Scanlines
LANCELOT OF THE LAKE D: Robert Bresson; with Luc Simon, Laura Duke Condominas, Humbert Balsan, Vladimir Antolek-Oresek, Patrick Bernard, Arthur De Montalembert, Charles Balsan, Christian Schlumberger. New Yorker Video This 1974 film by French director Robert Bresson has only recently been released on videotape. Bresson is a unique filmmaker quite unlike any other; his style…
Live Music Recommended
Backyard, Saturday 22 Saturday night in Texas and Monte Warden is playing under the oak at the Backyard. He’s not Lyle Lovett yet, but locals still wait for that day, and until then we’re satisfied to do that drive-in thang out in Bee Caves. One carload of kids and kinfolk is $20, and if you’ve…
About AIDS
“I’m HIV-Positive – Doing OK – What Now?” If you know that you are HIV-positive, that means that at some time you answered “Yes” to the question, “Should I take the HIV antibody test?” It’s likely you’ve been grappling with questions ever since. Perhaps you’ve asked yourself, your friends, your doctor whether AZT, ddI, ddC,…
Eastside Community Organizations
All the consensus-building in creation can’t obfuscate the fact that things work differently on the Eastside. Austin may seem incestuous to central-city liberals surprised to run into friends and allies over margaritas, but that’s only because, in the majority culture, we’re used to segregating our pursuits; there is a time and a place for business,…
Day Trips
From stagecoach inns to Shakespeare, the ghost town of Winedale has a history that spans from the earliest days of Stephen F. Austin’s colony to its current habitation by college students. As a symbol of Texana, Winedale’s history began in 1834, when a young pioneer from South Carolina and his wife built a sturdy cedar…
Austin Interfaith
They’re called “accountability sessions.” In reality, they’re demonstrations of power – blatant examples of political muscle flexing. But what makes the events enjoyable is that, for once, politicians aren’t the ones doing the flexing. Instead, they are genuflecting. Once or twice a year, Austin’s politicians and politician wannabes attend one of these accountability sessions and…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows…
Are you red-haired? Then you’re hirsutorufous. According to Terry Jones, Richard the Lion-hearted, who became king of England in 1189, probably didn’t know how to speak English. He also could have been the lover of King Phillip of France. According to G. Gordon Liddy, Noah (of Noah and the Ark) would have been found to…
Member Congregations of Austin Interfaith
Antioch Baptist Congregation Agudas Achim Congregations Church of Austin Cristo Rey Catholic Ebenezer Baptist First United Methodist Great Mt. Zion Baptist Greater Union Baptist Holy Cross Catholic Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Mt. Olive Baptist Northwest Hills Methodist Our Lady of Dolores Catholic Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Sacred Heart Catholic San Jose Catholic St. Albert…
Hearth & Soul
Going Places I’ve spend one-quarter of my life building paths. The rest of the time I’ve spent exaggerating. But when you think of it, it hasn’t been a waste of time, because what else is there to life other than trying to get from one place to another? Now that Richard and I live on…
Naked City
Naked City Edited by Louisa C. Brinsmade, with contributions this week by Andrea Barnett and Dave Cook. APD SIGNS AGREEMENT AFTER CEDAR AVE. INCIDENT: February’s so-called Cedar Avenue “police riot” was in the news once again when officials released a nine-page “agreement” last week between the Austin Police Department (APD), citizen members of the Committee…
Capital City Christian Coalition
Austin Interfaith isn’t the only game in town for politically active churches. The Capital City Christian Coalition (CCCC) is also working to forge religious and political unity among some 150 Travis County churches of various denominations with their “Salt and Light” ministries. The similarity with Interfaith ends there. While Interfaith is interested in funding for…
Road Shows
JULY FRI 21 Cher U.K., Pamper the Madman, Hole in the Wall FRI 21 SNFU, Bouncing Souls, HSL, Eco Action Warehous FRI 21 Pervis, Man or God, Emo’s FRI 21 Sponge, Letters to Cleo, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, Figdish, Liberty Lunch SAT 22 Extreme Noise Terror, Grief, Soilent Green, Eco Action Warehouse SAT 22 Humpers, Woggles,…
7 and 7 is
A bit of the old and new. To start with the old, Austin’s Wonderland Gang has had a single on the wall at Sound Exchange for a while, and all the fans of that wave of sound emanating from New Zealand and Loveless-era My Bloody Valentine need to prick up their ears. On the lower…
Show Times
Showtimes listed below start Friday, July 21 and cover the week ending Thursday, July 27. *An asterisk (*) before a title means that no passes or special admission discounts (apart from matinee discounts) will be accepted for any screening. *Parentheses indicate weekend showtimes for Saturdays and Sundays only, unless otherwise noted. *Changes may sometimes occur,…
Bonus Tracks
TIME IS ON OUR SIDE: THE DEJADISC SAMPLER (Dejadisc) A 76-minute catalogue sampler that reminds you just how many quality Austin records San Marcos’ Dejadisc has released since 1992: 14. Butch Hancock romances “Belle Starr” from the Jo Carol Pierce tribute Across the Great Divide, David Rodriguez impales himself on the title track to his…
