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by Brewing America | Jul 31, 2020 | All, Art, Astroworld, houston, Jim Koehn, Painting, visual art | 0 |
Every July, Jim Koehn used to pack his silver Jeep Liberty with three duffle bags—one each for himself and his two daughters—along with hiking gear and a cooler with drinks and snacks. Koehn ran an events business in Houston,...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 23, 2020 | All, Alvin Ailey, Art, Black Lives Matter, dance, Pandemic, Revelations | 0 |
One warm spring day in the late nineties, I walked hand in hand with my father as he led our family—my mom, my three siblings, and me—into Houston’s Jones Hall for an Alvin Ailey performance. At eight years old, I was more...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 10, 2020 | All, Art, Black Lives Matter, Dallas Contemporary, Everything Hurts, George Floyd, Jammie Holmes, Race, visual art | 0 |
On May 30, a small plane flew over downtown Dallas, trailed by a banner bearing the words “My Neck Hurts.” These were some of the last words spoken by George Floyd, a Houston man who had been killed five days earlier and pleaded...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 9, 2020 | All, Art, Black Lives Matter, Black power, MFAH, Race, visual art | 0 |
In my mother’s house, a lonely picture used to hang over the piano. In it, a man stood alone in an unfurnished room, his arms reaching toward the heavens. Before him sat an old-school radio. He had broad shoulders and a long,...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 8, 2020 | All, Art, Black Lives Matter, coronavirus, dallas opera, Music, Taking the Stage With Kristian and Quo | 0 |
As one of many institutions currently disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, the Dallas Opera halted all stage productions, furloughed workers, and postponed its 2020 season until March 2021. In late April, under the leadership...
Read Moreby Brewing America | May 8, 2020 | All, Art, Beyonce, Crafts, Megan Thee Stallion, Pins and Needles, Window art | 0 |
Hold on to your butts, readers. The road to this week’s Pins and Needles column has been a winding one, and this post is going to get as close to feeling like an “exciting adventure” as a crafting column could ever be. See, two...
Read Moreby Brewing America | May 1, 2020 | All, Art, Food, Johnny Cash, King Ranch casserole, My Darling Vivian, San Antonio Museum of Art, Vivian Liberto | 0 |
To this day, I have never had a proper King Ranch casserole. I grew up eating a version of it that subbed layers of tortillas for spaghetti noodles, and was served alongside slender breadsticks. But when I asked longtime Texans...
Read Moreby Brewing America | May 1, 2020 | All, Art, coronavirus, performing arts, Shakespeare at Winedale, The Culture, The University of Texas at Austin, Theater | 0 |
From the tidy bedroom of her small central Austin apartment, University of Texas at Austin student Sakunthala Gopinath takes a long moment to get into character. Playing the role of Celia—the lively, occasionally sarcastic foil...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Apr 29, 2020 | All, Art, Comic, coronavirus, Laura Gao, Racism, Wuhan | 0 |
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, discrimination toward Asian Americans has surged across the United States. According to the Asian Pacific Policy & Planning Council, the group received upwards of 1,100 reports of...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Apr 23, 2020 | All, Art, Clay, Crafts, Emma Tenayuca, Pins and Needles, Texas history | 0 |
The spirit of the shrug emoji lies at the heart of Pins and Needles, Texas Monthly’s biweekly craft column (see the first two installments here and here). There’s a lot to worry about in the world today, and these crafts are not...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Apr 20, 2020 | All, Art, coronavirus, Loteria, Rafael Gonzales Jr, san antonio | 0 |
In late March, as the anxiety and uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus steadily grew in households around the state, San Antonian Rafael Gonzales Jr. tried to find the humor in things. Gonzales, whose day job is working as a...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Apr 13, 2020 | All, Art, Guggenheim fellowship, Lacy M. Johnson, oscar casares | 0 |
The board of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the organization’s ninety-sixth roster of fellows last week. Of the 175 artists and scholars selected this year from almost 3,000 applicants in the U.S. and...
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