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Naomi Shihab Nye on Poetry, Humanity, and WiFi

Lit & Letters

Barbara Purcell - November 24, 2020

Ransom Center lands archive of writer James Magnuson

Lit & Letters

Sightlines - November 24, 2020

Funmi Ogunro looks to train her filmmaker’s lens on Austin’s freedom communities

Screens & Pop

Mary K. Cantrell - November 20, 2020

The Latest

Jessica Peña and Jesús Valles in Peña's 'Mexico Expropriated'

Theater & Dance

Theater review: ‘Mexico Expropriated’

Trey Gutierrez - November 25, 2020 0

Lit & Letters

Ransom Center lands archive of writer James Magnuson

Sightlines - November 24, 2020 0

Lit & Letters

Naomi Shihab Nye on Poetry, Humanity, and WiFi

Barbara Purcell - November 24, 2020 0

Pulitzer-prize winning poet Natasha Trethewey discusses the memoir she wrote about her mother's life and death: Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

Lit & Letters

Miss the Texas Book Festival? There’s still time to stream it

Sightlines - November 23, 2020 0

Screens & Pop

Funmi Ogunro looks to train her filmmaker’s lens on Austin’s freedom communities

Mary K. Cantrell - November 20, 2020 0

Social Distances

Through a Window

Jeanne Claire van Ryzin - November 19, 2020 0

Film Reviews

Bela Tarr's cinematically stunning 'Damnation' has been newly restored

Screens & Pop

Film review: Newly restored ‘Damnation’ is a great introduction to Hungarian director Bela Tarr

Charles Ealy - November 12, 2020 0

Lit & Letters

Film review: New Horton Foote documentary gets to the heart of a writer

Charles Ealy - October 22, 2020 0

Screens & Pop

Film review: “Fugitive Dreams” Offers a Tempered Hope in Trying Times

Erica Lies - October 16, 2020 0

Social Distances: The arts during the pandemic

Music

With singing together silenced by the coronavirus, what’s an indie opera group and choir to do?

Jeanne Claire van Ryzin - October 1, 2020 0

Singers are coronavirus super-spreaders. Singing can swiftly spread COVID-19 via microscopic airborne particles known as aerosols, In early March, one of the first events in the...

Social Distances

New Manifest Theatre Company Thoughtfully Weathers Pandemic

Mary K. Cantrell - July 27, 2020 0

When the COVID-10 pandemic shut down Austin in early March, local theatre troupe New Manifest had just finished the run of their spring production...

Cindy Elizabeth: Capturing Black Celebration

Art Jeanne Claire van Ryzin - September 26, 2020 0

Photographer Cindy Elizabeth trains her lens on Austin’s Black community, on people in celebration: family gatherings or parties in Givens and Rosewood parks, car...

Jessica Gritton: Stitching a transition

Purview Jeanne Claire van Ryzin - May 12, 2020 0

Jessica Gritton is a trans woman processing her transition through stitches — creating embroidery and cross-stitch art work, that is. Gritton took up...