Arts Scene
Conference Tracks at SXSW 2022
This is the first in a series of articles giving a preview of what SXSW 2022 will look like here in Austin. 2022 Conference Tracks 2050 (Interactive) The new 2050 Track is the home […]
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Arts Scene
Gil Bruvel on Equilibrium
Texas-based artist Gil Bruvel made a special appearance last week at Austin’s finest art gallery, West Chelsea Contemporary. In an interview with owner Lisa Russell, he expounded on the philosophical underpinnings of his artwork. “I […]
Book Reviews
Stand-Up Comedy in Ancient Rome
To quote playwright Alan Bennett: “If not quite a platform, a play is certainly a plinth, a small eminence from which to address the world, hold forth about one’s concerns or the concerns of one’s […]
Music Scene
Music and The Planets
When Gustav Holst composed The Planets in 1916, the Great War was raging, which surely induced him to open his symphonic suite with Mars, The Bringer of War. The Red planet had long been associated […]
Theatre Scene
Wonder of the World
Cass, the star of the play, declares early on that she is “a tall glass of bubbly cider.” This pretty well sums up the frothy nature of this madcap comedy. Like most modern comedies, it […]
Theatre Scene
Into the Woods
“We have been in the woods for 20 months, now we are finally getting out of it,” said Kevin Wilson of the Zach Theatre, referring to the virus-induced shutdown of theatrical productions. Wilson, the Individual […]
Theatre Scene
Wild West Texas Comedy
In 4 words, musical comedy is back! After a less than amusing pandemic that has shut down most theatrical productions for more than a year, the arts scene in Austin is coming back to life. […]
Arts Scene
Nate on Comedy
Science and comedy are not so far apart. I don’t mean physicists tell bad puns about how many quarks can dance on the head of a pin, or that comedians, conversely, are deep thinkers on […]
Theatre Scene
The Perils of the Homeless
All of those who attend the theatre are secure in the knowledge they have a place to call home. Few such people think the homeless also might have such a place. In the play rain […]
Book Reviews
Bloom’s Last Book
I do not think Harold Bloom believed in immortality, only long life (he died at age 89 in 2019). What he called poetic immortality was merely extreme longevity, for even Shakespeare will lose literary relevance […]