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| A New Musical Homage to Jay DeFeo's Monumental Painting, "The ... | January 25, 2019 | Jeanne Claire van Ryzin | Article | “A Point on a Slow Curve” lands at the Museum of Human Achievement for three performances Jan. 31 through Feb. 2 courtesy of new music | A Point on a Slow Curve |
| A Sponge & A Sigh at The Museum of Human Achievement | February 15, 2016 | Christina Rees | Review | "A Sponge & A Sigh" at The Museum of Human Achievement | A Sponge and A Sigh |
| A Summer Shindig With Austin’s Sex Workers Outreach Project | August 23, 2018 | Charlie Neddo | Article | SWOP hosts a fundraiser for housing, employment, and safety | Swim for SWOP |
| Andrea Ariel Dance Theatre's Locked-In | June 28, 2018 | Review | A dance inspired by our rigid connection to our cell phones was more spontaneous and personal than its title implied | Locked-In | |
| Annie Miller: I see london, I see france at MoHA | November 29, 2018 | Melany Jean | Review | This show in the Cage Match Project series casts the viewer as peeping Tom, looking through holes in a boarded-up trailer to view art | Cage Match Project, Round IX: I see london, I see france |
| Art Par Excellence | May 19, 2015 | Article | The nominees for the 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards | AHoM | |
| Austin Post-Punk Troupe Single Lash Pay Tribute to the Commedia Dell’Arte in Their Video for “Sugar Armadillo” | April 18, 2024 | Alice Teeple | Article | Austin-based ensemble Single Lash pays tribute to the Old World theatrical tradition with Sugar Armadillo, off of their latest LP Ladida, as well as “stylistic North Star Steve Strange of the band Visage. | Single Lash Music Video Shoot |
| Austin's Satellite Art Show Announces Exhibitors & Programs for | February 26, 2019 | Brandon Zech | Article | Austin's Satellite Art Show Announces Exhibitors & Programs for | Satellite Art Show |
| Ava Luna and Zorch at MoHA | January 23, 2013 | Bryan Parker | Review | Zorch, Ava Luna, Lean Hounds, Celestial Shore | |
| Batman Returns Returns: Now With Christmas | December 18, 2019 | Claudia Meza | Article | Batman Returns Returns (Portland) | |
| Best of 2019 | December 20, 2019 | Glasstire | Article | Best of 2019 | Li Po and Dubbe's Nudes |
| Black Milk Returns | June 27, 2013 | Chase Hoffberger | Article | Detroit MC spins tonight at the Museum of Human Achievement | Exploded Drawing XXI |
| Calculated Carelessness | April 30, 2013 | Jim Caligiuri | Review | Okkervil River guitarist Lauren Gurgiolo gets arty | Calculated Carelessness |
| Christmas Carol 2060: Tanline Steamroller at the Museum of Human | December 20, 2021 | William Sarradet | Review | Christmas Carol 2060: Tanline Steamroller at the Museum of Human | Tanline Steamroller |
| Critics Table Tops at 25 | May 21, 2017 | Robert Faires | Article | The nominees for the 2016-17 Austin Critics Table Awards | SPAMS - The Internet: The Restaurant, FINALCON |
| Crosstalk: Butthole Surfers’ Driftwood Ranch for Sale, and More Music News | June 22, 2023 | Kriss Conklin | Article | Remembering KOOP’s Andrew Dickens and Meat Joy reunion dates | Meat Joy Reunion Show |
| Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week | April 13, 2023 | Genevieve Wood | Article | Fusebox, Alejandro Escovedo, alexalone, and the Ballinger brothers lead our recommendations | Cool Adult Rec Center Lock In |
| Deconstructing Sonic Borders | February 25, 2016 | Conor Walker | Article | The 13th annual No Idea Festival explores everything from phenological sound art to avant jazz and microtonal composition | No Idea Fest 2016 |
| Disrupting practice: To make a new series of sculpture ... | August 15, 2018 | Jeanne Claire van Ryzin | Article | Dubbed Cage Match, the cage trailer is a project space run by Ryan Hawk and Zac Traeger of the Museum of Human Achievement. Typically, Cage | Cage Match Project, Round VIII: This is Everything |
