You Can’t Take It With You
Based on the antic stage play by George S. Kaufmann and Moss Hart, this Capra film earned Oscars for the film and the director. With her impeccable timing and idiosyncratic delivery, Jean Arthur plays a girl who must introduce her fiancé and his parents to her decidedly eccentric family.
Intimacy
Intimacy 2001, NR, 119 min. Directed by Patrice Chéreau, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Alastair Galbraith, Timothy Spall, Phillipe Calvario, Marianne Faithfull. Don’t let the title fool you: This is one of the most desperately bleak love stories to come down the pike in some time; it’s slightly less…
Coach’s Corner
Coach on the couch: A long, dreary series of bowl games is a lousy way to start the new year, isn’t it?
Road TRIPping
Austin has the fifth-highest rate of traffic fatalities in the nation, according to a highway lobbyist organization.
Video Reviews
“If it’s a good picture, it’s a Miracle!”
Second Helpings: 24-Hour Joints
Twenty-four hour joints in this week’s “Second Helpings”
Changing of the Guard
“It’s good food, well prepared, reasonably priced, straight up, no frills. I like it,” Food Editor Virginia B. Wood reveals about young chef Shawn Cirkiel’s cuisine at Jean-Luc’s Bistro.
Aluminum Can’ts
Three environmental groups take aluminum giant Alcoa to court.
25 Minutes and Nothing to Lose
Onstage, as in life, the impulse to be adventurous is often curbed by Practical Concerns, but FronteraFest is a performance jamboree that gives artists the freedom to go for broke.
Food-o-File
Food Editor Virginia B. Wood’s toaster activity and other recent Austin culinary news.
Naked City
Lawyers for Longhorn Pipeline and the city of Austin head to court this morning (Thursday) to hash out their differences in front of U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks. City officials say Longhorn needs a city permit before it can legally perform construction work in southwest Austin, but Pipeline officials say they take their orders from…
FronteraFest at 9
In its ninth year, FronteraFest is, as they say, under new management. Last summer, Vicky Boone resigned as artistic director of the Frontera theatre company, which necessitated finding someone else to helm the company and the festival if they were to continue. The Frontera board was committed to keeping both alive and found a couple…
Mini-Review
Le Bernardin Cookbook: Four-Star Simplicity by Eric Ripert and Maguy Le Coze Broadway Books, 372 pp., $37.50 Siblings Gilbert and Maguy Le Coze grew up in their family’s modest hotel/restaurant on the seacoast of Brittany. Handsome, stylish, talented, and devoted to one another, together they ran two immensely popular Paris restaurants (both called Le Bernardin)…
Naked City
More controversy over the selection of the city’s police monitor
FRONTERAFEST 2002 DAILY SCHEDULE
Performances begin at 8pm unless otherwise noted. Tickets for Short Fringe are $10 each general admission and $12 each for “Best of …” performances. A Five-Night Fest pass is available for $45 through January 19. Times and ticket prices for Long Fringe shows vary. See the Long Fringe schedule for additional information about these shows.…
Mini-Review
Bruce Aidells’ Complete Sausage Book by Bruce Aidells and Denis Kelly Ten Speed Press, 336 pp., $21.95 (paper) Bruce Aidells and his co-author Denis Kelly have released the definitive sausage bible, containing descriptions of every type of link, the historical background and method of making each, and their favorite recipes using them. Everything a true…
Naked City
One county court judicial race promises to be interesting, with Community Court Judge Elisabeth Earle taking on Municipal Court Judge Evelyn McKee.
Long Fringe @ Blue Theatre
Searching for Santa and Finding Hope by Carl Anderson Anderson, an Austin writer/performer/ psychologist and a master storyteller, draws on material from 18 journals, his dissertation research, and a heart-opening collection of letters to share what he’s experienced and learned portraying St. Nick for 20 years. Sun, 1/27: 6:30pm; Tue, 1/29: 7:15pm; Thu, 1/31: 7pm;…
Effendi
Talking jazz with piano great McCoy Tyner
Naked City
Controversy over the environmental record of Rainbow Materials Inc. costs the company a renewal of its city projects contract.
Music to Chortle By
Whenever Steve Saugey and Lyova Rosanoff are at the keyboards, musical shenanigans are the natural order, especially when these two pianist-parodists are spoofing classical music through one of their Forbidden Classics programs.
Dancing About Architecture
More club shakeups, this time Ruta Maya and possibly Stubb’s
Naked City
Council’s first menu of the year.
Articulations
Ballet Austin’s presentation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC enjoyed sell-out crowds, enthusiastic responses, and a glowing review in the Washington Post.
Lone Star Grammy Nominations 2002
This year’s Grammy nominations for Texans find two Fabulous Thunderbirds squaring off, a possible award adding fuel to the “B-E-E-R-R-U-N” controversy, and even Ray Benson not being able to keep up with Lucinda Williams and her four nominations — in four different musical genres, no less! More Texas-related nods follow: Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:…
Naked City
The LCRA has been a welcoming refuge for former city officials.
