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Top Books to Make Our Lone Star Shine
Joe O'Connell's top reads of 2016 reveal new depths of humanitity in their Texas characters
"...A.G. Mojtabai may be the best Texas author you've never heard of, and her Shine on..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Joe O'Connell

Day Trips & Beyond: October Events Roundup
Chinati Weekend in Marfa, Lantern Fest in Paige, and lots more!
"...and beautiful light shows to be brought to Central Texas. Spectators are participants in the release of hundreds of..."

Oct. 5, 2016 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

“Engaged in Conversation” Gallery Shoal Creek
The pairing of works by Katie Maratta and Sydney Yeager offer visual pleasures that might have otherwise gone unseen
"...is a waterlogged cityscape, like an Impressionist painting of Broadway in Manhattan, light and dark commingled into an abstraction..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Arts Review

Capital City Black Film Festival Grows by Leaps and Bounds
Four-day event showcases African-American experiences in cinema
"...Williams. Carmen Jones, the iconic 1954 adaptation of the Broadway musical starring Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte, was chosen..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals Shines Anew at the Alamo Drafthouse
Steve Young reveals the hidden world of uncanny corporate razzmatazz
"...the 1980s, corporate America commissioned tremendous numbers of lavish Broadway-style shows about sales and service for industry conventions that..."

July 29, 2016 Screens Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

At the Statue of Venus/Three Decembers
The Butler Opera Center's pairing of these Jake Heggie chamber operas opened up small concerns to an enduring sense of love
"...Three Decembers, just mounted together at the University of Texas' Butler Opera Center, they become springboards to the larger..."

March 11, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Paging Mr. Herman
Paul Reubens' hard work results in Pee-wee's Big Holiday
"...chunk of 1985's Pee-wee's Big Adventure was shot in Texas. "There's a famous sign that says 'Keep Austin Weird.'..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Day Trips: Marble Falls
Falls on the Colorado Museum hosts rare Chief Quanah Parker photographs
"...Pictorial Exhibit of Their Story." Put together by the Texas Lakes Trail and the Texas Historical Com­mis­sion, the show..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Carol Burnett to be Inducted in the Texas Film Hall of Fame
Austin Film Society honors comedy legend
"...will no doubt be many announcements leading up the Texas Film Awards next March, the Austin Film Society unveiled..."

Dec. 15, 2015 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Movers & Shakers
A guide to Austin dance
"...and accessibility go back to Kathy Dunn Hamrick's East Texas roots. That balance is key to KDHDC's success, as..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

DVDanger: Of Manos and Mosquito
Two schlocky classics get a pre-Halloween restoration
"...It is a truth universally accepted that The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was the Lone Star State's first..."

Oct. 24, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Betty Boyd Caroli on Lady Bird and Lyndon
Betty Boyd Caroli tells the First Lady's side of the story in Lady Bird and Lyndon
"...a gathered skirt! So when the play came to Broadway, she did not have a gathered skirt. She had..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Austin's Paramount Theatre Turns 100
As the grande dame of Austin theatres turns 100, it matters more than ever
"...of patrons. The recent graduate from the University of Texas Radio-Television-Film program was seized with a desire to restore..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Freud's Last Session Opens in Austin
Actor David Jarrott turns producer to get a drama about Freud and C.S. Lewis onstage in Austin
"...A 2011 Wall Street Journal review of the off-Broadway production caught Jarrott's eye at a point when he..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Playback: Austin Music's Cooperative Future
Could music collectives make Austin the next Music Row?
"...Two Step, a tense Texas thriller by local filmmaker Alex R. Johnson, premieres next..."

Aug. 21, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

KMFA Premieres Icons of Broadway
Classical station's new show salutes musical theatre legends
"...89.5FM devoted specifically to American musical theatre. Icons of Broadway, which premieres at noon Saturday, July 11, will devote..."

July 10, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

An Ungentrified Man
David Gordon Green wraps up his Texas trilogy with Manglehorn
"...Like Texas' floods and droughts, the director's career has had cycles...."

July 3, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Revving With Cora Vette
Texas Burlesque Festival MC tells dirty jokes and career truths
"...show without a crocodile, it's hard to imagine the Texas Burlesque Festival without the one and only Cora Vette...."

April 10, 2015 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

The Way Home
Zach Theatre gives Robert Schenkkan's All the Way its Texas premiere on LBJ's home turf
"...grew up here and graduated from the University of Texas. Zach Theatre Artistic Director Dave Steakley was among those..."

April 10, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Day Trips: Killen's Texas Barbecue in Pearland
Taking smoked meats to a new plateau
"...Killen's Texas Barbecue in Pearland reached its first birthday at the..."

March 6, 2015 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Stories Telling Stories
Dykes to Watch Out For creator Alison Bechdel tests her own meme and comes out for SXSW
"...magazine's Book­ of ­the­ Year honor and its own Broadway musical, and she herself was named a 2014 MacArthur..."

March 6, 2015 Arts Feature by Kate X Messer

SXSW Music List No. 9
Spoon, Atmosphere, Charles Bradley, and 243 more added
"...the Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe, homegrown heroes Spoon, and Texas troubadours Steve Earle, and Robert Earl Keen – at..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The True Story of Bonnie and Clyde
Crank Collective revives Texas' most infamous outlaw couple in a short and folksy musical that mixes fact and fiction
"...centered on the fabled couple, with Frank Wildhorn's 2011 Broadway iteration likely the most well-known. The installment currently onstage..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Arts Review

SXSW Announces Midnighters and Shorts
Henry Rollins, Jeremy Sisto join horror lineup
"...2014 was a killer year for the Midnighters strand,..."

Feb. 10, 2015 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Announces 2015 Lineup
Circling the Thunderdome
"...music docs, and this year we’ve got two from Texas filmmakers – Joe Nick Patoski’s Sir Doug and the..."

Feb. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Fringe-Worthy 2015
"...bestselling book by Abigail Pogrebin with original music by Broadway's finest composers and lyricists. 90 min. Thu., Jan. 22,..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Arts Feature

Yuppie Pricks
Last Texas Platters of 2014
"...slums in hip-hop by rewriting Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Posse on Broadway" as "My Posse's on Wall Street." Given the various..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Music Review by Michael Toland

Letters at 3AM: As Time Goes By
"I'm not quitting. I'm turning," says Michael Ventura in his final column
"...Al Jolson was on Broadway. So was D.W. Griffith's Hearts of the World...."

Nov. 14, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Fresh Blood
The musical version of Carrie, no longer a legendary flop, makes a timely debut in Austin
"...most unsettling musicals in theatre history is the original Broadway version of Carrie, but not because it was based..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Arts Feature by Russell M. Dembin

The Road to Urinetown
Composer Mark Hollmann on the show's creation and success
"...to workshop a new musical, Hooray for Iceboy, at Texas State University. (Curiously, Hollmann has been back in Central..."

Aug. 30, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

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