| Dolly Fest Celebrates Dolly Parton's Influence on Culture – Queer and Otherwise | July 30, 2019 | Savana Dunning | Article | "Anti-musical” headlines an evening of high camp and high hair | Dolly Fest 2019 |
| East Austin Studio Tour 2018: Recapping Weekend 1 | November 13, 2018 | Melany Jean | Review | Take MoHA's selfie challenge? Bathe in the forest? Do it all! | Its not you, its me A SelfieGauntlet |
| East Austin Studio Tour 2019: Weekend 1 | November 18, 2019 | Barbara Purcell | Article | East Austin Studio Tour 2019: Weekend 1 | Fantastic Arcade Retro(spective) |
| Eighties Punks Meat Joy Reminisce After Landing in Austin for Reunion Dates | October 16, 2023 | Genevieve Wood | Article | Triple homecoming shows around their 1984 LP reissue kick off tomorrow | Meat Joy Reunion Show |
| Everything Is Exemplary | June 2, 2015 | Robert Faires | Article | The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards | AHoM |
| Fantastic Arcade for the Average Austinite | October 25, 2018 | James Renovitch | Article | A preview of free, public events at this weekend of indie gaming | Real World: Witch House |
| Faster Than Sound: A Festival Blooms in the Desert | May 2, 2019 | Rachel Rascoe | Article | Amid concern over a new C3 festival, homegrown Marfa Myths strives to grow with the Texas city | Cage Match Project, Round VIII: This is Everything |
| Faster Than Sound: Jackie Venson Solos | April 11, 2019 | Rachel Rascoe | Article | Local blues hero goes solo to cut costs, city polls on use of $12 million earmarked for the arts, and the U.S. State Dept. blocks Palestinian artist Dirar Kalash from the Fusebox Festival | Mike Khoury |
| Fibers of Being: taylor barnes | October 2, 2020 | Barbara Purcell | Article | Her installation “(un)box” is a stone's throw from Big Medium, at the Museum of Human Achievement's Cage Match Project. Curated by Ariel | Cage Match Project, Round XIV: (un)box by taylor barnes |
| First Look: Ariel René Jackson | January 31, 2019 | Sean J Patrick Carney | Review | INSIDE A RUSTED, twenty-foot-long trailer cage in a gravel lot on Austin’s east side, dozens of balloons encased in layers of dirt and pigmented chalk dangled in the breeze over a bed of local soil. As spring turned to summer in Central Texas, the installation was blasted with airborne debris and heavy rains. The balloons withered. Chunks of soil and chalk broke off, revealing the balloons’ true colors of black and white. | Cage Match Project, Round VII: Color Composition |
| Five Arts Events in Austin This Weekend | February 8, 2018 | Wayne Alan Brenner | Article | Theatre, graphic glory, steamrollering, coffee, and the ol' brown box | Print Austin Expo 2018 |
| Five Arty Things to Do This Weekend: Oct. 13-15 | October 11, 2017 | Wayne Alan Brenner | Article | So much! So good! So much good! | Spare the Rod |
| Five Different Things To Do In Austin This Weekend | April 5, 2017 | Wayne Alan Brenner | Article | Art! Theatre! Dance! You know: What the enemy hates. | Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera 2017 |
| Five Fusebox Shows to Get You Buzzing | April 6, 2023 | Wayne Alan Brenner | Article | The annual Austin-born arts festival returns with five days of wonder | Lauren Lee McCarthy: Surrogate – Performance In Progress |
| Five Movies to See in Austin This Week | January 4, 2018 | Josh Kupecki | Article | Kristen Stewart is haunted and there's a town full of fireworks | Second Look Series: Snowy Bing Bongs |
| Five Recommended Arts Events This Weekend | June 28, 2018 | Wayne Alan Brenner | Article | Because you don’t want to miss a good Austin thing | This is a Test of the Internal Emergency Broadcast System |
| Five Recommended Arts Events This Weekend | February 1, 2018 | Wayne Alan Brenner | Article | Fear not, citizen! We’ll shield you against that mofo of a FOMO! | Natural Forces |
| Five Recommended Arts Events This Weekend | September 4, 2019 | Wayne Alan Brenner | Article | Because you want to supercharge your time in this world, don’t you? | VR Fondue |
