December 15, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsStorytellers from The Moth tour Spalding Gray archive Last Thursday at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, monologist Mike Daisey told the audience he had a confession to make. Before coming to Austin, Daisey said, he asked his Facebook friends where he should eat in town. He received an onslaught of barbeque suggestions from Austinites passionately defending their favorites.… read more
November 30, 2011, Filed Under: Film, Research + TeachingScreenwriter Paul Schrader’s papers open for research In the late 1970s, screenwriter Paul Schrader began writing a script titled Born in the U.S.A., and he asked Bruce Springsteen to write a song for the film. The script sat on Springsteen’s table until one day, while working on a song called “Vietnam,” he noticed Schrader’s script, sang the… read more
November 29, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsIn the Galleries: Ogden Nash’s padlocked collection of poetry “All of these books are worse than opium… I would rather have a child of mine use opium than read these books,” declared Senator Reed Smoot of Utah in March 1930, speaking from behind a desk towering with “smutty” books like Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Robert Burns’s poetry. In 1929,… read more
