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Few filmmakers would be able to mount a discourse on the 20th century’s art and thought process as broad and extensive as this

by Marjorie Baumgarten

Free Week Live Shots

Whiskey Shivers Mohawk, Jan. 3 Flat-footin’ hipsters may well inhabit hell, but Whiskey Shivers would doubtlessly delight in being the devil’s house band. Blame the local quintet’s frontman and fiddle wiz Bobby Fitzgerald, who hollers possessed hillbilly catharsis behind a dementedly crooked grin. Then there’s the dark, lanky figure of Evan Heidtmann on banjo, leering…

by Doug Freeman

Day Trips

Health Camp in Waco survived the construction of I-35. The burger joint has provided hot meals to travelers since 1948. After the interstate diverted traffic in the Sixties, only locals and knowledgeable travelers stopped at this remnant of culinary history. The large yellow signs on the interstate help educate the uninformed. When the burger stand…

by Gerald E. McLeod

Free Week Live Shots

Girl in a Coma Frank, Jan. 4 An hour before the first amplifier was switched on, there was a long line outside Frank. The hordes weren’t there for the artisanal hotdogs, either. They wanted to see Girl in a Coma. Buzzing with anticipation and $2 beers, the new music venue around the corner from Antone’s…

by Kevin Curtin

8 Murders a Day

The drug-related violence occurring in Juarez, Mexico, is the subject of this impassioned documentary.

by Marc Savlov

Free Week Live Shots

Cruddy, Nazi Gold, Naw Dude, the Best 29th Street Ballroom, Jan. 5 Spiderhouse’s ballroom has come a long way from its days as a used video annex. A sweet patio to match the small corner stage near the bar inside, the venue stars a handsome main stage that crosses the Continental Club’s vintage speakeasy with…

by Raoul Hernandez

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

The belief that mercury cured syphilis endured well into the 20th century. Being wet makes you cold because 1) water is 240 times more heat-conductive than air and 2) you lose heat when water evaporates. Wet air has a greater heat capacity than dry air, so it can remove more heat from you faster than…

by Mr. Smarty Pants

Anarchy Championship Wrestling

Can you believe that the Guilty by Association series is on its sixth installment? It seems like only yesterday that the colorful characters of the ACW started busting one another up within the confines of the ring (usually). To celebrate, they will have their first scaffold match. Sun., Jan. 15, 5:30pm. Mohawk, 912 Red River,…

by James Renovitch

Pariah

Pariah tells the specific but universal story of a black teenage girl who is a virginal lesbian, budding writer, and nonconformist.

by Marjorie Baumgarten

Free Week Live Shots

Dikes of Holland, Not in the Face, Flesh Lights Red 7, Jan. 6 Step inside Red 7, under corporate sponsorship through March, and the walls are now as gray as a Massachusetts winter, but the bathrooms still lack for toilet paper and soap. Psych-blues banshees Dikes of Holland wasted no time raising hell, shooting from…

by Chase Hoffberger

Free Week Live Shots

Metal Matinee Mohawk, Jan. 7 A 4pm start time at Mohawk on Saturday was fixed at just the right time to persuade party hounds out late from the night before to come in early for some heavy sounds. Slurr brought big-bearded rock to the inside stage, a sound full of British heavy metal and thrash…

by Adam Schragin

Business Man

Business Man 2012, NR, 126 min. Directed by Puri Jagannadh, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Mahesh Babu, Kajal Agarwal, Prakash Raj. Not reviewed at press time. This gangster-actioner features second-generation Telugu Cinema star Mahesh Babu (Pokiri).

by Kimberley Jones

Quote of the Week

“I would send troops back into Iraq.” – Gov. Rick Perry, in the Jan. 7 presidential debate, furthering his inability to restart his campaign

by Chronicle Staff

Civics 101

Thursday 12 COMPOST CLASS Austin Resource Recovery hosts the first in a series of free composting classes. Go online to sign up and learn more about valuable rebate offers on compost start-up kits. 6:30-7:30pm. Cepeda Branch Library, 651 N. Pleasant Valley, 974-7372. Saturday 14 TREE RECYCLING Sorry, you have to put the ornaments away yourself.…

by Chronicle Staff

Singled Out

Historically, solo performances have accounted for many of FronteraFest’s most outstanding works. Here are eight of this year’s offerings that may well make history. All Long Fringe performances (LF) are at the Blue Theatre, 916 Springdale, and Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd. All Short Fringe performances (SF) are at Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W.…

by Dan Solomon

Headlines

� City Council meets today (Thursday), with proposed new Austin Energy rates very much in the air and a potential kerfuffle over short-term house rentals. See “Beside the Point” and “Sword of Escamilla Dangles Over City Hall?” › Austin resident Esme Barrera, who was killed in her home Jan. 1, was buried Tuesday in her…

by Chronicle Staff

The Luv Doc: A Mind-Boggling Variety of Sensory Input

Dear Luvdoc, Why is the sky blue? – Gerald. Wow Gerald. Maybe you should instead ask yourself why you don’t have access to Google. Whatevs, Google is for chumps anyway. Sure, you can find answers on Google, but if you’re looking for the real truth, you’re going to have to search a little deeper than…

by Chronicle Staff

The Divide

This is an apocalyptic narrative about a group of people holed up in a bomb shelter who are under attack from biohazard baddies.

by Marc Savlov

Carnage

Roman Polanski directs this chamber piece about the demise of social decorum that’s adapted from the play God of Carnage.

by Kimberley Jones

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