Cover Story
To Marfa, on a Tuesday in December
When high art and hipness move in, what happens to a tiny Texas town?
Super Mecha Kucha Happy Fun Monkey Bash (Vol. 4)
Super Mecha Kucha Happy Fun Monkey Bash (Vol. 4) The Alamo teams up with local Japanese-pop-culture enthusiast and archivist Tony Salvaggio to present the best of bizarre Japanese video oddities. Volume 4 highlights include scenes from a variety show that laughs at little children hurting themselves, singing toilet commercials, tempura fried breasts, dangerous game shows,…
Fitzcarraldo
The epic story of a man trying to build an opera house in the middle of the Peruvian jungle
Gift Guide
Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him by Donald Rayfield Random House, 592 pp., $16.95 (paper) Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday Knopf, 832 pp., $35 Many of us thought we would never see detailed and densely documented biographies of the great 20th-century communist leaders. The…
Chili Cold Blood Loves You!
Black & blues cowboy metal
Music DVDs
Punk: Attitude(Capital Entertainment) Originally aired on IFC, Don Letts’ fast-paced documentary on the history of punk rock gives as thorough an overview as 120 minutes allows, the now-familiar arc from the MC5 and the Velvets up through Nirvana and Blink-182. The bonus disc contains even more interview footage. The Pistols, Ramones, and Buzzcocks perform alongside…
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Martin SextonCamp Holiday (Kitchen Table) Martin Sexton revamps holiday standards busker-style: mouth trumpet on “Holly Jolly Christmas” and various vocal geegaws to the particularly lovely “Silver Bells.” The sole original on the album, “Welcome to the Camp,” is a cute celebration of every imaginable December holiday. Probably not destined to be a classic, but a…
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
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GunActivision, $49.99 The cinematic game genre, with its filmlike segments between player-controlled action sequences, gains ground on movies with Gun. Despite average graphics and game-play, the game succeeds in filling a now-obvious gap in the genre department: Westerns. And though thin by film standards, Gun’s plot remains engrossing – if not a bit fleeting –…
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Markedby Steve Ross Seabury Books/Church Publishing, 184 pp., $20 (paper) It’s often been noted that the Bible is the world’s most-read book. Not so well-chronicled but surely equally valid is the notion that it’s the world’s most rewritten book, as well. You’ve got your original Hebrew and Greek tomes, your King James, your Living Bible,…
Music DVDs
PixiesSell Out (Rhino) The Pixies never pretended 2004’s blockbuster reunion tour was about much more than getting paid, and they earned every cent. Last year’s Best of DVD remains the more complete package, but this appearance at Belfort, France’s Eurockéennes Festival packs a hefty 28-song set list and dependably ace playing. Fifteen bonus tracks follow…
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Elton John’s Christmas Party (Hear Music/Universal) “Let Elton John be your holiday DJ.” Not an SNL sketch gone awry, rather an impressive survey of Christmas pop. Springsteen’s “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” you expect; the Flaming Lips’ “A Change at Christmas” maybe you don’t; OutKast’s “Playa’s Ball” is totally out of the blue, and…
Bus Negotiations Headed for Collision
Strike could happen this week
In Print
Alain Silver’s book is back and better than ever after 30 years. Still, it’s not nearly as potent as Hanzo the Razor.