| Five Recommended Arts Events in Austin This Weekend | April 5, 2018 | Wayne Alan Brenner | Article | In which your local cultural FOMO is subdued via this handy listicle | Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera 2018 |
| Five Things to Catch at OUTsider Fest | February 16, 2023 | James Scott | Article | OUTsider explores the queer underground with their 2023 festival, Shapeshifting Underbellies | Apolaki: Opera of the Scorched Earth |
| Five Things to Experience at Fusebox Festival | April 7, 2022 | Wayne Alan Brenner | Article | The return of the avant garde and experimental drama and artextravaganza | The APD Decruitment Initiative, Curses |
| Five Things to Experience at Fusebox Festival | April 14, 2022 | Wayne Alan Brenner | Article | Defeat your FOMO with these top picks from the free and fantastic arts festival | You are clearly in perversion |
| Fusebox Festival 2022: Shaboom! At the Museum of Human | May 8, 2022 | William Sarradet | Review | Fusebox Festival 2022: Shaboom! At the Museum of Human | Shaboom! (Fusebox) |
| Fusebox Festival 2022: The "It's Not" Fair | May 3, 2022 | William Sarradet | Review | Fusebox Festival 2022: The "It's Not" Fair | The APD Decruitment Initiative, Curses |
| Fusebox Festival Director Chooses His Top Five Stops for EAST 2019 | November 21, 2019 | Ron Berry | Article | Ron Berry on what's hot on this year's East Austin Studio Tour | Fantastic Arcade Retro(spective) |
| Fusebox Festival Review: Magdalena Jarkowiec’s In Here | April 18, 2018 | Jonelle Seitz | Review | Are we all just doing a dance in a box? | In Here |
| Fusebox's Celebration of Avant-Garde Arts Is Still Free, Still Free-Spirited | April 7, 2022 | Wayne Alan Brenner | Article | Fest brings together Christeene, Golden Hornet, and Dexter | You are clearly in perversion |
| Gay Place | July 7, 2016 | Sarah Marloff | Article | Magical Realness, an Austin spin on vogue / drag balls | Magical Realness |
| Gentrification, Income Inequality and Donald Trump Baby Turds | November 23, 2017 | Paddy Johnson | Article | SPORTS | |
| Glasstire’s Best of 2023 | December 11, 2023 | Zoe Roden | Article | Glasstire’s staff and contributors share which Texas-based shows, events, and works made their personal “best” lists for 2023. | Edward Normalhands |
| Gruesome Playground Injuries | May 30, 2013 | Matthew Irwin | Review | Two wounded friends walk a line between nostalgia and regret in Street Corner Arts' staging of Rajiv Joseph's play | Gruesome Playground Injuries |
| Halloween in Texas: What You Should Do Today | October 29, 2015 | Glasstire | Article | Halloween in Texas: What You Should Do Today | The 1st Annual Anthropomorphic Costume Competition for Inanimate Objects |
| Highlights from EAST & Austin | November 18, 2015 | Brandon Zech | Article | Highlights from EAST & Austin | Just Some Me Time… |
| Horror Writer and Folk Musician Carter St Hogan Finds Relief in Discomfort | June 29, 2023 | Laiken Neumann | Article | "Everything is so much grosser than anyone talks about" | One or Several Deserts |
| Immersive, Interactive, Intriguing EAST | November 8, 2018 | Melany Jean | Article | Melany Jean's five recommended stops for the East Austin Studio Tour 2018 | Its not you, its me A SelfieGauntlet |
| In the Studio With Ana Segovia, Austin | July 25, 2019 | Leslie Moody Castro | Article | In the Studio With Ana Segovia, Austin | Ana Segovia |
| Jennifer Raye's Boa Retina Explores Messy Gender Uncertainty | June 15, 2017 | James Renovitch | Article | Tech old and new explores trans issues | BOA Retina July Exhibit |
| Kevin McNamee-Tweed: The Exit Interview | March 9, 2017 | Caitlin Greenwood | Article | As he leaves Austin, curator and artist Kevin McNamee-Tweed reflects on the city's artists and art community | Self-Tourism |
| Making the Most of EAST | November 19, 2015 | Caitlin Greenwood | Article | Ten tips to help you keep your head in the crush of the East Austin Studio Tour | Just Some Me Time… |
