Results tagged “capitalcity”

On Sunday, Austin Film Festival presents a free script reading of a comedy written by Anne Rapp, an Austinite, sometime Michener Center instructor, and Robert Altman collaborator whose previous credits include Cookie's Fortune and Dr. T and the Women. Her new project's called Double Wide, and a bunch of funny people, including Johnny Hardwick (King of the Hill), Dana Wheeler-Nicholson (Fletch and Fast Food Nation), and Matt Bearden (a Funniest Person in Austin winner),...

Ah, cest du teatro magnifique-ant roost en la vida! Hooray! Theatre kicks ass! Hooray! It’s a life-affirming and suck-the-goo-from-your-eyeballs life-ending week ahead, folks. Brace yourself. This mothaf**r’s gonna hit you hard where it counts. Huzzah! Holla! Etc! Let’s go! Because we haven’t been hiding in a cave these past few days, our Austinist Pick of the Week is the interweb’s new undead phenoms – Bitten: A Zombie Rock Oyssey. With an original score from...

An Austin staple, the Capital City Men's Chorus, is putting on their fourth annual Midnight Cabaret this weekend. The Chorus' Artistic Director, Jeffrey Jones-Ragona, explained to us the impetus for starting an annual cabaret: the Chorus wanted to sing some music that they didn't feel comfortable performing in their typical venues (churches), so they set this up a few years ago at the Vortex. He describes it as "Twisted but not dangerous; tasteless but not icky; mature but not "adult;" and mostly naughty but not nasty." In other words, good, bawdy fun.

Mayors Wynn and Cowman (of Leander a.k.a. Baghdad) tasked (Texan for "asked") a broad group of community and business leaders and organizations in February to examine the need for an independent voice for public transportation in the region. For the last seven months, the group has been working on the alliance's development, and voila, the Alliance for Public Transportation is formed. It shall promote public transportation that improves our quality of life, economic development, affordability and the environment.

This Sunday evening, Austin joins the rest of the world for the 23rd International AIDS Candlelight Memorial Service, the world's largest and oldest annual grassroots HIV/AIDS event designed to honor the memory of those lost, show support for those those living with HIV/AIDS, and encourage community involvement in the fight against the disease. Now participating for the seventh year, Austin's memorial service will start with Mayor Will Wynn lighting the first candle and reading a...

"What's the deal with airline peanuts? My mother-in-law drives me crazy! Sure I drive a 1978 Celica, but chicks dig it? Why does sour cream have an expiration date? Why does my baby always know to take a stinky right when the game's starting? Just because (insert race of your choice here) are (insert stereotype here) doesn't mean my family is (repeat stereotype). My ex-girlfriend apparently used to be allergic to sex, but after we broke up I found out it was just a 24-month sickness. And don't get me started on my grandma...she's 78 and still has reefer madness."