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Making Designs On a New Library
Three finalists offer up some rough concepts for a new central public library
"...projects: Harry Ransom Center, Hotel San José, Austin Lyric Opera...."

Oct. 31, 2008 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Balanchine, by the Muse
Working with the Suzanne Farrell Ballet, Ballet Austin gets in step with history
"...hundreds of ballets, as well as dances, for films, operas, and musicals in his lifetime. Many of his ballets..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Smells Like Teen Spirit
Austin's bands of tomorrow are already here, they're just U18
"...band from Khabele School, acting in an Austin Lyric Opera production, performing as a member of the all-girl Platforms,..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Off the Record
The Last Waltz: Looking back on the legacy of the Backyard and a tribute to Danny Roy Young
"...at Castle Creek in the 1970s before owning and operating the Austin Opera House (see "Ruling the Roost," June..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Making of an Endorsement
"...LAMP SHOPPE, THE LIGHTBULB SHOP, THE NAIL GALLERY, THE OPERA HOUSE, THE PURPLE FIG CLEANING CO., THE SOCCER POST,..."

Oct. 24, 2008 News Feature

Love Songs for the Loveless
The Magnetic Fields change positions at the Paramount
"...even “What a Fucking Lovely Day!” from his Chinese opera The Orphan of Zhao...."

Oct. 17, 2008 Music Post by Doug Freeman

"Before I Speak, I Have Something to Say"
Digging a hole three Marx Brothers deep
"...original work written for the screen (Night at the Opera)...."

Oct. 14, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Game On! and the World According to Kaufmans
Kaufman versus Kaufman
"...Man Who Came to Dinner, A Night at the Opera) vs. those of the decidedly new-school screenwriter Charlie Kaufman..."

Oct. 14, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Learning Curve
Lessons from the Long Center's first six months
"...led to changes in the way the Long Center operates. While many have been positive – certainly, the money..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cloud 9
Mary Moody Northen Theatre serves an impeccably acted, entertaining way to question your perspectives
"...Tracking the characters' desires is like following a soap opera: The governess is in love with the lady of..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

New Music Ensemble
Three artists reunite on an opera they first worked on together 30 years ago
"...families. Who stages a 30th anniversary reunion of an opera about a lunatic monarch? That would be Dan Welcher,..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Tere O'Connor
Don't fret over getting this choreographer's dances, and you'll be richly rewarded
"...works for dance companies around the world, including Lyon Opera Ballet, de Rotterdamse Dansgroep, and White Oak Dance Project,..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Arts Feature by Andrew Long

'I Miss Austin'
"...downtown panorama of the famous Frauenkirche and the Semper Opera House is unobscured by high-rises. Nevertheless, there is enough..."

Sept. 22, 2008 Postmarks

The Grand Dame
Galveston's Grand Opera House survived Ike. Here's a dispatch from one of the staff.
"...received this from the staff of Galveston's Grand 1894 Opera House. It includes an update about the grand old..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Emergency Post by Kate X Messer

Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
One-man moviemaking machine Tyler Perry drops his usual cross-dressing comedics for this melodrama about two family dynasties – one black, one white – rocked by scandal.
"...themselves a middle-aged Thelma and Louise. Unfortunately, the soap opera shenanigans of their offspring significantly detract from that otherwise..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Macbeth
Austin Shakespeare's staging is strong but at times is lost in its own sound and fury
"...costumes, are entrancing (particularly when joined by Austin Lyric Opera's Cindy Sadler as Hecate). And toward the end, the..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Supreme Courtship
Christopher Buckley delivers some pretty spot-on satire of Beltway politics but misses the mark for humor
"...one of the more fleshed-out characters in Buckley's often-banal soap-opera novel. Mitchell is narcissistic in a way that is..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Books Review by Jordan Smith

Five.Foot.One 2 'Five.Two.Ten'
Tiny dynamo Andrea Ariel works up short dances
"...Theatre and The Little Prince at the State Theatre), opera (Candide, Aida, and Carmen for Austin Lyric Opera), light..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Radio Silence: a word opera
Zell Miller III's hip-hop opera is fascinating when it isn't flying by so quickly
"...Subtitled a word opera, Radio Silence is like Miller's earlier Evidence of Silence..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Closing Arguments
Olivier versus Branagh
"...I’m now off to watch A Night at the Opera...."

Aug. 22, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Talkin' the Walk
Hip-hop theatre artist Zell Miller III speaks truth about radio, race, and fatherhood
"...own exuberant physicality. But with Radio Silence: a word opera, a hip-hop piece that cries out against the corporatized,..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Playing for the People
More from director Steven Sebring on Patti Smith
"...and then doing a concert in Vienna at the opera, I mean, who does that? And then paintings that..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Bohemian Rhapsody
Patti Smith's 12-year take
"...and then doing a concert in Vienna at the opera? I mean, who does that?"..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Off the Record
The Sword and Metallica ride the lightning at Ozzfest, while Kanye West and Hope for Heroes lend a helping hand to U.S. veterans
"...the time" on iTunes under the college-radio category. The student-operated station hosts a Cupcake Social at the Carousel Lounge..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Female camaraderie, nostalgic sentimentality, and emotional catharsis are back in this sequel: The film hits its marks but lacks real depth.
"...subplots have been introduced and disappeared again in a soap-opera whirlwind, most of them merely obstacles set up to..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Five Science-Fiction Authors to Scan Darkly
ST 37 captain Scott Telles pulls five notables off the SF bookshelf.
"...inner landscapes of the human psyche rather than space opera...."

July 25, 2008 Music Feature by S.L. Telles

Ennio Morricone
"...to "Eternity," which descends with a Phantom of the Opera cathedral organ. Crescendos of string stretch above a coagulating..."

July 25, 2008 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Off the Record
Examining the foreign exchange rate with Ocelot, White Denim, and Dizzee Rascal, while Suzanna Choffel promotes further tourism to Texas
"...the August closing of South First's nonprofit gallery the Opera House. More on the former next week...."

July 25, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Wonder Stories
Food
"...Suzann Dvorken, private chef: I was an opera singer in my first career. The movie Close Encounters..."

July 25, 2008 Food Feature

Book Worms
Local musicians unleash their inner sci-fi geeks
"...but as a much looser confederation. A top political operative and genetic researcher fight for control of a research..."

July 24, 2008 Music Post

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