| Matthew Steinke resurrects the genius of an unknown inventor ... | August 31, 2018 | Joshua Figueroa | Article | “Reserve Plane of Cloudy” opens 6 to 11 p.m. Sept. 7 and continues through 9 at the Museum of Human Achievement. A conceptual artist and | Man, Woman, Friend, Computer with Invoke String Quartet and the Robotic Instruments of Reverse Plane of Cloudy |
| Meat Joy Reunion Shows and More Crucial Concerts This Week | September 14, 2023 | Genevieve Wood | Article | Ways to celebrate the annular eclipse, fundraise for Sarah Brown, and avoid ACL | Meat Joy Reunion Show |
| Melany Jean’s Top 10 Fine Art Moments of 2018 | December 27, 2018 | Melany Jean | Article | Unforgettably textured sculptures, unsettling exhibitions, and unusual spaces made for a memorable year in art | Cage Match Project, Round VIII: This is Everything |
| Mixing Race, Gender, and Improv Is a Heady Cocktail for Two | January 21, 2019 | Wayne Alan Brenner | Article | Shannon Stott and Quinn Buckner bid some basic boundaries bye-bye | It's OK to Laugh 1 |
| Nadia Waheed: "Notes From a Windowless Room" at Raw Paw | February 21, 2019 | Wayne Alan Brenner | Review | Explorations of identity by an artist of color, of colors, of many colors | See Me Where I Am |
| Natural/Synthetic/Human: Tammie Rubin's “Everything You Ever ... | January 2, 2019 | Lindsey Reynolds | Article | Museum of Human Achievement's Cage Match Project. Despite a setup reminiscent of a stage — never mind the setting's novelty — the artist was | Cage Match Project, Round VIII: This is Everything |
| No Idea Festival Q&A | February 15, 2017 | Michael Toland | Article | Improvisational guru Chris Cogburn explains the matrix | No Idea Fest 2017 |
| No Idea Festival Returns for 16th Year | February 5, 2019 | Glasstire | Article | No Idea Festival Returns for 16th Year | No Idea Fest 2019 |
| No Idea Festival Returns to Austin this Week | February 18, 2018 | Glasstire | Article | No Idea Festival Returns to Austin this Week | No Idea Fest 2018 |
| Nominees for the 2018-19 Austin Critics Table Awards Announced | May 12, 2019 | Robert Faires | Article | The Critics Table's picture-perfect year | Cage Match Project, Round VIII: This is Everything |
| One Ounce Opera’s Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera II | April 13, 2017 | Wayne Alan Brenner | Article | Austin’s One Ounce Opera juices the night away | Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera 2017 |
| Paul Soileau’s Double Duty | May 31, 2018 | Kirk Lynn | Article | With a new show for Rebecca Havemeyer and a new album by Christeene, is the busy performer having an identity crisis? | Christeene: Basura Album Release |
| Playback | September 25, 2014 | Kevin Curtin | Article | Stop complaining there's no hip-hop scene here because now it has its own festival | Frameworks: Photographs from the Austin Music Community |
| Playback: Being Christeene in 2018 | May 24, 2018 | Kevin Curtin | Article | “I’m a collection of all the shit that you’re throwing around in this stratosphere of online media conversation.” | Christeene: Basura Album Release |
| Playback: Lost in the Silent City | September 28, 2017 | Kevin Curtin | Review | Crowdsourced sci-fi, getting steamy with Black Pistol Fire, and a mighty storm of music | The Silent City |
| Playback: Mayor Steve Adler's Politics of Music Policy | July 7, 2016 | Kevin Curtin | Article | Omnibus staff report is imperfect, but don't stop the momentum, says mayor | Sailor Poon (Vinyl Release) |
| Pleasure of the Paynes 2015 | October 27, 2015 | Robert Faires | Article | Big wins for Am I White?, Heathers at the 2015 theatre awards | Picasso at the Lapin Agile |
| Qmmunity | May 2, 2019 | Beth Sullivan | Article | Plus new music from Krudxs Cubensi and a Cinco de Mayo drag brunch | Future Traditions Festival |
| Qmmunity | October 25, 2018 | Sarah Marloff | Article | Trump and other things that go bump in the night | Unmasked |
| Qmmunity: Carnival of Queers | September 14, 2023 | James Scott | Article | A carnival of queer cavorting will delight your senses this weekend | Preheat |
