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Betting the Farm
Gamecock helps indie video-game developers play with the big boys
‘College Hoops 2K8’ for the Xbox 360
With cover star and No. 1 overall pick in this year’s NBA draft Greg Oden losing his entire rookie season to knee surgery, one has to wonder if the video-game gods have decided to lay a Madden-like curse on this blockbuster franchise. Oden’s misfortune is a small price to pay for gamers – who cares…
Club ‘Chronicle’ Winner
They came. They trained. They conquered. Every member of Club Chronicle crossed the Trail of Lights 5K finish line on Saturday, Dec. 8. “We all finished the race, including Ian [Forslund], in spirit, carried on Lizzie [Thompson]’s back in the form of a picture,” Katie Lopez, 32, said. Forslund, 42, was unable to train or…
Durant Watch
The past 10 years the NBA has sported 10 Rookie-of-the-Year winners, nine full seasons, and six different champions. And why am I telling you this? Because Kevin Durant is on pace to hoist the ROY award this season. Remember him? A couple years ago you were trying to figure out who’d replace T.J. Ford and…
Girlie x 10
Girlie Action’s Top 10
Death Laid an Egg
Death Laid an Egg 1968, R, 86 min. Directed by Giulio Questi, Starring Gina Lollobrigida, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ewa Aulin. This Italian giallo thriller is set on a high-tech chicken farm run by a wife and husband, who makes a sideline of killing prostitutes.
Robin Hood
Robin Hood 1973, G, 83 min. Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, Voices by Brian Bedford, Phil Harris, Peter Ustinov, Terry-Thomas, Monica Evans. Putting aside this Disney cartoon’s reputation for triggering the sexual awakening of multiple generations (foxes are sexy, full stop), it’s also just a rip-roaring yarn featuring stellar voice acting and original songs by country…
Demon Deacons, Red Devils Champs as 2007 Comes to a Close
Wake Forest won the NCAA Men’s Div. I championship on Sunday, coming from a goal down at halftime to beat Ohio State, 2-1. It was the first finals appearance for either team. European player of the year Kaká had a goal and two assists to lead AC Milan to the Club World Cup title on…
Kurt Cobain: About a Son
Kurt Cobain: About a Son 2007, NR, 97 min. Directed by AJ Schnack, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring . Schnack, who five years ago directed Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns), the willfully quirky documentary about the quirkily willful band They Might Be Giants, brings a far more somber, elegiac tone to this…
Howdy, Neighbor!
Speaker Craddick chimes in cheerfully on the newest rep.
Alan Sager Steps Down as Travis GOP Chairman
Hair salon tycoon cuts and runs
Stunner in District 97: Democrat Barrett Wins
Dems edge to within five seats of House majority
Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe
Will Sheff gets in touch with his feminine side.
Republicans Resurrect The Hammer
GOP goes after Dunnam, but could add to the legend of the Killer D’s.
Welcome
Welcome 2007, NR, 158 min. Directed by Anees Bazmee, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Akshay Kumar, Nana Patekar, Anil Kapoor, Feroz Khan. Not reviewed at press time. This new Bollywood film is a comedy about a gangster family who is looking for a groom for their daughter.
Cap Metro Testing Out Rail Cars
Service begins 2008
Vann Against Adan
Precinct two constable slot now officially a race.
The Campaign Consequences for Craddick
Has the AG really done Tom Craddick any favors for the 2008 elections?
Sunshine (State) on My Shoulder, Part 1
A deeper look at the work of Florida’s ragtag art collective, The Highwaymen.
Abbott Ducks Out, Craddick Crows
AG finally issues opinion on speaker powers, and both face heavy criticism.
What the EFF? (NSFW)
Stop putting SH*T on our bodies, David Blaine!
Welcome to Hazleweird
Lee Hazlewood
Instant Karma Come to Get You, Horns
I’ve been awfully quiet about the Texas Longhorns second* straight loss to the Aggies. Note the asterisk. That 12-7 defeat in 2006 shoulda been a 14-12 win if the refs had called that extra UT touchdown correctly. But in the world of reviewable calls, that one wasn’t. Oh, this year’s Ag loss? I told you…
Boy Action
Some of the overlooked testosterone of 2007.
