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  • MLK March and Community Festival
  • The Long Center Presents: Architects of Air
    Photo by Jessica Pages
  • Girlie Night: Sixteen Candles at Alamo Ritz
  • Dolly Parton Birthday Celebration at The Mohawk
  • Master Pancake: Back to the Future at Alamo Ritz

weekday warrior

Weekday Warrior: A short week that's long on activities

  • Singularity Transmissions was awarded an honorarium from Burning Man 2012, aweek-long outdoor art orgy in Black Rock Desert, a desolate, arid and harshancient lake bed 120 miles north Reno, Nev.
    Rendering by Brey Tucker
  • Singularity Transmissions is one of 45 proposed pro tem installations, the onlyone from Texas, out of 350 that received $15,000 funding from BMOrg, aka theBurning Man Organization. Leading the charge is sculptor Troy Stanley.
    Photo by Matt Crawford
  • The 40-foot wood interactive sculpture is like a colossal feminine wombthrusting up to the sky like the pestle of a fully-bloomed flower, with bow ofMiddle Eastern arabesque aesthetic and a nod to the festival's theme, Fertility2.0.
    Photo by Matt Crawford
  • Working out of his Winter Street Studios atelier, Stanley uses computertechnology to cut the many moving parts. The parts are then taken to a buildingbehind Box 13 ArtSpace, where the team is testing each piece as it is built.
    Photo by Matt Crawford
  • The pentagon-shaped center is a resonance chamber where the sound from 15separate and independent 10-foot pods encircling the tower, covering a100-by-100-foot area, feeds into using tin can phone "technology." Pictured hereis one of the 15 pods.
    Photo by Matt Crawford
  • The team has reached out to other groups who may be interested in tryingSingularity Transmissions. Among them are an all-female Bjork cover band, an acappella choir, a San Francisco based ensemble and a Los Angeles-based theater.The ultimate hope is for songs, prayers and Buddhist chants to send a message ofpeace to the world.
    Photo by Matt Crawford

Singularity Transmissions

Postponing her wedding for art: A Burning Man story that tests inspiration — andlove

  • The Paramount Theater presents: Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Moulin Rouge.
  • The Love We Make at The Ritz
  • ZACH Theater Presents: Next to Normal

weekday warrior

Weekday Warrior: A variety-filled week

  • The central cathedral of Granada, from La Merced.
    Photo by Shelley Seale
  • Maderas Volcano, on La Isla Ometepe.
    Photo by Shelley Seale
  • Volcano Boarding down Cerro Negro.
    Photo by Shelley Seale
  • Street musicians play at the market in Masaya.
    Photo by Shelley Seale
  • The north side of Little Corn Island.
    Photo by Shelley Seale

travel tips

Guided getaway: Explore old colonial towns or remote islands in Nicaragua

  • Tory Burch closed her show with a tulle and chiffon embroidered evening gown
    Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
  • Burch opened her fall show with an embroidered tweed coat, embellished knitcardigan and organza eyelet skirt.
  • Tory Burch acknowledges the audience at the end of her show.
  • Narciso Rodriguez featured dresses with T-shaped fabric patterns that looked abit like a flock ot birds.
    Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

music & the magic of fashion

Tory Burch and Narciso Rodriguez cast a spell with moody fashion & "can't get itout of my head" music

  • Moon over Austin
    Real to Reel
  • The Original Alamo Drafthouse
  • Brian at the Alamo Drafthouse

FILM SOCIETY

Introducing new feature Reel to Real

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