Volume 25, Number 28
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features
The Gay Place gets all extended re-mix for SXSW, with interviews, chats, pics, blog entries, and more.
BY KATE GETTY AND KATE X MESSER
news
The evidence points to George W. Bush. But he wasn't alone.
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Eckhardt dethrones Sonleitner, fundamentalists duke it out with public education, and more
After 4-year drought, Donna Howard's swearing in signals Legislative return of rare species in Texas politics
BY AMY SMITH
The Austin Chronicle's Am I McMansion or Not? Contest: Win a Cosmetic Shade Tree
Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond
The future of U.S. politics may become, "Vote for Show, Map for Dough"
BY MICHAEL KING
City Council takes up arms and definitions over the charter amendments
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Rise of the Imperial Presidency; and What Color is Your Steak?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Taco Bell is for suckers. This town's taquerias are for SXSWers.
BY MICK VANN
A new little lady in the Big Apple, a new gelato shop, and a new chef in town: all in a week's food news
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Ignore Jim Morrison - do not cancel your subscription to the resurrection, because Roky Erickson is Lazarus unbound.
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
The Blurbing of SXSW 06
Parsing the posters at SXSW's Flatstock show. Also gay cowboys, sex tapes, and Oscar-winning pimps: TCB classes it up.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
SXSW Records
The Life Pursuit
Future Women
Death in the Garden Blood on the Flowers (Eenie Meenie)
... Tick ... Tick ... Tick
Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, but We Sure Got a Lot of Love
Comfort of Strangers
All the Love I Could Find
Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives EP
Mr. Beast
Rats! Sing! Sing!
Cash Flow
Goodbye
For the Season
screens
SXSW FILM
March 10-18
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
Austin's latest class of cinematic talent represented by six anticipated films at SXSW is going places, but they aren't leaving anytime soon.
BY SPENCER PARSONS
Celebrated author, visual artist, and community activist / volunteer diagnosed with ovarian cancer
BY KATE X MESSER
SXSW FILM
'La Tragedia de Macario'
BY JOE O'CONNELL
'Slam Planet: War of the Words'
BY MARC SAVLOV
'State vs. Reed'
BY WELLS DUNBAR
In 'Nobelity,' nine Nobel laureates offer straight talk on the planet's future
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Documentarian James Marsh's first narrative effort, 'The King,' is a dark one
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Ron Mann's adventurous RIP for hotrod artist and icon Ed Roth
BY MARC SAVLOV
The rock docs in this year's 24 Beats Per Second program rattle and hum with soul and revolt.
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Director Kelly Reichardt's keeping quiet on the darling of Sundance and Rotterdam
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
After the smoke cleared, 'The Whole Shootin' Match' helped give rise to the contemporary indie
BY LOUIS BLACK
How Jonathan Demme and Neil Young made a film about a concert attended by spirits
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
John Hyams' ode to rodeo stays on for a surprising 5,760 seconds
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
My grandfather's photography studio made him rich and Bettie Page famous. It also made him into a target for Fifties censors. So, what has director Mary Harron made of him?
BY RICK KLAW
Analyzing Alan Berliner's most personal documentary yet
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Wim Wenders on his sense of the right direction
BY DIANA WELCH
'51 Birch Street'
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
'Eve and the Fire Horse'
BY MARRIT INGMAN
'Cruel and Unusual'
BY KATE X MESSER
'Lifelike'
BY MARRIT INGMAN
Kirby Dick raids the MPAA
BY MARC SAVLOV
One night, one of a kind
BY STEVE UHLER
SXSW Film 2006
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Trolling SXSW Interactive 2006
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
The blogged, branded, and dooced at SXSW Interactive 2006
BY MARRIT INGMAN
The Sundance Channel and NetFlix make 'Room' for Kyle Henry
BY JOE O'CONNELL
The deconstructed Negro
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
This date movie is dude-friendly by design, but all its attention to hairdos and cute outfits does not make up for its lack of romantic spark.
Little more than a series of interviews with those who survived those times, interspersed with titillating soft-core clips from the archives, this documentary offers a sympathetic perspective of the post-Stonewall sexual liberation years in New York City.
This remake ratchets up the gore while subtly rewiring some of the characters, but it never manages the nagging subtexts Craven so handily injected into the original horror film.
Johnny Depp runs away with the show in this murkily filmed picture, cackling all the while and defiling beauty in all its forms as the exceedingly decadent Earl of Rochester.
This Italian film presents a modern parable about a Palestinian family, whose home in the West Bank is abruptly taken over by Israeli soldiers.
There are precious few surprises here, but this breezy remake starring Tim Allen is a painless affair.
In an opening voiceover, a superhuman killing machine warns, “I was born into a world you may not understand.” Boy hidee, she ain’t kidding, and fully 88 minutes later, that world is still pocked with incomprehensibility.
Jarecki’s canny and somewhat overwhelming documentary paints a grim historical picture of war profiteering run amok.
arts & culture
The secret history of Austin Circle of Theaters director Latifah Taormina, from Second City to the Committee and beyond
BY LOWELL BARTHOLOMEE
Cyndi Williams is living a playwright's dream with her play 'Where Are They Now?,' which is being staged for the third time in 15 months
BY BARRY PINEO
In 'Greyhounds and Other Virtual Ways to Travel,' choreographer Ellen Bartel creates three dances exploring the idea of how we travel without moving
BY BARRY PINEO
American Fiesta makes the finals of a national new play award, the Rude Mechs get their Gun from Creative Capital, and Katalin Hausel lands the Umlauf Prize
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Watching Second Youth Family Theatre's visually delicious theatrical confection 'Gary Grinkle's Battles With Wrinkles and Other Troubles in Mudgeville' is like seeing a children's book come to life
Artist Shawn Camp's latest works are topographical and aerial in theme, emphasizing swirls of grasslands and rivulets, clouds and stars
columns
At last, a magical confluence of ice hockey, Neil Young, and SXSW 2006
BY LOUIS BLACK
Our readers talk back.
It's hard out here for a Style Avatar, especially after all those DHOHs at the Oscars!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Is there a good and cheap way to judge the nutritional content of fruit?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Does McMansion Ordinance affect home remodels?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Take the Texas music heritage tour and learn more about Texas' homegrown talent, such as Bob Wills, Buddy Holly, and more
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Def Leppard keeps good company, Toxoplasma runs rampant, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Our latest batch
Austin Convention Center, Saturday, March 11, 2006
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Fútbol fun from near and far-flung places
BY NICK BARBARO