Austin Says, 'No, Thanks,' to Investing in New Nukes

City's decision based on an 'apolitical' financial risk analysis, Wynn says

"...New Jersey-based NRG Energy to the city of Austin: Yo,..."

Feb. 15, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Austin Symphony: Everything Old Is New Again

The Austin Symphony's local premiere of Kevin Puts' 'Symphony No. 2': 'Island of Innocence,' evokes the cultural shift after 9/11 in a dramatic score

"...assistant professor of composition, living and writing full-time in New York. "Kevin uses the events of 9/11 as a..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Meet the New Neighbors

A fugitive sect of Mormon polygamists is building a home – and an end-time temple – in the West Texas town of Eldorado

"...to spark more than a general curiosity about the new neighbor. "I knew when [the land] was sold that..."

July 29, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Mmmm! Mmmm! Good drama!

Austin Script Works has four new scripts just out of the oven that it wants you to sample

"...(and increasingly nationally known) playwrights organization, which has four new scripts just out of the oven that it wants..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

"In a New Light" Programs

"...several programs to help show it off "in a new light." Below is a sampling. Unless otherwise noted, the..."

May 16, 2003 Arts Feature

Tying the Knot: A Drama

Yes, the merger of Austin's Paramount Theatre and State Theater Company is a business affair, but since theatres traffic in stories, human dramas that talk to us about life, this historic event deserves to be looked at as a story, the story of a wedding between two neighbors.

"...us, feed our souls. Besides, theatres traffic in stories, dramas with characters and conflict and emotion and suspense that..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Evil New Yorkers and Bit-Whoredom

They're horrible! They're evil, mean, and terrible! They're New Yorkers! They're the Fabulous and Ridiculous Theatre, and they're giving laid-back Austin a shot of scrappy, sophisticated, lowbrow, smart-ass theatre.

"...Barker's Frankenstein in Love to Michael Albo's Sexotheque, the New York-spawned troupe has turned its efforts to everyone's favorite..."

April 28, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

New World Pioneer

"...disappear? Why, after coming up in a group of new directors whose members included Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese,..."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Austin Filmmaker Brings Her Rap Drama Back Home

Katherine Propper finds family in Lost Soulz at Sound Unseen Film + Music Festival

"...Austin filmmaker in 2022 about her last short, hybrid docudrama "Birds," she said, "I can't erase my point of..."

Dec. 1, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Talking Terror and Trauma in New Horror Smile

Director Parker Finn and star Sosie Bacon Smile, and the world screams with them

"...In the background of an apartment in Smile, the new horror film from Paramount Pictures opening this week, there's..."

Sept. 30, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

aGLIFF Gets in the Ring With New Wrestling Documentary

Queer film fest announces first six films

"...Talk about old friends of aGLIFF, New Queer pioneer Bruce La Bruce (The Misandrists, Otto, Or,..."

July 23, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Ultra-Low-Turnout Primary Election (Almost) Devoid of Drama

Tiny landslides in Travis County and beyond

"...year's charges of voter suppression was: "Look how many new voters Texas has! Look at how turnout hit record..."

March 4, 2022 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Black Pumas Singer Eric Burton Stars in New Sci-Fi Noir Devexity

Luke Lidell-directed short raises questions of real vs. simulation

"...and directed by Austin-area filmmaker Luke Lidell, find a new way to percolate that classic existential question: “What’s real?”..."

Sept. 20, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Council Recap: A Balanced Budget, Without Much Drama

But many hours of deliberation over two days on the dais

"...Funding for two new cadet classes at the “reimagined” police academy, included in..."

Aug. 13, 2021 News Post by Austin Sanders

Horror-Drama Jakob's Wife Takes a Look Inside a Tortured Marriage

SXSW world premiere looks at life's second acts

"...chiller Girl on the Third Floor. Yet while his new film, Jakob's Wife, plays as part of this year's..."

March 12, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

New Road Trip Drama Travels into No Man's Land

The filmmaking Allyn brothers see Mexico through a new lens

"...No Man's Land, the new cross-border road trip by North Texas filmmaking brothers Conor..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ten Key Moments in a Year of Endless Texas Election Drama

Vote Early and Often

"...recapture any of their losses from 2018, leaving the new battle lines in place for a statewide stalemate in..."

Dec. 18, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Point Austin: Happy New Year?!?

Looking forward ... 2020 could go either way

"...seems likely that 2020 will be a year of dramatic change. The open question: Change for the better, or..."

Jan. 3, 2020 News Column by Michael King

Austin Polish Film Festival Breaks New Ground and Keeps Up With Tradition

The 14th fest focuses on the media's responsibility and the perspectives of women

"...The big news and the centerpiece of the festival is that Polish..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Wen Ren’s End-of-the-World Drama Last Sunrise Found Its Spark in China

Light in the dark

"...this." One particular story, that of two neighbors in New Orleans, stayed with him. Like most neighbors, they never..."

July 19, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Illustrated World at AFS Cinema's New Season of Animation

There’s more to animation than Disney and Miyazaki

"...burned by slavers; the only oddity is that his new friend is a giraffe. With reincarnated cows, a Greek..."

July 5, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lawsuit and Untapped Locations Add to Soccer Drama

Many balls in play for the Columbus Crew

"...a trail could be built, unifying them with the new development. Finally, and perhaps most fantastically, DePalma speculated that..."

March 9, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Club 'Stacking' = Democratic Drama

Fairness of endorsement process in dispute

"...membership of many clubs, though, a small number of new members can help tip an endorsement vote. And given..."

Feb. 7, 2014 News Feature by Christopher Hooks

Into the TARDIS: Peter Capaldi is the New Doctor

And there's a lot more to him than just 'The Thick of It'

"...has been a mainstay of British film and TV drama since his breakthrough performance opposite Peter Riegert in 1983's..."

Aug. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Drama & Tonic

Why Austin theatres are adding mixed drinks to the mix, offstage and on

"...– a quality that was paramount in crafting the new cocktail menus for both Zach and the Vortex. Cullum..."

July 5, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The 2013 Cohen New Works Festival

If you can count on one thing in this biennial binge of student-generated works, it's that you'll be surprised

"...most surprising work I saw at the 2011 Cohen New Works Festival because so much of what the students..."

March 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

There's a New Dean in Town

Stekler's new gig, first look at My Generation and Machete, and AFF news

"...me or did a whole lot of Austin-related film news rain down today? Get the goods after the jump...."

Aug. 16, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

New in Print

Blake Bailey's utterly absorbing and unquestionably definitive biography coincides with the release of two Library of America collections of Cheever's novels and short stories

"...lived a life that was mostly free of great drama, yet one that remained fixed in a perpetual state..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Books Review by John Davidson

Livability: Stories

Raymond writes life as it is lived – which is to say devoid of significant drama – and writes of it without recourse to stylistic flamboyance or narrative tricks

"...Miranda July, whose blurb adorns the cover of his new story collection, Jon Raymond seeks to explore the subtle..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Books Review by John Davidson

Media Watch: Boob Tube Drama

KXAN, Time Warner battle not exactly a ratings booster

"...Even the KXAN newsroom was co-opted, as newscasts became a forum for a..."

Oct. 10, 2008 News Feature by Kevin Brass

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