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22 to Think About
Austin Museum of Art shows new local art that engages the mind
The Office (Episodes 1-3)
The Office (Episodes 1-3) 2001. Directed by Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Starring Ricky Gervais. The Drafthouse kicks off a monthlong marathon of quite possibly the greatest TV show ever, BBC’s The Office. Episodes 1-3 screen tonight; knowing the Drafthouse, they’ll also have a few surprises in store (a rumor is afoot of a stapler-in-the-Jello eating…
The Office (Episodes 4-6)
The Office (Episodes 4-6) Directed by Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Starring Ricky Gervais, Martin Freeman, Mackenzie Crook, Lucy Davis. This week, the monthlong marathon of the BBC show screens episodes 1-3. Also compete in The Office pub quiz.
Dog Day Afternoon
Dog Day Afternoon 1975, R, 130 min. Directed by Sidney Lumet, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, James Broderick, Chris Sarandon. Pacino stars in this strange-but-true story about a man who holds up an NYC bank to get the money for his lover’s sex-change operation, but quickly finds…
The Common Law
Admissibility of lie detectors
True Today
Randy ‘Biscuit’ Turner’s final interview
Naked City
Suspect caught in Mexico; allegedly mutilated victim with hacksaw
TCB
Austin remembers Randy ‘Biscuit’ Turner, whose sudden death shocks and saddens the city
Day Trips
An interesting encounter with a gifted storyteller in Birmingham
Phases & Stages
Long before his death in 2003, Johnny Cash stood tall as an American icon. His image captured the imagination: backswept pompadour, coal-black eyes, lines crosshatching his craggy face. His voice thundered, distinguished, distinct, and his songs came from not just his heart but America’s. If that weren’t enough, Cash married June Carter, scion of “the…
Naked City
Jury awards $253 million to widow; Texas queued up to sue, too
From Playtime to TV
From Playtime to TV Animated toy commercials from the Eighties, including some for Lazer Tag, Rubik the Amazing Cube, Dungeons and Dragons, and Captain Power.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The original sexbot film and the meat of white people
Phases & Stages
2005 is a great year to be an X fan. When the L.A. quartet last recorded an electric live album in 1987, guitarist Billy Zoom was long gone and the band sounded in need of the break they were about to take. With Zoom back on board, their new Shout! Factory CD and DVD Live…
Naked City
City leaders announce plan to push hybrid cars here and nationwide
Punk: Attitude
Punk: Attitude 2005, 90 min. Directed by Don Letts. The renowned London DJ-turned-filmmaker, Don Letts, presents a record of some of the pioneers of the 1970s/80s punk movement. Among the contributors are John Cale, Howard Devoto, Pete Shelly, Thurston Moore, David Johansen, Jello Biafra, Chrissie Hynde, Glen Matlock, Steve Jones, Legs McNeil, Jim Jarmusch, and…
’22 to Watch’ Public Programs
All programs take place at the Austin Museum of Art – Downtown, 823 Congress – and are free. For more information, visit www.amoa.org. Gallery Talks Exhibiting artists each give 10 minutes of insight into their work, Thursdays in September, 7pm. Sept. 1: Zack Booth Simpson, Alia Hasan-Khan, Sterling Allen, Barna Kantor, and Hana Hillerova Sept.…
Soccer Watch
The Lady Longhorns kick off the season
Phases & Stages
The Dick Cavett Show: Rock Icons Shout! Factory, $39.98 Despite hailing from Nebraska, Dick Cavett’s sensibilities are far from Middle American. Running sporadically from 1969 through 1975, Cavett’s late-night ABC talk show was a futile but fascinating attempt to woo the young, progressive set from Johnny Carson’s camp. Part of that formula was booking rock…
Naked City
Local biodiesel producer expands its business
Supercross: The Movie
Two brothers overcome emotional and physical obstacles to achieve success in the competitive world of supercross racing.
