Cover Stories
Love in the Time of War
Nanci Griffith returns after a four-year absence, heart, mind, and activism in hand
There’s a Light Beyond These Woods
An unrestrained celebration of Nanci Griffith
An Evening With Evelyn
An Evening With Evelyn This event features an evening of Evelyn Waugh on screen complements the Ransom Center’s exhibition Writing Among The Ruins: Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh. The show includes clips from a BBC interview with Waugh late in his life, in which he discusses his work and its context; clips from The Scarlet…
Explore UT: The Biggest Open House in Texas
Explore UT: The Biggest Open House in Texas Directed by Various. A variety of free public events have been scheduled from 11am-4:40pm. There are three separate screening venues in addition to the classes “Animate a Figure Using Flash,” “Learn to Edit,” and “Make a Film Without a Camera.” A Student Film Showcase screens all day…
Get Carter
Get Carter 1971, R, 112 min. Directed by Mike Hodges, Starring Michael Caine, Britt Ekland, Ian Hendry. This taut and violent British crime drama was remade in 2000 with Syvester Stallone. Director Hodges went on to make Croupier and I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead.
I Was a Teenage Quincy Punk
I Was a Teenage Quincy Punk Directed by Various. Quincy punks are manifestations of the commodification and co-optation of punk rock as best exemplified by the infamous Quincy punk episode “Next Stop Nowhere.”
To Your Health
With a small change in lifestyle a person should be able to eat a variety of wholesome foods and remain gout free
Francophonic
France’s SXSW contingent spans African rap to glam industrial. Wowing fans with her gorgeous and jaw-dropping melismatic singing, former Ekova vocalist Dierdre just released her solo One (Six Degrees), featuring the former Californian’s nocturnal and danceable tunes, and a dreamy, deconstructed version of “Nights in White Satin.” Daara J is a trio of rappers from…
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
TV Eye
I recently had one of those challenging conversations I have from time to time about my TV viewing habits
Pastures Still Aplenty
Eating up the miles in search of country dining destinations
The Common Law
What is arbitration?
Shamrock & Roll
Celtic rock at SXSW 05 is more diverse than you think. Leaning toward psychobilly’s psycho side, Dublin’s the Things feature throbbing bass, kick-can drums, The Munsters organ sounds, hot rod twang guitars, and the Cramps singing. Their American debut EP comes from Big Neck Records. Black-leather-wearing rock architects, Mainline builds sound structures with sweeping synth…
Naked City
Residents and environmentalists want Western Travis development slowed
TCB
Pondering social change, newcomers Faceless Werewolves, SXSW venues, and ‘The Real World’
Day Trips
The American Wind Power Center has one of the largest collections of windmills in the world
Phases & Stages
Kings of LeonAha Shake Heartbreak (RCA) Granted, the first recoil from Aha Shake Heartbreak might not leave the bruise debut LP Youth & Young Manhood left in 2003. There’s a blur of Seventies spit and grit – peak Stones, chiefly – but is there Manhood’s “Molly’s Chambers”? The answer, friend, is damn straight. The longer…
Naked City
Eligible to vote? Prove it.
Son of the Mask
Sequel has absolutely none of its predecessor’s manic charm.
What Makes Cirque Worque?
Unlocking the enduring phenomenon of Cirque du Soleil
Soccer Watch
European Champions League resumes after two-month hiatus
Phases & Stages
Glen Campbell & the Austin SymphonyRiverbend Centre, Feb. 19 Glen Campbell loves to talk like Donald Duck. He quacked the audience up at least four different times, and you had to credit his sense of humor. Humor is something Campbell can use because his DWI a couple of years ago further tarnished the squeaky-clean image…
Naked City
A roundup of issues before the city council last week
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
The fitful story of how one black woman gets her groove back
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad socialist?
