Frontera Fest is such a playing-field-leveled egalitarian opportunity for creative types from all walks and skill levels to have a night in the spotlight. Totally worth the $12 -14 price of admission but don’t wait to figure this out later. The wait for unclaimed tickets on sold out nights starts an hour before showtime and baby it’s cold outside....

Local writer Spike Gillespie (along with a dozen of her closest friends) has been holding forth on the subject of wookin pa nub in all the wrong places. The Dick Monologues run once a month at Hyde Park Theater. When we walked in, there was a sea of women with tiny plastic cups of red wine. Any trepidation over being surrounded by that many sleeveless tops quickly dissipated as the raucously hilarious women (and......

Austinist recently had the opportunity to talk with Zell Miller III about his upcoming show Hip Hop Theater Explosion!. Miller was this year's winner of the Mark David Cohen New Play Award for his work My Child, My Child, My Alien Child. He received critical acclaim for last year's B-Boy Bluez, and packed houses the previous year for his phenomenal Evidence of Silence Broken. Now he's showcasing Austin's best and brightest hip-hop talent in what......

FronteraFest, Austin’s annual fringe performance festival, breeds all kinds of odd experimentation, leaps of theatrical faith, and – this past year – a political satire with kitchen appliances as puppets. Puppet Government, written by Steve Barney and directed Chris Humphrey, has grown beyond its Frontera beginnings, and is now re-tooled, re-worked, and heading for the New York International Fringe Festival. Before they set sail for the Apple, the company is holding a fundraiser at......

: : FRIDAY : : [music] Early Man, Atomic Bitchwax, Lions and Black Earth @ Emo's [art] "A Pairing:Exhibition of Works by Women of Wine & The Men Who Adore Them," 5:30pm-8:30pm @ Gallery Lombardi [music] St. James, Andy Davis and Matt Wertz @ Stubb's [music] The Ugly Beats and American History Project @ Beerland [music] Beta Valentine CD Release with Super Sonic Soul Squad and DJ Bigface, 8pm @ End of an Ear......

: : FRIDAY : : [film] New Movies @ Your Local Theater! [music] Willie Nelson @ Stubb's (also Saturday) [music] The Queers, The Vibrators, The Independents (outside) and Wolf Eyes, Prurient and Rubble (inside) @ Emo's [music] CD release show for The Lovely Sparrows & Big Blue Marble @ Beerland [music] The Arm and New Model Army @ Elysium [film/lecture] Rabia Clark presents her short film, "The Dervish Project", 7pm @ Ventana del Sol......

: : FRIDAY : : [music] De La Soul & Rahzel @ La Zona Rosa, 9pm [music] Brian Jonestown Massacre @ The Parish, 10pm [in-store] American Momo CD Release Show @ End of an Ear, 6pm [comedy] "Charlie and the Non-Existent Biological Weapons Factory" by Gag Reflex @ Hyde Park Theater, 8pm - $10 [dance] "AZTLAN Underground" @ Santa Cruz Center for Culture, 8pm - $12 [theater] "The Three Cuckholds" by the Tongue and......