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Ladies Are Funny Festival
I’ve finally gotten some sleep after spending the last week working full-time as Associate Producer of the 6th annual Ladies Are Funny Festival. It has proven (yet again) to ...
SEEING IS BELIEVING
Midway through my conversation with artist Polly Chandler, she shows me a picture of the contents of her refrigerator. Like every Austinite, Chandler has a condiment collection worth bragging about ...
Book Talk
Last week, when Vice President Biden and then President Obama voiced their support for same-sex marriage, it set off a slew of media analysis about the nation’s rapidly changing ...
american Short(er) Fiction
There's an art to keeping your word choice concise. To celebrate the art of brevity, Austin's own short story house, American Short Fiction, is accepting entries from succinct ...
laff 2012
In one sketch performed by comedy duo Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting at a past Ladies Are Funny Festival, a bearded mountain man named Salty Doug discovered that his faithful cat ...
arts outreach
This Saturday, the Austin based nationally recognized Theatre Action Project (TAP) is holding its fifth annual Youth Arts Festival featuring work by more than 100 students in 12 different schools ...
fpia 2012
Five weeks ago, the 2012 Funniest Person in Austin contest kicked off with nearly 200 entrants; now, after a dozen preliminary rounds and three heated nights of semi-finals, the judges ...
Local Art
Austin has an organized tour for just about everything, and this weekend will be no different. The 9th annual Art of the Pot studio tour offers a chance to do ...
Theatre for Young Audiences
In case you don't already know that Austin's own Theatre Action Project (TAP) is one of the top arts-based curriculum programs in the country, there's even more ...
Ladies Are Funny Festival
Sue Galloway is most widely identified as "Sue LaRoche-Van der Hout," the French-Dutch former psychic detective from the comedy writers' room on NBC's 30 Rock. While she is neither ...
interview with the author
You wouldn’t know it to look at him, but Robert Jackson Bennett has been on a lot of stages. The tall, quiet 27-year-old, who just won a 2012 Edgar ...
fusebox 2012
One of the coolest things about Fusebox Festival is the chance to see experimental artists from around the world bring their A-game to Austin. Two of this year’s highlights ...
Don't say that's so gay
How does one prepare to interview one of the funniest working people in show biz right now? I was a tad intimidated by my appointment to chat with Wanda Sykes ...
With everything that was going on this weekend, from Drinko de Mayo to the ridiculously wonderful Derby hats, it was easy to overlook Free Comic Book Day. Did you miss ...
Influenced by the Greats
French artist Paul Cezanne once remarked, "One does not replace the past; one only provides a further link to it." A revolutionary figure in the art world during the early ...
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