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Dance competition gets audience involved

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:33:10 GMT2012-02-10T18:33:10Z

A curious thing happens when you collectively give an audience $1,000 and ask them to award to it to the best of three modern short ballets.

Schematic design for Seaholm Substation Wall Art approved; Colored lights added

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:00:21 GMT2012-02-10T17:00:21Z

The Austin City Council voted unanimously Thursday to approve the schematic design for the $800,000 Seaholm Substation Wall Art , the city’s most expensive public art project to date. The approximately 1,000-foot-long wall will enclose an

Blanton curator nets top award; Cuba exhibit opens

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:52:51 GMT2012-02-09T14:52:51Z

Ursula Davila-Villa, the Blanton Museum of Art’s associate curator of Latin American art, is the recipient of the $10,000 2011 Curatorial Excellence Award from the Apple Valley Foundation, a California-based non-profit arts advocacy organization.

As celebrities go, Leguizamo is no sloth

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:14:37 GMT2012-02-08T18:14:37Z

The first thing you might think when you see that John Leguizamo is on his fifth one-man show is ...

Dressed to the IX's: Duo will dance in Baroque program with music ensemble

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:11:04 GMT2012-02-08T16:11:04Z

There's an elaborate gathering in a ballroom of the White House. Guests dressed by cutting-edge designers.

UT grads wrote Super Bowl ad "Halftime in America"

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:16:04 GMT2012-02-08T14:16:04Z

Did you catch the moody, dramatic “It’s Halftime in America” ad during the Super Bowl, the one featuring quintessential tough guy Clint Eastwood Turns out, it was written by three MFA alumni of the University of Texas’ prestigious

Review: Austin Shakespeare's 'Arcadia'

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:09:57 GMT2012-02-07T16:09:57Z

“Highbrow” and “romantic comedy” are not typically adjectival bedfellows. In fact, they’re not often used in the same paragraph, let alone the same sentence. Yet both terms could comfortably be used to describe Tom

Mia Washington knows what makes a party

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:21:57 GMT2012-02-06T22:21:57Z

Serving as master of ceremonies for the evening, Austin's most social city council member, Mike Martinez, convincingly impersonated an early rapper.

Police identify body found under Mopac Bridge

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:01:17 GMT2012-02-06T22:01:17Z

EAST tour heads west

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:16:26 GMT2012-02-06T14:16:26Z

After years of successfully presenting the East Austin Studio Tour — arguably Austin’s largest visual arts event — indie arts organization Big Medium is taking the show(s) west. The West Austin Studio Tour will happen May 19-20.

Laguna Gloria gets a contemporary punch

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:44:39 GMT2012-02-04T13:44:39Z

In the past couple of decades, museums went on a building spree. After Frank Gehry's spectacular Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao opened in 1997, seemingly every museum that could tried to follow suit, anxious to cash in (literally) on the cachet that a bigger, flashier building reportedly would bring.

Photo project focuses on 31,000 people who haven't lost hope amid violent drug war in Mexico

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:43:27 GMT2012-02-03T18:43:27Z

When photographer Diego Huerta read an article about the climbing death toll in Mexico's ongoing, relentless drug war, he was struck by the number of lives lost: about 31,000 from 2006 to 2010.

Review: 'Southern Fried Chickie'

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:19:44 GMT2012-02-02T13:19:44Z

Sometimes if you want a good laugh, all you have to do is head south. Or, as is the case for Christy McBrayer, bring the South back east. As part of the Frontera Fest Long Fringe, McBrayer has brought

Social woes of a camera wielder

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:28:10 GMT2012-02-01T17:28:10Z

My little camera got me into two minor social scrapes this weekend. At the "Wicked" cast party - tremendous troupe, plump production values from this touring show at Bass Concert Hall - earnest karaoke wafted from Rusty's gay bar on East Seventh Street.

With John Cage's 'Musicircus,' the audience is free to wander the museum while the music plays

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:17:59 GMT2012-02-01T16:17:59Z

The first time I saw Steve Parker play, I wasn't sure he'd actually started his set. His sheet music sat, without ceremony, on the floor.

Austin Lyric Opera, music school formally split

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:45:03 GMT2012-01-31T19:45:03Z

The previously announced split between Austin Lyric Opera and its Armstrong Community Music School will be official Feb. 1, opera officials announced today. In June, ALO announced that it would jettison its music school as a cost-saving measure amid

Review: 'Next to Normal'

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:07:37 GMT2012-01-31T19:07:37Z

In the opening moments of “Next to Normal,” the emotionally charged musical currently running at Zach Theatre, a mother, father, sister, and brother (The Goodman family) cheerfully go about their morning routines. Until they notice that mom

Review: 'Next to Normal'

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:46:46 GMT2012-01-31T18:46:46Z

In the opening moments of “Next to Normal,” the emotionally charged musical currently running at Zach Theatre, a mother, father, sister, and brother (The Goodman family) cheerfully go about their morning routines. Until they notice that mom

Review: 'Wicked'

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:48:35 GMT2012-01-31T14:48:35Z

This winter, Austin doesn’t have to wait until spring to see green. Broadway Across America has brought the smash-hit musical, “Wicked,” back to Bass Concert Hall for an impressive three-week run through Feb. 12. In the giant

Review: Austin Lyric Opera's Lucia di Lammermoor

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:36:36 GMT2012-01-30T18:36:36Z

Who knew a death scene could be so much fun? In the Austin Lyric Opera production of “Lucia di Lammermoor” now at the Long Center the most famous scene is a wild and woolly epic run-up to death, a

Review: Austin Playhouse’s 'Boeing, Boeing'

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:43:34 GMT2012-01-30T14:43:34Z

“One up, one down and one pending.” With these words, the galumphing Robert sums up the ambitious love life of his childhood friend — the cavorting, Paris-dwelling British architect Bernard — a love life that ultimately proves too

Exhibit depicts end-of-the-world fête

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:00:38 GMT2012-01-28T13:00:38Z

Rogue pictures of it have already made the rounds of Facebook. And rubber-necking drivers on Rosewood Avenue in East Austin have nearly collided while gawking at it.

New installation gets down to the nitty-gritty

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:39:51 GMT2012-01-28T12:39:51Z

Every day, Laurie Frick takes a count of how many steps she makes. And every night, she slips on a sensor-equipped headband that tracks her sleep patterns.

John Cage here, John Cage there -- Cage everywhere

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:46:54 GMT2012-01-27T15:46:54Z

Groundbreaking composer John Cage would have turned 100 this year. And hopefully he would have been thrilled that his innovative compositions are getting star treatment by younger artists, particularly in Austin. This spring, Austin has a flurry of

Deaths sadden social Austin

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:10:32 GMT2012-01-25T23:10:32Z

A somber mood settled over local social gatherings the past two weeks. Several prominent Austinites we won't name names are seriously ill.

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