Gift Guide
The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writersedited by Vendela Vida McSweeney’s/Believer Books, 380 pp., $18 (paper) Dedicated readers of The Believer know that in order to get a copy of the latest issue, you need to hightail it over to BookPeople before they all vanish, which is almost always quickly. The excellent, ad-free monthly,…
Music DVDs
Live 8(EMI) Live 8, it seems, is about irony. For example, there’s Sir Bob Geldof onstage in London lambasting the cynicism of G8 leaders’ attitude toward Africa, then trotting out Birhan Woldu, the African girl who was snatched from the jaws of death thanks to the largesse of Live Aid 20 years ago. Madonna smothers…
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Franz Ferdinand (Domino) Nothing like early-Seventies hipsters on acid. Not Franz Ferdinand, the lovable Scottish fourpiece in sweater vests and skinny ties. Showcasing seven performances from their chart-topping 2003 debut, this DVD hits the States two months after sophomore follow-up You Could Have It So Much Better, but then the jangly chorus of “Take Me…
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The LeeVeesHanukkah Rocks (Reprise/JDub) It takes balls to make your debut about Chanukah. Adam Gardner (Guster) and Dave Schneider (the Zambonis) have taken latkes and kugel to a new level with Hanukkah Rocks, an album that Adam Sandler would’ve made if he fronted Weezer. The LeeVees go from drooling over potato cakes to enduring goyim…
State Supreme Court Justice Gammage Enters Governor’s Race
Bell and Alvarado make it a three-way contest for now
Event Horizon
The Alamo Drafthouse Downtown
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Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross by Alex Ross Pantheon, 320 pp., $24.95 (paper) Superheroes tend to look, well, silly in real life. That fact gets thrown in our face every time Hollywood seeks to profit from the popularity of a four-color crimefighter and subjects us to the sad spectacle of some actor…
Music DVDs
Africa Calling: Live 8 at Eden(Real World/Warner) Peter Gabriel Still Growing Up: Live and Unwrapped (Real World/Warner) Last summer, Sir Bob Geldof took his lumps for leaving black and African artists off Live 8’s main stages. Thanks to Africa Calling, a 2-DVD set on Peter Gabriel’s Real World imprint, it’s clear the 2005 Noble Prize…
Music DVDs
Green Day Bullet in a Bible (Reprise) Green Day proved their festival rock mettle at Woodstock ’94, but it took American Idiot to move them “beyond the shadow of Dookie,” as bassist Mike Dirnt puts it. This DVD/CD documents the trio’s June 2005 concerts at Milton Keynes, England, in front of 65,000 fans passionately singing…
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt & Concentus Musicus Wien Handel: Messiah (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi) Do we really need another version of Georg Friedrich Händel’s Messiah? Originally performed during Easter, Messiah has become synonymous with Christmas, so German master musician, sound historian, and Grammy winner Nikolaus Harnoncourt offers another rendering. In his and his friends’ capable hands the baroque…
May Declares for Place 2
Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce prez files to replace Alvarez
DVD Watch
The films found in this box set are beautiful examples of a new direction in Japanese filmmaking, one that used the aesthetic and technical language of the swordplay films to expose and attack the culture that had lionized them
Page Two
What it takes to win the War on the War on Christmas
Music DVDs
The Work of Director Mark Romanek(Palm) The Work of Director Jonathan Glazer(Palm) The Work of Director Anton Corbijn(Palm) The Work of Director Stéphane Sedanoui (Palm) Music videos, note musicians and filmmakers here many times, are thought of quite differently by those who make them and those who fund them. Executives want a simple, preferably cheap…
Music DVDs
U2Vertigo 2005: Live From Chicago (Interscope) “This is the ‘Vertigo’ tour, forever,” announces Bono on the least of U2’s three live DVDs, following 2001’s Live From Boston and 03’s Slane Castle. Blasts of Boy, from a snippet of “Stories for Boys” in “Vertigo” to Bono acting out the black cat of “An Cat Dubh,” electrifies…
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Joel Cohen & the Boston Camerata A Mediterranean Christmas (Warner Classics) The Boston Camerata describes its holiday fare as broader than early music, but that shouldn’t stop fans of the genre from picking up this work of holidays past. Bridging the Straits of Gibraltar and the edge of the Levant – including Arabic and Sephardic…
Weed Watch
Fed lawmakers cut funding for White House Office of the National Drug Control Policy’s much-ridiculed Anti-Drug Media Campaign; and new stats about Americans’ pot-smoking habits amount to one more nail in prohibitionists’ coffin
TV Eye
From Camilla Parker Bowles to the perks and perils of catering to the consumer
Letters at 3AM
The Devil gives you five seconds, and God gives you none at all
Music DVDs
Lubbock Lights(289 Films) Local director Amy Maner claims Lubbock Lights shouldn’t be viewed as a complete retracing of this West Texas town’s music scene back to Buddy Holly and his predecessors. Rewriting history by glossing over the rock & roller and then having someone state on screen that Tommy X Hancock was more important isn’t…
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BauhausShadow of Light/Archive (Beggars Banquet) Originally released when London’s Bat Cave was still in existence, this is the gothic Rosetta Stone writ large in blood on black tablets. There’s “Bela Lugosi’s Dead,” natch, alongside all nine official Bauhaus “promotional films,” but it’s the stunning live performance at London’s Old Vic Theater from 1982 that really…
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Herb Alpert & the Tijuana BrassChristmas Album (Shout! Factory) Although the trans-generational appeal of Herb Alpert’s signature sound propelled this album to No. 1 in 1968, the Tijuana Brass is often overwhelmed by saccharine Shorty Rogers vocal arrangements. Instead of nonstop uplifting vim, Alpert falls back on an elevator-styled TV-special approach. “Jingle Bell Rock” and…
More-Bizarre-Than-Usual FLDS Update
“Prophet” sued again; and West Texas crematorium rumors
After a Fashion
Caroling, Mother Ginger, and teenage wildings? You know it’s ‘the season.’