Dec(k) the Walls
I’ve got moving on the brain at the moment. I’m giving up my digs on East Oltorf for a duplex in French Place in my efforts to ensure that this year is 2000-and-great! Moving always provides the opportunity to gift/Goodwill/throw away all that crap … er … stuff … that seems to be plaguing my…
A Geezer Looks Ahead
A look at some Geezer-approved hits for 2008.
While You, Won’t You, Will You, Won’t You
Is Dukes’ challenger going to announce next week?
Faraday’s Cookie Contest Winning Recipes
Chewy Chai Meringue Cookies by Alison Campbell – Overall Winner 4 egg whites 1/2 cup sugar 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar Pinch of salt 3/4 cup powdered sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon ginger 2 teaspoon cornstarch 1 teaspoon white vinegar 1 cup white chocolate chips 3/4 cup chopped nuts, lightly toasted…
Reissues
Townes Van Zandt For the Sake of the Song (Fat Possum) Townes Van Zandt Our Mother the Mountain (Fat Possum) Townes Van Zandt (Fat Possum) Townes Van Zandt Delta Momma Blues (Fat Possum) Townes Van Zandt Flyin’ Shoes (Fat Possum) Fat Possum’s reissue of Townes Van Zandt’s first four albums, along with 1978’s Flyin’ Shoes,…
Naked City
Quote of the Week “We must begin by making the common rescue of the global environment the central organizing principle of the world community.” – Former Vice President Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Dec. 10 Headlines • An independent arbitrator ruled former Austin Police Department Officer Gary Griffin, terminated by acting Chief Cathy…
In Print
Reproduced in sepia tones, the photographs are not movie stills in any traditional sense; their composition is more artful and idiosyncratic than documentary
Geek Out!
Recipient of a Purple Heart, plus Bronze and Silver Stars in World War II as a member of the U.S. Army infantry, Fuller suffered neither cowards nor introspectives gladly
Holiday Cookbook Roundup
Charleston Grill at Charleston Place: French-Influenced Lowcountry Cuisine by Bob Waggoner and Susan Franzen Gibbs Smith, 224 pp., $29.95 The best chef-centric cookbooks are not for everyone (not particularly focused toward novice cooks) but are intensely personal reflections of the chef and her/his individual culinary history and style of cooking. This is one of those.…
Alvin and the Chipmunks
What’s it all about, Alvin? This by-the-numbers attempt at a chipmunk revival is not bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
2007 Politics Gift Guide
Creative Shopping Suggestions From the Chronicle News Staff
Revealing Poses
How the Victorians presented themselves to the camera explains a lot about them – and us
Food-o-File
All hail Taco Queen María Corbalán, Caritas of Austin helps out with the Do Good Deli, and more yummy tidbits from all over
Reissues
The Joe Ely Band Live Shots (American Beat) While a humble but accountable portion of Texans had their eyes trained on England in the late 1970s, punk cognoscenti like the Sex Pistols were starstruck by the Texas mythos. Nowhere was this played out better than the mutual admiration society formed between the Clash and Joe…
Armadillo Christmas Bazaar Continues Its Nomadic Ways
Local shopping extravaganza moves from Austin Music Hall.
In Print
Cinematic storytelling and technique naturally get plenty of play, but all these long-form interviews roam through detours and diversions that lend a tremendous sense of character
Geek Out!
This is the BBC miniseries that set women worldwide swooning for some Mr. Darcy
Holiday Cookbook Roundup
How To Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food by Mark Bittman John Wiley and Sons, 907 pp., $35 Bittman, author of the award-winning bestseller How to Cook Everything, is quite possibly the most influential home cook currently published. He has a slew of authoritative cookbooks in print, and many consider his weekly…
The Rape of Europa
During WWII, works of art were moved, hidden, and plundered on a vast and often institutional scale, and this film documents the shaky process of reclamation.
Adriene Mishler: Making her ‘Assumption’
For this active Austin actress, there was something special about Refraction Arts’ hillbilly/kung fu/rock & roll ‘Hamlet’
Gritty, Groovy, & Gettin’ It
What reissues are buried in the bottom of your closet?
Reissues
Rose Maddox With the Vern Williams Band Beautiful Bouquet (Arhoolie) The Roots of the Narcocorrido (Arhoolie) Los Alegres de Terán Grabaciones Originales (1952-1954) (Arhoolie) Arhoolie Records has salvaged and celebrated “down home music since the 1960s,” and these three reissues are textbook examples of the Californian label’s mission. Recorded in 1982, Beautiful Bouquet by Rose…
Seaholm Powers Ahead
Plan to transform historic power plant into mixed-use mecca should move one step closer to fruition at City Council Thursday
Geek Out!
