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Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel star in this gorgeous, existential ode

by Marc Savlov

Gift Guide 2015: The Boxing Lesson

If ever there was a box worthy of being scented with patchouli and marijuana smoke, this is it. Lee Michaels remains best known as a one-hit wonder for “Do You Know What I Mean?,” but the 7-CD Complete A&M Album Collection, spanning 1968-1973, reveals the keyboardist/songwriter’s range as he ventured from psychedelic pop reminiscent of…

by Jim Caligiuri

UT Campus Carry Working Group Recommendations

• Classrooms should not be designated gun-exclusion zones, because that would have the effect of generally prohibiting license holders from carrying their handguns and so would violate SB 11. • License holders who carry a handgun on campus must carry it on or about their person at all times or secured in a locked vehicle.…

by Chronicle Staff

Gift Guide 2015: The Boxing Lesson

Neither could the preposterously-named Doobie Brothers headline ACL Fest nor fill the Frank Erwin Center like peer hitmakers the Eagles (1971-1980, initially), but the car-wreck riff of “Life in the Fast Lane” from the latter’s 1976 smash Hotel California apparently began its mangle five years earlier on debut LP The Doobie Brothers. Legend paints Moby…

by Raoul Hernandez

Gift Guide 2015: The Boxing Lesson

Vincent Furnier didn’t spill out of the womb as a spooky, snake-handling, shock rocker. That’s clear beginning on Zappa-affiliated 1969 inception, Pretties for You, showcasing oddball psychedelia via his squalling harmonica (“Sing Low, Sweet Cheerio”), Mike Bruce’s hallucinating mellotron (“Titanic Overture”), and guitarist Glen Buxton’s Syd Barrett spatter painting. Easy Action (1970) hints at future…

by Kevin Curtin

Headlines

City Council meets today (Dec. 17) with a hefty 100-Item agenda, although they’ve eased the workload by tentatively agreeing (at work session) to postpone most of the short-term rental regulation discussion to Jan. 28. Still contentious on the list: new regs on transportation network companies, and festival season fee waivers. Tuesday’s work session was relatively…

by Chronicle Staff

Gift Guide 2015: The Boxing Lesson

You can practically count every person in the room by listening to the handclaps on this essential live documentation of the Sixties’ most influential, unsung rock & roll band. Sounds like maybe 10 people tops witnessed NYC proto-punk noiseniks the Velvet Underground assaulting a San Francisco club co-owned by the Jefferson Airplane’s Marty Balin across…

by Tim Stegall

Quote of the Week

“You should never feel 100 percent safe. You should be aware, and … don’t be getting publicly intoxicated. It makes you really a target for people to really take advantage of you.” – APD Chief Art Acevedo’s comment to KXAN on the incidences of sexual assault by Uber and Lyft drivers

by Chronicle Staff

Gift Guide 2015: The Boxing Lesson

A dynamic singer, harp player, and hustler whose show flashes equal parts Chitlin’-Circuit grit, Vegas flash, and winking burlesque, Bobby Rush remains one of the blues’ greatest showmen. The Louisiana native first hit in mid-Sixties Chicago with Otis Rush knockoffs, but steered away from Chess Records production into Isley Brothers territory on 1969 nod “Let…

by Scott Jordan

Gift Guide 2015: The Boxing Lesson

Sticky Fingers priming Exile on Main Street, London Calling encored by Sandinista!, Zoot Allures waiting decades for quadruple-LP follow-up Läther: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame acts redlining peak fecundity. Rumours – itself a super-deluxe reissue in 2013 – rained Southern California romantic debauchery, but double-album aftermath Tusk went tribal: New Wave (“What Makes You…

by Raoul Hernandez

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Schoolhood chum Robert Bateman says that the late Scott Weiland always played a Chaotic-Neutral Elven Thief in Dungeons & Dragons. Transgender actress Holly Woodlawn, immortalized by Lou Reed in “Walk on the Wild Side,” came from Miami, and got her start as a teen prostitute in NYC under the supervision of a guy named Porky.…

by Mr. Smarty Pants

Gift Guide 2015: The Boxing Lesson

A double album of hellos and goodbyes, 1980’s The River juxtaposes cocky romance with grim meditations on death. Bruce Springsteen’s fifth release proved a cardinal development in his storytelling, and The Ties That Bind: The River Collection dissects it across four CDs, a 2-DVD concert from the same year in Arizona, and an hourlong documentary…

by Libby Webster

Gift Guide 2015: The Boxing Lesson

Unlike past volumes in Dylan’s Bootleg Series, this one separates the casual fan from those more obsessive. In multiple configurations – 2-CD ($19.98), 3-LP ($99.98), 6-CD ($149.98), and 18-CD ($599.99) – The Cutting Edge 1965-1966 covers the making of Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde, three albums that changed…

by Jim Caligiuri

Soccer Watch

Brief notes from around the world, as the soccer season heads into its mid-winter break in most places: The end of an era: Abby Wambach is playing her final game for the U.S. national team as we go to press Wednesday – an exhibition match against China in New Orleans. Stanford phenom Jordan Morris led…

by Nick Barbaro

Gift Guide 2015: The Boxing Lesson

Fed up with his band’s habitual lack of punctuality in the late Forties, Roebuck “Pops” Staples replaced them with his own children: Mavis, Pervis, Cleotha, and later Yvonne. Two voices rose above the chorus in Pops’ rich tenor – never hurried, always warm, embracing – and Mavis’ alternately powerhouse cry and caramel croon. First comprehensive…

by Thomas Fawcett

Gift Guide 2015: The Boxing Lesson

Music history and style have largely left behind Tennessee Ernie Ford (1919-1991), so the German completists at Bear Family Records service a necessary reclamation with this thorough collection of the Tennessean’s 1949-1960 oeuvre. Eschewing most of the gospel recordings with which the entertainer became associated, the 5-CD, 154-song Portrait of an American Singer focuses on…

by Doug Freeman

Hornography

This past week has found three Texas programs on the upswing, albeit for differing (and often confusing) reasons. Nevertheless, as they say, a win is a win is a win. Onward and Upward for UT Volleyball: Third-seeded Lady Horns have advanced to their 11th Final Four, following Saturday’s big win over No. 2 seed Florida.…

by Kahron Spearman

Gift Guide 2015: The Boxing Lesson

“For the tourist, not the purist.” Perfect PR. Since owning Hawaiian soil only happens to neighbors Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson (and okay, even they likely lease), the rest of us can only souvenir the 50th state. Hulaland: The Golden Age of Hawaiian Music thus serves Oceania with an umbrella drink. Sumptuously designed and researched,…

by Raoul Hernandez

Let’s Go Gun Crazy

UT working group recommends allowing guns in classrooms, while a “mock mass shooting” and a “mass farting” protest in response bring out the national media

by Mac McCann

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