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Around Town, StoryboardAustinAround Town: Funky Chicken Coop TourOver 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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StoryboardAustinEphraim Owens Live in KUT’s Studio 1AI've been pointing a camera at Ephraim Owens since the mid 90s when I waited tables at a downtown steakhouse. I'd finish a late night shift and head over to the Cedar Door, or the Elephant Room and shoot grainy, black and white images of the Austin Jazz scene. We've since become friends, and when Ephraim stopped into the KUT studios to record I jumped at the opportunity to once again point my cameras at him. Only this time it was video.... |
Arts Eclectic, StoryboardAustin
10 Minutes Max
Dance Umbrella's 10 Minutes Max is an annual dance showcase with a long history. Started in 1989 as Performance Plus, the show has been a platform for new and veteran dancers and choreographers for more than two decades. The program consists of eight performances by both groups...
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What We’re Watching: TeZukA Rehearsals
Sadler's Wells bills themselves as “the United Kingdom's leading dance house, uniquely dedicated to bringing the very best international and UK dance to London audiences.” One of the things they take great pride in is the efforts they make to cross the boundaries between different art forms....
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WHIMcity: The Moustache Ride
Sometime last year I was driving through my East Austin neighborhood, when I spotted an enormous moustache and glasses affixed to the El Chilito signpost at the corner of Cherrywood & Manor. Before I even discovered that this hilarious public art also doubled as a seesaw and an entendre, I fell in...
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ESPN and UT: The Real Game
The Longhorn Network, which has just been launched by ESPN, is designed to be a whole new way to follow not only the University of Texas football team, but they are also promising “unprecedented access to your favorite Longhorn sports.”...
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Portrait of an Artist: Rachel Osborn
For some, art is something done for themselves as an expression of individuality and to enhance their own skills. For others, like Rachel Osborn, art is something that can and should be taught to the masses.
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Out of Bounds Comedy Festival
The Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, now in its tenth year, has grown into a comedic behemoth. Starting Tuesday night and running for seven days, the fest will see hundreds of comedians from across the country (not to mention Amsterdam and Montreal) descending on Austin to perform and celebrate the...
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What We’re Watching: Snap Judgem...
Here at Storyboard we love great storytelling, which is why we are such a big fan of Glynn Washington and his exciting new public radio show Snap Judgment. We feature Glynn and his cast of storytellers regularly on KUT’s O’Dark 30 and starting later this fall you will be able to hear Snap’s...
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Ruby Jane
Rarely here at Storyboard do we dabble in the ways of music, but when we heard Ruby Jane--fiddler, singer/songwriter and bandleader of The Ruby Jane Show--was going to perform at this year's ACL festival we couldn't help ourselves....
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Ready Player One
Austin-based writer Ernie Cline is best known for his film work (the cult favorite Fanboys is based on his script), but he's now a novelist as well. The idea for Ready Player One, Cline's debut novel, had been rattling around in his head for a past decade or so; he'd work on it here and there...
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What We’re Watching: Cool Hunting
The folks at Cool Hunting are brothers and sisters in arms. Just like Storyboard, the Cool Hunting editors and contributors work hard to tell the stories of people who are making a difference. Their award-winning publication has been looking at the movers and shakers in design, technology, art and...
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Good Design: Stories from Herman Mille...
Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller has been on display at the Austin Museum of Art for most of the summer, and will run through September 11, so there's still time to catch the exhibition before it moves on. The show focuses on the mid-century design work of the famed furniture...
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What We’re Watching: Pictures in...
One of the most interesting aspects of the online video revolution to those of us here at Storyboard is the number of commercial companies that are spending big bucks to create really compelling content that has virtually nothing to do with their products. Sure, there’s always a little bit of a...
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The Trash Project
For years, Allison Orr's Forklift Danceworks has created works centered around folks whom one might not typically consider to be dancers. It's the movement and grace of the everyday that gives Orr her inspiration, and that's why she's crafted dances and ballets about (and starring) roller skaters,...
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Dos Pocitos
In the past 11 years, Teato Vivo has staged some 25 productions in Austin. Their latest is a new work by playwright Raul Garza (known for his award-winning debut, Fantasmaville). Dos Pocitos is set a generation in the future, in a fictional town in the land of Texaco, which is the...
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