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Proper Exposure
A new exhibition gives eight of the state’s finest photographers – who happen to be women – their due
Gatchaman
Gatchaman The original Japanese anime series will be onscreen with the English voice cast in the house. English-language dubbing director Charles Campbell’s favorite episodes will screen (“Gatchaman Versus Turtle King,” “The Plan to Assassinate Dr. Nambu,” “Little Gatchaman,” “Killer Music,” and “Return of the Iron Beast Mecchadegon),” followed by a Q&A with the voice cast,…
To Your Health
Fun facts on fiber
Texas Platters
Bill Malone & Rod MoagRemember Me (Hillbilly Dreams) While Austin’s Rod Moag is known as the “the singin’, pickin’ professor,” Bill Malone is renowned as a historian of American country music, having written what’s considered the definitive book on the subject, Country Music, U.S.A. Despite different backgrounds, the two retirees share many things in common,…
Where There’s Smoke, There’s a ‘Vérité-Enhanced’ Legacy
The Texas Documentary Tour: Ross McElwee’s ‘Bright Leaves’
The Common Law
Items sold door-to-door – can I cancel my order?
Who Are These Guys?
Dem primary candidates try to strike a campaign flame
Crew Stories
On the set of ‘Z: The Zombie Musical’
Loving Home
No reservations? No problem! A sex – er, six – -course meal you can make for your main squeeze
Day Trips
The Sweet Tooth Tour of Mount Pleasant doesn’t cover a lot of ground, but it does offer a variety of locally made desserts
Bell and Gammage on the Issues
Democratic gubernatorial candidates Chris Bell and Bob Gammage are more at odds with Gov. Rick Perry than with each other. Both candidates support: • Expanding the state business tax and closing loopholes to finance education. • Ending the high-stakes nature of educational competency tests: Standardized tests should serve as a measuring tool, but overall competency…
Film News
Scott Rudin’s Texas bent brings Kimberly Peirce’s ‘Stop-Loss,’ even though it’s ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘There Will Be Blood’
TCB
Burning down the house, good for Spoon, not so good for KOOP
Soccer Watch
U.S. and Guatemala coming to Frisco; and once around the world of football (in 50 words)
Bentzin’s Bad Connection
District 48 candidate’s acknowledgement that he hired political consultant John Colyandro to work on his Senate campaign in 2002 raises big legal questions
TV Eye
They should be doing it this way
The Primary Colors: Part I
Early highlights of Central Texas primary races
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Large commercial trucks like 18-wheelers are called “lorries” in Great Britain. Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies. Some garden hoses are made of polyvinyl chloride, which uses lead as a stabilizer. Since lead can cause health problems, never drink from a garden hose unless it is labeled “safe for drinking.” In ancient Babylon and Rome,…
Who We Are
The ‘Chronicle’ interviews Howard Zinn on war, peace, and human nature
DVD Watch
Reacquaint yourself with one Paul Walker, the Jean-Paul Belmondo of the New Preposterousness
Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh
The Jewish Community Association of Austin’s production of ‘Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh!,’ a revue of Allan Sherman’s parody songs, may tickle your funny bone – especially the part connected to your nostalgia bone
Oops!
In last week’s “SXSW Film 06 Update” (Screens, Feb. 3), Tasca Shadix and Tom Willett were not credited as screenwriters alongside Bryan Poyser in a reference to The Cassidy Kids, which will have its world premiere at the festival. They should have been, and the Chronicle regrets the error.
Endorsement
Donna Howard Early voting commences this week for the District 48 Valentine’s Day run-off between Donna Howard and Ben Bentzin, and if you’re going to be eating chocolates that day you might as well complete your civic duty now (at least ’til the primaries). It will be no surprise that the Chronicle is endorsing Donna…
Late Charges in District 48 Run-Off
Dem Soechting charges Bentzin with dodging property taxes
Rodrigo Duarte-Clark
Playwright Rodrigo Duarte Clark discusses the genesis of his play, ‘Doña Rosita’s Jalapeño Kitchen,’ and the new production being mounted by Austin’s Teatro Vivo
Food-o-File
After 15 years, David Garrido departs Jeffrey’s, and the timing’s right for Alma Alcocer-Thomas to take over; plus, more food and wine options on Valentine’s Day.
