Cover Story
Iraqi Day of the Dead:
How to make your own mask
The Love God?
The Love God? 1969, PG-13, 101 min. Directed by Nat Hiken, Starring Don Knotts, Anne Francis, Edmond O’Brien. Don Knotts becomes an overnight champion of free speech when he inadvertently becomes the publisher of a porn magazine. He also inadvertently becomes the magazine’s mascot and is presumed to be quite the ladies’ man. Irony, indeed.
Heaven’s Gate: Director’s Cut
Heaven’s Gate: Director’s Cut 1980, R, 216 min. Directed by Michael Cimino, Starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges, Willem Dafoe. Cimino’s epic Western was unjustly maligned at the time of its initial release. Not seen theatrically in its original four-hour version since its 1980 premiere, the…
I Hear Dead People
Berkeley’s art team ARCHIVE brings recorded seances to the Austin Museum of Art
About AIDS
“Persons most at risk for influenza,” says the CDC, includes HIV-positive people. A flu vaccination definitely is in order, especially if there has been significant immune impairment. Of course, one would never know about this urgency by watching the news. The government has made a noisy priority of the elderly getting the vaccine, so the…
Who Are All These Voters?
Turnout surge shifts ground (a wee bit) under congressional races
Naked City
Stumping in Oregon, JFK opposes federal meddling in med-marijuana fight
Kerry Year One
No surprises at the Texas dailies – one good failure deserves another
Snapshots From Zombie Nation
The nimble mind of artist KRK Ryden pieces together cartoon characters, drive-in theatres, outer space, devo-lution, mind control, and tikis to create a psychedelic pastiche of colorful painting
Day Trips
The spooky specters of San Antonio
How to Cast a Write-in Ballot
These instructions come from the FAQ section of the Travis Co. Elections Web site (www.votetravisvote.com) and pertain specifically to the Hart InterCivic eSlate electronic voting machines, used in Travis and Harris counties; voters in other counties should check with their local election officials. Q: How does E-slate handle write-in votes? A: When choosing write-in, voters…
Naked City
Elementary school aims high with state-of-the-art home for science
Mmmm! Mmmm! Good drama!
Austin Script Works has four new scripts just out of the oven that it wants you to sample
Soccer Watch
The UT Lady Longhorns are playing their best football of the year as the season draws to a climax; they stretched their record home-win streak to 10 games last weekend with a pair of 1-0 wins over Iowa State and sixth-ranked Kansas, both in overtime. Kelly Wilson scored both goals, and senior goalkeeper Alex Gagarin…
BAK Barks at Big Doggett
A horrible candidate, or very expensive cannon fodder?
Naked City
A dim view of high-stakes testing at UT forum
The Hightower Report
Dubya paints rosy pictures of the war and job creation … and on both, he’s lying
Culture Flash!
The UT Performing Arts Center is luring students into the voting booth with free tickets, and three local stage hits add extra performances
Food-o-File
Dot’s Place suffers a tragic fire but is already rising from the ashes; the Texas Book Festival hosts Bon Appetit, Y’all; and Halloween’s around the bend
Whack-a-Pol: The Finals
Stick and Baxter – and Mrs. Baxter! – get nasty in the House races
Naked City
The trustees spar briefly over when to build their new schools
Arts Review
Ajax (por nobody)Church of the Friendly Ghost, through Nov. 6 Far be it from your listings crew to recommend a staged reading, right? Especially with all the full productions already going on in this town, right? But we just got back from seeing Ajax (por nobody), Alice Tuan’s sick & twisted work of brilliance as…
Double Bliss
A day in the life of ‘Austin City Limits’ at 30
E-Night Party Roundup!
Here’s the latest we know at press time. Check austinchronicle.com for updates through Tuesday. If you’d like to hobnob with a real live presidential candidate on election night without getting pre-clearance from the Secret Service, head over to Legends Sports Bar & Grill in the Holiday Inn at 8901 Business Park Dr. (southwest corner of…
Austin @ Large: Hate Males, Not Rails
Please don’t make me write this column again in four years.
Ray
Ray Charles, we can’t stop loving you, even though this formulaic biopic lacks your original style.
Arts Review
Austin Shakespeare Festival’s second bout with ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in four years offers much by way of manic disposition, but not much by way of substance
Insecure
John Cale’s strange relationship with Austin and Alejandro Escovedo
The Dastardly eSlate
Really, the voting machines won’t change your vote to Bush / Cheney. Honest.
Maybe She’s Born With It
Texas Documentary Tour: Liz Mermin’s ‘The Beauty Academy of Kabul’
Saw
Saw is indeed a horror movie, but not necessarily in the manner the filmmakers intended.
Arts Review
The Austin Museum of Art exhibit ‘Ghost Stories: The Disembodied Spirit’ offers enough engaging evocations of the unearthly to give you a pleasurable shiver
John Cale (and Friends) Reviewed
John CaleHoboSapiens (Or Music)Sturgis NikidesMan of SteelDeerfrance: Extra Virgin MaryBlest (Moon Caravan) When considering John Cale’s storied career, remember he came into rock & roll through the backstage door, via the Velvet Underground. The classical music background developed in his native Wales, the one that met with the New York avant-garde in the Sixties, was…
Election Makes People Stupid
Sign-stealing, vandalism, cacti, chain saws, eggs … you do the math
Pedazo Chunk’s Halloween Party
Friday, Oct. 29
The Manson Family
Shot over the course of 10 years, underground filmmkaker Jim Van Bebber tells the story we all think we know. This time, however, the story graphically unfolds from the perspective of Charles Manson.
