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4 days ago |
kut.org | Mike Lee
On This Is My Thing, we are continuing our mission to talk with people about the things they do just for themselves – not because it’s their job and not because it’s a responsibility, just because they love to do it. The stuff you do because it’s your thing. The latest episode of This Is My Thing is about Underwater Torpedo League, a sport you might not be familiar with just yet. That’s okay. It’s still pretty new, as sports go.
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1 week ago |
kut.org | Mike Lee
“The Hideout is and always has been more than the physical place,” says Roy Janik, the co-owner and artistic director of the venerable improv theater. “But we have been there for 26 years, so it's a big change.”The change he’s referring to is the Hideout’s upcoming change of location – after more than a quarter of a century at its Congress Avenue locale, a change in their building’s ownership means that the folks of the Hideout will have to find a new venue soon.
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2 weeks ago |
kut.org | Mike Lee
“We kind of have like an internal challenge that, you know, anything we do, the next one has to be more of a challenge to us,” says Alchemy Theatre artistic director Michael Cooper, “and we truly live by that."Alchemy’s latest challenge is the musical Grand Hotel, which opens May 30 on the ZACH’s Wisenhunt stage. “Grand Hotel the Musical has always held a fascination with me because of how it's constructed and how challenging a piece it is,” Cooper says.
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2 weeks ago |
kut.org | Laura Rice |Mike Lee
On This Is My Thing, we are continuing our mission to talk with people about the things they do just for themselves – not because it’s their job and not because it’s a responsibility, just because they love to do it. The stuff you do because it’s your thing.
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3 weeks ago |
kut.org | Mike Lee
Peggy Stern has spent the past couple of decades producing Lulu Fest (or its predecessor, the Wall Street Jazz Festival), an annual music festival with two guiding principles: the celebration of female bandleaders and the idea that the term ‘jazz’ encompasses all improvised American music. “This [fest] I would call jazz, yes,” Stern says. “And you know, I've always been a little bit leery of saying that jazz word because it's like, you know, Austin is taking its time growing into it.
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