Creature Construction

How Trouble Puppet creates those ingenious, inhuman figures that populate its plays

"...Skeletal forms made from cardboard and dowel rods, with top-heavy heads, sit in various stages of construction on tables,..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Get Off Your Ass and Change the World

Nobel Prize winner Jody Williams speaks tomorrow at BookPeople

"...York City, Wales, Mexico, and Ottawa, Jody Williams will stop in Austin at BookPeople at 7pm this Saturday September..."

Sept. 6, 2013 Books Post by Jessi Cape

Are You Headed Straight For Failure, Friend?

Ah, it looks like Karl Stevens got there first.

"...of action, not just some random series of disparate figures with word balloons added. So why … I mean,..."

Sept. 5, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

In the Name of Ann Richards

AISD's School for Young Women Leaders is a district showcase – does its glittering reputation hide a darker side for teachers and students?

"...give a college opportunity to girls who weren't necessarily top of the class, but had potential, and to help..."

Aug. 30, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Hornography

Announcing the 121st running of the University of Texas Longhorns

"...that should hopefully extend through the next Olympiad. 2013 figures to be a telling odyssey that will either substantially..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Sports Column by Chase Hoffberger

Studio Visits: Isabella Bur

Talk of doughnuts, divorce, and departures in a borrowed studio space

"...and I've always been good at it. So in topology, there's the torus. A mathematician would tell you to..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Arts Column by Andy Campbell

Prince Charming: Adam Ant

King of the Wild Frontier returns to Austin – tonight

"...the world with the classics (including a memorable Austin stop last year). Those players will factor in the new..."

July 26, 2013 Music Post by Tim Stegall

DVDanger: 'Tower Block'

UK suspense with a thick slice of social realism and bloodshed

"...to be the salvation of the slum, sky-kissing urban utopias that would give the residents a clear view of..."

July 8, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Who Says You're Drunk?

Bars and bartenders may help you tie one on – but they're also expected to cut you off just this side of 'intoxication'

"...caused the truck to catch fire, and sent 22-year-old Christopher Peart, Wood's passenger, flying from the car – he..."

July 5, 2013 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Did Ott Hide Ethics Study From Council?

Many employees don't believe city has a strong ethical culture, 2010 survey shows

"...not something the firm typically does. Those at the top got the worst marks. "Of the four component cultures,..."

May 17, 2013 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Ted Cruz: Newtown Families 'Props'

Texas junior senator learns what YouTube is, the hard way

"...the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence duplicates those figures, and finds that "53 percent of all voters are..."

April 30, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Psych Fest: Rain Parade

Q&A with headliner/bandleader Matt Piucci

"...and David Roback in 1981, Rain Parade were key figures in a loose confederation of L.A. bands that included..."

April 25, 2013 Music Post by Greg Beets

Mad World

Dobro, mandolin, and banjola ease April’s cruelty

"...“You Can’t Always Get What You Want” at the top of its lungs in a virtual crossfire hurricane for..."

April 22, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Texas Budget Ping-Pong Begins

Chambers now start carving away at each other's proposals

"...The headline figures are obviously the grand totals, and both chambers propose..."

March 24, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Figure in the Frame

The exhibit Arnold Newman: Masterclass gives us all a lesson in the power of the photographic portrait

"...extensive Newman collection, and for the exhibit's first American stop, HRC Senior Research Curator Roy Flukinger has supplemented them..."

March 15, 2013 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

21 & Over

Some clever moments rescue this fall-down-drunk comedy from its baser instincts.

"...med school entrance interview in the morning, but he figures, what the hell, what’s one drink? Predictably, one drink..."

March 8, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

What's New on the Social Web

Keeping up in the world of Tumblr and Reddit and Facebook and more

"...popular with the site's users get promoted to the top of the site ("upvoted"), making them hard to ignore...."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

This Weekend's Your Last Chance to See the Human/Animal Hybrids

Brought to you by painter Malcolm Bucknall at the Wally Workman Gallery

"...Bucknall creates full-sized portraits, oil on canvas, of Elizabethan figures in the costumes afforded by royals and gentry of..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Playback

Emo's stays indie. For now.

"...At issue were five figures of the negotiating price on Emo's – the lease..."

Feb. 1, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

DVD Watch: When Horror Came to Shochiku

Criterion box set restores a lost corner of J-horror

"...Western audiences, even pre-Captain Jack Sparrow, pirates were romantic figures. For an island nation like Japan, whose sailors were..."

Dec. 18, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Blue Öyster Cult

Complete catalogs trump career overviews

"...titled for "Dominance and Submission" lyric "warpage in my figures, radios appear." Patti Smith's initial foray into song spellcasting..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

The organizers of Austin Pride 2012 have a lot to celebrate

"...If the financials and attendance figures for Austin Pride 2012, held this past September 22,..."

Dec. 4, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Coffee Table Iconoclasts

Oversized books and outsized personalities

"...this great designer, innovator, and futurist doesn't have to stop there: This impressive publication combines serious scholarship with archival..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

AISD Boys' School Has a Target

Covington Middle School seems the likely candidate

"...boys – and Covington Middle School has become the top contender to house it...."

Nov. 2, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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

Reveling among the multiform delights of Art Outside

"...and women with the live fireworks exploding off the tops of their heads...."

Oct. 29, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Argo

Ben Affleck directs this entertaining thriller about an unbelievable-but-true mission to extricate American hostages from Iran in 1980.

"...Garber, Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, Scoot McNairy, Rory Cochrane, Christopher Denham, Kerry Bishé, Kyle Chandler, Chris Messina, Zeljko Ivanek..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Med School Solution

A medical school, a teaching hospital, and a new health care system?

"...cents for every $100 of property valuation. In dollar figures, that would mean (if voters approve) that someone who..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Fragrant World

Q&A with Yeasayer guitarist Anand Wilder

"...AC: Seems like the figures on your album art are somewhat obscure. Is that..."

Sept. 5, 2012 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Point Austin: Big Numbers

A thumbnail look at the proposed 2012-13 city budget

"...budget time, so most of the numbers are dollar figures: increases and cuts, project costs, and of course tax..."

Aug. 24, 2012 News Column by Michael King

A 'Do or Die' Year at Reagan

A Q&A with 'Saving the School' author Michael Brick

"..."Well, I know you're Miss Kaiser's friend." Let me stop you right there. I am not Miss Kaiser's friend...."

Aug. 17, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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