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Looking back on the onetime heart of local hip-hop, Catfish Station, and the visuals that defined it

In spinning a fairy tale of gifts, outsiders, and thorns, Bonnie Cullum's own story gets told

Unlocking the enduring phenomenon of Cirque du Soleil

Food historian Andrew F. Smith brings 'The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America' to Austin

Our readers talk back.

The beginning of a beautiful friendship

2002-03 AMA Band of the Year winners Del Castillo ride a wave of Latinization.

"Like the films themselves, Tony Nourmand's collection from the Eon Productions vaults offers much in the way of leggy villanesses and naughty, naughty sidekicks, and enough martinis, models, and megalomaniacs to sate the most cadlike of raffish rakes," writes Kate X Messer.

In Charlie Victor Romeo, New York City theatre company Collective: Unconscious acts out in-flight catastrophes mined from actual Cockpit Voice Recorder transcripts, and it's effective beyond all hype, beyond any amount of technical chicanery enjoined to provide fright in more fabricated productions.

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Director Dave Steakley has assembled knockout performers for the Zachary Scott Theatre Center revival of HAIR, and he synthesizes their individual energies into an electrifying whole, but his valiant efforts to make the show's scope inclusive of our modern world fall short.

With a new production of the "American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" Hair, director Dave Steakley caps 10 years of making the Zachary Scott Theatre Center rock -- and so much more.

In Corpus Christi, Terrence McNally's retelling of Jesus' life, the playwright's provocative spin on the tale -- setting it in 20th-century Texas and making its protagonist a gay man -- never obscures the Gospel story's essence or message of love, and as staged by Real Rain Productions, it succeeds in bringing us to this old, familiar story by a new path, through theatricality, modern idioms, irreverence, and a winning ensemble.

Michael Miller may appear at first meeting to be withdrawn, but he is absolutely present onstage and off, and his willingness to "get dirty" with his characters and continuous challenge to himself to be better make this seemingly reserved actor one of Austin's best.

They've made their films. They've done the festivals. Now, four filmmakers share stories about finding -- and losing -- distribution.

Why dull people make witty writers and other mysteries in this week's Postscripts.

The theatre community sounds off on critics as artists.

Local Arts Reviews

With The Music Man, Austin Musical Theatre creates a River City that's bigger than some by-god real Texas towns. But it's a show whose heart may be the biggest thing of all.

Austinites love to shed their clothes, and a number of them do it onstage -- what's up with that? Some of the city's most nakedness-prone actors, performance artists, and directors expose their reasons to arts writer Ada Calhoun.

Producer Fred Miller remembers the making of this antiwar documentary, which focuses on the music of folk legends Peter, Paul & Mary.

Three decades after its debut, Jesus Christ Superstar may not seem a radical piece of musical theatre, but Austin Musical Theatre's new production just may return the rock opera to its revolutionary roots.

God's Trombones: Say Amen, Somebody

Changing the Channel

Austin's Rude Mechanicals Get Inspired Training at SITI