Music DVDs
Eric JohnsonLive From Austin TX (New West) John HiattLive From Austin TX (New West) Texas TornadosLive From Austin TX (New West) Dwight Yoakam Live From Austin TX (New West) Johnny Cash Live From Austin TX (New West) Five new titles from the New West series of Austin City Limits shows hit the market in a…
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New OrderItem: A Collection & New Order Story (Rhino) “I think the essence is to maintain exactly what they are, whether it be illusion or not,” producer John Robie says of Manchester supergroup New Order in a superfluous 1994 doc, New Order Story. “I’m not really sure they’re anything more than illusion.” Superfluous might not…
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Kate & Anna McGarrigleThe McGarrigle Christmas Hour (Nonesuch) While the McGarrigle sisters are almost supporting players on their own disc, their warm spirit permeates throughout. Guests include Emmylou Harris on a radiant “O Little Town of Bethlehem” and Kate’s now-famous children, Rufus and Martha Wainwright, who bring originals as solid as anything they’ve ever done.…
Ignore the Flaws – the Death Penalty Must Continue On
Despite possible errors here and elsewhere, Perry stands firm on capital punishment
Fun With Dick and Jane
The original version of this comedy was a little countercultural, a lot class-conscious, and a touch subversive; this remake is all farce when what is needed is satire.
Day Trips
Bentsen-Rio Grande State Park comes alive with wildlife during the winter months, but is enjoyable all year long
Music DVDs
The Jazz Singer(Anchor Bay) Neil Diamond isn’t the best actor, and the 1980 version of The Jazz Singer doesn’t have the best script, but this movie (love on the) rocks nonetheless. The 25th anniversary DVD, now in widescreen with a handful of extras, still tracks Yussel Rabinovitch, the Jewish cantor with pop aspirations, and remains…
Music DVDs
The WhoTommy and Quadrophenia Live (Rhino) A well-conceptualized 3-DVD set combining the Who’s 1989 Tommy and 1996-97 Quadrophenia treks. The interactive commentary smacks the bull’s-eye, much less interesting on the latter tour de force. Performances are passable, but sad, really, Daltrey, Entwistle, and a mostly acoustic Townshend surrounded by an orchestra of backup. A handful…
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A Skaggs Family Christmas: Volume One (Skaggs Family) These days a Ricky Skaggs album is sure to deliver solid playing, handsome harmonies, and a spoonful of religious faith in a traditional bluegrass style. A Christmas LP is tailor-made for such qualities, and with the help of his family and band, Kentucky Thunder, Skaggs assembles a…
Point Austin: Saying ‘No’ to AMD
As the company moves forward, the culprits are wiping away their fingerprints
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
This unasked-for sequel fuses the original concept with the well-worn formula of the family-vacation romp.
To Your Health
What is the latest thinking on coenzyme Q-10 supplements?
