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Welcome to the 14th annual ‘Austin Chronicle’ Hot Sauce Festival.
Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst 2003, NR, 89 min. Directed by Robert Stone. Winner of the top documentary award at Sundance, Guerilla chronicles the young heiress’ conversion into an armed revolutionary and the media’s participation in the spectacle.
The Tex-Mex Cookbook
A recipe excerpt
A Bumpy Landing at Mueller?
The generation-long airport saga enters a critical phase
Blind Ambition
Takeshi Kitano on updating ‘Zatôichi’
Exhibitionism
‘Spin’ can be described as a one-woman cabaret with one woman who performs several one-woman exposés
Food-o-File
Remembering Julia Child
Lick Creek Goes to Court
The latest on the battle to keep the stream clean
Lucid Assembly
Richard Kelly on ‘Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut’
Exhibitionism
In ‘A Traves de mis manos / Through My Hands,’ painter Esteban Machado Diaz offers us a gallery of playfully impossible landscapes reminiscent of Escher
Two Tickets to Paradise
Who tickets what in Austin
Ratliff Helps Both Sides in School Trial
The “Father of Robin Hood” takes the “West Orange-Cove” stand
TFPF Grant Recipients
$70,000 to 26 projects
Exhibitionism
Scottish Rite Children’s Theatre debut production, ‘The Sword in the Stone,’ makes you feel like you’re right in the middle of a fairy tale
TIX @ a Glance
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Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
Short Cuts
Last Saturday found Tobe Hooper in absentia and John C. Reilly quite the opposite
Readings
After the success of Persepolis, there was only one question for Satrapi. What would she do for an encore?
Phases & Stages
M83Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (Mute) How programmed music can resemble nature so closely is uncanny. M83’s sophomore album flows from track to track like water eroding canyons. The two 23-year-olds from the south of France have a knack for invoking emotion. All emotion. Images of fields and overgrown pastures, ghost towns and…
Naked City
More eyes than usual upon a city parking contract
TV Eye
The rise of the networks’ fall
Readings
Generation S.L.U.T.: A Brutal Feel-up Session With Today’s Sex-Crazed Adolescent Populaceby Marty Beckerman MTV Books, 224 pp., $11.95 (paper) Generation Y is fucked. Literally. At least that’s the premise of Marty Beckerman’s second book (the first being Death to All Cheerleaders: One Adolescent Journalist’s Cheerful Diatribe Against Teenage Plasticity – the author clearly enjoys his…
Phases & Stages
Animal Collective Sung Tongs (FatCat) While it’s certainly plausible to view Brooklyn’s Animal Collective as a psychedelic folk hybrid, the duo’s overbearing reductive tendencies make this something of a misnomer in the populist sense. When Avey Tare and Panda Bear stumble upon something resembling a conventional song structure, they zealously drown it in a swirling…
Naked City
“Upset emissions” pose a not-so-nonroutine threat to air quality
Page Two
The real truth about (Hurricane) Charley, and the charmed life of President Bush
Phases & Stages
Mento Madness Motta’s Jamaican Mento: 1951-56 (V2) Before reggae, rock steady, or even ska, mento ruled Jamaica’s musical consciousness. Originally a rural folk music, coalesced from African and European influences, mento took on a more modern tenor when played in the cities by musicians schooled in jazz bands. Mento Madness is a delightful primer, introducing…
Naked City
A raw deal on health insurance stays sweet for Aetna
Bush’s Brain
Bush’s so-called brain is Karl Rove, whose mastery of dirty tricks deserves clearer scrutiny than it gets in this documentary.
Day Trips
The Frontiers of Flight Museum at Dallas’ Love Field is fun for the whole crew
Phases & Stages
The Concretes(Astralwerks)Kings of ConvenienceRiot on an Empty Street (Astralwerks)Badly Drawn BoyOne Plus One Is One (Astralwerks) At its outset, Astralwerks specialized primarily in ambient/techno music like the Chemical Brothers, Beth Orton, and Air. The 10-year-old Virgin/EMI imprint has broadened its focus and refined its cherry-picking skills in the past couple of years, a fortuitous development…
Naked City
The Secretary of State calls time-out on the voting machine front
Exorcist: The Beginning
Help us, Lucifer. This prequel is cursed.
After a Fashion
What’s the latest in fall fashion? Only your Style Avatar knows for sure.
Phases & Stages
Masta AceA Long Hot Summer (M3) Consummating his lifelong love affair with hip-hop, Masta Ace settles down with narrative raps of a semiautobiographical variety. The former Juice Crew member and author of such hood classics as “Born to Roll” and “Sittin’ on Chrome” depicts life in Brooklyn with the insight of a shrewd novelist. Serving…
Naked City
The DOJ spams America with canned op-eds supporting mandatory minimum sentences
Benji: Off the Leash!
