Mantis Massage: Where Your Body Finds Peace of Mind
When your body is aching and crying out for a little tenderness, you have too many choices of massage therapists in town. Same as acupuncture or chiropractors. How do you…
Flamenco at The Rosette: Carlos Piñana & Miguel Angel
Carlos Piñana (l) and Miguel Ángel (right) I’m writing this piece after the fact. One of Spain’s greatest, Carlos Piñana, if not “the greatest” flamenco guitarist, along with master percussionist…
Rock of Ages: A Big-Haired, Heart-Pounding Trip Back to the Era of Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll
What? The off-Broadway musical Rock of Ages is about religion? No, silly. But this show delivers something close to a rock and roll revival: an ecstatic experience where the audience…
A Raisin in the Sun
Although the show closed at the end of June, City Theatre’s production of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun deserves a standing ovation. A landmark of American theater, this…
Dear Dickies – a Love Letter to a Working Class Brand of Clothing
Dear Dickies is an original comedic one-woman performance worth changing your clothes for. Robin Chotzinoff wrote and performed this hilarious autobiographical show, directed by Kristen Osborn. As a member of…
Canadian Stand-Up Comic Takes Austin by Storm
Austin comedy audiences hold their laughter like a confidence — measured, contained, released only when something has fully earned it. Walk into Cap City Comedy Club on a Friday night…
Voices of Austin: A New Album Asks What the Live Music Capital Actually Sounds Like
A compilation released on May 29 makes an argument I have watched build for fifteen years. Voices of Austin, an eight-track album from South Austin studio Driftwork Sound, features musicians…
Vincent: A Portrait of an Artist and his Brother in Turmoil
Vincent. Written by Leonard Nimoy, yes, that Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock) of Star Trek fame! Before delving into the play and one of the most memorable performances I’ve seen in…
Erma Bombeck: at wit’s end
How a Suburban Mom Transformed Boredom and Dread Written by Allison Engel and Margaret Engel, featuring Sarah Fleming Walker, the Austin Playhouse Associate Artistic Director, and central character who performed…
When the Place Remembers
THE HUMAN ATLAS DISPATCHES I am sitting in Place Clémenceau in Vence, France. To my right, the Mairie of Vence (Mayoral office) — that canary yellow building, the colour of…