Faster Than Sound: Fat Tony Tales

Houston rapper plays sole release show in Austin

"...partner studies law, avant-garde Texan rapper Anthony Obi details the exploratory Exotica. In fact, for its sole release show,..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, September 11-17

"...to do what? To become a different person from the self she had been. To shed her familiar beliefs..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...Any lead-off track better give as good as the album itself, so Primates coming out swinging on what..."

July 10, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, May 29 - June 4

"...I think her wisdom can help you thrive in the coming weeks. She writes, "The past pushed away, the..."

May 29, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

Luv Doc: Being Circumspect

A stupid, irritating, or contemptible person

"...to younger people is as thrilling as thinking about the sex life of slugs. Absolutely no one wants to..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Column by Luv Doc

Lege Lines: School Finance Bill Passes House With Flying Colors

Stickland only holdout on ambitious “Texas Plan” finance bill

"...House Bill 3, the session's marquee school finance legislation, survived over three hours..."

April 12, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Faster Than Sound: Multidimensional Production Team Musically Reimagines Fantastic Planet

Lifted Traces rescores classic films, Harlem re-emerges locally with Oh Boy, and more

"...of sci-fi classic Alien, complete with water sprinklers for otherworldly drool and shaking seats. If the house that Mickey..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Forklift Danceworks' My Parks, My Pools, My City

With Bartholomew Swims, Allison Orr's dance company plunges into Austin's pool problem

"...invite neighborhood residents and audience members to mark off the L-shaped perimeter of the old Bartholomew Municipal Pool –..."

July 28, 2017 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Wednesday SXSW Picks

"...Records LP, 2013's Victim of Love, Charles Bradley transcended the club of forgotten black soul men (Lee Fields) and..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

Thursday SXSW Picks

"...Mike Watt & the Secondmen 8pm, the Main II Minutemen/Firehose/Stooges bassist Mike Watt..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

Talking Curation With Art Alliance Austin's Asa Hursh

Lora Reynolds Gallery's exhibition of work by Troy Brauntuch, Andy Coolquitt, and Jeff Williams proves a good case study in putting together an art show

"...even, cloudy gradients of rusty umber. "I can feel there's something there, I can sense the space, but ...."..."

Aug. 21, 2015 Arts Feature by Seth Orion Schwaiger

Re-Forming AI$D

What's behind the national involvment in local school board races?

"...changed in education politics, and Robert Schneider has seen the shift. Twelve years ago, when he first ran for..."

Nov. 28, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Playback: Fun Fun Fun Fest: Hell Bent for Leather

Some heads are gonna roll at Fun Fun Fun Fest 2014

"...in anticipation for heavy metal pioneers Judas Priest, whose leather-daddy lead singer, Rob Halford, hasn't ridden his Harley onto..."

May 23, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Creating Sustainability

City plans Colony Park project as a long-term Eastside neighborhood

"...floating in Walter E. Long Lake, you'll pass on the way a big slab of nothing. But not for..."

Jan. 27, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Mona Remix

Leonardo's lady gets a modern makeover in Rino Pizzi's Mona Lisa Project

"...Start with the smile. That's what everyone thinks of first, after all...."

July 1, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

In-Comprehensible? ANC Balks at Comp Plan.

ANC fears Imagine Austin will unravel neighborhood planning efforts

"...The Austin Comprehensive Plan is well into its third phase..."

Dec. 3, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Austin Pride 2009

Event listings

"...MULTIFAITH PRIDE SERVICE The apex of Pride. The openness, the spirit, the display..."

June 5, 2009 Features Feature

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Austin Playhouse's production provides a pleasurable escape from our world of straight talk and minimal etiquette

"...Christopher Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuses, adapted from the novel of the same title, is a brilliantly written..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

Lege Notes: Taser talk and more

Stories from under the pink granite dome

"...Burnam, D-Fort Worth, filed House Bill 418 to restrict the use of electroshock Taser weapons by police only to..."

March 2, 2007 News Column

Capitol Briefs

"...for all sixth-grade girls. Dallas attorney Kenneth Chaiken filed the lawsuit in Travis Co. District Court on behalf of..."

March 2, 2007 News Feature

Letters at 3AM

No recent commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' shared the poem's spirit or its author's invitation to expand the very definition of 'human being'

"...that wistful, reverent, carefully even-handed verbiage in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass? Op-eds,..."

July 22, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Genghis Khan

In 'Genghis Khan,' Salvage Vanguard Theater crafts a surprisingly traditional, surprisingly intimate, and absorbing operatic portrait of a lion in winter

"...The Off Center, through April 9..."

April 1, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

TCB

If John Lennon had attended this weekend's ACL Fest blowout he might have screamed, "I've got blisters on my feet!"

"...Zilker Park, Denton's Midlake, whom Clark also manages, took the stage promptly at noon for a half-hour of OK..."

Sept. 26, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Motherbone

Salvage Vanguard Theater adapts the classic Russian folk tale of Vasilissa the Beautiful into a new urban opera, Motherbone, that may have some rough edges, but is an amazing showcase for the musical passion of Graham Reynolds as well as the company's pluck and determination.

"...Motherbone: Reap the Aural Whirlwind..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

Heyd in Plain Sight

Austin painter Heyd Fontenot exposes more than himself in his new exhibition.

"...There are a lot of naked people on the wall..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Coach's Corner

Coach is playing some serious golf on vacation. Why is it, though they change partners every day, his team always loses?

"...Jones golf course than his couch. (For one thing, the refined southerner likely frowned upon the spectacle of public..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Naked City

"...Texas Observer co-editor Karen Olsson will leave the venerable biweekly in January to pursue creative writing interests...."

Nov. 16, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Straight, No Chaser

Brannen Temple, aspiring to be Austin's Max Roach

"...The question is influences; the answer is a drum lesson...."

March 2, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Holy Cross Quadrilogy

Through his Holy Cross Quadrilogy, a solo show that tracks three friends through four years at a Catholic high school, writer-performer Rob Nash takes us back to adolescence, re-creating that time of life in all its cruelty, uncertainty, agitation, and yearning, but also blessing it with an abundance of good humor and compassion.

"...The Holy Cross Quadrilogy: BACK TO CLASS WITH A CLASS..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Too Much Caffeine Woman

Watching Jean Caffeine's eyes light up.

"...that it's difficult to find one starting point with the well-seasoned local musician. Leave it to her to provide..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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