When Star Trek ended its three-season run in 1969, it almost immediately began a wildly successful syndicated existence
Holiday Cookbook Roundup
Sweety Pies: An Uncommon Collection of Womanish Observations, With Pie by Patty Pinner Taunton, 171 pp., $23 There is nothing else on earth like the pink glaze of a strawberry-rhubarb pie clinging to the last shard of flaky, fluted crust or the piles of breathtaking meringue crowning a tart key-lime pie. A home-baked pie is…
Margot at the Wedding
The director of The Squid and the Whale mostly falters in this follow-up film that stars Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Jack Black as casually cruel narcissists.
Salvage Vanguard Theater: Neulander ends his run
After 13 years of running Salvage Vanguard Theater, Artistic Director Jason Neulander is moving on
The World Once Over
It’s the small details like the quality of the audio restoration, packaging, and liner notes that turn ordinary reissues into timeless treasures. These five labels from around the globe are constantly raising the bar. Vampisoul Rare reissue labels don’t come any better or more consistent than Spain’s Vampisoul. “In search of the cool,” the imprint,…
Reissues
Culture Two Sevens Clash – The 30th Anniversary Edition (Shanachie) The Abyssinians Satta Massagana Deluxe Edition (Heartbeat) 1976-77 found Jamaica in turmoil, rife with political violence and social upheaval. Jamaican music was experiencing its own creative explosion of Rastafarian-fueled songs of social consciousness propelled by an innovative, militant “rockers” beat. From this fecund cauldron came…
Topless Counterattack Against Titty Tax
State could face embarrassing court date after organization representing strip joints filed lawsuit over new tax on nude entertainment
Games Gift Guide
Gravity-defying gameplay sets this Mario incarnation above the holiday fray
Geek Out!
Twenty years on, The Princess Bride comes off less as a sweet children’s movie and more as a savvy precursor to Adaptation
Holiday Cookbook Roundup
1080 Recipes by Simone and Inés Ortega Phaidon, 960 pp., $39.95. Nearly every kitchen in Spain has a dog-eared copy of the original version of this book, 1080 Recetas de Cocina, written by mother-daughter team Simone and Inés Ortega. It is the Joy of Cooking of Spain and the go-to reference for many home cooks…
Atonement
Joe Wright has fashioned an epic piece of moviemaking from Ian McEwan’s novel: Starring Keira Knightley, the film is consumed with the nature of storytelling and the moral responsibility of the storyteller.
‘Alice in Wonderland’: Drawn down the rabbit hole again
The universal appeal of Lewis Carroll’s story inspires 45 local artists in a new group show
Five on the Corner
The following five reissues, each released within the past year, aren’t just records; they’re monuments and mandatory listening for every serious music collection. Tony Allen Afro Disco Beat (Vampisoul) Before joining Damon Albarn’s the Good, the Bad & the Queen, Tony Allen was king of the jungle groove. This 2-CD collection gathers the Afrobeater’s complete…
Reissues
Arthur Alexander Lonely Just Like Me: The Final Chapter (Hacktone) His songs have been covered by Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan, but Arthur Alexander remains obscure to all except the most dedicated fans of soul music. By 1993, he had retired from the music business and was driving a bus in…
Tax Assessor-Collector Race Gets Dirty
Mud starting to fly in Democratic primary race for Travis Co. tax assessor-collector, with each candidate calling the other a liar
Games Gift Guide
The DVD trivia game gets exciting for the Xbox
Geek Out!
At an age when most men have resigned themselves to their accomplishments and failures, Godard is still out for blood
Holiday Cookbook Roundup
A Baker’s Half Dozen Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns, Muffins & More by Carole Walter Clarkson Potter, 408 pp., $35 Carole Walter’s baking books always inspire me to head right to the kitchen with positive results. This book, the fourth in her “Great” series, includes mouthwatering recipes for Danish pastries, yeasted coffee cakes, quick breads,…
The Perfect Holiday
In this lightweight yuletide fluffery, a young girl turns to a shopping-mall Santa to find a husband for her divorced mother.
