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Meet the New Neighbors
A fugitive sect of Mormon polygamists is building a home – and an end-time temple – in the West Texas town of Eldorado
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen 2005, NR, 90 min. Directed by Tim Irwin, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring . D. Boon – Dennis. 13 years old, falls out of a tree onto Mike Watt. Drummer funkadelic, George Hurley. “Three dudes from [San] Pedro.” 1979. Signed by Black Flag’s Greg Ginn,…
Silent Six Cinema
Silent Six Cinema Cauleen Smith’s Film Festival Programming course hosts the Silent 6 Cinema, a microfilm festival that brings together live local musicians and classic silent films together. Featured artists have prepared their own musical sets for silent shorts.
Blow-Up
Blow-Up 1966, NR, 111 min. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings. One of the films that was in the forefront of the Sixties’ new approach to filmmaking, Antonioni’s Blow-Up remains a classic. Not only does the film capture a sense of swinging London in…
The Leopard
The Leopard 1963, PG, 205 min. Directed by Luchino Visconti, Starring Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon. Visconti’s Palme d’Or winner tells the story of an old world Italian aristocrat in the mid-19th century as he observes his old way of life slowly slipping away. The film is visually sumptuous, and Lancaster as the aging…
Drum Corps International (DCI) World Championship Quarterfinals
Drum Corps International (DCI) World Championship Quarterfinals 2005. Simulcast will feature the top 17 Division I drum corps performing in their entirety, and highlight clips of the first seven corps that performed earlier in the day.
Burn!
In this film from the director of The Battle of Algiers, Brando plays a mercenary who instigates a slave revolt in the Caribbean, only to have it backfire on the British interests for whom he works.
Readings
Realizing that you have to break an egg to make a novelette (or something like that), Jasper Fforde cracks the biggest egg of all and cooks up a delectable new mystery
There Goes the Neighborhood
It’s a muggy, mid-July Friday evening at the Dell Diamond, and tonight’s game is running on rock & roll time. The Round Rock Express are back from a four-game stand in Iowa to face the Nashville Sounds, but their equipment isn’t at the ballpark yet. Although the PA is blasting the Black Eyed Peas’ “Let’s…
Texas Platters
Uptown CreepersWhat They Want (Skarnival/Hairball 8) For the love of god, kill it! Ska is a George Romero zombie with braces hanging off rotten clavicles. Nevertheless, San Antonio’s Uptown Creepers laugh in the face of roots, opting for NOFX sharing a 40 with Less Than Jake while smoking out with Rancid. Genre issues aside, What…
Point Austin: Beside the Point
What’s up on this week’s Council agenda
Readings
Chuck Klosterman, the undisputed king of metadiscussion, has a Ford Taurus with GPS, 600 compact discs, woman trouble, and a mission
Ray Pride’s Singing Field of Dreams
c Eric Burdon p Tina Turner (Ike era) 1b Janis Joplin 2b Mark Arm 3b Wilson Pickett ss Bob Dylan rf Walter Daniels cf Iggy Pop lf O.V. Wright
Texas Platters
The Whiskey DecisionSlow Horse We all know about whiskey decisions. The flip-flopping. The memory loss. The grief. Slow Horse isn’t full of regret, though. It is, however, a moody mother. Opening with an aural attack of “Automatic,” the Austin-via-Flagstaff, Ariz., trio dives into angry lounge (“W.H.Y.D.F.M.L.?”), pop (“Cynthia Said”), fuck-you punk rock, and “The Emo…
House Gives Perry the Finger
House Bills 2 and 3 die; it’s back to square one
Page Two: Page Break
“Page Two” is taking a break
Texas Platters
Areola 51/The SwordRoom 710, July 23/July 24 Watching Oh, Beast! blast out tentacles of weird, pissed-off post-punk hemorrhaging on Saturday night was like watching a rainbow-colored clown car drive off a cliff and into the mouth of an active volcano. And I mean that in a good way. Jerking out songs from their most recent…
Lege Notes
Odds and ends – mostly odds – from beneath the pink granite dome
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar gets all rock & roll on yo’ ass this week! Word!
Texas Platters
VoxtrotRaised by Wolves (Cult Hero) It’s a perfect Sunday morning. No work, no plans, no obligations. The sun is just peaking in from behind a white linen curtain, and all you hear is the hum of the AC. Suddenly, back-up singers pop in from the hallway like an episode of Six Feet Under. You hear…
God’s Work
In the last few years, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its prophet Warren Jeffs have faced increasing law enforcement scrutiny and mounting legal woes. Some of the recent lowlights: July 2004: Jeffs’ nephew, 21-year-old Brent Jeffs, files a civil suit against three of his uncles, including Jeffs, alleging that while…
The Hightower Report
The dark art of science twisting; and if you’re in your fightin’ prime, Uncle Sam is watching
About AIDS
What’s the latest scoop on HIV treatments?