In Howard Zinn’s play, Karl Marx is back, and he’s pissed
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
When Ozzy Osbourne left Black Sabbath in 1979, Michael Bolton was considered a possible replacement
Phases & Stages
Drive-by TruckersGangstabilly (Soul Dump/New West) Drive-by TruckersPizza Deliverance (Soul Dump/New West) Certain Southern minds imagine a world where Kinky Friedman wins elections as easily as George W. Bush loses them, and the Drive-by Truckers are as big as Led Zeppelin. Or, shit, at least 3 Doors Down. A world where DBT sell-out the Erwin Center…
Naked City
Commissioners trying to craft ordinance that is proactive, not reactive
The Nomi Song
A documentary ode to the legendary outsider’s outsider, Klaus Nomi – a singer, performance artist, and genuine human anomaly.
Line Dancing
Austin’s Michael Arthur has made an improbable career out of drawing theatre and dance companies in rehearsal
Liquid Assets
Picnic wines
Phases & Stages
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generationby Jeff Chang St. Martin’s Press, 546 pp., $27.95 Jeff Chang’s labor of love chronicles the sociological background of a music that often doubles as functional culture. Beginning in the Sixties with rampant white flight away from the urban sprawl of the Bronx, hip-hop emerged from…
Naked City
Putting the brakes on the Star+Plus HMO
Bride & Prejudice
This Jane Austen adaptation takes the Bollywood out of India and leaves us something too familiar.
Culture Flash!
• Maybe you can’t fight City Hall, but you can sure enjoy a lot of artwork there. As of Thursday, Feb. 24, Austin’s new seat of municipal government will feature the exhibition of artwork by more than 70 local artists – and I mean among the finest this city has to offer. Come and see…
Food-o-file
The hot dish and one heck of a block party
Phases & Stages
Archie Shepp & Mal WaldronLeft Alone Revisited … A Tribute to Billie Holiday (Synergy Music) Neither saxophonist Archie Shepp nor pianist Mal Waldron are strangers to the legacy of Billie Holiday. In 1972, Shepp produced the play Lady Day: A Musical Tragedy, while Waldron not only recorded his own tribute, Blues for Lady Day, the…
Naked City
Tremble in fear … TAKS is here
The Sea Inside
Moving chronicle of the real-life 30-year battle waged by paraplegic Ramón Sampedro (played by Javier Bardem) to end his life.
Arts Review
Pro Arts Collective’s production of “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992” brings all the emotion of the Rodney King beating and its aftermath rushing back
Phases & Stages
Fats DominoSweet Patootie: The Complete Reprise Recordings (Rhino Handmade) Little RichardKing of Rock and Roll: The Complete Reprise Recordings (Rhino Handmade) Don’t call it a comeback – call it a pair of comebacks. The British Invasion revitalized the careers of countless American musical precursors, and in the case of this pair of new Rhino Handmade…
Naked City
Students compete to build energy-efficient housing
Arts Review
Deb Margolin’s Index to Idioms played with our assumptions about familiar expressions and used episodes from her life to give them new meanings
Let’s ‘Rumbo’! Right Now!
New Spanish dailies battle for a young Latino audience looking for news
Naked City
Al Franken could soon be on a radio near you
Arts Review
The UT Wind Ensemble’s premiere of John Corigliano’s Circus Maximus’ was more than a concert; it was an event
SXSW International Bands
In regard to the Chronicle’s debut international bands supplement, which will be redistributed during SXSW, it should be. After all, of the more than 300 international acts from Uzbekistan to Tehran, our swift overview of approximately half of these far-flung global acts was researched almost entirely on the Internet. Armed with 300 URLs, our Music…
Newsprint in Spanish
Sizing up Austin’s Latino newspaper players
Naked City
The city tries to upgrade its commercial design building standards
Arts Review
With courage and grace, Vin Gallery has successfully made the transition from its burned home in the Guadalupe Arts Center to a space by Gallery Shoal Creek
New Model Army
Despite what may have gushed on you via the UK music press (Q magazine: “British music will conquer the world in 2005”), this isn’t 1994 all over again. Brit pop’s as dead as Dickens’ doorknob (thanks, Robbie Williams), and far worse, so is John Peel. Still, there’s something in the air, and not just Steve…
‘To the Limit’: Austin Radio Spanish
Austin’s Hispanic broadcasting market makes huge changes, too
Point Austin: The Healing of Wounded Knee
A tale of two city memos suggests more than paper-shuffling needed at APD
Full Body
John Irving on his job and the upcoming ‘Until I Find You’
Blame Canada
Oh, Canada. You’ve been ignored for so many years, made fun of, picked on, blamed for bad fashion and worse beer. But these days, you’re looking pretty good. Plenty of folks are talking about picking up and moving there, to the safe haven of your snowy, heaving bosom. And you can’t blame them. Despite months…
Birds vs. People at BCP
At least one Austin resident questions wildlife preserve’s human-access policies
Robbing Pedro to Pay … Highland Park?