Arts Review
Thom Pain (based on nothing) leads us down a strange road, but Ken Webster’s sublime acting makes the trip worth taking
Off the Record
Pinetop Perkins leads local Grammy nominations; The Heartless Bastards’ Erika Wennerstrom relocates to Austin; the Invincible Czars re-envision Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker Suite
Reissues
East of Underground (Wax Poetics) The Dynamics First Landing (Hacktone) Bob & Gene If This World Were Mine … (Daptone) In these years of retro-soul, yesterday’s forgotten vinyl is getting a second chance on CD. The best of the bunch is the self-titled 1971 debut from East of Underground, an amateur sevenpiece of U.S. Army…
Happenings
Dec. 13-19
Games Gift Guide
MTV Games Expand on the Guitar Hero template
Geek Out!
This set from the National Film Preservation Foundation includes upward of 40 films, among them newsreels, animation, and educationals.
Holiday Cookbook Roundup
The Bacon Cookbook: More Than 150 Recipes From Around the World for Everyone’s Favorite Food by James Villas Wiley, 276 pp., $35 Prolific cookbook author and food writer James Villas wastes little time letting the reader know his thoughts regarding porcine perfection: “There’s no one who doesn’t love bacon. It’s the greatest food God has…
I Am Legend
After a terrific start marked by the film’s striking views of a desolate Manhattan island, Will Smith’s mostly solo action movie devolves into a monster-movie malaise.
Arts Review
Half the exhibition calls into question notions of originality and authenticity, but the other half undermines it
Reissues
Moby Grape (Sundazed) Moby Grape Wow (Sundazed) Moby Grape Grape Jam (Sundazed) Moby Grape ’69 (Sundazed) Moby Grape Truly Fine Citizen (Sundazed) Moby Grape’s rock of ages produced unintentional gospel music by and for a fraternal order unequaled in the modern canon. Whereas the Band’s harmony siphoned into a principal songwriter, all five Grapes composed…
Reissues
The Young Rascals (Collectors’ Choice) The Young Rascals Collections (Collectors’ Choice) The Young Rascals Groovin’ (Collectors’ Choice) The Rascals Once Upon a Dream (Collectors’ Choice) The Rascals Freedom Suite (Collectors’ Choice) The Rascals See (Collectors’ Choice) The Rascals Search and Nearness (Collectors’ Choice) When it comes to the Rascals, there’s much to be said for…
Supremes to Weigh in on Handguns Ban
High court to review appeal court decision that struck down 31-year-old firearms ban in D.C.
Games Gift Guide
For the morbidly curious but best avoided this season
Oops!
Last week in the article “UT’s Brackenridge Tract,” we reported, in error, that the master-planned multiuse development known as the Domain was developed on a tract owned by the University of Texas System. Although UT does own nearby land (the Pickle campus and smaller tracts), no UT land underlies the Domain, which was developed on…
Holiday Cookbook Roundup
Food & Wine Cocktails 2007 American Express, 224 pp., $14.95 (paper) Each month, Food & Wine magazine covers a dozen or so great drink recipes; then at the end of the year, they put them all in an annual. I buy it each year because it’s such a handy compendium of recipes for delicious, innovative,…
The Things He Carried: Tim O’Brien’s archives find a home
The Harry Ransom Center announces the acquisition of Vietnam scribe Tim O’Brien’s archives
Reissues
Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Capitol/EMI) Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s debut, this long-awaited digitally remastered reissue also marks the death of Syd Barrett last year, and this repackaging, with added art by the UK quartet’s founder, is more a tribute to him. A classic? Simply listen to the…
Reissues
Wattstax: Music from the Wattstax Festival and Film (Stax) The 1972 Wattstax Music Festival brought a bumper crop of Stax Records acts to Los Angeles’ Memorial Coliseum for a $1 concert benefiting the riot-torn Watts neighborhood. Additional performances were filmed and recorded at L.A.’s Summit Club and the Friendly Will Church for the Wattstax film.…
Report: Blacks 10 Times More Likely to Be Jailed for Drug-Related Offenses Than Whites
Justice Policy Institute encouraging lawmakers to focus more on drug treatment and less on punitive measures
Games Gift Guide
Part shooter, part RPG, all Star Wars
Wish List
Give ’til it helps: Part 1
