Hays Street Bridge, San Antonio, 2006
re: culture, ideas & the built environment
Mike Greenberg / San Antonio
Incidental observations, including:
Does Adam McManus have a pet gerbil? June 14, 2009
Leader of family-values party opposes marriage May 16, 2009
Perry flunks Texas history; Tea Party spendthrifts; a Christian nation? April 17, 2009
SA Symphony's new music director: Sebastian Lang-Lessing seeks a sound,
connects with local tradition Feb. 22, 2010
News flash: How I became a playwright Feb. 17, 2010
Genealogy of a lie: If facts don't fit prejudice, Obama-haters invent Aug. 16, 2009
Teach 'strengths and weaknesses' of evolution? See that bet and raise it June 21, 2008
Those useless humanities Jan. 8, 2008
Placemaking at its best: Latest
San Antonio River Improvements transform wasteland into civic treasure
June 21, 2009Correcting the record on lessons from Santa Barbara: Density is good April 2, 2009
McNay
Art
Museum's Stieren Center for Exhibitions: Jean Paul Viguier's pure
Modernist addition is all about the light June 13, 2008
1221 Broadway Lofts: Making an introvert gregarious
June 2, 2008
Austin's Long Center for the Performing Arts:
Right space, wrong place April 28, 2008
Configured for concerts, Austin's new Dell Hall still sounds like an opera house May 24, 2008
Notes from the Congress for the New Urbanism's conference in Austin April 18, 2008
CNU XVI: New Urbanist guru thrashes Austin six ways from Sunday April 10, 2008
Transportation Choices Forum: Some gaps remain in our "Smart Growth" smarts (March 30, 2008)
Jubilee Outreach/Wigodsky & Assoc.: Designing within the system
Plus: Big Grass Bamboo: Cinderella story (March 2, 2008)
What to expect in performing arts center? The picture is cloudy (Feb. 16, 2008)
Windcrest Village: Duany brings New Urbanism to Old Sprawl (Jan. 30, 2008)
Cactus Pear Music Festival: Speed's the thing in new works by Kramer, Sorgi July 18, 2010
Austin Lyric Opera: The opera that mistook a case study for a drama July 13, 2010
SA Opera: A lavishly cast "Rigoletto" June 19, 2010
SA Symphony: On Scalia, Souter and Salerno-Sonnenberg June 6, 2010
SA Symphony: Dawn Upshaw in a performance to cherish May 23, 2010
SOLI Chamber Ensemble: Revisiting the work of a master craftsman March 18, 2010
Olmos Ensemble with Christopher Guzman: Once a Wunderkind, now an artist May 13, 2010
SA Symphony: Piazzolla's "Seasons," fattened up but with pulse, soul and eros intact May 1, 2010
Lee Trio: From Golden Gate, a musical bridge between past and present April 29, 2010
Austin Lyric Opera 'Hansel and Gretel': Whose house is this? Rhymes with 'rich' April 28, 2010
Camerata San Antonio: The Schoenberg piece that people like April 14, 2010
SA Symphony, conductor Andrew Grams: And the beat goes where? April 4, 2010
SA Symphony with Kuerti, Kuster: A luminous intro to Webern, for the wary March 27, 2010
Olmos Ensemble: When one plus one equals one March 18, 2010
Jupiter String Quartet: From civilization to Hell, and back again March 16, 2010
San Antonio Symphony: Fearless Prokofiev, jolly Shostakovich March 13, 2010
SOLI Chamber Enemble: An example of recycling at its best March 11, 2010
Camerata San Antonio: From England between the wars March 8, 2010
UTSA Lyric Theatre: Heuser's 'Root Vegetables' -- 24-carrot fun March 7, 2010
SA Symphony, pianist Benedetto Lupo: In Chopin concerto, a human voice Feb. 27, 2010
Atos Trio: Deep communication in an intriguing program Feb. 16, 2010
SA Symphony: High craft on the podium, poetry on the guitar Feb. 14, 2010
Pianist Haochen Zhang: Flying fingers, connected to a probing mind Feb. 13, 2010
Camerata San Antonio: Bohemian music, international standard Feb. 9, 2010
Austin Lyric Opera: Madcap fun, musical charm in Chabrier's "The Star" Feb. 2, 2010
