Unwind: Six Ways to De-Stress This Summer in Austin

Beer yoga, craft projects, and the perfect foot rub make our list

"...out, but summer's a great one. With our list, find a massage therapist on a budget or get in..."

May 18, 2018 Features Feature by Clara Wang

A Contemporary Prometheus in The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster

Bomani J. Story retells Frankenstein as a Black horror

"...Death is a disease. At least, that’s how the heroine of SXSW selection The Angry Black Girl and Her..."

March 11, 2023 Screens Post by Dex Wesley Parra

Top 10 Ways to Eat Corn in Austin

We're thinking outside the cob

"...1) SUERTE Suerte has a thing for corn. It appears in some form in nearly..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Food Feature by Jessi Devenyns

Doug Jaques: In Memoriam

Remembering the great Austin muralist and teacher

"...Doug Jaques, the gifted painter who created the signature underwater scene for the interior..."

April 12, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Barry Jenkins and Nicholas Britell Were in a Quar-Pod Together

Filmmaker & composer pals talk creative collaboration at SXSW Online

"...easy to admire the transportive work of filmmaker Barry Jenkins and composer Nicholas Britell, but who knew they’d embody..."

March 16, 2021 SXSW Post by Kimberley Jones

Austin's Throwing a Big Bash for Beethoven in 2020

The classical community is lighting 250 candles for this musical superhero

"...You want to party in 2020? Then get to wherever Austin's classical musicians..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Valoneecia Tolbert Geeks Out in Tales of a Blerd Ballerina

The actress looks back at what it was to be young, geeky, and Black

"...Ta-Nehisi Coates writes Black Panther and Captain America comics. Stacey Abrams mines political wisdom from Star..."

April 9, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Checking In: BettySoo Invents the Corona-Gram™

Inside the beautiful mind of a reluctant livestream breakout

"...“It's difficult and bizarre for someone whose most dreaded part of work before was having to see themselves on..."

May 8, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Pointing Out Detention Centers "In Plain Sight"

Sky-high art turns eyes to migrant detention and incarceration

"...The plane flew low over the desert mountains, so close to the large tents pitched outside El..."

July 3, 2020 Arts Post by Victoria Rossi

Letters at 3AM: A Fallen Catholic in a Fallen Church

I can't hide from my sins and, now, neither can the church

"...During the election of 2008, I sought to pray for..."

July 16, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Safety in Words

If there is drama in Laura Furman's stories, Robin Bradford writes, it is not usually the life and death kind. It is the daily, wearing, ineffable drama of living as a human island among others who invariably seem more attractive, more connected, or simply more "normal."

"...walk the dog at twilight so I can glance in strangers' windows at dusk. Each house is a stage,..."

April 20, 2001 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Seven in Focus

SXSW '97 Film

"...of the Donut Men It would seem that the pairing of producers Elizabeth Avellán and Rana Joy Glickman is..."

March 7, 1997 Screens Feature

The Sour Notes Ride It Out

Life’s tedium and passion captured in black & white

"...The pendulum of daily life, swinging from inspiring, devastating, and the mundane, receives gorgeous representation..."

May 24, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

HOG Wild

How a concrete wasteland has become a street-art wonderland called the HOPE Outdoor Gallery

"...On the morning of the first Sunday in June, Bob Wallace has..."

June 20, 2014 Arts Feature by Bob Makela

Tillie Walden: Talking Comics

"If it was torture, I’d’ve given up by now.”

"...Tillie Walden, that Ignatz-winning author of the new graphic novel Spinning, will be..."

Nov. 1, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...the movies at this year's hybrid event. The stellar lineupreally ignites with the world premiere of Apollo 10 1/2:..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Maudie

A Canadian folk artist falls for a fishmonger

"...Directed by: Aisling Walsh. Starring: Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Kari Matchett, Zachary..."

July 14, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Interview: Santigold

Philly pop songstress struggles with change on new disc 99¢

"...Since releasing her sophomore LP Master of My Make Believe..."

March 18, 2016 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

Tapestry Dance Company's April Fools

This remount of the tap troupe's valentine to vaudeville brought the old art form back with delights in abundance

"...That would be Tapestry Dance Company, which in its show April Fools summoned the spirit of that..."

May 11, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Robert Rodriguez Opens Frank Frazetta's Archive for Austin Show

Exclusive first look at special art event during SXSW

"...There are few fantasy artists more influential and yet often overlooked than Frank Frazetta...."

Feb. 19, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Frazetta Up Close

Robert Rodriguez gives Austin a look at some originals by the master of fantasy art, Frank Frazetta

"...Few fantasy artists have had the impact or been more influential than..."

March 13, 2015 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Before Night Falls

"...Directed by: Julian Schnabel. Starring: Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano, Vito Maria..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Becoming Herself

What role the 'Universe of Texas' played in the life and art of Marcia Gay Harden

"...In 2010, she is known to the world as an..."

May 21, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sculpting a School

David Deming on the Art of Being a Dean

"...photograph by Kenny Braun..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Prints Charming

Marking Austin's Museum of Art's "Fresh Ink" Exhibit

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Feb. 21, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Qmmunity: Celebrating Latinx Legends

Tatiana Cholula talks about refusing American assimilation in favor of celebrating Latinx culture through drag show Divina

"...Austin has no shortage of Latinx drag talent, but there..."

March 31, 2023 Column by James Scott

Bart Layton on Secrets, Lies, and American Animals

How the documentarian turned true crime tropes on their heads

"...Some documentarians find their next film through hours of painstaking research. When..."

June 14, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

"Femme National(e): Audrey Brown, Christina Coleman, Kasumi Chow / Desiree Michelle Espada, Emmy Laursen, Juliana Isabel Ramirez"

This group show is messy and a little berserk, but that's what makes it important and kindles joy in us

"...The layout of "Femme National(e)" has resulted in some resounding interactions between two particular parallel walls in..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

The Writer, The Editor, and the Filmmaker: The Story of Turn Every Page

Lizzie Gottlieb on her father and LBJ biographer Robert Caro

"...Cities are always in flux. Looking out of the window of the Fairmont,..."

Jan. 28, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Positively Operatic

The Year in Austin Culture

"...Arts Critics PollARTS STORY OF THE YEAR Ada Calhoun: Flatbed..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature

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