Trouping Ahead
The Latino Comedy Project keeps creating laughter and its own opportunities
To the Nth Degree
The 15th annual ‘Austin Chronicle’ Hot Sauce Festival
Phases & Stages
Danny Barnes Get Myself Together (Terminus) Founding Bad Liver and banjoist extraordinaire Danny Barnes is quite the wordsmith. As a Liver and solo – 2003’s Dirt on the Angel for starters – Barnes writes taut, witty lyrics, inspired by scribes like Blake and Hawthorne. Yet the characters on this Texan’s fifth solo platter seem to…
Naked City
Gay rights activists hoping to keep discrimination out of the state constitution on Nov. 8
The Aristocrats
The gleefully profane The Aristocrats provides a survey of some of the best comic minds in the business.
‘The Will Rogers Follies’: Back in the Saddle Again
For the creative team on the new national tour of ‘The Will Rogers Follies,’ working on the show is like slipping into a broken-in pair of old boots
The Contest
At the heart of the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival is the contest itself. The blind-tasting competition for individuals and restaurants is conducted by some of the top chefs in the state of Texas. They take hot sauce seriously, and so do most of the people who enter. Several previous winners in the individual category…
Phases & Stages
Shannon McNally Geronimo (Back Porch) On her 2002 debut, Jukebox Sparrows, Shannon McNally managed definite potential despite being buried under an adult rock sheen that hacked the edges off her music. There’s an “adultness” built into her second attempt, Geronimo, McNally sensual, swaggering, smokey. It’s a huge stylistic move forward, one that emphasizes her fondness…
Naked City
A botched autopsy leaves medical examiner with “serious explaining to do”
The Brothers Grimm
Terry Gilliam’s skewed fantasy is pure jabberwocky.
’10 Minutes Max’: Just Enough Time to Get Moving
The clock is ticking for local movement artists, as Dance Umbrella brings back its ever-popular program of new short movement pieces, ’10 Minutes Max’
Contest & Festival Facts
The Capital Area Food Bank and The Austin Chronicle invite you to join us for the 15th annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival, this Sunday, Aug. 28, from 11am-5pm at Waterloo Park (12th & Red River). Admission is FREE with your donation of two nonperishable food items for the Capital Area Food Bank. There’s also…
Divorce, Alamo Style
From a small north-side apartment – via toney Rob Roy, a Hays County ranch, and several sojourns in jail – Janet Kennedy keeps fighting a battle featuring all the latest in family bitterness
Point Austin: A Lege Too Far
Sine Die or school bells, perhaps they toll for thee
Saint Ralph
This strange youth dramedy from Canada has a brisk, sunny aplomb.
Arts Review
‘The Grind,’ a new workplace satire by local playwright Timothy Thomas, reveals what happens when a company Everyguy gets caught in interoffice intrigues
The ‘Austin Chronicle’ Hot Sauce Festival Winners: 1991-2004
R: Red Salsa; G: Green Salsa; SV: Special Variety; P: Pepper SauceIndividuals1991 R: John Randall; G: Robert Leos; Other: Thomas Penn; Most Beautiful: Kenneth Harwell; Hottest: Ventura Uballe; Orange Sauce: Hans Granheim; Purple Sauce: Kevin Callaway 1992 R: 1) Alejandro Garcia; 2) Alejandro Garcia; 3) Eric Tovar G: 1) Malcolm Milburn; 2) John Randall; 3)…
Our Groovy Capitalistic Council
Keep Austin Corporate, dude; and, a firefight breaks out between Martinez and McCracken
The Hightower Report
Do we really mean the stuff we’re sticking on our cars?; and smut goes corporate
Based on a True Story
Based on a True Story 2005, NR, 75 min. Directed by Walter Stokman. This documentary examines the real people and events that inspired the 1975 movie Dog Day Afternoon. Dutch documentarian Stokman interviews the people who were part of that hot day in August 1972 when John Wojtowicz and Sonny Naturile held up a Brooklyn…
Arts Review
At the Blue Theatre, you can see an outstanding example of commedia dell-arte in Tongue and Groove Theatre’s awesomely entertaining production of ‘The Three Cuckolds’
Searing Memories
On the occasion of the 15th annual ‘Austin Chronicle’ Hot Sauce Festival, some chile-pepper reflections
Invasion of the McMansions
Tarrytown neighbors outraged over demolition of house they considered historic
All in the Delivery
Penn Jillette on ‘The Aristocrats’
Culture Flash!