Music DVDs
Ray Charles The Dick Cavett Show (Shout! Factory) Unless you’re a Ray Charles completist, you’ll probably want to pass on this 2-DVD set featuring the late great’s three appearances with amiable but bland late-night TV host Dick Cavett in 1972-73. Despite being the sole guest on one 90-minute show and performing beautifully on 11 songs…
Music DVDs
Barbra StreisandThe Television Specials (Rhino) The five television specials Barbra Streisand made between 1965 and 1973 are testimonials to her ascendancy as a star and TV’s expanding boundaries in the tumultuous Sixties. My Name Is Barbra (1965) was her first, a black & white tour-de-force that still elicits praise. Color Me Barbra (1966) was literal,…
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MarahA Christmas Kind of Town (Yep Roc) Leave it to Philly rockers Marah to celebrate a New York Christmas. Loosely presented as an audio play, they blend solid originals like the jolly “New York Is a Christmas Kind of Town” and hopped-up polka “Counting the Days (‘Til Christmas)” with an eclectic array of classics that…
Point Austin: Beside the Point
Bowing to public pressure, city declines to change management of Zilker’s canoe rental service from longtime concessionaire Zilker Park Boat Rentals
Memoirs of a Geisha
Well, we’re not in Chicago anymore, or even its soundstage approximation, but that hasn’t stopped Oscar-nominated director Rob Marshall from fashioning another epic spectacle out of two squabbling women in (a sort-of) show business.
TCB
Ho ho ho. Christmastime brickbats and bouquets.
The Common Law
What does the term “ERISA” mean?
Music DVDs
R. KellyTrapped in the Closet Chapters 1-12 (Jive) After viewing R. Kelly’s rap opera only one question comes to mind: Is he out of his braid-ridden skull? No doubt Kelly’s had a rough couple of years with the legal system, but now he really does believe he can fly. He “sings” all the parts in…
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Rev. Horton HeatWe Three Kings: Christmas Favorites (Yep Roc) Christmas with the Rev. is hardly a psychobilly freakout. It’s standard yuletide fare tailored to his reverby specifications and lesser-known seasonals (“Santa Bring My Baby Back”) that are little more than mundane rockabilly exercises. Saucy versions of “Santa Looked Like Daddy” and “Run Rudolph Run” offer…
The Hightower Report
After five years as president, W. remains securely sealed in his political cocoon, void of real-life experiences, pure of any intrusion by the hardships of regular folks; and it’s wrong to think that faith talk and photo-ops with evangelicals will be enough to convert people to the Democratic cause
The Ringer
A Farrelly brothers comedy that purports to have a message about treating the intellectually challenged as regular human beings and stars Johnny “Jackass” Knoxville is about as disingenuous as a comedy that urges us to see past a person’s body size to appreciate the beauty within and stars Gwyneth Paltrow in a fat suit.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
In California, it’s illegal to sleep in your kitchen but it’s OK to cook in your bedroom. Joe Jamail’s law professor once suggested that he follow his parents into the grocery business. Among many legal victories, Jamail was named lawyer of the century and received the largest jury verdict in the history of law: $11,120,000,000…
Music DVDs
Bob Marley & the WailersLive at the Rainbow (Island/Universal) Like no less than Otis Redding, Bob Marley knew his voice had few limits, so he worked it like a beast of burden. In 1977, when the singer’s caravan of Rasta prophets played London’s Rainbow Theatre during the Exodus tour, Marley’s voice already exhibited the ghost…
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Odetta Gonna Let It Shine (MC) Folk singer extraordinaire sheds light on the idea that African-American slaves identified with the plight of the Israelites by adopting biblical stories as their own. With vocal accompaniment from the Holmes Brothers, tried-and-true spirituals such as “Down by the Riverside” and “What Month Was Jesus Born In?” are fleshed…
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Taste of Christmas(Warcon) On Taste of Christmas, the Used’s Bert McCracken covers Lennon’s “Happy Christmas (War Is Over),” and it’s a god-awful, overprocessed mess. Skindred does that reggaeton/metal version of “Jingle Bells” you never wanted to hear, and the once virginal “First Noel” is now wet with teenage boy tears thanks to My American Heart.…
Holiday You-Wish List
Once around the Xbox 360
Ushpizin
This Israeli comedy is a wholly original movie that’s set and filmed entirely within the insular realm of Jerusalem’s ultra-orthodox Hasidim.
