Arden of Faversham

This Shakespearean-style "true crime" drama is not without compelling elements, but a lack of polish weighs on this staging

"...A mystery lingers as to just who penned the not-often-presented Arden of Faversham. Thomas Kyd, Kit Marlowe, and even..."

May 20, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Out of Ink 2016: Carry On

As usual, ScriptWorks' annual showcase of 10-minute plays is a bit rough but shows the promise of creative minds

"...many annual events on Austin's arts calendar, ScriptWorks' Out of Ink is among the smallest. Each year, in the..."

May 6, 2016 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

'A Conga Line of Incongruous Celebrities'

Sam Staggs chronicles the extraordinary life of a Hollywood gadabout in 'Inventing Elsa Maxwell'

"...Dallas-based author Sam Staggs has made a career out of turning the celebrity autobiography away from simpering rehashes of..."

Nov. 23, 2012 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

World of Books

The Fifth Annual Texas Book Festival

"...when reporters and interviewers probed for the truth without offering personal commentary, Koppel has spent much of Nightline's 20-year..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Books Feature by Andy Langer

Five Gifts of Literary Delight for You or Anyone Lucky Enough to Be Your Friends or Family

Sentence yourself to a long stretch of reading pleasure

"...laugh, maybe make you cry or rage on behalf of the characters and situations therein? Here are five recent..."

Nov. 28, 2022 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

From Stage to Page to Screen: Inside the Script of West Side Story

Tony Kushner explains the process of adapting a classic

"...his career he has repeatedly dipped into the works of others. "If you love a text," he said, "there's..."

Jan. 31, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Birth of Western Swing, Death of Milton Brown

Chapter excerpt from the new book by ATX music historians Michael Corcoran and Tim Kerr spotlights the debt that the kings of country swing, Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys, owed to Texan Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies

"...[Ghost Notes] Pioneering Spirits of Texas Music (TCU Press) teams local music scholar Michael..."

March 27, 2020 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Prop B Campaigns Exchange Charges of Being "Republican"

As election day nears both sides of the debate trade barbs

"...has nearly ended (Friday, Nov. 1, 7pm). One point of contention is whose supporters are more or less “Republican.”..."

Nov. 1, 2019 News Post by Michael King

Truth in Journalism: The Making of The Post

Reporters and researchers on Spielberg's journalistic epic

"...a call from assistant foreign editor Gerald Gold. As of that week he was to report to the New..."

Jan. 15, 2018 Screens Post by Acacia Coronado

The Ascent of Mandolin

The next step in Avi Avital's mission to convert the world to mandolin: Vivaldi

"...recital. Let's face it, mandolins are the black sheep of musical instruments, either confined to cherubic depictions in Renaissance..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Arts Feature by Natalie Zeldin

Bill Cotter's Parallel Apartments Are Full of Freaks Like You and Me

And the author presents a wine-fueled glimpse at BookPeople tomorrow.

"...new novel, The Parallel Apartments, should come with one of those Government Warning Labels...."

Feb. 24, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Future Food Salon Carries a Message of Tasty Protein on Six Legs

Haute cuisine gets buggy to promote progressive thinking about global food supplies

"...cricket," the Brits say about something unfair. But much of what will be cooked up for this fancy soirée..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Depths of 'Desire'

Curator Annette Carlozzi invites art lovers to dive down into images of longing

"...The first sign that the exhibition "Desire" is something a bit different is simply the..."

March 19, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

AFF: Titans of TV vs. The Online World

Comparing notes between the Titans of TV and The Online World.

"...it perfectly clear. Examined side by side, the panels offered a vivid snapshot on the state of televisual viewing..."

Oct. 22, 2008 Screens Post by Belinda Acosta

Dispatches From a New Decade of SXSW

Our favorite musical moments from the fest

"...decade felt less like the hectic and celebrity-dominated Fests of the 2010's and more like the accessible Aughts. A..."

March 25, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Stephen Harrigan on A Friend of Mr. Lincoln

The Austin writer reveals the vision behind his portrait of the 16th president as a young man in his new novel

"...Of course we think we know the man on the..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Cinema of Possibilities

Low budget or big, the energy and imagination of the grind-house circuit is reborn in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's tribute

"...Grindhouse, as you probably know, is a celebration of a certain kind of cinematic fare and the theatres..."

April 6, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Tubes of Art

"...to hear the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's senior curator of film and media arts, John G. Hanhardt, lecture on..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Faces of Homelessness

Another Downtown attempt to find answers

"...and enough radiant heat to make last month's filming of local action auteur Robert Rodri­guez's hyperviolent Machete both look..."

Oct. 9, 2009 News Feature by Marc Savlov

The Best of the Rest The Summer of '95, Part 2

"...embedded in the human psyche. In Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest by Daniel Quinn (Bantam, $19.95..."

June 9, 1995 Books Feature

Return of the She-King

In-depth Q&A with Dead Can Dance hypnotist Lisa Gerrard

"...Reunited at the Moody Theater Friday for Anastasis, DCD offered up oracle Lisa Gerrard...."

Sept. 6, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Status of the Original

"...in 1984, and four years later, with the help of two business partners in Massachusetts, opened BookLab, a much..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

ICOSA Gallery Flows Like a River of Creative Glory

The Canopy-based collective keeps visual conversation bold and bright in our community's eyes

"...its infrastructure will physically transmogrify, like the larval stage of some arthropod moving toward the morphological terminus of adulthood;..."

April 2, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

BoomBaptist and the Art of Crafty Self Promotion Schemes

Instrumental hip-hop mastermind sells us his world

"...Thaggard appeared for all the world the very image of press conference cool. But when one pointed question placed..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Point Austin: The Definition of Insanity

Waiting for the Legislature to finally do its duty on school finance

"...Well, maybe. In the wake of the past week's events and with the session barely..."

Jan. 18, 2019 News Column by Michael King

Council: Nights of White Linen

As focus shifts to budget prep, agenda goes high-speed

"...The emotional high point of the day, late Thursday morning, was the historic acknowledgment..."

Aug. 8, 2017 News Post by Michael King

On Audiences' Attention Spans and the Length of Plays

"...10 years, I’ve been surprised lately to discover two of your newest reviewers continue to assert that plays more..."

Dec. 7, 2008 Postmarks

'Chronicle' Misses the Most Important Part of the Story

"...withstanding, some noteworthy points were made on both sides of the discussion, but as discerning denizens, it was largely..."

Dec. 16, 2003 Postmarks

UT Conference Explores Ethics Around the Breakneck Advancement of AI

Humanizing machines

"...At times UT-Austin's Good Systems Symposium felt a bit like listening to a Drake album, with conversations heavily..."

April 14, 2023 News Feature by Benton Graham

Last Bow of an Accidental Critic

Lessons and surprises from a career that shouldn't have been

"...Terry, who invited me to perform in an evening of her comedy sketches one weekend, I would have had..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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