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Austin City Council Proclaims Oct. 26 Intersex Awareness Day

Activist Alicia Roth Weigel discusses intersex rights, says I eXYst

"...to health and physical integrity, to be free from torture and ill-treatment, and to equality and nondiscrimination."..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Alicia Roth Weigel

Long-suppressed documentary of Yves Saint Laurent is style and substance

"...to the show. It feels like a form of torture, and Meyrou shoots it as such. But the heart..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Manson Family drama place society's treatment of guilt and contrition in the dock

"...system collapses, or it becomes merely a tool of torture...."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Austin Terror Fest Album Reviews

Seven platters spanning the spectrum of extremity

"...on their sixth grindcore extermination. Named after a medieval torture device, now and for a limited time only with..."

June 7, 2019 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Stone-cold thriller across the Mexican border

"...owns and operates (her “legitimate” business) feels like a torture chamber, featuring machine parts – brutal, threatening tools that..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White

New adaptation of Henri Charrière's autobiographical novel of life on Devil's Island

"...of the human spirit against an onslaught of oppressive torture, and the banal dehumanization that humans exact on one..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Spy Who Dumped Me

Kunis and McKinnon run to Europe, but forget to pack jokes

"...when their level of intimacy is tested in a torture scene that turns out to be the film’s funniest..."

Aug. 3, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Recommended Live Music for the Weekend

Psych, pop, and punk this weekend? Yes, please.

"...she wants to help with everything. – Abby Johnston Torture 2018..."

June 29, 2018 Events Post by The Music Staff

Erotic spy thriller is Fifty Shades of Gorky Park.

"...for the MPAA, so we get Red Sparrow. Honestly, torture might be preferable...."

March 2, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Saw character returns

"...Love them or loathe them, the Saw series, dubbed “torture porn” by many, has proved its staying power, outlasting..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

American Assassin

The bestselling series hits the screen

"...can also toss out quips during the film’s grisliest torture scene. Shiva Negar plays a Turkish operative whose only..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Two missionaries in feudal Japan are tested

"...their screams. These are the screams caused by physical tortures, not the plaintive wail of everyday woes. The agony..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Alpha-male fraternity bullying sparks revenge in this true story

"...– is not surprising, or shocking, at all. Physical torture, shame, random degradation: All of these things have been..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

This sassy superhero movie is not your child’s comic-book origin tale

"...Many sequences go on for too long. The torture doled out by Ajax (Skrein), which turns the cancer-riddled..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVDanger: A Bad Case of the Sequels

Retreads, remakes, and do-overs rule the home releases

"...The term torture porn is often thrown at titles like this, but..."

July 28, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: I Hear Voices

Horror elevated aurally by Henry Rollins and Jeffrey Combs

"...pin in that chat, but being stuck in his torture room gives them nothing to do but cling to..."

March 7, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water

The lovable gang from the animated TV show leaves Bikini Bottom to come ashore.

"...leather gear for all), cultural nostalgia (Schoolhouse Rock!, anyone?), torture implements (the most effective of which being SpongeBob’s inane..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

The heroic story of Louis Zamperini, who endured harrowing hardships during World War II, is the subject of Angelina Jolie's second movie.

"...and cruelties can overcome the immediacy of pain and torture and, in fact, emerge all the stronger for it...."

Dec. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The AggreGAYtor: November 14

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...The U.N. Torture Committee is investigating the use of quack “ex-gay” therapy..."

Nov. 14, 2014 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

Housecore Horror Calls for More 'Saw

'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2' revs, plus VHS and 35mm joy

"...Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon D: Juan López Moctezuma, starring Claudio Brook, 1976..."

Aug. 14, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Quiet Ones

The venerable Hammer Film studio gets into the found-footage horror genre.

"...his dangerous and unethical research (today we’d call it torture) is to disprove the supernatural and cure mental illness..."

May 2, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The AggreGAYtor: November 25

What happened today in gay? Here's your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...of silly things, but in Ecuador, they allegedly rape, torture, and sometimes kill their patients...."

Nov. 25, 2013 Qmmunity Post

Who's Afraid of Big Bad Wolves?

Gobbling up the new Israeli horror from Navot Papushado and Aharon Keshales

"...about their next project: a tale of kidnapping and torture. Back then, they called it Satan Lives Within. Renamed..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The AggreGAYtor: July 29

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...Russian neo-Nazi groups are conning gay teens into video torture and humiliation sessions. The Fugly..."

July 29, 2013 Qmmunity Post

Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation, Part 4

With the consent of the governed, the United States government has gone rogue and violated international law

"...Article 5: "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."..."

June 14, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Housecore Horror to Open the 'The Profane Exhibit'

Festival to debut extreme horror anthology

"...Her third escape attempt results in a spectacle of torture and violence...."

May 16, 2013 Screens Post

Danny Boyle's film swerves unevenly between moods and motivations, from heist film to psychosexual thriller, and dreamy logic to amped-up action.

"...any extreme to pry that memory from him. When torture doesn’t do the trick, they turn to a hypnotist..."

April 12, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ben Affleck directs this entertaining thriller about an unbelievable-but-true mission to extricate American hostages from Iran in 1980.

"...A sequence that cross-cuts between the horror of the torture experienced by the captives held in the American embassy..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cannibal Corpse

"...Cannibal CorpseTorture (Metal Blade)..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Sucking the Life From Penn State

The baddest beast on the block

"...They move fast, can torture and kill with ease, but the question among vampires..."

July 23, 2012 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

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Jon Muq (performance & record signing)

Waterloo Records

Chronicles of a Black Deaf Blind Girl at Sterling Stage, 6134 E. Hwy. 290

Yellow Bike Project 27th anniversary benefit w/ Magnifico, Buttercup, Croy & the Boys at Hotel Vegas

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