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Bah Humbug! A One-Man Christmas Carol

December 7, 2012 11:42 am by: Mike Lee

Damian GillenRebecca McInroy/KUT
For many of us, the holiday season is all about tradition, and Damian Gillen's Christmas tradition involves packing a minivan full of costumes and props and hitting the road. For almost a decade, Gillen has spent a month a year taking his one-man production of Dickens' A Christmas Carol across Texas (and occasionally beyond). This year, as he has for the past nine years, Gillen will perform his show Bah Humbug! thirty times in thirty days, in venues that that include dinner theaters, schools, bars, churches, outdoor festivals, and prisons. Gillen thinks it's the timeless message of A Christmas Carol that appeals to the diverse audiences he performs for. He's such a fan of Dickens and this story that he says he'd perform the show year round if he could. We caught up with Gillen and his stage manager Anthony Bosmans at their recent show at Walsh Middle School in Round Rock, about mid-way through their month-long Bah Humbug! road trip....
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Pedicab Confessions

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Pedicab Confessions

Walking around 6th street at 2am in 5 inch heels on a Saturday night might seem like a daunting task to say the least. That is unless you spot one of the intrepid and almost always friendly pedicab drivers steadily peddling toward you. KUT intern Geoffery King has been intrigued by these fearless...
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Around Town: Ana Tijoux

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Around Town: Ana Tijoux

Earlier this month Austin hosted Pachanga Fest, a Latin Music Festival that took place on the shores of Lady Bird Lake at Fiesta Gardens. The weather was spectacular and although the artists were world class musicians the festival was intimate enough to foster a connectedness that offered fans and...
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Fusebox Festival

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Fusebox Festival

Started nearly a decade ago as an underground festival funded mostly by organizer Ron Berry's credit card, Austin's Fusebox Festival has grown into an arts fest behemoth. In this, its eighth year, Fusebox will span twelve days and fifteen venues, and will feature artists from around the world. The...
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Around Town: Funky Chicken Coop Tour

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Around Town: Funky Chicken Coop Tour

Over the weekend Austinites had a chance to check out what the cluck was up with the urban chicken coops around town during the 4th annual Funky Chicken Coop Tour. For the forth year in a row Austin-area poultry keepers open their backyards to show off chickens and chicken coops....
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Tejano Monument Unveiled at the Texas Capitol

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Tejano Monument Unveiled at the Texas ...

Hundreds of spectators turned out on a humid Thursday morning to celebrate the unveiling of the newest bronze sculpture on the Capitol grounds. The Tejano Monument pays tribute to the contributions by Tejanos as permanent testimony of the Spanish-Mexican heritage that has influenced and is inherent...
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Honk! TX

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Honk! TX

Honk! TX is a festival that celebrates marching bands and the community-rooted union of art, activism, and music. The first Honk event took place in Massachusetts in 2006 and after attending Honk events there and around the country, Austin's own Minor Mishap Marching Band began organizing...
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Around Town: Mother Falcon

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Around Town: Mother Falcon

The band Mother Falcon began as an after school jam among a handful of Westlake high school orchestra students looking for a more creative outlet than reading sheet music. Absorbing like minded musicians, the jam session quickly snowballed into an organic band not scared to explore their varied...
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Around Town: Hello Wheels

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Around Town: Hello Wheels

Every now and then we check out a band that instantly elevates the soul, and the Austin stomp-folk quartet Hello Wheels is one such ensemble with this power. We caught them warming up just before a gig at the Scoot Inn and we're still clapping our hands and kickin' up our heels....
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Around Town: Lonestar Rod and Kustom Round Up

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Around Town: Lonestar Rod and Kustom R...

Eleven years ago a small group of like-minded gear-heads, artists and musicians gathered on a football field in central Austin to share their passion for Hot Rods and Custom cars. Today the Lonestar Rod and Kustom Roundup is a full-fledged event featuring vintage cars, rockabilly music and...
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Around Town: Music on the Streets

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Around Town: Music on the Streets

The month of March 2012 came in like a lion and went out like a lion for us here at Storyboard and thank goodness that somewhere in the mix we had a chance to get out and about Around Town to take in some of the wonderfulness with our brand spankin’ new multimedia producer,...
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Kurt Kaiser and Travis Sandoval

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Kurt Kaiser and Travis Sandoval

Friends Kurt Kaiser and Travis Sandoval were two of the Austinites who sat down together in the Airstream while it was in town. They talked about their families, about Kurt's Mormon upbringing, and about coming out to their parents. The conversation presented here begins with Kurt asking Travis...
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Kate and Mike Voth

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Kate and Mike Voth

Kate and Mike Voth were married in 2008, when she was 22 and he was 24. Their marriage has been, in part, defined by Kate's ongoing battle with cancer; she was diagnosed just a few months before their wedding. Despite this challenge, however, they're planning to celebrate their 75th wedding...
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