| Qmmunity: Glam, Gore, and More | May 5, 2022 | James Scott | Article | Fill your homosexual calendar with a b-day ball by House of Lepore, Hyperreal Film Club’s Aughts horror screening, and more. | Games Y'all (May 2022) |
| Qmmunity: Ride ’Em Cowboy | May 1, 2024 | James Scott | Article | Sawyer Stoltz and Jeremy Stilb talk the upcoming live table read of their adult film script, BULLRIDE | BULLRIDE |
| Qmmunity: The Queer-ster Bunny | April 6, 2023 | James Scott | Article | A springtime showing of Austin's queer haps, like a new leather bar, pre-show parties, and the academic achievement by a young Black trans scholar. | One or Several Deserts |
| Qmmunity: Video by Queer Latinx Artist Xandra Ibarra Pulled From San Antonio Art Exhibit | February 27, 2020 | Beth Sullivan | Article | Plus Ballroom Basics, Greetings From Queer Mountain, and more | Ballroom Basics with Mother Lepore |
| Qmmunity: Y’alloween Fun | October 12, 2023 | James Scott | Article | Keep up the tradition of great gay Halloween fun with these queer Austin events | Queer Community Care: a Night at the Drive-in |
| Queer Collaboration Yields Otherworldly Campiness in p1nky and The Kwane: Another Soup Opera! | May 28, 2019 | Mac Irvine | Article | Genres collide in cartoon-inspired DIY musical | P1nky and the Kwane: Another Soup Opera! |
| Queer Indie Video Game Showcase Is a Gaymer's Delight | November 10, 2022 | James Scott | Article | Local video game showcase Fantastic Arcade supports indie queer games | Games Y’all Queer Indie Games (November 2022) |
| Quin Galavis Turns Darkness Into His Magnum Opus | August 25, 2016 | Greg Beets | Article | Obfuscating the narrative between fiction and lived experience on My Life in Steel and Concrete | Evil Triplet, Quinn Galavis |
| Recap: No Idea Festival, Austin | March 4, 2019 | Neil Fauerso | Review | Recap: No Idea Festival, Austin | No Idea Fest 2019 |
| Satellite Art Show Will Come to Austin During SXSW 2019 | August 8, 2018 | Brandon Zech | Article | Satellite Art Show Will Come to Austin During SXSW 2019 | Satellite Art Show |
| Scenes from the 2019 Satellite Art Show, Austin | March 22, 2019 | Jennifer Battaglia | Review | Scenes from the 2019 Satellite Art Show, Austin | Satellite Art Show |
| Seeing the Fusebox Festival Without Reservations | April 11, 2019 | Robert Faires | Article | Tickets to some shows have been snapped up, but there’s still plenty of electric Fusebox action available | Puddin's Student Government |
| Shred for Bread | September 5, 2017 | Kevin Curtin | Article | Guitar “Shred-Off” winner takes home $1,666 | First Annual Texas Shred-Off |
| Sober-ish Spaces for Dry January Hangs | January 7, 2018 | Sarah Marloff | Article | Just because you’re not drinking doesn’t mean you have to stay home | Yes You Can! |
| Song/Book: Grapes of Wrath vs. 1984 | July 17, 2017 | Wayne Alan Brenner | Article | Rob Halverson and friends wrap live music around some heavy fiction | 1984 vs. Grapes of Wrath |
| Studio visit: Yuliya Lanina | November 8, 2017 | Jeanne Claire van Ryzin | Article | Museum of Human Achievement. Using figures from her paintings, Lanina constructed a vivid dream-like animated film. Standing against the | Spare the Rod |
| TR*MP TH*S! "A One-Year Anniversary of Resistance" Screens in | January 9, 2018 | Glasstire | Article | TR*MP TH*S! "A One-Year Anniversary of Resistance" Screens in | TR*MP TH*S |
| The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards | June 4, 2015 | Robert Faires | Article | Top honors to Salvage Vanguard's Thr3e Zisters, LOLA Austin's Femme Bohème, and Texas State's Kiss Me, Kate | AHoM |
| The Power of Refusal: Kevin McNamee-Tweed's Departure from | January 27, 2017 | Ayden LeRoux | Review | The Power of Refusal: Kevin McNamee-Tweed's Departure from | Self-Tourism |
| The Results are In: Austin Critics' Table Awards | June 1, 2015 | Paula Newton | Article | The Results are In: Austin Critics' Table Awards | AHoM |
| The Ultimate Queer Guide to SXSW 2019 | February 28, 2019 | Sarah Marloff | Article | Often imitated, never duplicated, we’re here to keep it real kweer | Satellite Art Show |
