Tell Them Who You Are
Tell Them Who You Are 2005, R, 95 min. Directed by Mark Wexler. Ostensibly, this documentary is a profile of the legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler, who, among his 60 or so films, won Oscars for Coming Home and <Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and directed the seminal narrative documentary Medium Cool. He is one of…
TFPF 2005 Panelists Screening #1
TFPF 2005 Panelists Screening #1 The Austin Film Society presents a sampling of the work from this year’s TFPF jury members Dominic Angerame, Jocelyn Glatzer, and Rose Troche. The first night’s program features two of Angerame’s award-winning experimental shorts, ‘Anaconda Targets” (2004, 12 min.) and “In the Course of Human Events” (1997, 23 min.). Angerame…
Ren & Stimpy With John Kricfalusi
Ren & Stimpy With John Kricfalusi “Happy, happy, joy, joy.” The creator of the groundbreaking adult cartoon Ren & Stimpy, John Kricfalusi, will appear live at the Alamo for two night to present some of his favorite work. Most of the show will focus on the highstrung chihuahua and his dimwitted feline friend for whom…
Swedish Wildcats
Swedish Wildcats 1972, R, 85 min. Directed by Joseph W. Sarno, Starring Diana Dors, Cia Löwgren, Solveig Andersson, Peder Kinberg, Christina Lindberg. This Swedish sex film from one of the true masters of the genre, Joe Sarno, features Diana Dors as the madam of a brothel where the women perform live shows.
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus 2005, NR, 82 min. Directed by Andrew Douglas, Starring Jim White. Musician Jim White, whose first album in 1997 was titled The Wrong-Eyed Jesus, is this film’s tour guide through the underbelly of the white, Pentecostal South. He grew up there, and Douglas’ film is a road trip through the…
The Monkey Time
How communing with the apes inspired the artists of the Texas Monkey Project
Monkey Business and More
From his earliest days as a Drafthouse chef, film lover John Bullington had set his creative sights on the biggest classic monkey movie of all time: King Kong. “As soon as I heard Peter Jackson was doing a remake, I started imagining menus,” he says. With Jackson’s Kong set to debut in the late fall,…
‘Statesman’ Drops a Turd
Decision to censor ‘Doonesbury’ strip annoys the crap out of daily’s readers
Chimp-Suit Maker
Norman Tempia of Animated FX Inc., along with his partner Dave Nelson, made a nearly believable chimp suit for the 1995 movie ‘Ed.’ So, we called to see what’s up his tree.
My, My, Maestro
One reporter’s firsthand account of exploring competitive improv at the Hideout
Liquid Assets
Good wine and good movies – what else do you need?
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
Down the Hill, Up the Hill, Into the Cave
Where the bad man in the ape suit and diving helmet touched me
Rising Stock
With Summerstock Austin, a gang of young performers serious about theatre get a chance to develop their craft in the old-school environment of a stock company
Food-o-file
Primates in Progress; plus, Texas chefs in the media and Texas barbecue across the Atlantic
Naked City
Police now pursuing a paper investigation of financial records
Body of Work
Joe Dallesandro on ‘Je T’aime Moi non Plus’
Culture Flash
Tom Hester’s funny film scores a close second in Montreal, Kathy Dunn Hamrick scores good press in New York, and AMOA keeps Liebovitz late ’til 8
Shop the Monkey
SoCo boutiques and more
Naked City
Civil rights groups still ask for punitive action against APD
Steve Bilich’s 7th on San Antonio Acting Workshops
Bilich’s goal includes not just working actors but anyone who ‘wants to break down to their core and grow from their core’: businesspeople, clergy, you name it, Bilich is interested in busting your inner-child’s chops
China Syndrome?
Investigating reports of the ink monkey’s return – and whether it existed to begin with
Bargains in the Mist
Where to find the missing link
Naked City
Manufacturer issues warning about electro-shock weapons
Film News
Kadeem Hardison is in for ‘The Cassidy Kids’; plus, ‘Poodle Dog Lounge,’ ‘Rescue Me,’ ‘Mexican Sunrise,’ and more
Recommended Monkey Reading
(Incomprehensive and in no particular order [or of any particular relevance]; most recent edition listed)In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall (Mariner, $15) Great Apes by Will Self (Grove, $13) The Complete Adventures of Curious George by Margret and H.A. Rey (Houghton Mifflin, $29.95) Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing…
A Better Place
For nearly 30 years, Primarily Primates has offered a refuge for misplaced animals
Naked City
Watchdog group questions whether a public-school Bible course is purely academic
TV Eye
Is it time for an all chimp and monkey network?