Holiday Cookbook Roundup
The Amateur Gourmet: How to Shop, Chop, and Table Hop Like a Pro (Almost) by Adam D. Roberts Bantam Books, 224 pp., $25 With equal parts wit and passion, Adam Roberts invites readers to join him on his culinary cruise from processed-food priest (“My family kept Entenmann’s, Chips Ahoy, and Fritos in business”) to amateur…
Reissues
Led Zeppelin The Song Remains the Same (Swan Song/Atlantic) Reinstating four songs to the front end of Led Zeppelin’s 1973 Madison Square Garden stand for ’76’s Spinal Tap documentary, The Song Remains the Same, infuses iron to the anemic soundtrack. Jimmy Page’s flaming Albion guitar solo in the restored “Over the Hills and Far Away”…
Point Austin: God Knows
Two recent Texas lessons about the relation between religion and freedom
Cynthia McKinney Greens Up Ruta Maya
Green Party presidential hopeful visits Austin for fundraiser
Games Gift Guide
A smattering of kids games for gifting
Day Trips
At the Camp Street Cafe & Store, the music gets started in the afternoon on Saturdays and goes until the last guitar slinger is standing
Holiday Cookbook Roundup
The Food Snob’s Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Gastronomical Knowledge by David Kamp and Marion Rosenfeld Broadway, 144 pp., $12.95 (paper) Whether you consider yourself a card- (or organic-carrot-) carrying foodie or simply find yourself suffering the company of the same, this comprehensive and entertaining dictionary cleverly compiles and defines the terminology that frequents today’s…
Books Gift Guide
The Adventures of Amir Hamza
Reissues
Raspberries Live on Sunset Strip (Rykodisc) In one bathetic swoop, ex-Raspberries frontman Eric Carmen nearly laid ruin to the pioneering power-pop band’s legacy with his overwrought 1976 solo smash, “All by Myself.” Nevertheless, the Cleveland quartet’s perfectly concocted mix of Who-inflamed fury and wide-eyed Beach Boys tenderness has enduring cult appeal. This 2-CD set documents…
Beside The Point
Solicitation Ordinance changes/expansions off the table, at least for now
@ Chronic
Perry makes Giuliani endorsement official, announces “will file candidacy papers on behalf of” former New York mayor
Games Gift Guide
Call of Duty and Soldier of Fortune up the holiday body count
Soccer Watch
The University of Souther California wins the NCAA’a Women’s College Cup, and more
Holiday Cookbook Roundup
Cooking with Marie: On Any Occasion! by Marie Hejl Bright Sky, 160 pp., $29.95 Reading Cooking With Marie made me think of my friend Crysol, a bright, fearless, tiny firecracker, who seems intimidated by one thing alone: cooking. She never learned as a child, and now, as a busy woman with a family and a…
Books Gift Guide
The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson: Volumes 4-6
Reissues
U2 The Joshua Tree: 20th Anniversary (Universal) After the initial shock of realizing that The Joshua Tree was released 20 years ago wears off, the question remains: How could this album possibly sound better than it did on cassette in 1987? U2’s multiplatinum fifth album detonated America’s love affair with the Irish quartet that had…
The Hightower Report
Sweatshop Crucifixes; and the E. Coli Loophole
War Drums
Ground may be shifting against expanded U.S. war in Middle East
Games Gift Guide
Custard smooth gameplay brings this game to the Final Four
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
There are more World of Warcraft players in the U.S. than farmers, all about the skiffle craze, and more
Holiday Cookbook Roundup
Cucina del Sole: A Celebration of Southern Italian Cooking by Nancy Harmon Jenkins William Morrow, 464 pp., $29.95 I love reading cookbooks, and my growing collection includes lots of regional cuisines. Italian is one of my favorites, but so far I had not encountered a cookbook so engaging and informative on Southern Italy as Cucina…
Books Gift Guide
Florida art books
Reissues
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures (Factory/Rhino) Joy Division Closer (Factory/Rhino) Joy Division Still (Factory/Rhino) Thirty years ago, Joy Division created a sound that’s been imitated ad nauseam but never duplicated. Their influence is still heard today – and seen, in Anton Corbijn’s new gauzy black-and-white Ian Curtis biopic, Control – and apparently that’s reason enough for…
How Green Grows My County?
