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StoryboardAustin, Views and BrewsViews and Brews: Duke Ellington and Billy StrayhornBilly Strayhorn, a long time muse and collaborator for the great bandleader Duke Ellington, brought depth and a languid power to the already sophisticated sound of Ellington’s orchestra. Aching for love and significance, Strayhorn was openly gay in a time of repression and bias, composing ballads filled with longing and disarming vulnerability, which demanded the full attention of both the listener and the performer.... |
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Arts EclecticA Noir MysteryThe new play Invible, Inc. is making its world premiere this month at the Rollins Studio at the Long Center for the Performing Arts. It's a Depression-era noir mystery, set in the world of two dueling magicians.
Invible, Inc. is produced by Hidden Room Theater, and features (among others) Liz Fisher, Robert Matney, and Laurence Pears, who's on loan from the London theater scene for this production. The actors learned several bits of magic that they'll be performing during the play, becoming members of the fraternity of magicians along the way.
Original music for Invible, Inc. was composed by Graham Reynolds, who'll be appearing in ghostly form to perform.
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StoryboardAustin, What We're Watching
WNYC Street Shots: Joe Wigfall
WNYC in New York City is not only one of the most listened to public radio stations in the country, they are also one of the most creative. They produce amazing national programs like Radiolab, On The Media, Studio 360, The Takeaway and more, but here at Storyboard what we really love about them...
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Around Town, StoryboardAustin
WHIM City with Spike Gillespie
In 1999, the City of Austin relocated the airport and eventually, a mixed-use neighborhood took over the old site. Technically its called the MILLER development, but lots of us—in honor of the spelling: M-U-E-L-L-E-R-- call it Mueller. You say Miller, I say Mueller, either way I think we can all...
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The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger
Just last night we were poking around in the Storyboard archives and came across one of our first and still one of our favorite videos. The Ghost of A Saber Tooth Tiger is one of our favorite bands and we were lucky enough to have them come through our Studio 1A earlier this year. ...
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Views and Brews: Women in the Jazz Con...
There are many ways to approach the topic of women in the jazz conversation. It would be easy to start with the great female jazz vocalists whose names are now synonymous with the genre, like Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, but the truth is that women have never been strangers on the jazz...
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Around Town, StoryboardAustin
Same-sex Parents in Texas: Jeff and Ga...
The televised celebrations surrounding the recent legalization of same-sex marriage in New York have once again put the spotlight on families headed by same-sex parents. It might come as a surprise to you that here in Texas, where a constitutional amendment has defined marriage as being only...
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Around Town, StoryboardAustin
Around Town: Juneteenth Parade
As June comes to a close we thought we would share a video with you from one of our favorite June events: Juneteenth. Despite the high temperatures and unrelenting sun, Austinites, young and old, waved flags, cheered and chased after candy along Comal Street during the annual Juneteenth parade.
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Around Town, StoryboardAustin
Around Town: Blanco Lavender Festival
Earlier this month Storyboard ventured out on a hot Sunday afternoon in search of “Norman Rockwell’s America,” and right in the heart of the Texas Hill Country we found exactly that at the Blanco Lavender Festival.
“It’s a...
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Arts Eclectic
Cinema East
Now in its second year, Cinema East is threatening to become a new summertime Austin institution. Every other Sunday night during the summer months, crowds of independent movie fans make their way to the French Legation Museum at San Marcos and East Eight Street to catch an outdoor film screening...
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Seahorse
At Storyboard we’re always struck by the impact an effective mix of video and stills can have when telling a story. This technique really helps make "Seahorse", from Tim Wimborne a Reuters photographer, something special. We’ve watched this video a number of times and we keep finding a...
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Arts Eclectic, Portrait of an Artist, StoryboardAustin
The Mona Lisa Project
Photographer Rino Pizzi’s latest endeavor is a reexamination of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa. Arguably the most famous painting in history, Mona Lisa has been studied, contemplated, and debated about so much over the centuries that Pizzi feels it’s sometimes considered more of a subject of discussion...
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What We’re Watching: On The Stre...
Here at Storyboard we love the fireworks that fashion can set off, and since we’re sans fireworks in Central Texas this 4th of July weekend, What We’re Watching is determined to light up your video screens with some red, white, and blue sparklers from the Big Apple. The “On...
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Arts Eclectic
Side by Side by Sondheim
The Actors Coop is the newest producing theater company in Austin, and it was founded (by, among others, KUT's own business manager, Bob Cross) with the mission of providing opportunities for artists to polish and perform their craft. Openness is a big part of the coop's goal, and they're hoping to...
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What We’re Watching: JR’s ...
"I would like to bring art to improbable places, create projects so huge with the community that they are forced to ask themselves questions." Said JR, the French street artist who received this year's TED Prize and 100,000 dollars to make his wish, to bring art to unexpected public...
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Arts Eclectic
Tea in Tripoli
In 1984, Bernadette Nason took what seemed like a promising job -- a one-year contract with an Italian oil company that would pay her enough to renovate her new home in England. The one catch: the job was in Tripoli, Libya. Once she began to (perhaps unwisely) research the country and its leader,...
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