Posts Tagged ‘set’
He’s Changed
Singer-songwriter David Matsler gets serious about the studio.CAROLINE COLLIER
While making We’ve Changed, Fort Worth troubadour David Matsler faced his demons and found them less daunting than he had feared. After five years of obsessively devoting his life to music, he finally relinquished his nee...
Women Playing Men
Big TicketIn the early days of opera, certain male roles requiring a falsetto voice were performed by castrato singers. As the castrati disappeared in the 19th century, these operas continued to be performed with the castrato roles now s...
Amphibian Production
KRISTIAN LINTraditional hand-drawn animation has been out of fashion for much of this decade. Most of Hollywood followed Pixar’s lead years ago and went to computers for their animated family movies. Now the novelty value of that has...
Jon Irabagon
Ken ShimamotoAs the new millennium approaches the end of its first decade and folks who habitually worry about such things ponder the death of jazz yet again, young alto saxophonist Jon Irabagon’s latest, The Observer, arrives like a ...
An ACL Recap
Caroline Collier, Images by Vishal Malhotra**ONLINE EXCLUSIVE** Two weekends ago at Austin City Limits, about 65,000 official ticket holders and thousands more who managed to infiltrate Zilker Park without paying a dime became a temporary small town. This year’s l...
TBT’s New Season
Leonard EurekaIt’s a time of anniversaries. Three of the ballets scheduled for Texas Ballet Theater’s season-opening program are celebrating milestone birthdays, including artistic director Ben Stevenson’s Three Preludes, s...
Tower-ing
CAROLINE COLLIERMeander named its new debut album, The Tower, after the tarot card indicating radical change, chaos, and an upheaval in the status quo. Progressive to the core, The Tower twists and astonishes throughout, capturing both existen...
Rushed Hours
The shoot-’em-up Wanted is all action, no talk.MATT GOODMAN
Adapted from a comic-book miniseries from 2003 and ’04, Wanted is Hollywood’s latest attempt to piggyback on the successes of other cultish comic adaptations that recently have built a following among testosterone-a...
Dream Weaver
Arlington singer-songwriter Beth Wood’s nighttime visions have led her to success and a new album.JIMMY FOWLER
More than a dozen years ago, musician Beth Wood was your typical student struggling to earn a degree in literature from the University of Texas.
For God! For Country! For Foam!
A local battle-gaming group dukes it out south of Mexia.Cole Williams
Is there anything better than wailing on someone with a foam stick?