Naked City
Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond
Coachella
Where else can you see Iggy Pop & the Stooges back to back with Morrissey, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Belle & Sebastian, Bright Eyes, and Nine Inch Nails? Nowhere but in this rambling, celebratory documentary, which covers performances from all six years of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival and manages to catch the laid-back,…
ColdTowne Heroes
Help the ColdTowne Heroes get out of town (to hit a batch of comedy fests around the country) at Fun-Razor, an evening of improv, sketches, and films
What the Folk?
The 2006 Folk Alliance washes ashore in Austin – brace the bulkheads!
Repurposing Ain’t Pretty
Parents lay into AISD Superintendent Pat Forgione
When a Stranger Calls
Simon West’s do-over of Fred Walton’s 1979 creepfest – in which babysitter Belle menaced by a stranger with a phone who probably isn’t that guy from Verizon – is a hollow, shallow, and just plain boring exercise in snooziness.
Oh Mother
Allison Orr, who’s expecting her first child in late March, has organized a program of contemporary dance by a half-dozen moms and moms-to-be
Folk Alliance Featured
Thursday, Feb. 9 John Jorgenson’s Gypsy Jazz Band @ Flamingo Cantina Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion @ Lucy’s Boatyard Friday, Feb. 10 Folk Alliance Presents @ Flamingo Cantina: Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreamsz (NYC), the Burns Sisters Band (Ithaca, N.Y.), the Mad Maggies (San Francisco) Saturday, Feb. 11 Folk Alliance Children’s…
Mosley Discrimination Suit Settled
Lawyers representing Mosley’s estate and AISD agreed to a settlement just days before district was scheduled to defend itself in sex discrimination suit
Protocols of Zion
Documentary filmmaker Marc Levin investigates the reasons for the recent renaissance of American anti-Semitism; sadly, the end result is scattershot and never really elucidates or poses solutions to the problem.
Arts Review
‘Urinetown: The Musical’ may wallow in a sordid premise and have an awful title, but Zach’s production is always making you happy, if not downright giddy
Spotlight/Sunlight
Danny O’Keefe and Jonathan Edwards, veteran tunesmiths who made a name for themselves in the late-Sixties/early-Seventies, will draw special attention this weekend. O’Keefe, who now lives in Washington state, is best known for “Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues” and has been away from playing for nearly a decade. During that time, he’s been occupied…
Council Campaign Season Opens
Six contenders for Austin’s traditional minority seats
Curious George
It’s not perfect, but this big-screen debut of H.A. Rey’s lovable monkey is faithful to George’s gentle spirit while fully exploiting the possibilities of old-school, two-dimensional animation.
Arts Review
The Best of the Week for week four of the 2006 FronteraFest Short Fringe lived up to the high expectations for ‘the fringe theatre event of the Southwest’
Young, Gifted, Local
Fresh local talent worth seeking out include precocious young singer-songwriter Sahara Smith and teenage mandolin phenom Sarah Jarosz, both of whom hail from nearby Wimberley. In 2004, Smith performed original material for the Prairie Home Companion 12-to-20 talent show on National Public Radio and placed second. Jarosz, who’s 15 and has only been playing since…
State Enviro Agency Accused of Racism
Three longtime African-American employees of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality go public with charges that they were denied opportunities for advancement and systematically blocked from salary increases
The Pink Panther
In this pointless rehash of the 1964 Blake Edwards film that introduced Inspector Clouseau to the world, Steve Martin inhabits the role of the bumbling French detective without a trace of the comic genius of Peter Sellers.
