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StoryboardAustin, Views and BrewsLiner NotesLiner Notes is a series of short feature segments that highlight the significance of great lives, works and moments in jazz history.
The series is hosted by rabbi, historian and jazz musician Neil Blumofe and produced for KUT and KUTX by Rebecca McInroy. You can hear Liner Notes every Sunday morning at 8am on KUTX 98.9fm during Jazz with Jay Trachtenberg, or check them out by clicking on the links below.... |
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Views and BrewsViews and Brews: Arnold Newman and The Changing Face of CelebrityThe work of photographer Arnold Newman contains within it the essence and vulnerability of the individual. And connects the viewer not only to the subject, but to the subjects life, by presenting the humanity (or in one case inhumanity) of the people he photographed. Known as the Father of Environmental photography Newman once said, “The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day."... |
Arts Eclectic
Palindrome Ends as It Began
Palindrome Theatre began life with a end date in mind; when the company was started in 2009, the founders planned to work together until December 2012 and then disband. True to that vision, Palindrome is now staging its final performance, the premiere production of artistic director Nigel O'Hearn's...
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Bah Humbug! A One-Man Christmas Carol
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...
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Event: StoryTime at the Cactus Cafe
The weather's getting colder (kinda) so what better way to welcome winter than to get cozy and listen to some great story telling. Head over to the Cactus Cafe, Wednesday, December 12, for StoryTime at the Cactus Cafe.
December Featured StoryTellers are local writer
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Views and Brews: The Golden Record Rev...
Defining Intelligence: The Golden Record Revisited
Voyager is on the cusp of exiting our solar system and entering the great unknown; along with it The Golden Record! Poet Tomas Morin and Elena Passarello are in the process of editing an anthology on the Voyager mission and assembling poetry,...
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Arts Eclectic
Pride and Prejudice
Ann Ciccolella, the artistic director for Austin Shakespeare, had been looking for a suitable stage adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice for quite a while when she found a new version by Joseph Hanreddy and J.R. Sullivan. This take on the classic story struck her as just right,...
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Arts Eclectic
A Post-Apocalyptic Fairy Tale
The folks at Paper Chairs try to stage one show a year at a location that has never hosted a play before. For the premier of Jason Tremblay's new post-apocalyptic fairy tale Boom For Real, they're heading over to the mysterious Museum of Human Achievement, which is somewhere on the east side (you...
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Views and Brews: What Is An American?
Do you define yourself as American? What does that mean to you? What kind of messages are we getting about patriotism, nationalism, and "foreigners" from the media and how does this affect our sense of self?
Listen back as KUT's Rebecca McInroy talked about what it means to be "American" with UT...
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Arts Eclectic
Bah Humbug in the Barrio
This holiday season, Teatro Vivo will be presenting its unique take on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Cuento Navideño re-imagines Ebenezer Scrooge as a Latina businesswoman, Evangelina Cruz. Evangelina (played by Mary Alice Carnes) is visited by the ghost of her former...
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Views and Brews: Glenn Kotche and The ...
In November of 2012 Texas Performing Arts presented the world premiere of I L I M A Q, a drum kit opera written by American composer
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Art, Food, and Music at Cherrywood
Now in its eleventh year, East Austin's Cherrywood Art Fair is a two-day event featuring works by more than 100 artists, along with live music and local foods. Held on the grounds of Maplewood Elementary School, the fair is presented by the non-profit Chula League, which supports arts and arts...
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A Painful and Itchy Thanksgiving
Just in time for the start of the holiday season, the folks at Capital T Theatre are presenting The Pain and the Itch, an ensemble dark comedy about a particularly unpleasant family Thanksgiving.
The play, by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Bruce Norris, features a cast of notable...
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Views and Brews
Views and Brews “Leonard Cohen: ...
Leonard Cohen just celebrated his 78th birthday while on a world tour with his new album "Old Ideas" and Oct. 31 and Nov. 01 he and his band kicked off the US portion of this tour right here in Austin, TX. KUT's Views and...
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Rodney and Clara Gibbs
The StoryCorps mobile booth was in Austin recently collecting stories from your fellow central Texans. The Airstream has now left town, but we’re still archiving many of those stories here.
While the booth was in town, Rodney Gibbs sat down with his then ten-year-old daughter Clara. Among many...
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Arts Eclectic
Getting Lost in the Corn
All this fall, the folks at Barton Hill Farms are hosting the Fall Festival and Corn Maze. There'll be food, games for the kids, tons of live music, and a five-acre corn maze, which brings us to an interesting bit of trivia: many corn mazes in the southern U.S. are actually made of sorghum. The...
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