| This Fresh Squeeze Is All About the Opera Shorts | April 12, 2016 | Wayne Alan Brenner | Article | One Ounce Opera premieres a concert of new young composers | Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera 2016 |
| Top Five October 29, 2015 | October 28, 2015 | Glasstire | Article | Top Five October 29, 2015 | The 1st Annual Anthropomorphic Costume Competition for Inanimate Objects |
| Top Five: December 10, 2015 | December 9, 2015 | Glasstire | Article | Top Five: December 10, 2015 | A Christmas Carol |
| Top Five: January 22, 2020 with Emily Link | January 22, 2020 | Brandon Zech, Christina Rees, Emily Link | Article | Top Five: January 22, 2020 with Emily Link | Hot Zen Island |
| Top Five: January 26, 2017 with Jamie Panzer | January 25, 2017 | Glasstire | Article | Top Five: January 26, 2017 with Jamie Panzer | Self-Tourism |
| Top Five: June 13, 2019 with Henry G. Sanchez | June 12, 2019 | Glasstire | Article | Top Five: June 13, 2019 with Henry G. Sanchez | CuerposUnidos |
| Top Five: March 14, 2019 with Adrian Aguilera, Tammie Rubin | March 13, 2019 | Adrian Aguilera, Betelhem Makonnen, Glasstire, Tammie Rubin | Article | Top Five: March 14, 2019 with Adrian Aguilera, Tammie Rubin | Satellite Art Show |
| Top Five: May 11, 2017 with Michael Anthony García | May 10, 2017 | Glasstire, Michael Anthony Garcia | Article | Top Five: May 11, 2017 with Michael Anthony García | Cage Match Project, Round II: Suspension of Belief |
| Touring the Tour | November 20, 2014 | Seth Orion Schwaiger | Article | A very meta experience, guided by Heather Pesanti, senior curator of the Contemporary Austin | AHoM |
| Transplanted Austin-to-Portland Musical “Batman Returns Returns” Keeps Gotham Weird | December 16, 2019 | Jay Horton | Review | The Dark Knight before Christmas has been newly cast with some of Puddletown’s finest. | Batman Returns Returns (Portland) |
| Trying to Make Magic: Katie Bender channels Houdini | August 31, 2019 | Jeanne Claire van Ryzin | Article | at the Museum of Human Achievement. Bender describes it as “part DIY seance, part historical cabaret — and attempt to contact and | Instructions for a Seance |
| Wayne Alan Brenner's Top 10 Arts-Related Program Activities of 2016 | December 29, 2016 | Wayne Alan Brenner | Article | Uncommon combinations – dance with horses, music with robots, drama with a Tesla coil – made the year unforgettable | Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera 2016 |
| Wayne Alan Brenner’s Top 10 Arts-Related Things I Enjoyed in 2018 | December 27, 2018 | Wayne Alan Brenner | Article | Representational and digital art, plus theatre rooted in history proved especially mind-blowing this year | The Cold Record |
| Your Mother's Copy of the Kama Sutra — Enacting vulnerability in ... | September 24, 2018 | I.B. Hopkins | Article | The female-run theater collective has outfitted The Museum of Human Achievement, a sex-toy-factory-turned-arts-space in East Austin for the | Your Mother's Copy of the Kamasutra |
| Zach Theatre, Ballet Austin, Salvage Vanguard shows lead in Austin ... | May 12, 2019 | Michael Barnes | Article | Museum of Human Achievement. “Malcolm Bucknall: Solo Show,” Wally Workman Gallery. “Martha Hughes: Fresh From Marfa,” Ola Gallery. “Terra | Cage Match Project, Round VIII: This is Everything |
| poolboy: don’t pick up | March 28, 2024 | Hayley Labrum Morrison | Review | You know that feeling of sweet ecstacy when you discover an addicting reality show that already has three seasons under its belt? It’s a pool of open water to dive into; ripe for the binge. poolboy was in its fourth season in 2022 when I happened upon its zaniness. poolboy00 (Sam Mayer) and his best friend momgrab (Julia Mounsey) responded to prompts from an audience at Co-Lab Projects’ Glissman Culvert as I waded in a nearby collapsible pool. Maybe it was the cool water against my skin on a sweltering Texas night, or the sweaty dancing at Cheer-up Charlies afterward, but poolboy: I WANT TO LISTEN struck a chord with me that night. | Poolboy: don't pick up |
