Finally, nobody died this week, heralding several new beginnings: Trail of Dead hopes its career is reborn on 'So Divided,' ex-Domino Bobby Whitlock relocates to Austin, Stretford comes back on the scene, and even the boy-band craze is revived

BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY

Butch Hancock Reviewed

Elias Haslanger

Dream Story

Butch Hancock

War and Peace

Mastodon

Blood Mountain

American Heritage

Millenarian

DJ Screw

DJ Screw: The Untold Story

various artists

Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys

M. Ward

Post-War

Tanya Donnelly

This Hungry Life

Bobby Bare Jr.

The Longest Meow

the Knife

Silent Shout

Burt Bacharach

Live shot

screens

Showcase Showdown

The Austin Museum of Digital Art's programming challenges our notions of creativity

BY JOSH ROSENBLATT

Belles on Her Toes

Trying to shake Gene Tierney

BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

God Bless This Mess

The AFS Texas Documentary Tour: Doug Block's '51 Birch Street'

BY ANNE S. LEWIS

Viva Pedro!

Eight re-releases in two weeks lead up to 'Volver'

BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN

SXSW Presents

'Last Days of the San José'

Film News

Triskaidekaphobia be damned, at least for some; others on the scene are quite unlucky, actually.

BY JOE O'CONNELL

TV Eye

Good timing

BY BELINDA ACOSTA

Screens Reviews

On the Edge: The Femicide in Ciudad Juárez

Operating with limited resources, Steev Hise interviews mothers, activists, scholars, and writers to paint the portrait of a city in a state of severe crisis

Film Reviews

Al Franken: God Spoke

The film follows around comedian and politico Franken without managing to either inflame or inspire the viewer or add much new information to Franken's already well-documented history.

The Departed

Watching this new film by Scorsese is tantamount to falling in love with the director all over again.

49 Up

This British series is one of the great achievements of the cinema, one that reveals how an observant camera plus the passage of time can capture reality.

The Guardian

Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher co-star in this action drama about the Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers, which is a surprisingly engaging character-driven picture.

Jesus Camp

This film is not a freak show or exposé but rather a call to arms to pick sides in the deepening cultural, political, and spiritual schism between the two Americas of the 21st century.

arts & culture

A Lot of Cojones and a Little Faith

The art of Micael Priest

BY MARGARET MOSER

Women on Fire: Six of one, Ivey's dozen of the other

Tony Award winner and Lone Star native Judith Ivey discusses the challenges of portraying a dozen characters in the one-woman monologue show 'Women on Fire'

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Free Night of Theater 2006: Encore run, still no charge

After a smash debut in 2005, the Free Night of Theater goes nationwide, with 300 performances across the country – including 21 in Austin – being offered at no charge

BY BARRY PINEO

Arts Reviews

Parade

'Parade' is an ambitious musical for a university theatre department, but the entire company presenting it at St. Edward's is impressively in tune with Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown's retelling of the Leo Frank case

Bitten! A Zombie Rock Odyssey

As a play, 'Bitten! A Zombie Rock Odyssey' is impressively bad, but it's got one hell of a soundtrack

'Lu Ann Barrow's Soul-Journers: Friends, Family, and the Fabric of Daily Life'

In Lu Ann Barrow's brilliantly colored canvases, every pebble, blade of grass, dress, and wallpaper pattern is rendered in bold colors that excite rather than drown one another out

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