Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...up distressed neighborhoods in North Austin. The annual KTB Awards recognize groups committed to litter prevention and cleanup, illegal..."

June 11, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

In Memoriam: Danielle Martin

The music community mourns the loss of professor of piano Danielle Martin

"...Leon Fleisher. She was honored for her teaching and arts leadership with numerous awards and was one of 10..."

May 7, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Show & Tell

The Austin Music Network's Student Film Showcase is Austin's newest outlet for emerging auteurs

"...1, at 2pm, AMN SFS will tape its first awards show, at Jakarta Jack's Cafe (501-B E. Sixth), screening..."

April 30, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

TCB

Austin City Limits, cannonized!

"...KLRU flagship and 2003 National Medal of Arts winner Austin City Limits' reputation continues to expand to..."

April 23, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Screening Calls

What to see and when and where to see it at SXSW Film 04

"...of Bill Hicks panel on March 16, see the Arts feature on p.34. For a preview of the 24..."

March 12, 2004 Screens Feature

Short Cuts

File under: cleaning up after somebody else's mess

"...tell 'em, Neil... The 2004 Texas Film Hall of Awards (Friday, March 12, at Austin Studios) is looking for..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Articulations

The Elisabet Ney Museum is headed for a makeover, Austin photographer Sean Perry takes the prize in New Mexico, and Chronicle arts writer Barry Pineo gets a publishing deal for an acting book.

"...Congratulations to Austin photographer Sean Perry on his awards in the 12th annual Fall American Photography Exhibition held..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Short Cuts

There's so much going on in Austin film this fall that it almost feels like a real city.

"...Clear Youth Film Festival, part of the Motion Media Arts Center's Center for Young Cinema program, which kicks out..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...year's "Best New Artist" honors at the W.C. Handy Awards, and thanks to the John Lee Hooker-meets-Corey Harris acoustic..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...more usual since we have a master of fine arts program. Four or five of those people you were..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Everybody Loves a Wynn-er

Will Wynn is his own flavor of ice cream -- pure vanilla, but mixed with nuts

"...lovely (and wealthy) wife -- Anne Elizabeth, an artist, arts patron, and civic volunteer -- and two adorable daughters...."

Feb. 14, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

I Hear a Symphony

Composer Kent Kennan has been an essential voice in America's musical counterpoint since 1936 when he won the Prix de Rome Composition Prize. Now, at age 90, he'll hear the Austin Symphony play his composition for the very first time.

"...up to speed, transposing the clarinet, horn, and trumpet parts on the fly -- but the man was humble..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Arts Feature by Jerry Young

Nowhere but Texas

A long, lost cosmic country artifact resurfaces.

"...Majer is president of the National Association of Recording Arts & Sciences Texas Chapter. Back then, she and husband..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

In Memoriam

Longtime friends and colleagues of Eagle Pennell remember the filmmaker.

"...I'll remember all these parts of Eagle, and myself, but I will also remember..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Screens Feature

Cookbook Reviews

"...Schneider, winner of multiple James Beard Awards, has been writing about vegetables for 30 years in..."

July 5, 2002 Food Feature by MM Pack

Short Cuts

Austin institutions: Hippies. The bats. Kelso. Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe? Rumor has it the two River City regulars have signed on for The Alamo, the not-yet-greenlit, big-budget remake tentatively set to film just outside Austin.

"...Narrative Category Award in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences 29th Annual Student Academy Awards. Whether Lee..."

May 24, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Articulations

Austin Lyric Opera hires a new managing director, Horton Foote's The Carpetbagger's Children is named best new play by America's theatre critics, and half-price tickets are back at BookPeople.

"...of the Austin American-Statesman. Two other plays received $5,000 awards: Jeffrey Sweet's The Action Against Sol Schumann, about a..."

April 12, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Riding the Tech Titanic

Austin looks for recovery after the dot-com bust.

"...the Intel cadaver looming over its second Austin Music Awards show, with still no decision about its future...."

March 15, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Dancing About Architecture

SXSW needs venues, and the TABC keeps shutting 'em down. Public Enemy would be proud.

"...schedule calls for the Coliseum's replacement, the Long Performance Arts Hall, to have taken its place by 2004. In..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Short and Sweet

The Texas Documentary Tour showcases the work of three MFA students from the University of Texas' Radio-Television-Film Department, whose documentary program faculty member Paul Stekler calls, completely without bias of course, the "best in the country, bar none."

"...long lineage of Renaissance convictions. These convictions hold that arts, science, philosophy, self-reliance, and a strong attachment to the..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Most Valuable Players

A Guide to Austin Stage Actors

"...Recent Roles: Bigwig, Metamorphosis, Public Domain/Refraction Arts, 2001; Masked Man, Raised by Lesbians, Subterranean Theater Co.,..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Arts Feature

Postscripts

Resistencia Bookstore was the victim of a car accident last weekend but vows to move on "come hell or high water."

"...at Barnes & Noble Westlake is the Violet Crown Awards, the (11th) annual presentation by the Writers' League of..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

The Long and the Short of It

The expansive Cinematexas short film festival

"...8:30pm Cinematexas Awards Ceremony [Pato's Tacos]..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Screens Feature

Short Cuts

Call for SXSW entries

"...last week at the 22nd Annual News and Documentary Awards Ceremony of the National Academy of Television Arts and..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Postscripts

Jim Bob McMillan has done more at the Writers' League of Texas than oversee a name change.

"...increased financial support from the Texas Commission on the Arts and from the city of Austin Cultural Affairs Office;..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

The Art of Being Dagoberto Gilb

What's a successful writer like Dagoberto Gilb got against the establishment?

"...creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Ernest..."

March 23, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Kids in Black

That innocuous-seeming crew of people listed beneath the actors in every program, who scurry around in black backstage and hover over the proceedings in the sound and light booth, may not be well-known to most theatregoers, but this silent, hidden army is all-powerful. Techies get almost no share in the glory, but they run the world, and here's how.

"...work long hours -- sometimes before the show even starts rehearsals, much less opens -- in their studios or..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Jailbird

The Prison Diaries of the Fabulous Thunderbirds' Preston Hubbard

"...east side. There was also a rich music and arts scene; the city had always been a jazz town..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Music Feature by Preston Hubbard

Day Trips

The summer drought is making historical Indian sites throughout Texas more accesible to archaeologists ... and to looters.

"...local wineries displaying their wares and vying for honored awards, Sept. 8-10. 800/457-6338...."

Sept. 8, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Short Cuts

Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.

"...the shots when it comes to doling out the awards and grant cash. The program begins Sunday, Aug. 21,..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

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