food-o-file
Lilliputian Luncheon Lunch for Mama and Baby Central Market, 4001 North Lamar, 206-1014 Monday, July 24, 10:30am-1pm; $25 Considering that a healthy diet is the most important building block for a healthy kid, this innovative class seems like a great idea for new or expectant Moms. Sherry Smith, soup chef extraordinaire at the Kerby Lane…
Dancing About Architecture
Rumors are on the fly about the potential fate of Antone’s Records’ hard rock subsidiary DMZ, and even of sister label dos. Following on the heels of a series of “personnel changes,” as owner Harry Friedman puts it, there’s a buzz going around regarding the closing or possible sale of the Antone’s subsidiaries. Friedman vehemently…
Back From the Grave
Someone apparently made a mistake, a very large mistake. It was 1953. As engineers from the U.S. Bureau of Reclama-tion and the Mexican Ministry of Hydraulic Resources hurried to finish the Falcon Dam that would harness the waters of the Rio Grande below Laredo, they calculated that the newly created reservoir would take about three…
Mersey Makers
by Mindy LaBernz Pretend, for a moment, you’re riding the Tube in London, and the weekly tabloid you’ve just opened is Melody Maker. As you flip rabidly through pages upon pages of music opinion, scouring reviews for word on Supergrass’ latest single or dish about Oasis, you know three things to be absolute fact: You’re…
Civil War Landscapes and Legacies When Johnny Came Marching Home
The number of words written about the Civil War surpassed the actual dead on the battlefield well before the war was over. And when the killing stopped, the accounts of the fighting were only getting started. One hundred and forty years later, they’re still crankin’ ’em out, sometimes, it seems, just as fast as the…
So What
by Andy Langer “It’s not like I’m trying to win any popularity contests,” says Brannen Temple. It’s a good thing too, because he’s not likely to win any blue ribbons in the immediate future. To be popular, one must be known and liked, and, perhaps undeservedly, Temple’s not much of either in this town. Yet…
High on Pies Portents of Perfect Pizza
by Rob Patterson Frank & Angie’s Pizzeria 508 West Avenue, 472-3534 Open daily 11am-10pm My kingdom for a slice. That’s been this pizza lover’s cry since relocating from the East Coast. Naturally, the recent opening of Frank & Angie’s Pizzeria – right behind one of Austin’s most reliable burger joints, Hut’s, whose owners are involved…
Texas Culture Bash
Like Good Samaritans of lost arts, Texas Folklife Resources can look back on their 10 years of work with pride – 10 years that will be celebrated by TFR this Sunday (July 23) with the “Texas Culture Bash.” Taking place on the grounds of Laguna Gloria, this all-day festival will feature over two dozen performers…
Sudden, Silent Exit
by Robert Faires On Wednesday, July 5, near noon, stage director Mark Ramont finished packing his belongings into a truck and left Austin, Texas, for good. He had told no one in advance that he was leaving town: not the participants in the acting laboratory he leads every Saturday; not the designers with whom he…
Ernie Cort�s
by Robert Bryce He’s been called one of the most powerful people in Texas, and has been f�ted as one of the saviors of American democracy. William Greider, political writer for Rolling Stone, devoted a chapter in his book Who Will Tell the People to the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) in general, and to Cort�s…
LISA DAVIS 1963-1995The Moon Is Blue…
Thumbing through a “Best of Austin” back issue (1992 – Vol. XII, No. 5), I happened upon two lovely photographs: one of a bunch of women gleefully frolicking in the fountain outside of the LBJ Library at UT, the other of a bunch of women thrusting margarita glasses high, whizzing past a streaky night sky…
Council Watch
by Alex De Marban What do Judge Lance Ito and Eric Mitchell have in common? Their swivel chairs. Reacting to the council’s decision three weeks ago to reseat Mitchell in the “traditional black chair” at the left end of the dais, the Black Citizens’ Task Force gave Mitchell a $1,300, “Relax the Back” seat before…
Film
TEMPTATION OF A MONKD: Clara Law; with Wu Hsin-kuo, Joan Chen, Zhang Fengyi. A masterful period drama with a touch of violent action, Temptation of a Monk is terrific, hypnotic entertainment, directed with uncompromising patience and skill by one of Hong Kong’s few “arthouse” filmmakers – Clara Law (Autumn Moon, Farewell China). Made during the…
“Corporate Predator” Dissected
Have I talked about Freeport-McMoRan lately? Well, I’m sorry if I haven’t, because our friends from New Orleans are the subject of a long article in the new issue of The Nation magazine. The July 31 article, by Eyal Press, includes a rundown of the recent murders near the company’s gold and copper mine in…
Post Scripts
*SAT, JUL 22: Mary Willis Walker will be at Adventures in Crime and Space for the paperback release of her Edgar Award-winning Red Scream. Also appearing is Billie Sue Mosiman, author of Widow. The writers will be there from 2-4pm… Michael C. Burton, author of Eakin Press’ John Henry Faulk: The Making of a Liberated…
