David Sedaris: The Art of Making the Ordinary Extraordinary
The thing you were supposed to notice, rather blatantly, when David Sedaris walked onstage at the Majestic Theatre in Dallas was his outfit. It was a strange look. Something like…
Six Films, Six Worlds: New French Cinema Week Returns to Austin November 12–15
Lupin may be Netflix’s French sensation, but it’s far from the only game in town. The hit is a television series, not a film, but if you’re craving French cinema,…
All My Sons: Arthur Miller Revisited
Eighty years on, and the play All My Sons is still being produced. I wonder why? Filigree Theatre’s eighth season production of All My Sons left me without feeling, almost…
A Beautiful Noise
Created in collaboration with Neil Diamond, one of America’s greatest songwriters and performers, this feel-good true story is about the Brooklyn boy whose immigrant Polish and Russian parents who escaped…
AMERICAN MODERNISM: Art in Houston
A superlative private collection of American paintings is currently on show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The collection of philanthropist and Texas native Charles Butt, more than 90…
WINSLOW HOMER: in Houston
The most comprehensive exhibit ever mounted of watercolours by Winslow Homer is currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Homer (1836-1910) ranks among the most famous of…
The Moral Capacity of Human Beings: De Gaulle, Resistance and the Blue Wave in Texas
Two things collided to make last night’s premier viewing of the sweeping historical 159-minute film “De Gaulle Part One: Resistance” by Antonin Baudry extremely relevant to the moral capacity of…
FAUST: Eternal Remorse
What better opera to see around Halloween than Faust? Based on a 16th-century German story of a fellow named Faust who sold his soul to the devil, this opera is…
WILD PARTY in Austin
There is a Wild Party in Austin this month! The musical The Wild Party is based on a 1928 poem book by Joseph March, evocatively illustrated by Art Spiegelman. In…
Texas French Bread Revisited
I moved to Austin in the blazing inferno of a summer in 2011. Before that, I visited for one week to determine where I was going to live. During that…