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Playback: The 2016/17 Austin Music Awards Reveal
"...a Moody Theater blowout Sunday, March 12. Masterful panhandle poet Terry Allen, who recently put on a mind-blowing performance..."

Feb. 17, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: John Doe Moves to Austin
X's John Doe moves to Austin, Adam Nurre celebrates his late bandmates, and The Shopkeeper takes Congress House Studio to the movies
"...Nevertheless, the 63-year-old troubadour, actor, author, and poet must hang his hat somewhere at the day's end...."

Feb. 10, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Poetry in Prison
The Freehand Arts Project steps into the county jail
"...jail to teach classes on creative writing, art, and poetry. (Carter joined on as co-director in 2016.) Freehand has..."

Feb. 10, 2017 News Feature by Mary Bryce

SXSW Announces Film Lineup
Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more
"...States D: Zachary Cotler, Magdalena Zyzak An internationally respected poet announces she is going to kill herself and needs..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

One Resistance and LGBTQ Human Rights Rallies
"...Poet Lacey Roop..."

Jan. 23, 2017 Photo Gallery

SXSW Music List Four
Spoon, Kate Nash, Malcolm London, and 141 more added
"...Kate Nash, British jangle-pop raconteur Robyn Hitchcock, and Chicago poet/activist Malcolm London – dubbed the Gil-Scott Heron of this..."

Jan. 19, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Coming Out in the Dark
Behind the creation of Friday's LGBTQ Human Rights Rally
"...Council Member Jimmy Flannigan, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett, award-winning poet Lacey Roop, Equality Texas’ Chief Executive Officer Chuck Smith,..."

Jan. 19, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Sloane Smith

We Learned It by Watching Movies
A film primer for the best in wicked entertainment
"...the bartender barks out last call. Infamous skid row poet/bard Charles Bukowski acknowledges as much in the autobiographical screenplay..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Top 40 Vices Playlist
A walk on the wild side with songs of the seven deadly sins
"...Madness, Ian Dury's influence made him the UK's street poet laureate with this 1977 corruption of ancient hedonist credo..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Stephen Harrigan's A Friend of Mr. Lincoln
Stephen Harrigan's A Friend of Mr. Lincoln gives us an ambitious, impetuous president-to-be we grow close to
"...to supply the friend of the title – the poet Cage Weatherby, a fictional character – through whose eyes..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Playback: Mother Falcon’s Major Label Deal That Wasn’t
Mother Falcon signs to Universal and seconds later terminates the contract
"...Ballad Shambles and Hand of Glory. He's also a poet with an MFA from Notre Dame. Friday at 7pm,..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys
Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys
"...Englander of bleak, black-bricked Crawley recounts meeting natural born poet Robert Smith at age 5, forming the "Easy Cure"..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Music Review by Marc Savlov

Hey, Grownups! Graphic Novels!
Three new releases from the good folks at Drawn & Quarterly
"...here, elsewhere, and everywhere – like that of the poet’s, also traffics in a sort of stylized melancholy brightened..."

Dec. 6, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Gay Place
Combining noise music with performance poetry offers a space for all voices to be heard
"...The time for silence has ended. Local poet and all around badass, Hannah Jove has teamed up..."

Dec. 2, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

Song About Himself
Walt Whitman's spirit logs on to social media with imagination in this Mickle Maher drama
"...But salted throughout Song About Himself are shards of poetry by Walt Whitman – the title itself an allusion..."

Nov. 11, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Vortex’s Ballot Eats the Bullet
This timely production’s extraordinary performers speak truth, as black women in America, that makes us see them
"...Zell Miller III. For over 20 years, this formidable poet and artist has consistently brought unforgettable, challenging, powerful, and..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

Weekend Two Saturday ACL Fest Picks
Day 2 to-do list
"...track loaded with lyrical cliches and tired, G. Love-style alterna-poet delivery. Yet, over four albums, Matthew Shultz and company..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Music Feature

The Wordy Wranglers of Typewriter Rodeo
The whole country's saddling up with Austin's vaqueros of verse
"...they've performed all over the country, have written impromptu poetry for hundreds and hundreds of people – including former..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Saturday ACL Fest Picks
First week, second day handicapping
"...track loaded with lyrical cliches and tired, G. Love-style alterna-poet delivery. Yet, over four albums, Matthew Shultz and company..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Music Feature

UT to Host Black Matters Conference
Social justice activist Angela Davis will deliver closing keynote
"...sparking a national discussion on police brutality. Spoken word poet and actor Saul Williams (Slam) will deliver Thursday evening’s..."

Sept. 27, 2016 News Post by Spencer Beghtol

Grooving With Cass McCombs
“I don’t think people really understand that my music is experimental”
"...hasn’t done as many interviews as his enigmatic groove poetry demands, but the singer-songwriter-guitarist, 38, laughed easily and often..."

Sept. 14, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Gay Place
Cyndi Lauper and aGLIFF just wanna have fun
"...Austin Book Launch: After Projects the Resound Poet Kimberly Alidio creates a space for visible queer of..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

DVDanger: Building The Iron Giant
Tim McCanlies talks behind-the-scenes of the animated classic
"...an extremely loose adaptation of The Iron Man, British poet laureate Ted Hughes' deeply mythological and profoundly English tale..."

Sept. 7, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

10 Freaks and Geeks to Redefine Austin Music
Local passion projects with singular visions
"...forgive Floater his many transgressions because he's an honest-to-God poet. He only spells at a first-grade level, but the..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Local Composer Peter Stopschinski Releases 50 Free Albums in One Summer
That’s just the kind of guy he is
"...came from the ancient Greek bad boy Archilochus, a poet and a mercenary. More recently, the great writer Isaiah..."

Aug. 19, 2016 Arts Feature by Kirk Lynn

Austin Chamber Music Festival 2016 Schedule
"...The Poet Sings: Emily DickinsonFriday, July 22, 7:30pm A reprise of..."

July 8, 2016 Arts Feature

Page Two: After the Flood
When everything is gone, there is love, and the memory of love
"...raise a child and a world to shape a poet and a history of films watched to form a..."

July 8, 2016 Column by Louis Black

The Winged Histories
Sofia Samatar's novel of Olondria takes patience, but its characters are intensely complex and beautifully human
"...are well worth the effort. Sofia Samatar, accomplished in poetry, essay, and short and long fiction, employs many forms..."

June 17, 2016 Arts Feature by Jessi Cape

Playback – Lift to Experience: Back at the Crossroads
Lift to Experience returns to Texas-Jerusalem, X Games music crashes, and Prince-a-plenty
"...Sahara Lounge. The shamanistic Americana experimenters, led by deep-voiced poet Devin James Fry (formerly of gothic desert rockers Salesman),..."

June 3, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Lee Elementary Still Lee Elementary
Campus renaming debate still rumbles on the AISD board
"...and is far more noted as an academic and poet than sailor; and the inclusion of Johnston's name in..."

May 26, 2016 News Post by Richard Whittaker

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