Texas Platters
Slim Thug Already Platinum (Geffen) Rapid Ric & Mr. Rogers Afta da Relays (Mixtape Mechanic) Suav Hate Me From a Distance (For the Crown) Deuce AlmightyIn Deuce We Trust (C3) Buddy Leroy Pimp Stroll (Mumbo Jumbo) DeLoach The Life and Times of Wally DeLuxe (Black Son) With “diamonds pressing up against the wood grain wheel,”…
Quotations of the Prophet Warren Jeffs
The following are excerpted from transcripts of several audio clips featuring the preaching and teaching of FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs. The audio clips were obtained by The Eldorado Success and are posted on the Success Web site, www.myeldorado.net. On Race “You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, or rude and…
Bigger Stakes
Richard Linklater on remixing ‘The Bad News Bears’
To Your Health
What’s the deal with acrylamide?
Texas Platters
Stephen Bruton From the Five (New West) Although best known as a guitar slinger, Stephen Bruton is also a first-class songwriter. Among others, Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, and Jimmy Buffett have recorded his songs. While the Saxon Pub mainstay has long demonstrated the ability to master a variety of rootsy styles…
The Banks of the Blanco
Environmentalists and Hays County clash over river-clearing project
On the Case: No. 1
The Burnt Orange kids take on ‘The Cassidy Kids’: No. 1 in a series
The Common Law
Buying on eBay – Caveat Emptor
Texas Platters
Susan GibsonOuter Space (ForTheRecords) “Wide Open Spaces” was Susan Gibson’s calling card, an engraved platinum invitation into her world of introspection and endless horizons. For her second solo album, Outer Space, Gibson’s still free falling from Hitsville, floating between sunny optimism (“First Sign of Spring”) and moonstruck cynicism (“Company Man,” “Stop the Bleeding”). “It goes…
Tasers Helped Reduce Use of Force, APD Report Says
But critics still worry about physical effects
Film News
‘The King’ finds a throne, Hanks finds another Wilson, and where you’ll find time to help Marian Yeager; plus, Sandra Bullock should stay closer to home
Day Trips
A sea turtle’s life has never been easy
Texas Platters
Stayton Bonner Think I’m Gonna Move to Australia (Blue Trout) In 2004, Stayton Bonner placed second in the songwriter’s contest at Merlefest, North Carolina’s renown folk/bluegrass festival. It was an impressive feat for the young Texan considering past winners include Gillian Welch and Tift Merritt. Although he’s previously released a disc of demos, Think I’m…
Benedict Charges Campaign Finance Violations
Unsuccessful council candidate says out-of-town money violates the law
DVD Watch
How great it is to have an outlet like this in town? Pretty great. But how great is this anthology?
Soccer Watch
Lightning falls short of playoffs
Texas Platters
Billy DeeWhen the Vow Breaks (Country Mile) Two things about When the Vow Breaks say it all. The first is the classic country title. The second is the CD art: a couple caught in the act of cheatin’ and by the expression on Billy Dee’s face, someone’s in Big Trouble. Well, good. And good for…
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
TV Eye
The flirting has just begun. Yes, it’s only the end of July, and yet the networks are already running promos for new shows that may not even premiere until late fall.
TCB
It may be in Chicago, but there’s something distinctly Austin about Lollapalooza 2005.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Klaatu, Barada, and Nikto
Texas Platters
Willie NelsonCountryman (Lost Highway) George StraitSomewhere Down in Texas (MCA) Rodney CrowellThe Outsider (Columbia) Is it better to be prolific or profound? Surely Willie Nelson knows, but he’s either forgotten or doesn’t care. His 31st release since 2000, Countryman’s reggae is hardly radical; culturally, Nelson’s been the Lone Star Bob Marley for decades. The music’s…
Naked City
Enviros question whether employees would really drive fewer miles to new campus
Off-Off-Broadway Bound
An Austinite’s account of taking the stage in New York City
Oops!
A “Naked City” item about gubernatorial candidates’ campaign coffers said Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn has a total of $5.7 million cash on hand. Strayhorn’s campaign actually has $7 million in the bank.
