• The Cruel Circus

    The Cruel Circus

    The Cruel Circus is the newest play from Trouble Puppet Theater Company. It’s a darkly whimsical work set in the world of a collection of strange circus performers, who are embodied onstage entirely by original puppets. Trouble Puppet never has ...

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  • Peter Pan

    Peter Pan

    After selling out the cafetorium for last year’s musical (The Wizard of Oz), the kids of Rawson Saunders School for children with dyslexia are moving to a larger venue this year – the Stateside at the Paramount. They’ll be staging ...

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  • Austin Sketch Fest 2013

    Austin Sketch Fest 2013

    The Austin Sketch Fest (which producers describe, in a brazen lie, as "Austin's only Festival") is now in its fourth year. Every time out, the fest gets a little bigger; this year it takes place on Memorial Day weekend, which, ...

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Views and Brews: The Hidden World of Girls

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Views and Brews: The Hidden World of G...

The Kitchen Sisters are some of our favorite radio producers of all time and when Davia Nelson announced that she would be in Austin this past fall to present their NPR series The Hidden World of Girls we jumped at the opportunity to expand the discussion of girlhood and identity with Views and...
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Views and Brews: Art Blakey and The Art of Revolution

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Views and Brews: Art Blakey and The Ar...

Both playing drums and out in the world, Art Blakey produced a powerfully important original sound, the influence of which has lasted for generations. Blakey was a mentor to many musicians and is considered to be a developer of much of the jazz landscape for the past 50 years, as he consistently...
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LAFF: Ladies Are Funny Festival

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LAFF: Ladies Are Funny Festival

Austin's a city of festivals, which shouldn't be a big surprise -- it's the natural result of having so many people who are really passionate about so many things. Austin's current festival takes place this week: LAFF, or Ladies Are Funny Festival. It's a celebration of women, comedy, and women in...
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Red Young Live in Studio 1A

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Red Young Live in Studio 1A

We are blessed to live in Austin for many reasons. Barton Springs, SXSW, great public radio-wink-, but maybe the best reason of all is because we can go out and listen to music that is original, spontaneous and LIVE every night of the week. Among these incredible musicians you'll find out and...
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Portrait of an Artist: Roscoe Beck

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Portrait of an Artist: Roscoe Beck

It's hard to not feel intimidated by the biography alone of musician Roscoe Beck. As a veteran of the Austin music scene he's played with legends such as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jaco Pastorius and Freddie Hubbard, and continues to collaborate with pillars of the music world like Leonard Cohen. Yet,...
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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: 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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Austin Sketch Fest

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Austin Sketch Fest

There hasn't been a comedy festival in Austin for days now, and if you're looking to fill the comedy fest-shaped hole in your soul, The Austin Sketch Fest (which bills itself as "Austin's Only Festival") is here...
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Now Now Oh Now

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Now Now Oh Now

The Rude Mechanicals are known for their unusual, highly collaborative performances, and their latest, Now Now Oh Now, is certainly in keeping with that ethos. It’s an interactive promenade piece, which means that the small audience (limited to only 30 per performance) should wear...
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Live in KUT Studio 1A: Lee Fields

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Live in KUT Studio 1A: Lee Fields

As we prepare to move into the brand new KUT Public Media Studios we're taking a few moments to remember the space we're leaving with fondness and gratitude. We've been blessed to have hosted some incredible performers in KUT's Studio 1A and Lee Fields is no exception. We hope you enjoy this master...
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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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StoryTime at the Cactus Cafe: April

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StoryTime at the Cactus Cafe: April

Journalist and author, Belinda Acosta has written reviews and features on books, film and the arts, in addition to a weekly column ("TV Eye") for the Austin Chronicle. Her work has appeared in Poets & Writers and Latino USA, AlterNet and other publications. A Michener Fellow at...
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Views and Brews: Dizzy Gillespie and The Art of Altitude

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Views and Brews: Dizzy Gillespie and T...

With his conception of harmonics and driving tempos, Dizzy Gillespie was an architect of the modern sound (bebop), daring others to reach for the stars, alongside him. His virtuosity and creativity helped to define a whole new approach to improvisation and self-expression, as his career spanned...
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Journey: Tradition to Innovation

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Journey: Tradition to Innovation

Anuradha Naimpally is a performer of the classical Bharata Natyam, and has been dancing worldwide for some three decades; for the past twenty years, she's made Austin her home. Her latest performance piece,...
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