Postscripts
Not one day back from vacation and the growing list of noble souls who need to be congratulated is making Books Editor Clay Smith uneasy.
What’s In a Name?
The first wave of acts confirmed for SXSW 02 (www.austinchronicle. com/issues/dispatch/2001-12-21/music_dancing2.html) came down Dec. 21, and lo and behold, three weeks later there’s another: Absorption, Actual Size, Add N to (X), American Analog Set, AM/FM, Louie Austen, Bacilos, David Baerwald and the New Folk Underground, Howie Beck, Black Sun Ensemble, Boxstep, Broken Social Scene, Bullfrog…
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
Jesus Garza goes out on top, but not necessarily to universal acclaim.
Page Two
Judging resigning City Manager Jesus Garza’s performance in a difficult job will take some time; XLent’s recent cover controversy brings back memories and reminds us how cool talk radio is; screwball comedies were the funniest movies ever, and the Austin Film Society is showing eight of them in the next two months.
Phases and Stages
Earthpig @ Continental ClubJanuary 4 There’s something deceptive about what Earthpig does. Okay, he plays guitar. That’s not really fooling anybody. People who caught Earthpig (aka Adam Bork) locally before he sailed off to be a denizen of New York City a coupla three years ago might have even thought him to be blind. What…
The Hightower Lowdown
Bill Clinton won’t go away; a Harvard economist says you’re poor because you deserve to be; Charles Schwab needs taxpayer help … to hunt ducks.
Letters at 3AM
Michael Ventura weighs in with his Top 5 list of 2001’s best film and television moments.
Phases and Stages
Mick JaggerGoddess in the Doorway (Virgin) Revisionist history — or PR whitewashing, take your pick — informs us that Mick Jagger’s fourth solo album is his most mature work without the midnight rambler’s 40-year-old street gang, the Rolling Stones. It is. It’s also his weakest solo album. The first, 1985’s She’s the Boss, was then…
L.A. Story
The Texas Documentary Tour presents Joseph Tovares’ doc about the infamous Zoot Suit Riots in racially divided 1940s Los Angeles.
Mr. Smarty Pants
Trivia, trivia, and more trivia
Phases and Stages
Paul McCartney Driving Rain (Capitol) Paul McCartney is every bit the musical genius that John Lennon is so often called, and in fact, if you stacked the 50 best McCartney solo tracks up against the 50 best Lennon solo tracks, Sir Paul’s would probably be judged better by an objective panel. Which just goes to…
Love Is a Battlefield
The Austin Film Society presents a new free series on screwball comedy.
Day Trips
Captain Day Trips plans your travel itinerary for the coming year.
Jazz Sides
Austin is currently in the throes of an unprecedented outpouring of local jazz releases. Here, then, is a sampling of the most notable. Saxophonist/flutist Alex Coke, along with pianist Rich Harney, trumpeter Martin Banks, and the late drummer A.D. Mannion, constituted the core of the Worthy Constituents for more than a decade, even playing when…
“Lunatics and Lovers” Schedule
The Austin Film Society’s new series, “Lunatics and Lovers: Screwball Comedy of the Thirties,” runs Tuesdays, 7:30pm, at the Arbor Theatre (10000 Research Blvd.). The series’ finale, Dorothy Arzner’s The Wild Party, screens at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown (409 Colorado) at 7pm. Admission is free to all films. All features will be preceded by a…
Orange County
Orange County 2002, PG-13, 83 min. Directed by Jake Kasdan, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Lily Tomlin, Leslie Mann, John Lithgow, Catherine O’Hara, Jack Black, Schuyler Fisk, Colin Hanks. After he discovers that there’s “more to life than extreme sports and trying to get laid,” teenage mensch Shaun Brumder (Hanks) hopes to escape…
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar tells us about how Winona Ryder’s troubles just won’t go away.
Phases and Stages
Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas By Elijah Wald Rayo, 333pp., $24 How to document history is a source of debate among scholars and critics. Is it best to sidle up to a subject and get the goods from the horse’s mouth or to report on a subject from a…
Coming Out From the Cold
aGLIFF screens two short docs focusing on the coming-out process.
To Your Health
For years my periods have been getting worse, but I’m afraid if I go to the doctor he would find endometriosis, and I don’t want to use hormones. Are there any alternatives?
Something Short of Miraculous
Months in the making, the city’s plan to maintain reproductive services at Brack still raises questions.
Short Cuts
Wake up, and smell the heaping accolades on Richard Linklater.
Gosford Park
The servants know all in this Altman mystery set in a British countryside estate in the Thirties.
About AIDS
Because it reproduces very fast and makes careless mistakes, HIV naturally mutates and grows resistant to any given drug over time. Perhaps 20-60% of HIV positive people have a virus that resists at least one of the 15 drugs. So how can poz people tell if a drug is going to work as part of…
Pumping Edwards Dry?
Creedmoor-Maha’s request to pump more water gets nixed by the Barton Springs / Edwards Aquifer Conservation District.
TV Eye
Another day, another blah awards show
