as the pair play out an emotionally charged pas de deux.

"...behind an uninteresting movie: In 2004, controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh (great-grandson of Vincent’s long-suffering brother Theo) is..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Fashionista

UK-to-ATX transplant Simon Rumley's thriftstore mystery

"...Who doesn’t love the feel of comfortable fabric against their skin? A blouse,..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

SXSW Thursday International Bands

Thursday, pace yourself

"...propulsive, streamlined bits on its second Relapse LP, Taste the Sin...."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Gigantic

Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel play would-be lovers who are stymied by life and the outsized personalities of their fathers (played by Ed Asner and John Goodman).

"...Asner, Jane Alexander and Zach Galifianakis. Is Zooey Deschanel the new Parker Posey? For that matter, have you ever..."

April 24, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

How Not to Gentrify: HRC Asks for Eastside Moratorium

Alvarez advises caution, further study

"...Drive eight-or-so minutes Northeast from Perry Lorenz's proposed Spring condo development at Third..."

Nov. 4, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

If Lucy Fell

"...it is hard to not draw comparisons when all the big laughs come every time Ben Stiller's onscreen. Parker..."

March 8, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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