Page Two: Tapping Into the Monkeygeist
Chimps ahoy on the newsstand
Cyberspace Monkeys
A smattering of chimp-fo sites
Naked City
Author puts eco-terrorism in perspective
Art, Monkeys, Film
A clip from Andy Cockrum’s Texas Monkey Project doc
Letters at 3AM
We are a community, we and the creatures. There are only a few tenths of a percent of difference between the chimpanzees’ DNA and ours, yours, mine.
Monkey Law
While the city keeps dogs and cats on a tight leash, monkeys, along with other wild pets, swing under animal control’s radar
Naked City
A continuing look at Drug War lunacy
About AIDS
Roll on that rubber
The Legendary Snow Monkeys of Texas
A brief open season on monkeys resulted in protections for them in the Lone Star State
Naked City
Minority legal associations grade city’s law firms on racial hiring practices
Sarkar
Bollywood gangster film honors The Godfather.
To Your Health
Should I ditch my Teflon cookware?
Creationism Alive and Kicking in Glen Rose
Monkeys, schmonkeys – a museum in Glen Rose argues against Darwinism
Perry Settles for a ‘Half-Loaf’
And he’s ‘stunned’ that you would question his special sessions
The Chumscrubber
Teens, suburbia, five sets of dysfunctional parents, and the suicide that looms over it all.
The Common Law
eBay & PayPal – caveat emptor (part IV)
The Sounds of Primarily Primates
The Hill Country’s monkeys, chimps, and gibbons caught on tape
Lege Notes
Odds and ends – mostly odds – from beneath the pink granite dome
The Dukes of Hazzard
A remake that’s about as deep as Jessica Simpson’s cleavage.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Drug makers, belly dancing, and Harrison Ford
Rumblings of a Mad Mom Movement
Texas Parent PAC wants to purge Lege of lawmakers who won’t go to bat for public ed, regardless of party
The Hightower Report
The Wal-Mart way in Latin America is a bad way, factory monitor learns; and economic theorists not thinking in real-world terms
Crónicas
John Leguizamo plays a TV reporter in Ecuador in a film that examines the ethics of tabloid journalism.
Day Trips
The Texas Surf Museum in Corpus Christi tells the story of an era as well as the evolution of the sport along the Texas coast
Council Notes
City Council heads into the budget season, looking to restore previously cut services
Pelt, Banana
The man in the monkey suit and my quest for meaning
The Beautiful Country
A grueling journey is undertaken by a Vietnamese teen to find his absent mother in Ho Chi Minh City, and then his father, a former G.I., in Texas.
Intelligent Design
A cinematic simian salute to Koko on SoCo
Soccer Watch
Major League Soccer teams try European exhibitionism
Add-Backs to Cut City Services
Community Services $2.14 millionMunicipal Court: $337,067 for clerks, social service contracts, and juvenile docket pilot program Health: $372,296 for health inspectors, curbing communicable disease, and HIV counseling Watershed Protection and Development Review: $301,403 for zoning, permitting and inspecting Library: $1,427,191 for restoring branch library hours, Austin History Center hours, and shelvingInfrastructure/Planning $0.64 millionMunicipal Court: $45,148…
Rethinking ‘Monkey Movie’
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Linebarger, Oden Still Pushing for County Tax Business
But county officials say collections are very efficient
Photo Quiz: Real or Fake?
Test your knowledge
TCB
Plunging into Austin music’s past with the Armadillo, and its future with MySpace. Craig Ross included free of charge.
All in the Presentation
John Bullington’s and James Holmes’ culinary performance art: now showing at an Alamo Drafthouse (or elsewhere) near you
Labor Woes at Cap Metro
Capital Metro service hangs in the balance at 11-hour union negotiations
Photo Quiz Answers
1: Buddy, fake 2: Congo, fake 3: Mighty Joe Young, fake 4: King Kong Lives, fake 5: Ed, fake
Luv Doc Recommends: Devil’s Day at the Cove
Summer doesn’t last forever. In Austin there’s only about 250 days of it, give or take. Then comes fall, a day or two of winter, and that week of spring that always happens during South by Southwest. Sometimes late summer is mistaken for fall because all the grass dies and the leaves turn brown and…
