© 2024 KUT Public Media

A service of the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin

webmaster@kutx.org

Donate

Play Live Radio

Next Up:

0:00

0:00

0:00 0:00

Available On Air Stations

Life & Arts

ATXplained

For this project, we ask you what you want us to investigate and what stories you'd like us to tell.

Get tickets now for our next ATXplained Live show, coming to the Paramount on Sept. 28

KUT 90.5 | By Matt Largey

Published August 12, 2022 at 10:00 AM CDT

KUT staff dances on stage.

Tickets for our ATXplained Live show on Feb. 22, 2023 are available here.

Back in 2020, our ATXplained project brought nine brand new stories based on your questions to the stage.

More than a thousand people were in the audience to share what (we think) was a magical night of storytelling featuring sound, images, music, dance ... and a giant stuffed bear. We also had a few special guests.

Since then, you’ve heard some of these stories on the radio. Like this one about a very public marriage proposal, this one about the last great tug-of-war in Austin, and this one about that time someone tried to murder a tree.

Now, friends, we'd like to invite you back for an all-new lineup of stories told by your favorite KUT journalists.

Join us at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 28 at the Paramount Theatre in downtown Austin for our next ATXplained Live show. Don't wait — get your tickets today. Hope to see you there.

Tags

Life & Arts ATXplained KUT KUT Events

Matt Largey

Matt Largey is the Projects Editor at KUT. That means doing a little bit of everything: editing reporters, producing podcasts, reporting, training, producing live events and always being on the lookout for things that make his ears perk up. Got a tip? Email him at mlargey@kut.org. Follow him on Twitter @mattlargey.

See stories by Matt Largey

Related Content

Austin

We get a lot of unanswerable ATXplained questions. So we asked John Aielli to answer them.

Andrew Weber

Many of the questions we get don't have actual fact-based answers. They require a subjective, tactile approach that can only be conjured and honed by the truly singular mind of KUTX's John Aielli.
Austin

Yup, it's still illegal to swim in Lady Bird Lake. Here's why.

Matt Largey

When it's hot in Austin, you just want to go somewhere to cool off, somewhere you can take a swim and forget the oppressive heat that lingers for six months of the year. But there's one place you definitely cannot go swimming.
Austin

Why is Hippie Hollow clothing-optional?

Matt Largey

The park on the shore of Lake Travis, just outside Austin, is well-known as a place where you can go to get some sun – without the tan lines. It's thought to be Texas' only clothing-optional public park. But how did it get that way?
Transportation

Why does the city 'repair' streets by covering them in gravel?

Nathan Bernier

Austin's hot, dry summer creates ideal conditions for hardening fresh asphalt. So the Public Works Department toils through the sweltering heat to resurface as many miles of roads as possible then.
Austin

Why is it so difficult to find restaurants that make their own tortillas in Austin?

Ben Philpott

This city does not focus enough attention on tortillas, according to one Austinite. KUT's ATXplained project set out to learn why.
Austin

Is there treasure buried at Walnut Creek Park?

Skye Seipp

There are multiple tales behind a cave known as Stark’s mine in the area. It was said to be dug over 100 years ago in an attempt to find buried treasure.
Austin

Austin's Godfather of Clubbing has left the scene

Audrey McGlinchy

We met Yorkie Louie back in 2019 when a listener asked about the man on the dance floor with a disco ball on a stick. Yorkie left Austin last month for Denver to be closer to family and farther from Texas' conservative politics.
Austin

What's the story of Austin's Treaty Oak?

Mose Buchele

The oak tree near Fifth and Lamar is more than 500 years old. And it's the stuff of legends.
Austin

Who maintains and decorates the teeny-tiny traffic median on Enfield Road?

Marisa Charpentier

For years, Austin resident Arnie Ramirez has passed by it on her way to jog along Shoal Creek Trail. She wanted to know the story behind it.
Transportation

Why are there no speed limits posted on the new 183 South toll road?

Nathan Bernier

More than a year after opening, 183 South has no posted speed limits. But that doesn't mean you can drive as fast as you want.
Texas

Where have Austin's Indigenous people gone?

Lauren Terrazas

Indigenous peoples have occupied Central Texas for thousands of years — long before Spanish settlers arrived in the mid-16th century.
Austin

North vs. South: How one of the biggest tug-of-wars came to be in Austin

Jimmy Maas

In 1987, 1,000 Austinites grabbed polypropylene rope and made history for a good cause.
Austin

What's the story behind this weird sculpture next to MoPac?

Matt Largey

People have all kinds of interpretations of this sculpture. But what is it and where did it come from?
Austin

Why is it legal to go topless in Austin?

Claire McInerny

A listener said she considered topless women the backdrop of Barton Springs, but not necessarily of smaller neighborhood pools. She wanted to know how the practice became such a part of Austin's culture.