‘Greenprints’ aim to protect our most precious natural lands
TV Eye
A new special on Starz, titled Anime: Drawing a Revolution, examines the history and historic influence of the Japanese style of animation
Games Gift Guide
Like Timecop with more button-mashing
The Common Law
Pure rubbish – Austin style
Holiday Cookbook Roundup
The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution by Alice Waters Clarkson Potter, 405 pp., $35 I have tremendous respect for Alice Waters’ many accomplishments and her undeniable contributions to American gastronomy. I’ve never been a big fan of her Chez Panisse cookbooks, however, because it didn’t seem possible to…
Books Gift Guide
A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years
Reissues
Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth (Domino) Young Marble Giants were post-punk by definition, but these aren’t the jarring rhythms of Gang of Four and the Fall. The Cardiff, Wales, trio was minimalist and airy, allowing the empty spaces between strums equal billing with Alison Statton’s no-frills vocals. The sound was spare, “its meshwork of cogs…
Holiday Rambles
Here’s a list for exploring Austin’s precious parkland
Film News
Festival huzzahs
Games Gift Guide
It’s easier to kill when it’s for a good cause
After a Fashion
Stephen is hitting the holiday-party circuit with a vengeance and a few hotties on his arm
Foodie Stocking Stuffers for 2007
Stuff your stockings with foodie goodies from board games to masa spreaders
Books Gift Guide
Betsy and Me
Reissues
Elvis Costello My Aim Is True (Hip-O) What should be a notable milestone in 1970s music, the 30th anniversary of Elvis Costello’s My Aim Is True, is shrouded in repetition, oversaturation, and maybe a touch of apathy. That’s too bad, because in its entirety, My Aim Is True is still a gorgeously wrought modern-world songwriting…
Yes, We Have Candidates!
Filing for March primary elections officially began Dec. 3; incumbents, others stake their places on ballot
Geek Out!
Gifts for Trekkies, Anglophiles, and arthouse obscurists
Playing Through
Despite losing in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament, UT’s 2007 volleyball squad was one to remember
Stuff Your Stockings With Fun
Stocking stuffers for imbibers
Books Gift Guide
It’s Complicated: The American Teenager
Reissues
Gram Parsons Archives Volume One (Amoeba) Dave Prinz, owner of the best record stores on the planet (California’s three Amoeba warehouses), struck an unlikely deal with notoriously guarded Grateful Dead soundman Owsley “Bear” Stanley, recovering these long-fabled Flying Burrito Brothers shows from the Dead’s vault. Documenting performances from April 4 and 6, 1969, opening for…
Cruz Beating: Arbitrator clears Griffin to return to APD
Officer Gary Griffin’s “use of excessive force” during confrontation with mentally ill man was ‘nothing more sinister than gross negligence,’ arbitrator concludes.
Game Review
Dementium: The Ward Gamecock Media Group $29.99 Dementium: The Ward is an unusual game for Nintendo DS, which is mostly dominated by Sudoku and cutesy Mario titles. It’s an unabashedly gruesome “First Person Survival Horror” game – meaning lots of zombies, lots of shocks, and little ammo or help from friends. It’s certainly reminiscent of…
Geek Out!
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 15-hour epic at long last (and longer), in a Criterion Collection box to end all Criterion boxes
Holiday Cookbook Roundup
Gift Guide
Holiday Magic Baking Contest Winners
Faraday’s Kitchen Store Holiday Magic Baking Contest winners
Page Two: Ego and Conscience
As citizens with the right to vote, we are responsible for what our government does
Reissues
Karen Dalton Cotton Eyed Joe (Delmore) When Greil Marcus wrote of “the old, weird America,” he was referring to the folk music of the 1920s and 1930s anthologized by Harry Smith. This 2-CD live recording of Karen Dalton transports you to a time both old and weird, except it’s during the peak of the folk…
Media Watch: Gunga Jenny Meets the November Sweeps
November sweeps news, rumors, and other stuff
In Print
No doubt about it: This book is a gorgeous visual delight
Geek Out!
This set is the perfect gift for that certain someone on your holiday list who likes his shows novelistic and his humor black
Holiday Cookbook Roundup
American Masala: 125 New Classics from my Home Kitchen by Suvir Saran Clarkson Potter, 264 pp., $35 Grains, Greens, and Grated Coconuts: Recipes and Remembrances of a Vegetarian Legacy By Ammini Ramachandran iUniverse, 364 pp., $23.95 There are myriad useful ways to approach a cuisine; while the authors of these two new books on Indian…
Luv Doc Recommends: Misprint Magazine’s Office Christmas Party
If you were planning on wearing a lampshade as your drunken coup de grace for the annual office holiday party, you might want to put together a backup plan. Lampshades are getting harder and harder to come by – not just because environmentalist killjoys like Al Gore have made the incandescent bulb passé, but because…
