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Affordable Art Fair Austin's Mission to Make Art Less Scary

Affordable Art Fair Austin is back this weekend at Palmer Events Center. If you ask Fair Director Cori Teague what it is, she compares it to Art Basel, the world’s biggest event for art vendors.

4:05PM Wed. May 14, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

“Economic Censorship”: The Devastation of the NEA Grants Cut Grows

The head count of Austin arts organizations that found their finances wrecked by the unexpected withdrawal of National Endowment for the Arts grants keeps growing, in an act that Austin Theatre Alliance CEO Jim Ritts has called “economic censorship.”

1:26PM Wed. May 7, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

With Debut Novel The Slip, Lucas Schaefer Pens an Austin Epic

Boxing. Self-discovery. The immigration process. The police system. Societal complacency. Austin’s melting pot. These are just a few things that encompass The Slip, Lucas Schaefer’s debut novel, out June 3 via Simon & Schuster.

11:36AM Tue. May 6, Mattea Gallaway Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Affordable Art Fair

Palmer Events Center

Valley Flower, Tony Kamel (album release) at Continental Club

Ricky Sim: Coming Out to Dead People at ColdTowne Theater

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Arts Groups Lose Promised Grant Money in Friday Night NEA Massacre

An out-of-the-blue email from the National Endowment for the Arts has blown a massive hole in the finances and plans of arts groups across the nation, including those of dozens of Austin-based arts groups.

3:20PM Mon. May 5, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Local Jane Austen Scholar’s Latest Work? A Graphic Novel

It is a truth not universally acknowledged that a novelist in possession of an impressive, centuries-old literary catalog must one day be the subject of a graphic novel.

8:00AM Mon. Apr. 28, Tom Buckley Read More | Comment »

STAPLE! Comes Back Home to St. Ed’s

There's a new 20-year-old sophomore at St. Edward's University, and its name is STAPLE! The Independent Media Expo.

4:16PM Thu. Apr. 10, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

All Aboard Again for Interactive Play Overheard on a Train

Ever been commuting and made up stories about your fellow travelers to break the boredom? That’s why Rebecca Maag created innovative interactive play Overheard on a Train. “It brings a brightness to something that can be quiet and isolating,” she says.

3:19PM Thu. Apr. 10, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Mink Stole and Peaches Christ Hit the Highball

According to stage and screen actress Mink Stole, Austin is home to many attractive people. “I was shocked when we were there before,” she recalls, “at how really attractive everybody was.” Her performance partner Peaches Christ agrees: “If anywhere in Texas is our place or our people, it’s gotta be Austin.”

8:00AM Fri. Apr. 4, James Scott Read More | Comment »

Zell Miller III Named Austin’s First Poet Laureate

Austin has now joined the ranks of Texas cities who have a designated poet laureate.

11:11AM Wed. Mar. 19, Catalina Perez Read More | Comment »

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