City arts funding revisions get a thumbs-up from council, theatre artists sing for cancer charities, and local playwrights meet and greet
Searing Memories
Ghostwritten Like a stone falling into still water, the letter from an old boyfriend sent waves of memory rippling through the placid surface of my thoughts. He was perhaps the first person I had ever thought of marrying, and for the two years we were together, I just assumed we would. When I received the…
Darkness and Confusion
Rocha grand jury file raises as many questions as it answers
Film Treatment for the Really, Truly (No Kidding This Time) ‘Last Picture Show’
The Rolling Roadshow takes over Archer City to screen Bogdanovich’s classic among the people who inspired it
Readings
‘You do an awfully good impression of yourself,’ opens Bret Easton Ellis’ first book in seven years
Searing Memories
The Relleno Ritual Growing up on the West Texas desert where Tex-Mex food reflects the influence of the ranching states of northern Mexico and the chile fields of Hatch and Deming, my experience of fresh chile peppers was limited to jalapeños, serranos, and the occasional Big Jim. The long, skinny green peppers from the Hatch,…
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond.
Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund Grant Recipients
$77,000 to 27 projects
Readings
Here are the facts. We have a dead male, approximately 47 years of age, who once led a ruthless gang of killers.
Searing Memories
Yippee Thai Yai Yow! When you go to Thailand for the first time, you’ll probably be shocked that the majority of the food isn’t as hot as you expected it to be. We’re all conditioned by the multi-chile-pepper icons that American Thai restaurants proudly display on their menus to signify how spicy their dishes are.…
Naked City
‘Better than a stick in the eye’ says teacher union head
Another Filmmaker in the AFS Money
UT freshman Angel Pedraza gets a few final school supplies
Page Two
The column takes a break from its break to bask in the glow of Neil Young’s recent Nashville concerts – and promise a couple of online reviews of it soon
Searing Memories
Moles: The Essence of Mexico Within the rich culinary tradition of Mexico, perhaps no other dish represents the complexity of Mexican culture and identity better than mole. There are many varieties of this quintessential Mexican dish. Each is an exotic combination of ingredients that produces a flavorful, complex sauce that can accompany a number of…
Naked City
Guv’s ’65 Percent’ mandate called arbitrary and a distraction
‘SXSW Presents’
Back for year two on KLRU
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar takes out the trash … junk mail trash, that is, and lets you in on the big secret of how you can, too!
The Peppers Cookbook
Not only does Austin host the popular ‘Austin Chronicle’ Hot Sauce Festival, but our city is also home to Jean Andrews, one of the foremost authorities on the world of capsicums
Naked City
An Iraq war vet responds to the senseless attack on Camp Casey
TV Eye
Belinda Acosta got touched by a TV
About AIDS
Some techniques may help the poz person work around the atmosphere of secrecy and pain that uninformed or narrow-minded people create
Pepper Peddlin’: A Few Festival Vendors
A few festival vendors
Naked City
A one-day event seeks to link top Web designers with nonprofits who need them
Naked City
Where the hell is Matt? In Austin!
To Your Health
What is the best drinking water to consume while pregnant?
Food-o-File
The heat is on; plus, the new Starlite shines in the Warehouse District
Naked City
City will seek north location for courts
Old King: Neil Young and Jonathan Demme in Nashville
Neil Young’s new ‘Prairie Wind’ howls for the decades
Luv Doc Recommends: Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival
If you’ve poked your head outside recently (never a good idea in August) you’ve probably noticed that there is a disturbing amount of greenery. This kind of verdure may pass muster in places like Ireland, New Zealand, and Middle Tennessee, but in Austin, where chlorophyll in August is about as rare as distilled baboon adrenaline,…