New dog. Old tricks.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The U.S. military’s Unitized Group Rations can feed 50 people or more and are tastier and less expensive than their MREs (Meal, Ready-to-Eat).Law enforcement is now using a product from New Zealand called Skunk Shot to scare off drug users and prostitutes who frequent condemned buildings. Originally intended as a cat and dog repellent, the…
Phases & Stages
J.J. CaleTo Tulsa and Back (Sanctuary) A new album from J.J. Cale is like a home-cooked meal. To Tulsa and Back is the former Okie’s first collection of new music in eight years, but as with his past work, it’s comfort food for the head, heart, and soul. That’s not to say Cale’s merely recycling…
Naked City
The brain trust agrees to restore some – but not all – of last year’s health care cuts
Danny Deckchair
Aussie import is sweet but as emotionally ethereal as a Splenda meringue.
Firestarters!
The contest or the hot sauce? Commercial Bottler category winners tell how it’s done.
The Common Law
Does the law require that rental application fees are nonrefundable?
Schools, Sprawl, and Citizenship
Vote begins on $520 million school bond package
Naked City
How radical! A station that plays several different kinds of music!
Hero
If Douglas Sirk had made martial arts movies they probably would have looked something like Zhang Yimou’s stunning new opus.
TCB
Nobody Weird Like Al Laugh at “Weird Al” Yankovic all you want, because he’s laughing all the way to the bank. Spoofing Star Wars characters, lunch meats, reality TV, and everything in between, the 44-year-old has sold millions of albums and become a top pop-culture pundit on VH1 fare like I Love the 80s. “TCB”…
Soccer Watch
At the Athens Olympics, the women’s semifinal match between the U.S. and Germany was everything it was cracked up to be: In a 2-1 overtime thriller, the American women got revenge against Germany for last year’s World Cup, probably regained their No. 1 world ranking, and set up an emotional finale for Mia Hamm, Brandi…
Make Us Some Propositions
The 2004 bond process had several stages
Naked City
March to update the women’s suffrage movement for modern times
Suspect Zero
There’s a reason why this FBI agent who’s chasing a serial killer has constant headaches: He’s in the middle of a murky movie that mixes arch style with police procedural.
Curious?
The 17th annual Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival: a preview
To Your Health
What makes certain individuals more attractive to mosquitoes than others, and what can we do to repel them?
Considering the Props
The bonds explained
Naked City
Progressives organize, train, and rally to turn Texas blue
Gozu
Watching the latest from the insanely prolific Takashi Miike is akin to having some very bad acid slipped in your drink.
That Thinking Feeling
L.B. Deyo and Buzz Moran’s Dionysium puts the fun back in cogitation
About AIDS
Wha-hoo!! In a long-awaited development, last week the FDA approved two new Fixed Dose Combination pills that will greatly simplify treatment for many HIVers, especially those who are just starting treatment or are still fairly “treatment naive.” In just one pill daily, each formulation provides some of the best drugs available, and they are particularly…
New Schools Across the District
The locations and controversies for the proposed new schools
Austin @ Large: Say It Ain’t So, Metro!
If that’s all there is, my friends, then let’s keep driving … or worse
’22’ Questions
Getting to know the new adjunct curator at AMOA
Proposition 5: The Middle School at Edwards Aquifer
The controversy over the proposed Southwest middle school has a long history
Following Tomstown’s Money
It’s election season in Texas. Are there indictments in the air?
The Good News at Rockdale
Theatre is helping to heal the community of Rockdale, and theatre artists with Austin ties are playing a part
Contest & Festival Facts
The Capital Area Food Bank and The Austin Chronicle invite you to join us for the 14th annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival, this Sunday, Aug. 29, 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…
Rebonding the Process
The players agree that that school bond process needs some serious attention
The Hightower Report
Corporate stadium names turn Mudville into Anywhere, USA; and Frank Keating dupes our brave soldiers for big bucks
Culture Flash!
Clowns picket Physical Plant, Mills takes the prize in Montreal, Steakley mixes up some ‘Tuna’ in Louisville, and Salvage Vanguard wants you to join their party
The Contest, the Judges
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…
Luv Doc Recommends: Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival
Here we all were buying up land in Buda as speculative beachfront property for when the ice caps melt, and now it looks like the better bet might be to start building ski lifts up Mount Bonnell. Mid-90s at the end of August? What are we? Wisconsin? Weather, it’s like we don’t even know you…
