Michael Barnes

Austin’s New Waterloo hospitality group plans the Albert Hotel in Fredericksburg, mixing old and new styles.

The Texas Book Festival has released the full author lineup for 2021. The schedule grids will be out in October. The Texas Book Festival is Oct. 23-31.

Some Austinites often get out of Austin during the ACL Fest to enjoy the rest of Central Texas. Here are some ideas of what to do.

Artists such as Dave Steakley and newcomer Sandra Lopez make an immersive, outdoors “Into the Woods” a musical for our times.

Austin’s “Big 5” performing arts troupes and city’s “Big 3″ performing arts presenters have survived what appears to have been the worst of the pandemic.

We offer a dozen Austin holiday performing arts offerings that will almost assuredly please.

Shows at the Blanton Museum of Art and Mexic-Arte Museum by Latino artists delve into into cultural and political patterns of thought.

Ground Floor Theatre of Austin’s mission includes a focus on the trans community, women, people with disabilities and people of color.

Who was D.E. Kissman and how did she land so many dispatches in the Austin newspaper?

New artist Matt Stanners gives away art on the hike and bike trail. That’s just one way he’s hooking viewers with his elegant canvases and thoughtful chats.

Austin Opera successfully introduced the Texas premiere of “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs.”

After two years of digital performances, the Fusebox Festival goes live and in person in April.

Robin Frohardt created “The Plastic Bag Store”, an immersive filmed and live performance within an ingenious art space.

Authors Sarah Bird and Johnathan Van Ness to speak about their new books at Austin Central Public Library

We offer a brief primer on Texas wildflowers and Lady Bird Johnson, along with tips for safety and places to get bluebonnet shots in Central Texas.

Jodie King found a way to turn a divorce, grown children and a background in creative business into an Instagram winner.

As Peter Bay celebrates his 25th anniversary with the Austin Symphony, find out 25 pieces of trivia about the conductor.

Preservation Austin usually gives historic home tours, but this time it offers peeks inside non-domestic spaces.

In 1987, Diane Payton Gómez published a cookbook of recipes from Austin restaurants. She was the reviewer for the American-Statesman at the time.

Set in an imaginary beer hall, Zach Theatre’s staging of “The Sound of Music” looks, sounds and feels right for today.