SA Symphony, pianist Stewart Goodyear: Quicksilver agility, golden touch in Grieg Jan. 30, 2010
Olmos Ensemble with Linda Poetschke: Gerswhin at the center Jan. 21, 2010
SA Symphony with Nancy Zhou: Promising début in the Sibelius concerto Jan. 16, 2010
Voci di Sorelle: An uneven repast, but the sorbet sparkled Dec. 8, 2009
SA Symphony: A triumphant return and a first-class début Nov. 21, 2009
Austin Lyric Opera: In this 'Bohème,' the stage is all the world Nov. 13, 2009
Shanghai Quartet: Standing on whole tradition to reach beyond it Nov. 11, 2009
Olmos Ensemble: A chemistry lesson, in French Nov. 5, 2009
Nemanja Ostojic: In his guitar, the big box of Crayolas Nov. 3, 2009
Camerata San Antonio: From Russia, with goulash Oct. 28, 2009
Soprano Linda Poetschke: In 25th anniversary recital, the naked truth Oct. 19, 2009
SA Symphony: Vigor on the page , and on the podium Oct. 17, 2009
SA Symphony: A violinist true to the many ways of Prokofiev Oct. 10, 2009
Organist Paul Jacobs: A gifted orchestrator, fleet of foot and hand Oct. 8, 2009
Lark Chamber Artists: A string quartet with a bang-up fifth Oct. 6, 2009
SA Symphony: From Weilerstein, extraordinary depth and intensity Sept. 26, 2009
Olmos Ensemble: Music of two worlds, off-kilter and on Sept. 24, 2009
San Antonio Opera: A 'Butterfly' with ideas, some of them brilliant Sept. 12, 2009
Cactus Pear Music Festival: Beethoven, Clarke, Elgar July 18, 2009
Cactus Pear Music Festival: A strangely beautiful Lorca setting July 13, 2009
Cactus Pear Music Festival: Listening to a conversation, having a 'Lark' July 11, 2009
San Antonio Opera, 'Il Trovatore': If you've got it, flaunt it June 13, 2009
Round Top Festival: The wit was French; the wisdom, too June 9, 2009
SA Symphony, Elmar Oliveira: Mendelssohn with machismo May 30, 2009
SOLI, Timothy Jones: Music fit for a king, and a world, gone mad May 27, 2009
Olmos Ensemble: An elegantly crafted new Lyric Quintet by Bill Ross May 22, 2009
SA Symphony, Rossen Milanov: Russia resists invaders; Brits hail one May 9, 2009
SA Symphony, Lang-Lessing, Torgul: Ecstasy, joy and sweet moxie May 2, 2009
Jon Nakamatsu: Built for speed, and sometimes more April 30, 2009
Albers Trio: Three ways of being Modern, with poise April 22, 2009
Austin Lyric Opera: Poulenc's 'Dialogues' speak compellingly April 20, 2009
Composers
Alliance: Blackbirds will sing April
8, 2009SA Symphony, Komatsu, Wright: A Dvorak Sixth in high style April 4, 2009
SA Symphony, Chang, Grams: Violinist gives old master new energy March 28, 2009
SA Symphony, Judd, Wolfram: Epic retold, with compelling authority March 21, 2009
SOLI Chamber Ensemble: Master thief does it again March 17, 2009
Olmos Ensemble, Poetschke, Epperson: A grand night for singing March 11, 2009
"La Curandera": Comic opera finds composer Rodriguez in top form March 4, 2009
SA Symphony: Harrell serves Elgar concerto at peak of ripeness Feb. 14, 2009
Sergio and Odair Assad: New Brouwer sonata wears virtuosity lightly Feb. 10, 2009
SA Symphony: Assad concerto is the draw, conductor Vajda the marvel Feb. 7, 2009
SW Guitar Festival: Denis Azabagic, A sculptor in sound Feb. 7, 2009
SW Guitar Festival: Dunne, Gast shine in new Balentine piece Feb. 5, 2009
Austin Lyric Opera, "Rigoletto": A radiant Gilda, but where's Dr. Phil? Feb. 2, 2009
SA Symphony: In taut Shostakovich Tenth, the demons wore jackboots Jan. 24, 2009
Fretwork, Clare Wilkinson: Music of Purcell, antique and progressive Jan. 20, 2009
Camerata S.A.: Violinist Jiang contributes to a gutsy 'Ghost' Jan. 12, 2009
Archive: Music reviews from previous years
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views of the Tower of the Americas
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