The funds in the latest public ed bill appear much less than meets the eye
In Person
Don DeLillo at UT’s Jessen Auditorium, Feb. 10.
Scandinavian Smorgasbord
This year’s Scandinavian SXSW performers offer a smorgasbord of sonic variety. Starting in Finland, Husky Rescue paints an aural rendering of remote landscapes from Helsinki composer Marko Nyberg. By contrast, Turku’s the Crash parlayed their melancholy mix of lush pop, prog flourishes, and Euro-disco to become mainstays on MTV Nordic. Helsinki quintet the Latebirds cites…
Johnston High Turns Triplet
AISD moves on plan to divide Eastside school into three smaller ‘learning communities’
The Hightower Report
Texas Legislature, theatre of the absurd; and, why all the surprise over steroid scandals?
Page Two
It has never been a secret that the magic ingredient that makes SXSW work is Austin
Mexican Smackdown
Starting sometime around the indigenous body-slam of El Gran Silencio at Scholz Garten last century (1999), SXSW has imported buenisimo acts en Espa–ol – beginning with Mano Negra in 1989 through to Aterciopelados in 2001 and beyond. This year’s Mexican contingent is dominated by nearby hotbed Monterrey, starting with veteran SXSWers Plastilina Mosh and their…
Futrell Spares Knee: ‘Moving Forward’ at APD
Police chief scolded, not punished
The Defiant Deviant
The Austin Film Society and Alamo Drafthouse gang up for Bloodbath and Beyond: The Extreme Cinema of Takashi Miike and more
After a Fashion
Get ready for SXSW! Stephen is!
Rising Sun Roster
From 1997’s inaugural “Japan Nite” onward, SXSW has provided a fruitful conduit for bringing Japanese bands to American audiences. This year’s Rising Sun roster features new faces along with many returning favorites. Leading off the latter category is Nagasaki’s Fantasy’s Core, a rabid blues-punk quintet that’s equally versed in the art of interstitial slapstick. The…
Block Those Cyber-Boobs! – Flasher Sues Game Makers
Austin video game maker sued for child porn – by teen who lied to get filmed
Equalized
What’s your first choice: a Hollywood smash ’em up summer blockbuster or a tender, slow-paced foreign film? If you’re a person who is deaf or hard of hearing, it’s no contest. The foreign film comes with subtitles, while the Hollywood action flick won’t likely offer them until the film is released months later on DVD.…
About AIDS
Southwestern University in Georgetown is producing a book about HIV/AIDS and needs creative material
Antipodean Exposure
A whole new flock of musicians from the land where women roar and men thunder is primed to take over this year’s SXSW. The crop is a tad leaner than last year – 17 bands represent Australia and six for New Zealand – with fewer recognizable acts (this year the only real “star” is Ben…
Weed Watch
HB 658 seeks to legalize medical marijuana in Texas
The Obsessive’s Obsessive
Three former Austinites find Darryl Donaldson, ‘Donnie Darko’s ‘#1 Fan’
Luv Doc Recommends: Bottle Rocket Screening with Kumar Pallana
Some people claim that the Oscars are a whole lot more fun if you say it with a lisp. True, thith Thunday ith a thpethial thuper Thunday for people who don’t care about thporth, but more importantly, unlike the vapid jock talk around the copier/water cooler the morning after the big game, vapid Oscars conversation…
