Review: Wise Guy Theater Co.’s Dead. Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the End

Theater becomes theatre as Fallout comedy club experiments with drama

"...Taking creative risks is the name of the game for Fallout Theater, the improv/sketch..."

July 12, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Are Kids These Days Bringing OOB the Laughter for Love’s Sake?

What dire agenda, we wonder, lurks beneath their odd & infectious joy?

"...Austin's Out of Bounds Comedy Festival from all over the country this year. So many troupes – improv and..."

Aug. 28, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Trans Experience in Comedy

Local comics use comedy to spin difficult subjects into gold

"...On April 1, the New Movement Theater hosted Cream of the Crop, a..."

April 20, 2016 Qmmunity Post by Faye Fearless

What the Hell Is Going On, Austin Arts Scene?

Here: Some nuggets of news from the frontlines of local culture.

"...First of all, you know that distinctive billboard near the intersection of Airport & Manor, right?..."

Nov. 21, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Sword and the Shield Shows Malcolm X and MLK Were More Alike Than Different

Dr. Peniel E. Joseph's book argues that the civil rights leaders are two sides of the same revolutionary coin

"...In our nation's hazy memories of the civil rights movement, Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther..."

Nov. 6, 2020 Arts Feature by Sara Hutchinson

Balanchine, by the Muse

Working with the Suzanne Farrell Ballet, Ballet Austin gets in step with history

"...The orchestra conductor sounds as if he's plucking notes out..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Greg Casar Enters the National Spotlight, and Brings His Grassroots Coalition With Him

New year, new rep

"...meeting on February 3 was a subdued affair. Icy weather forced 10 of the Council members to attend the..."

Dec. 30, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

The Hightower Report

To start a movement, start moving!

"...Like that little choo-choo in the children's book, Moral Monday is the little movement that..."

April 4, 2014 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Chris Trew Project

The comedian's trifecta in Waterloo Park includes shaving off half his beard

"...had Keystone Studios. And Chris Trew has, frankly, all the world. This week, the local comedian/improv impresario will be..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Arts Feature by Steve Birmingham

Everything Old Is New Again

A Texan's in the White House, we're in a quagmire war – and 'The Rag' returns to Austin

"...Right before she began her journey up the steep, dark flight of stairs inside the old building..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

The Desegregation of Austin's Movie Theatres

A history of the stand-in movement

"...Efforts in 1960 to desegregate movie theatres along the Drag started with a bang...."

Dec. 4, 2015 Screens Feature by Jordan Buckley

Trust Is the Vibe at Fallout Theater

The Downtown comedy club celebrates its fifth anniversary by looking to the future

"...A small theatre is much more than the sum of its nightly..."

Jan. 27, 2023 Arts Feature by Valerie Lopez

The Facts Were Immaterial

The 'counterintelligence' operations of Hoover's FBI included harassment, vilification, violence – and fake 'underground' newspapers in Bloomington, D.C., and Austin

"...and humane struggle can build a living community within the shell of the dying one." – Letter from the..."

June 7, 2013 News Feature by Dale Brumfield

The Life and Death of Schools

Educational warrior Diane Ravitch takes on the "school reform" movement

"...On the subject of public education, Diane Ravitch may be America's..."

Sept. 28, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Dance of the Century

Rhoda Winter Russell reflects on a historic life in dance and the Mary Wigman connection

"...Rhoda Winter Russell remembers Mary Wigman addressing her, rolling the "r" and lowering the pitch to emphasize the final..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

The original material was shot by a Swedish TV crew but just now assembled into this documentary that has both vision and perspective.

"...A remarkable, unexpected, and highly impressionistic document of the Black Power movement in America spanning the years 1967..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Art Fights the Power

The Liberating Artwork of Malaquías Montoya

"...I Pledge Berkeley, California,1968: The Chicano Movement is born. Cesar Chavez and his newly..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

The Final Frontier

Space Is the Place

"...illustration by Jason Stout Proclaiming the dawning of a new musical era is as smart..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Red Guards and the Modern Face of Protest

Agitators, disrupters, or “anarchists,” these masked protesters represent a new resistance

"...It was the C3 and C4 vertebrae – right up top, behind..."

Feb. 17, 2017 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

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

Sanctuary Cities and the Ways We Fight for Human Rights

When community matters more than the law

"...On the Sunday morning after Donald Trump won the presidential election,..."

Feb. 10, 2017 News Feature by Victoria Rossi

Off the Cuff and in Your City

A roundup of Austin improv schools

"...Consider improvisation, comedic and otherwise. What it takes to make something out of nothing..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

More than an appreciation, this documentary portrait of the great American folksinger and activist is an inspiration.

"...weren't a kid like me, who remembers dancing around the living room to the sound of scratchy Weavers records..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Whole Universe Rocks

The Harry Ransom Center's exhibition "Make It New" explores how modernism changed everything.

"...lost its tonic anchor and harmonic charm. Poetry jumped the fence of meter and rhyme. To read a "good"..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Everything Old is New Again

The Year in Albums

"...By the winter of 1977, when the Rolling Stones entered EMI's..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Fight of His Life

Are Ronney Reynolds' Mayoral Hopes on the Ropes?

"...afternoon when Kirk Watson announced his mayoral candidacy on the bandstand at Wooldridge Park in downtown Austin. Some blamed..."

Dec. 6, 1996 News Feature by Alex de Marban

Still the Fading Stains of Some Bad Improv Blood

Because: You have Five Families, you're gonna have some dysfunction.

"...No sense stirring up old shit in the community, especially not for the sake of generating meager..."

Aug. 28, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Sterling Lands' New Mission

Sterling Lands II and the Eastside Social Action Coalition fight for equity in Austin's public schools.

"...Late Sunday morning, a blues beat escapes the walls of Greater Calvary Baptist Church in Northeast Austin,..."

Jan. 12, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...South by Southwest audiences have seen the artier side of Ryan Gosling with films like the..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

New Documentary Every Body Illuminates the “I” in LGBTQIA

Local intersex activist Alicia Roth Weigel talks new doc

"...For all the GOP’s obsession with biology when it comes to queer..."

June 30, 2023 Screens Post by Lina Fisher

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