Texas Platters
With last year’s debut EP, Spiral Haircase, Tuxedo Killers pulled off a post-punk fission of Austin, 1985, minimalism and maximum freneticism warring to the donkey screams of George Dishner. “NYC Soap,” “I’m So Funn!,” and “Friendly Feud” kicked black and blue for 17 fan-“Tasticle” minutes. M. Night Shyamalan’s Tuxedo Killers (Furniture Records), ponies up another…
Naked City
Skatepark promised by city
Must Love Dogs
Convinced that one is the loneliest number, a divorced woman uses man’s best friend to catch a new mate.
Movin’ On Up
With a hotshot New York design team on board, Arthouse makes a long-awaited start on the transformation of its second story
Combination Punch
Sushi Japon puts it all together with restraint and good taste
Texas Platters
CliffordSignal the Sun Bryce and Bradford Clifford came from what they call an art-punk band in Toronto, moved to Austin, and now have produced a country-tinged roots-rock album that has all the personality of a skipping stone. Blessed only by the pedal steel of Cowboy Junkie Kim Deschamps, Signal the Sun is a generic attempt…
Naked City
Violates free speech, judge says
Sky High
An adolescent superhero can’t find his niche.
Two(Funny)fer Words
The Friday Night Twofer is a new night of hilarity building on the recent explosion of improvisational theatre and comedy troupes in Austin
Romeo’s
It might be old-fashioned, but it never gets old
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Creature of Unusual SizeParis Utopia More imported brothers, this time Kyle and Kellen Conrad from Tulsa, Okla. And they’re funky. Not smokin’, electric-slide, James Brown funk; Paris Utopia is a Phish-y funk, hippified from “Letterbox” to “For Getting,” and smelling just as ripe. Sometimes delving into a Ween-y cavern (“No Apologies”), fans of jam bands…
Naked City
In Central Texas, lefties thrive on the Net
Stealth
Masterful aerial action sequences don’t compensate for earthbound plot.
Arts Review
Rupert Reyes’ bilingual comedy ‘Petra’s Pecado’ hits the audience with Mexican culture like a well-wrapped enchilada washed down with a frosty margarita
Billy’s on Burnet
How I found a new favorite hangout
Texas Platters
[DARYL]/Black Tie DynastyBloody Basin (Idol) “Nothing changes when there’s nothing to exchange.” D/FW’s retro Black Tie Dynasty and indie poppers [DARYL] mingle on this split EP. Opener “Bloody Basin” is just that: a dead horse lying at the bottom of a radio pool, bred equally by two similarly different bands. The two following tracks exemplify…
Naked City
Updates and upgrades badly needed
Happy Endings
Movie about master manipulators and the people who love them is rife with surprises.
Arts Review
Alonso Rey’s painted psychological dramas transcend jargon to establish an unexpected truthfulness that captures human character
Liquid Assets
Summer Rosés
Texas Platters
KissingerMe and Otto (WCI) Cotton candy, Pop Rocks, and Slurpees – Kissinger ain’t exactly hardcore. Not that they’re trying to be, but this stuff is sticky sweet and loaded with calories, most notably “Hannah” and “Certain Girls.” Too textbook to be exciting, these Austin boys might well have seen their day come and go, but…
Naked City
Computers intended for humanitarian aid held up at border
Yes
While the unconventional Yes doesn’t realize all of its artistic ambitions, its depiction of romantic passion still resonates.
Culture Flash!
An award for Trio Contraste, a new contract for Peter Bay, a chorus of ‘New York, New York’ for Kirk Lynn and Rob Nash, and benefits for ‘La Pastorela’ and Hyde Park Theatre
Food-o-file
Sweetish Hill is ready to celebrate; plus, Vespaio, P. Terry’s Burger Stand, and many options on the Event Menu
Texas Platters
Kirk SmithSuddenly Bright Out (Man Eats Sparks) Kirk Smith’s banshee vox meet the universe on a scientific scale: comets, seasons, and planets. Dipping into Bowie territory with “All Our Own Way” and slowing down the tempo with the subtle title track, Smith exhibits a good deal of diversity and talent, not surprising coming from an…
Point Austin: Wish Lists
AFSCME steps up to the council budget table, and the bonds begin to take shape
Luv Doc Recommends: The Greencards
If you’re not chain-smoking unfiltereds, it’s time to get with the program. The end is near. As of September, Austinites (at least those health nuts who frequent night clubs, taverns and bars) will have to blacken their lungs with something other than tobacco smoke. That’s not an easy thing to do – especially since pot…
