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Strange, marvelous, and unique, Guy Maddin's new film starring Isabella Rossellini is his best work to date.

The SITI Company's J. Ed Araiza is transforming the way Austin actors view their art

Cross your fingers, Monte Warden and Bruce Robison may be headed for No. 1 with George Strait

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Fastball goes extra innings.

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With an exceptionally thoughtful program and a performance brimming with joy and gusto, the Miami String Quartet proved itself a thoroughly engaging conversationalist worth listening to.

The 21-century fusion palette of Shen Wei Dance Arts spans countries and centuries, from traditional Chinese opera and Tibetan Buddhist chants to modern Japanese Butoh and 16th-century English music.

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Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème brings to life a fantastic world through gorgeous music, and Austin Lyric Opera's production treated the audience to rich glimpses of that fantastic world: 1870s Paris bustling with people, ideas, love, and song.

The birth of Austin's punk scene: the Sex Pistols at Randy's Rodeo in San Antonio, 25 years ago this week.

Texas Platters

Kim Richey -- outta Nashville, into Austin.

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The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum's exhibition on Davy Crockett features a short stage show with the hero of the Alamo appearing live and in person. The two Austin actors who alternate in the show describe how they bring that King of the Wild Frontier to life day in and day out.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? label about to hit it again with alt.country phenom-to-be, Tift Merritt

Harken back to the days of yore … on the dancefloor, as "After a Fashion" trips the disco ball fantastic in this boogie down Memory Lane.

The crazy quilt career of Kimmie Rhodes.

The past decade, when the distance between innovation and inspiration shrank, can inspire us in what could be a rocky year, and interesting decade, ahead.

The return of the reigning Queen of Austin Country Music

Robbie Jacks is dead, but Auditorium Shores is not. Check back later about the Empanada Parlour.

Keeping up with Lucinda, Britney, Thurston, Kim, and a bunch of sick people

A Festival of Latino Films Showcases New Visions of an Old and Resurging Culture

Restaurants, like people, have distinct personalities, MM Pack writes. The persona that Kaya Blue presents is that of a hip young traveler, back in town after multinational adventures -- exuberant and uninhibited, full of ideas and enthusiasm, well-grounded in the basics, but forever changed by the trip.

Whether it is the coterie around the world's most famous photographer or a group of cowboys on a West Texas ranch, Laura Wilson, who peeked inside a reclusive Christian sect for her new photography book Hutterites of Montana, has an instinct for penetrating insular, tightly knit societies.

Small Face Ronnie Lane's tenure in Austin is preserved on Live in Austin.