Arts Review
Jim MunroeMonkeyWrench Books, Pedazo Chunk, Nov. 1 Jim Munroe is the consummate pop-culture provocateur, being the brains behind the No Media Kings outfit and the Perpetual Motion Roadshow and bringing literary and multimedia goodness to folks all over North America. But we really love him for his writing: his subversive sci-fi tales Flyboy Action Figure…
Live Shots
Chicago; Earth, Wind & Fire Backyard, Oct. 20 As longtime musical franchises with only a handful of original members left, Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire joined forces this summer to liberate themselves from the turgid casino circuit. In addition to rejuvenating commercial interest, the tour’s Austin whistle-stop demonstrated aesthetic payoffs as well. Far from…
In Other Election News …
GOP PAC gets a reprieve, Bush loses the matchbook vote, and Barr backs Badnarik
In Print
Peter Bogdanovich can’t get enough of himself
Birth
If your dead husband returned to you in the body of a 10-year-old boy, would you seize the opportunity for your romance to be born again or would you call Child Welfare?
Arts Review
Electricity and Me: Magnets and Unseen Forces This annual exhibit at Gallery Lombardi deals with the interface between humans and the forces that govern the natural world. Our increasing understanding of science is having a profound impact both on our daily lives and on our future. This is a topic of considerable interest to contemporary…
Live Shots
Brian Wilson Backyard, Oct. 24 Before Brian Wilson’s new recording of Smile came out last month, those who’d seen him already could be forgiven for thinking they didn’t need to return. Wilson’s Pet Sounds tour of 2000 was miraculous simply because no one expected to see the former Beach Boy perform live (austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2000-08-04/music_live4.html ). Although…
AISD Fills Pipeline From Within
New partnership helps teachers’ aides get degrees, meet district bilingual gap
Austin Film Festival Parting Shots
‘The Loss of Nameless Things’ gains studio attention
Master of the Improbable
When someone says something can’t be done, trust Turk Pipkin to say ‘Wanna bet?’
Live Shots
The PixiesStubb’s, Oct. 20 The black eyeliner was already dripping down their frontman’s chubby cheeks Wednesday night when the Pixies took the stage amidst a deafening roar from sold-out Stubb’s. What decade was it again? Boston’s reunited bombers – aka indie rock’s most influential act with the shortest lifespan – brought 1989 right to Austin’s…
Fat Bastard Too ‘Cheeky’ for Austin Radio
Wine ads warp the moral fiber of some – but not all – local listeners
Film News
While major productions play tax-incentive hopscotch across the South and Southwest, Austin tries to figure out how to reignite its winning streak
Playing for Time
Turk Pipkin’s ‘The Old Man and the Tee’ reviewed
Live Shots
Beastie BoysFrank Erwin Center, Oct. 22 It’s been six years since Brooklyn’s second greatest export – after the Dodgers, natch – last swung through Central Texas. Into the Frank Erwin Center, then, strode the three horsemen of the hip-hopalypse, clad in matching ungodly lime-green tracksuits with Mix Master Mike scratching from all around. Preshow there…
Daily Muddies the Legal Waters
‘Statesman’ case against Williamson candidate is more complex than they think
TV Eye
Series creator Josh Schwartz on the evolving OC
Letters at 3AM
The great days of the United States of America are over: Our country is now important economically only because of its citizens’ consumption
Live Shots
Cali Comm Emo’s, Oct. 24 Over the past decade, West Coast underground rap has become a genre unto itself. With pioneers such as Freestyle Fellowship and Hieroglyphics setting the stage during the early Nineties, countless acts have followed suit in their desire to create only the purist form of hip-hop. For this year’s edition of…
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
DVD Watch
‘Bill Hicks Live’Rykodisc, $19.95 Bills Hicks for president. The Oct. 26 release of Bill Hicks Live: Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-Up Comedian couldn’t come at a more useful time – even if it is 10 years after his death: On the first official Hicks DVD, which contains three full-length, live performances and a documentary about his…
After a Fashion
Will our Style Avatar Stephen audition for the new Jerry Hall reality show? We think he should, too. See inside.
‘Reinventing Government’
A conversation with Louis Dubose about Tom DeLay and ‘The Hammer’
Naked City
The repaired dinosaur roars once more over Guadalupe Street
Page Two
At their best, our 2004 endorsements take a stand, but invite readers to agree or disagree with their reasoning
2004 Texas Book Festival Preview
The 2004 Texas Book Festival
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Arcane trivia of the damnned!
‘He’s Forked Himself’
Our Full conversation with Louis Dubose about ‘The Hammer’
Naked City
Austin collaboration offers state’s first curbside electronics recycling
Cuisines String
A guide to small plates and good drinks for barhopping in the Warehouse District
The Common Law
How the next President will reshape the Supreme Court
‘Iconoclast’ Country
It’s election time in Crawford – peace and free speech keep right on waving and smiling
Naked City
A new site, a new battle for the Austin Jockey Club
More From ‘Iconoclast’ Country
W. Leon Smith on freedom of speech, peace, and Crawford
TCB
The politics of dancing, or at least politics and dancing
To Your Health
The evaluation of thyroid status is one of the most formidable tasks in medicine
Congress: The Texas Five, Plus One
Down to the last inning of Tom DeLay’s little game
Naked City
Tom Price joins calls for halt to Harris Co. executions
Election 2004 Updates
The latest electoral happenings in Central Texas, updated daily
Luv Doc Recommends: Live Under the Oaks 2004
Like Christmas, Halloween is another one of those pagan rituals appropriated by the Christian church and then eventually repaganized by lapsed Christians. Hooray for the lapsed Christians! Or maybe: What goes around comes around. But really, nobody parties harder than lapsed Christians. Hell, ask Satan (although once you’re in hell, talking to God is pretty…