On the Funding Front
The National Endowment for the Arts has dropped some holiday cheer in the form of federal funding into the stockings of five area arts groups
Soccer Watch
Sao Paolo of Brazil won the FIFA world club championship on Sunday, beating European champions Liverpool 1-0 in the final of the six-team tournament in Japan. Pairings for the European Champions League Round of 16 were announced Friday. Highlights include three Spain-Britain clashes – Chelsea-Barcelona, who may just be the two best teams in the…
Music DVDs
AudioslaveLive in Cuba (Sony) This probably sounded perfect on paper: the most left-leaning American rock band this side of System of a Down cranks up their amps for Cuba’s rock-starved populace, pleasing Communists (free concert!) and capitalists (DVD tie-in!) alike. Stuck promoting brand-new material to a crowd that barely recognizes “Like a Stone,” Audioslave gives…
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Nat King ColeThe Christmas Song (Capitol) Few vocalists ever transmitted more emotional warmth than Nat King Cole, which makes his take on Mel Tormé & Bob Wells’ “The Christmas Song” (aka “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire”) the definitive article. Three versions of the song, including a posthumous 1998 duet with daughter Natalie, appear here…
Dreaming of Buffalo
Prairie preservationists want to turn Austin’s eyes – and energies – eastward
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Project Gotham Racing 3Microsoft Game Studios/Bizarre Creations $49.99 A balance between realistic racing (e.g., Gran Turismo) and cartoonlike party games (e.g., Mario Kart) makes PGR3 as playable as it is challenging. Race to beat the clock or other drivers (two players on one system or up to eight online), or rack up “kudos” points by…
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
Houston-based, Iranian-born filmmaker Mashayekh relates the story of the pioneering 11th-century mathematician, astronomer, and poet, and reminds Western audiences that there’s more to Iran and the Middle East than suicide bombers and hummus.
In Memoriam
Jason Ansara Brooks, who directed, choreographed, and was performing in Pro Arts Collective’s production of ‘Black Nativity,’ died Tuesday, Dec. 13, days before the show’s closing performances
Oops!
The photo that ran last week with “Christian Peacemakers: ‘In the Way’ of Violence” was credited to Christian Peacemaker Teams. The photo was actually taken by Texans for Peace founder Charlie Jackson. The Chronicle regrets the error.
Music DVDs
Alice CooperGood to See You Again (Shout! Factory) Lest you think the Alice Cooper Band’s 1973 Billion Dollar Babies tour was all misogynistic B-horror-movie filth, note that one of the show’s many climaxes involves a giant tooth brush bringing a molar to orgasm. True, this is preceded by a deranged dentist mega drilling Cooper, the…
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Merry Mixmas: Christmas Classics Remixed (Capitol) Updating holiday mainstays like Ella Fitzgerald’s “Sleigh Ride” and Lena Horne’s “Let It Snow!” with snazzy breakbeats, Merry Mixmas puts a refreshing spin on songs that have become second nature to mall-shoppers. Breathing new life into the likes of Nat King Cole’s “All I Want for Christmas” and Eartha…
Vanishing Prairies
Prairie advocates hope the upcoming bond election will allow the city to buy a few of the undeveloped tallgrass prairie remnants in Central Texas. The city currently owns two partially restored tallgrass prairies (8 and 10). There are also isolated railroad remnants (4 and 7); the rest is in private hands.
