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This month, Shrewd Productions is presenting the premiere of The Afterparty, a non-linear romance with a fantastical bent. Director Liz Fisher and playwright Reina Hardy are joined by actors Shannon Grounds, Trey Deason, and Rommel Sulit,

"[Poetry] is the only place that I can defy the world," said poet Roger Reeves when he spoke to poet Carrie Fountain and producer Rebecca McInroy for this edition of This is Just To Say. Thinking of poetry as a place and a practice, rather than the attempt to create the "perfect poem" was just one of the many revelations in their conversation. Reeves also generously debuted his poem "Children, Lis...

The StoryCorps mobile booth was in Austin this January, and we’re bringing you some of the stories that were recorded there. Karen Collier and Monica Smith met in 1968, when Karen’s family moved and she enrolled in Butterfield Elementary, a small country school on Highway 277 outside of Abilene. She met Monica on her first day at school, and the two quickly began a friendship that is now fifty yea...

Back in the ‘90s, when he was still a teenager, Nook Turner created the Jump on It summer music festival. More than twenty years later, the festival is bigger than ever, featuring live hip hop performances, games, and a wide-ranging educational program.

Mike Collier is trying to do something no Democrat has done since 1994: win a statewide election in Texas. We spoke to Collier about some of the policies he's emphasizing in his campaign against Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, a Republican who defeated his opponent in the last election by 19 percentage points.

Two years after many Texas Republicans were still sore from U.S. Senator Ted Cruz losing the presidential nomination to Donald Trump, the state's GOP is gathering again in San Antonio to rally around the president's policies and adopt a platform of their own. KUT's Ben Philpott spoke to us from the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center.

The idea that money doesn't make you happy is easy to get behind if you have it, but if you don't it's a hard one to buy into (pun intended). Yet the correlation to money and happiness is more complicated then one might think. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke explain the relationship between money, security, opportunity and happiness.

Growing up on his father’s farm in Greenwood, MS, during the most segregated time in this country’s history, he has managed to have a remarkable forty-five-plus year career as an Orthodontist. Now semi-retired, Dr. Nero was the first African-American to graduate from the University of Kentucky’s College of Dentistry, and the first African- American intern resident at the Albert Einstein Medical Ce...

This weekend, Spectrum Theatre Company will present staged readings of 'Juneteenth Chronicles,' a new play by Abena Edwards that is based on over 250 interviews conducted in 1937 with former slaves. Director Crystal Bird Caviel and actor Para Agboga talk about the show.

Humans may take the card we swipe for granted at the grocery store when we buy food. We might look at our bank balance and not even think of how unique it is that we can translate those little numbers into experiences and things. It's merely one of the benefits of having big brains. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about the psychology of how our brai...

Author and TV host Anthony Bourdain said he loved Austin from the first time he arrived and that the city has been "very, very good to me." Bourdain was found dead in his hotel room in Paris on Friday. CNN says the cause of death was suicide. Here's an excerpt of our interview from 2011. Suicide is not a natural response to life's struggles. Most people who contemplate suicide recover. If you or s...

The StoryCorps mobile booth was in Austin this January, and we’re bringing you some of the stories that were recorded there. Ernestine Balderrama Kubicek earned her Masters and Ph. D. from the University of Texas, had a long career in corporate America, and now runs her own consulting firm. But before all that, she was born in Brownwood, Texas, to a contractor father and homemaker/bookkeeper mothe...

“If Wishes Were Fishes.” “Austin Flamenco Festival: Forasteros.” “Jawbreaker.” “The Music Man.” These are some of the performances on the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Center’s schedule in the Summer of 2018. The Long Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. It opened in 2008 with Austin Opera (then Austin Lyric Opera), the Austin Symphony Orchestra and Ballet Austin as its founding...

Haynes played 14 seasons in the National Football League. In the summer of 2008 Haynes made a life-changing decision. On a whim – that day - the Hall of Fame was running a public service announcement to raise awareness for prostate cancer.

The StoryCorps mobile booth was in Austin in January, and we’re bringing you some of the stories that were recorded there. Locally recorded stories will air on Monday mornings during Morning Edition and archived here. The founding members of the Puro Chingón Art Collective — Claudia Aparicio-Gamundi, James Huizar, and Claudia Zapata — all sat down together in the mobile booth when it was here. Sin...

Understanding what we want to make public and what we want to keep private might seem like an easy choice. However, as Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke discuss in this episode of Two Guys on Your Head when it comes to life online, our brains aren't quite equipped to navigate the complexity of this issue.

After years of work and millions of dollars spent, the final draft of CodeNEXT, the rewrite of Austin's land use code, is in front of City Council. KUT’s Audrey McGlinchy talks with Austin Mayor Steve Adler about why he thinks CodeNEXT is necessary and how he hopes to finalize these new rules.

Bike Austin is the largest membership-based bicycle advocacy and education organization in central Texas. We are working to help transform the transportation landscape into a space that is safe and hospitable to people of all ages and abilities to move freely. Our aim is to see the number of people choosing to ride bicycles increase, especially for short trips, and it become a normal aspect of dai...

Best selling poet, writer, and slam performer Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz reads her poem "The First Check-Up After My Mother Died" from her book How To Love The Empty Air, and talks with poet and novelist Carrie Fountain about the possiblity models for her as a poet, what it means to grieve with an audience, and the importance of the work of Kevin Young in her life.

This summer, artist Alfonso Huerta will be showing his prints and paintings in the gallery space at Paris in a Bite. His colorful work is inspired by Mayan iconography.

he StoryCorps mobile booth was in Austin this January, and we’re bringing you some of the stories that were recorded there. Lucy Kellison visited the StoryCorps mobile booth with her mother, Sally Furgeson. Sally shared some memories of her own mother, Mary Alyene Hardwick Furgeson.

Framing negotiations in terms of winning and losing w can set us up for disappointment, not only when it comes to how we negotiate with others but also how we negotiate with ourselves. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke off some other options that might help us win no matter what.

In the 50 Years since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr on April 4, 1968 – little has been written regarding his last two days of is life. Joseph Rosenbloom, a young reporter at the Commercial Appeal newspaper in 1968 promise to one day correct that oversight.

The end of the school year has many people ready to get away on a summer vacation. But imagine a different kind of vacation - from smartphones. The idea is to completely set aside those devices that feel indispensable to everyday life. Austin-area certified life and relationship coaches Junice and Rock Rockman did not plan to ditch their smartphones completely. They had already been doing technolo...

On June 1 and 2, Performa/Dance will present Artist & Muse. The program will feature two long form dances and two shorter pieces. Dancers Oren Porterfield and Edward Carr and artistic director Jennifer Hart talk about the show.