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• Favorited I Am So Popular: Where The Wild Things Need Psychotherapy on Austinist
• Posted Evolving Stillness: Current Takes on Historical Photographic Processes at the Doughtery Arts Center to Austinist
  As our era gains notoriety for rendering traditional art forms obsolete, the Austin Alternative Process Group breaks through the flickering screens. Drawing with Light: A Modern Exhibition of Historical Processes currently being exhibited at the Dougherty Arts Center, reaches back to the 19th century to combine our modern sensibilities with some startlingly tangible stretches of light and shadow. Sunlight, wet glass, egg whites, and gun cotton (cotton soaked in nitric and sulfuric acid) are just a few of the time-honored ingredients needed to harness the extraordinary photographic power of these complex processes.
• Posted Living in an Open Book: Austin Makes a Book Project to Austinist
  Austin is a story town - but for every treasured encounter with the vitality and talent that surrounds us, there are a thousand voices we don't get to hear. What if a single book promised one-hundred glimpses into the thoughts, lives, and creative capacities of one-hundred Austinites? Phenix & Phenix Literary Publicists want to make this possible, with the community based project, Austin Makes a Book.
• Posted And You Send it Anyway: Overqualified [Book Review] to Austinist
  Overqualified is ideal for reading in public. Because it's good to laugh and cry in public. Most of us go through a range of emotions when writing cover letters for job applications. We know the doubt, the fear, the frustration, and the possible sliver of hope that comes from contriving the most professional and least complicated versions of ourselves we can present. Overqualified, by A Softer World’s Joey Comeau, dispenses with everything your Career Advisor told you
• Posted To Dance, Perchance to Dream to Austinist
  Ballet Austin’s production of Hamlet is silent, but it is not Shakespeare without words. It’s Shakespeare embodied, Shakespeare in motion, Shakespeare, in a powerful way, set free. Directed by Stephen Mills, this ambitious endeavor could’ve crumbled in less capable hands. Instead, it takes flight. Set to the appropriately unpredictable rhythms of Phillip Glass, Shakespeare’s grace jumps off the page and into the bodies of the dancers, who in turn radiate it out to the stage