City Arts Funding: The Resolution

Council approves FY 19 arts funding, ponders its next move

"...The three-act drama about city arts funding that opened Sept...."

Oct. 8, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Arts Funding Matrix: Reloaded

Arts Commission's FY 19 funding adjustments head to Council

"...strongly to deep cuts in funding for FY 19, the Arts Commission had a working group reconsider the matrix..."

Oct. 2, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Grand Designs of Ia Ensterä and Jason Amato

"...As noted in the All Over Creation column "In Praise of Designers", two..."

July 17, 2015 Photo Gallery

Zak Starkey Ignites the Who

Frank Erwin Center career overview transcends

"...son of Richard Starkey, Jr. – has now powered the Who even longer than Keith Moon, his godfather. (That’s..."

April 28, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Cream of the Tech-Top

The Year in Multimedia

"...3. The release of Microsoft's Windows 95, as much for the..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Screens Feature

The Summer Revival Spirit

Can I Get a Witness?

"...The Paramount Theatre's Summer Film Classics features mostly double bills..."

June 12, 1998 Screens Feature

Tempest in the PACT Teapot

Eruption over Public Access Com­mun­ity Television producer's banning from premises roiling airwaves

"...In the wild, woolly world of Austin's public-access TV – where..."

Feb. 8, 2008 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

The Witches of the Orient

How the 1964 Japanese women’s Olympic volleyball team healed a nation

"...What sorcery is this, this tempest darkening the Eastern skies? This relentless deluge of streaking..."

July 16, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Head of the Class

With Senioritis, the conclusion to his quartet of plays set at a Catholic high school in Houston, solo performer Rob Nash is all set to graduate -- to Off-Broadway, says Robi Polgar.

"...Once there was a kid who attended Catholic high school in..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

They Were the Storm: A Tragedy on Lake Travis

"...How will you remember the fallen? (Cue mournful solo violin music.) Whomst among us..."

Sept. 11, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Council: If This Is Thursday, the Public Hearing Is Closed

Short-term rentals may cause quite a stir at today's City Council meeting

"...– 10-1 vs. 8-2-1 – was going to raise the most sand in today's City Council meeting (Thursday, Aug...."

Aug. 3, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

The Hightower Report

Goldman's Singapore Sling; and Flipping Us the Bird

"...and to suppress any outbreak of political outrage from either the public or Washington...."

July 29, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower

Shocked at ROT! Round Up the Usual Suspects!

Offended peepster takes a gazillion photos of nude revelers

"...A complaint over alleged ribald behavior at the Republic of Texas Biker Rally headquarters last month petered..."

July 18, 2008 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Council: Back in the Groove

Budget done, Council trudges on

"...City Council heard the first briefing on UT's long-awaited gentrification study at its..."

Sept. 21, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Beside the Point

In the spirit of 'BoA,' BTP presents Best of What's Happening at City Council This Week

"...wonderful about Austin (and our advertisers), when we deliver the fattest issue of the year (and biggest headache to..."

Oct. 12, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside the Point

City Council gets ready to wade in the water (treatment plant)

"...At the June 8 City Council meeting, Brewster McCracken suggested that..."

June 23, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

The Spirit of Volunteerism

"...your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free … " This phrase keeps running through my..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Features Feature

Off the Record

'Hot Smoke & Sasafrass': Bubble Puppy reunites, James McMurtry fires back, and a final verdict for the estate of Don Walser

"...Texas psych, Bubble Puppy is confirmed to appear at the 2010-11 Austin Music Awards at the Austin Music Hall..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Page Two: Running With the Wild Gang

Self-proclaimed patriots don't seem to have much love for their country, except on their own terms

"...out exactly what I have in my hands. In the wake of the election, three decades into the Chronicle,..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Playing on the Past

"...Gorf. QBert. Zaxxon. Kaboom. Yar's Revenge. Hunt the Wumpus. Dig Dug. For anyone who's ever played them,..."

June 11, 1999 Screens Feature by Chris Baker

Prospero's Books

This Greenaway film deconstructs Shakespeare's The Tempest with egotistical fervor – the play's not the thing, but Greenaway's vanity is.

"...Sabelle Pasco. Dense and impenetrable, Prospero's Books deconstructs Shakespeare's The Tempest with egotistical fervor -- the play's not the..."

Nov. 29, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Top 10 Theatrical Wonders of 2011

Remembering a theatrical year with superheroes, The Tempest, and a mash-up of the two

"...1) 'BLACK WATCH' (Texas Performing Arts) The National Theatre of Scotland used every weapon in theatre's..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Stargate

"...and Jaye Davidson. When genres collide. Ridley Scott fused the science fiction movie with film noir in Blade Runner...."

Nov. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

The Tempest

Faraway-feeling Rain Lily Farm proves a perfect setting for the enchanted isle in Shakespeare's late romance

"...The TempestRain Lily Farm, 914 Shady www.presentcompanytheatre.com Through Nov. 1..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Arts Review by Elissa Russell

Bad Milo!

In this gross but smart comedy from Jacob Vaughan, a man's stress grows into a monster that explodes from his rectum.

"...savvy subtexts taken to literal extremes in one of the most original gross-out comedies in years. Directed by former..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Little Black Book

This is what happens when the "don't ask, don't tell" policy fails young lovers.

"...Maran. Little Black Book immediately posits itself as a not-your-run-of-the-mill romantic comedy with a quotation (from The Tempest) that..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Shakespeare's First Folio

Why the first collection of the Bard's plays is such a big deal and cause to celebrate on his 400th death anniversary

"...So you're dead. (Sorry to break the news to you this way.)..."

March 18, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Amreeka

In this delightfully human and sweetly comic ode to the contemporary immigrant experience in a post-9/11 “Amreeka,” a Palestinian mother and son create a world of possibilities.

"...Boiteau, Jenna Kawar and Selena Haddad. Too often in these paranoid and partisan times, we tend to lose sight..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Titus

Taymor creates a spectacularly imaginative piece of Shakespearean cinema set in a world out of time.

"...Alan Cumming, Jessica Lange and Anthony Hopkins. Of all the plays Shakespeare penned, few seemed less likely to win..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Shakespeare at Winedale Outreach

The next generation finds its 'muse of fire' through an innovative new program at Winedale

"...The Winedale family tree is about to get a whole..."

July 23, 2004 Arts Feature by Clayton Stromberger

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