Space and Time: Jackie Venson
byHer profile claims she once got in a back alley brawl with the (former) planet “Pluto,” punching it “straight out of planetary existence.”
Entertainment
ARTIST TO ARTIST: Q&A with Eric Roberson
byTalking to two-time Grammy nominee Eric Roberson is like talking to a best friend. You can tell he is listening. Everything he offers to the conversation is smooth and thoughtful. It’s not just that he likes to talk; he likes to learn.
Riders Against the Storm
by“Mission Accomplished,” was how Chaka felt when Riders Against the Storm (RAS) won the prestigious Band of the Year award at this year’s SXSW Music Festival. To have Hip Hop appreciated and validated by a bona fide music-loving community was exactly the purpose of RAS’ move to Austin in 2009.
LaLove Robinson: Taking Control of Her Life
bySpoken word artists and slam poets take life’s trauma and the beauty, reorganize it, build it, break it down and do it again. They…
Austin Celebrates Fashion Week, Plans Expansion to Dallas
byThe 6th Annual Austin Fashion Week, Apr. 24 to May 3, was filled with runway shows, exciting new designs, shopping at the Marketplace, red…
To Broadway and Back: Kenny Williams
byThe Austin native’s face is smooth and defined, nothing less than statuesque. Theatergoers from South Africa get a look at his almond eyes and…
One World Theatre: Minutes Away and Worlds Apart
byVisitors flock to the narrow sidewalks of Sixth Street to hear live music gush through the shingles of bustling bars and rain on their eardrums. In contrast, ten miles away, One World sits on a sun bleached plateau in the Hill Country .
LisaGay Hamilton Creating the Truth
byLisaGay Hamilton is present. Present in all the ways you’d expect from a person who trained at the Juilliard School, who has starred in Hollywood films, and who is a mother and woman of color married to a historian and living in Los Angeles.
An Audience with the Queen
byYou know these days royalty is always on the go. However, the Queen of Comedy took about 20 minutes in between appointments on her royal schedule to chat with soulciti.
Tyson Beckford: King of the Evening
byLife is grim. But on Sunday nights, in a dingy hall in a forlorn neighborhood, the men of the ghetto piece together the finest attire their meager lives can beg, borrow or steal to compete in an underground contest like no other.
Negrodamus Reveals All
byThe phone rang and Paul Mooney answered as if his alarm had gone off. It wasn’t too early in New York, but maybe a…
A Heart to Hart
byBest known for his hilarious performance as entrepreneur Nashawn Wade in the underground hit film Soul Plane, comedian/actor, Kevin Hart will take the stage of Austin’s Capital City Comedy Club November 12-15.