Holiday You-Wish List
Kameo: Elements of PowerMicrosoft Game Studios/Rare $49.99 Aimed more toward the younger gamer, shape-shifting Kameo roams a mythical world, battling trolls as she tries to save her family. Half the challenge of this by-the-book adventure game is in choosing what form best suits any given situation. I recommend transforming into Chilla if you have the…
Arts Review
With his solo show ‘A Christmas Carol Roasting on an Open Fire,’ Rob Nash has lit a fire under Dickens’ perennial fable like Austin’s problem child with a grill
Candyland, TX
A Lamme family portrait prompts a sweet walk down memory lane
Music DVDs
Blackmore’s NightCastles & Dreams (SPV) Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow) fans who haven’t followed his recent work may be surprised to find him in the Middle Ages. Performing with his young, lushly blond wife, Candice Night, Castles & Dreams is an elegant, 2-DVD package of Celtic rock: She’s Loreena McKennitt for the masses, and he’s…
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Michael McDonaldThrough the Many Winters: A Christmas Album (Hallmark) Why would Michael McDonald kick off his second Christmas album with a somnambulant arrangement of “Silent Night”? Doesn’t everyone know that’s a born closer? To his credit, McDonald provides fans with a wassail-flavored Doobie fix on a “Come, O Come Emmanuel/What Month Was Jesus Born” medley,…
CRP Leak
The city wants to know who leaked the Citizens Review Panel recommendations to the press
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Perfect Dark ZeroMicrosoft Game Studios/Rare $49.99 Another showcase for 360’s graphics is PDZ, the prequel to the popular Perfect Dark. Sexy and sassy Agent Joanna Dark battles corporate conspiracies with her wits and guns (and grenades and rocket launchers, etc.). The plotline and soundtrack leave something to be desired, but the game will stave off…
Culture Flash!
The Long Center gets more corporate cash, AMOA wants your Christo and Jeanne-Claude stories, and the city of Austin wants your art for City Hall and the airport
Liquid Assets
The next Napa
Music DVDs
Chick Corea Rendezvous in New York (Image) The numbers add up: nine bands of 23 players helping Chick Corea improvise for 21 nights, documented on 10 DVDs. Corea’s jazz-elder standing arises from work with Miles Davis (Bitches Brew, In a Silent Way), solo albums, the seminal fusion outfit Return to Forever, and gigantic keyboard skills.…
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Al Green Feels Like Christmas (Capitol) It takes a certain soulfulness to fully appreciate the holiday season, thus it goes without saying that Al Green possesses just the voice to enhance “special times with family sharing love so openly.” Compiling nine yuletide classics originally released by Green in 1983, Feels Like Christmas would completely lack…
Downtown Density Dreams
Politicos announce city resolution to hire consultants to develop a Downtown Austin Plan
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The MoviesActivision, $49.99 In the world of The Movies, considering how much work you do as the wannabe mogul that you are, you actually control very little. You fill your lot with important buildings, lay concrete slabs to connect them, and plant palm trees to make your studio look fancy. You try to build a…
Stalin vs. Mao: The Rager in Eurasia
The Good Book as graphic novel, ‘The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers,’ and more
Food-o-File
‘A Christmas Story’ gets the Alamo treatment; plus, ‘Barbecue: A Love Story’ and Santa Rita’s Rose Bowl cocktail
Music DVDs
JourneyLive in Houston 1981, The Escape Tour (Sony) Scan the immense stadium crowd, and it’s all muscle T’s, mullets, and fists in the air. It was a good time for Journey. This Houston show was filmed on the heels of their No. 1 album Escape by a fledgling channel called MTV (they once showed music…
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Brian WilsonWhat I Really Want for Christmas (Arista) The older Brian Wilson gets, the more childlike he becomes. Sometimes endearing, on his first holiday album, Wilson’s naïveté and charm are downright corny. Originals “The Man With All the Toys” and the Coca-Cola-endorsed “Little Saint Nick” highlight a disc full of simply arranged traditionals smocked with…
AMD Sets Its Site on Lantana
Company trumpets facility greenbuilding; opponents ask what’s downstream
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True Crime: New York CityActivision, $49.99 Taking most of its design cues from Grand Theft Auto, True Crime: New York City gives us the urban grit without the thrill of exceeded expectations. As Marcus Reed, you’ll find yourself tear-assing through NYC searching for clues to your partner’s murder. Providing an isolated surprise, the plotline plays…
Luv Doc Recommends: Jerm Pollet’s Merry F%@#ing Xmas
Last week the president of Iran called the Holocaust a myth. His statements were a huge shock to a world that expects slack-jawed idiocy of this sort to come primarily from American fundamentalists, the same thick-headed hayseeds who believe that evolution is a crock cooked up by Satan’s minions. Sure, Ahmadinejad’s comments were a bit…