Arts Review
Scale is the theme in “Grid,” where every artwork is on the same scale:4 feet by 8 feet, and the show is worth the visit
Texas Platters
The Glass FamilyRed Eyed Fly, Feb. 3 The curse of a benefit: $10 tickets mean the crowd’s lackluster and the energy level lower than a post-Thanksgiving conversation. Friday’s Dance Marathon benefit for the Dell Children’s Hospital was no different. Following a handful of emo teen acts, local fivepiece the Glass Family took the stage for…
Weed Watch
Instead of all students – current and future – convicted of any drug-related crime at any point in their lives losing federal financial aid, now, only students currently in school will lose their money if convicted on a drug charge
Final Destination 3
It’s not going to nab any golden statuettes, mind you, but this shocker takes such exuberant, gleeful delight in the unspeakably gory dispatch of assorted teenagers that it may well be the most fun you’ll have at the movies all week.
News/Print
The 14th annual Short Story Contest: If you haven’t heard, hear here, as we’ve gone from 550 to 10, count them, 10 stories! Count them again! Still 10? Not for long …
Texas Platters
By this time next year, CDs will be tiny chips implanted in our teeth. Until then, it remains an honor to chomp on some delicious vinyl. Local garage peddlers Licorice Tree Records offer two slabs of fresh flesh. Thee Fine Lines are a trio of average-looking dudes from Springfield, Mo., and Looking Everywhere is their…
Alito Busts a Moderate Move
In his first decision as the Supreme Court’s newest associate justice, Samuel Alito split with the court’s most conservative members, voting to uphold a stay of execution for a condemned Missouri inmate
The Blue Butterfly
The Hallmark homilies are all there in this family-friendly feature about a cancer-stricken 10-year-old searching for the elusive morpho butterfly, but when the principals arrive in rainforest country, the film shifts gears and begins to breathe.
Readings
Hear his story of tragedy and triumph and tragedy again, recounted admirably and enthusiastically by Douglas Century in this new biography of that great yet forgotten early 20th-century scrapper
Texas Platters
Left over from “Girlie Action”‘s 2005 shelf but not overlooked were notable releases from Cheryl Bliss and Wendy Colonna. Colonna’s Right Where I Belong was produced by local pop savant Stephen Doster and follows 2002’s Red with polished songwriting, as in “Coffee Today” and “Fe Fi Fo Fum.” The Louisiana native blends her roots rock…
Point Austin: It’s That Time Again
If you haven’t voted, aren’t voting, aren’t ready to vote – wake up!
Imagine Me & You
A traditional romantic comedy with a lesbian twist, Imagine Me and You has its charms, but for a movie about loving radically, it sure plays it safe.
Page Two: Name-Calling, Part II
Name-Calling, Part II: The proud badge of ‘cowardice’
Texas Platters
Asylum Street SpankersRe-Assembly DVD (Spanks-a-Lot) How many groups have former bandmates play milestone shows? Perhaps Austin’s Spankers wanted to add solidarity to their list of unusual band traits: adept at 1920s parlor songs and futuristic originals, fluent in both gospel and bawdy, international grassroots tourists. Forgetting to bring a PA to their first gig in…
Point Austin: Beside the Point
The Council gears up for 2006
After a Fashion
Well Riverside and Congress is finally all clear. So now Stephen can go out and be fabulous at all these incredible Valentine’s and early springtime happenin’s!
Texas Platters
The Allen Oldies Band Live and Delirious! (Freedom) Allen Hill loves the oldies like Jim Valvano loved basketball. Even if you don’t worship “Wooly Bully,” the hyper-caffeinated enthusiasm Hill’s Allen Oldies Band brings to the oft-derided world of cover-bandom is inspirational. Recorded live on Jersey City’s WFMU, Live and Delirious! erases years of robotic radio…
The Hightower Report
Bush’s IRS goes after poor folks; and the latest ‘creep’ of advertising
Luv Doc Recommends: Nuts and Bolts Valentine’s Party
Tuesday is Valentine’s Day. For single people in the workplace – at least those in a mixed-gender environment – it’s also known as “Awkward Moments Day,” that harrowing eight-hour gauntlet when iPods are worn like garlic necklaces, when diabetic bracelets are flashed like gangsta bling, when the hot receptionist gives the phone-call-stiff-arm Heisman pose all…
