Cover Story
Long Way Home
Considering the art of the map, as inspired by two local exhibitions and a housewarming party
The Kid
The Kid 1921, NR, 54 min. Directed by Charles Chaplin, Starring Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance. The Kid (1921) is a sentimental comedy that pairs the Tramp with a foundling.
The Landless: On the Roads of America
The Landless: On the Roads of America 2003, NR, 90 min. Directed by Miguel Barros. The Landless: On the Roads of America documents Brazil’s Landless Movement.
Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling
Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling 2004, NR, 74 min. Directed by Ruth Leitman. The documentary traces the history of women’s wrestling back to 1939 and Gladys (Killem) Gillem’s circus act. It continues more anecdotally with reminiscences from the sport’s colorful pioneers, now in their 70s and 80s, and ends…
After a Fashion
Is ‘5 x 7’ big enough for your Style Avatar? And is Brigitte Bardot old enough?
Phases & Stages
Sleater-KinneyThe Woods (Sub Pop) It’s been 31Ú2 years since Sleater-Kinney’s post-9/11 screed, One Beat (Kill Rock Stars), brought a blistering new heat to the protest song. So, if One Beat was the Portland, Ore., trio’s post-punk nod to Dylan, then The Woods is its Iron Butterfly. Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein’s guitars scream bansheelike, drummer…
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Federal drug czar still lying about pot and wasting taxpayer money
Arts Review
All in all, the Zachary Scott Theatre Center’s production of ‘Lost Highway’ is a good musical for fans of Hank Williams looking for a nostalgic interlude
About AIDS
The secret to making HIV treatment work is deceptively simple: near-perfect adherence
Phases & Stages
When multireedist/composer Ted Nash isn’t toiling away at his day job with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, he’s cutting albums of stunning quality. As a follow-up to his largely overlooked 2003 gem, Still Evolved, Nash and his chamber ensemble, Odeon, infuse their new project, La Espada de la Noche (Palmetto), with the romantic, dramatic, and…
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PartnerShop pairs up Ben & Jerry with at-risk youth
Arts Review
As Ballet Austin danced through a mist of blue, ‘Swan Lake’ cast its spell once more
To Your Health
Does an abortion increase the risk of breast cancer?
Phases & Stages
Mando Diao, the Comas, Danko JonesEmo’s, May 16 Andy Herod shredding his bunk bed voice seemed easily explained. Following 35 minutes of Fred Flintstone punk from proselytizing Toronto trio Danko Jones, the Comas popstronaut apparently had little choice but to screech the pomp in Emo’s filling front room. The North Carolina quintet floated the woozy…
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Keeping school children safe … from TV reporters
The Common Law
Copyright 101 – the basics
Phases & Stages
The Raveonettes, Autolux, the PeelsThe Parish, May 17 It’s always hard to tell who came to see a band because they like them, and who came because Spin or Rolling Stone has a boner for them. Such was the case of Tuesday night at the Parish. After being sufficiently roused by the denim rock of…
It Just Doesn’t Add Up
As the session winds down, school finance reform recedes once again
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
Veering from moments of breathtakingly visualized valor to outright stupidity, Sith is a vast improvement over the previous two outings, but still and all, it’s no Star Wars.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Poisonous frogs and British smiles
Shrinking Schools
While the suburbs sprawl, central city schools count their children – and their blessings
Lege Notes
Odds and ends (mostly odds) from the 79th
Unleashed
Jet Li, in his first Western role of any depth, convincingly plays both man and beast, although a sentimental script by producer Luc Besson hampers the story.
Day Trips
Head on out to the Becker Vineyards for this year’s Lavender Fest
Top 10s
AISD’s 10 Most Underenrolled SchoolsAs more and more young families move to the urban fringe, central and East Austin school populations have slowly declined, leaving many schools well below capacity. enrolled/capacity % of capacity 1) Allan 436 / 900 48.4% 2) Becker 256 / 550 51.2% 3) Blackshear 309 / 600 51.5% 4) Oak Springs…
Point Austin: Lessons Learned
As the dust clears, what wisdom remains from the latest council free-for-all?
Les Choristes
A box-office smash in its native France, this kindly and spirited film doesn’t exactly break the mold of the heartwarming, humanistic boarding-school dramedy.
Soccer Watch
The Tornados hit Austin; Man United takes on Arsenal
Game, Set … Match?: Tennis Battle Rages
Galindo neighbors want South Austin Park kept as open space
Point Austin: Beside the Point: First We Pay, Then �
What’s up on this week’s City Council agenda
Head-On
The marriage of two Turks who meet while in a German psychiatric hospital grows from a relationship of convenience into a genuine love affair.
Restaurant Poll 2005
The readers have spoken
Shoal Creek Boulevard Frankencurbs Draw Ire of Residents
Few defend bike/car compromise
The Hightower Report
Help save Mother Earth; and so much cash, so little time
Whut It Dew
They don’t call DJ Rapid Ric the Mixtape Mechanic for nuthin’
Endorsement
The ‘Chronicle’ endorses Margot Clarke in Place 3
Slash and Learn
Austinites Troy Lanier and Clay Nichols’ ‘Filmmaking for Teens: Pulling Off Your Shorts’ hinges on the writer / director / producer model
Whut It Dew 2
1) “Welcome to Texas” (Bun B) 2) “Rapid Ric Intro” 3) “World Famous Whut It Dew 2 Intro” 4) “Gimme That Pussy” (Webbie & Bun B) 5) “Pimp in My Own Mind” (Ray Cash) 6) “Screw Dat” (Nac) 7) “Twanks or Swangs” (Freestyle Kingz & Magno) 8) “Chamillionaire Cosigns” 9) “What’s Really Hood” (Scarface/Benzino) 10)…
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Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
Clip and Save
The 2005 Paramount Summer Film Classics series
Down in the Dirt
As the words “still tippin’ on four-four’s, wrapped in four Vogues” echo through wide canyons of rap nostalgia, a distorted violin loop sends cold shivers through nodding bones as the ghost riders of Texas emerge. MCs Mike Jones, Slim Thug, and Paul Wall might be the ones with their names on the most ominous underground…
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Avid rider Ellis wants drivers to give a wider berth
DVD Watch
In 1694, three years prior to �Tales of Mother Goose,� which set into print folkloric hand-me-downs �Cinderella,� �Puss in Boots,� and �Little Red Riding Hood,� Charles Perrault donned �Donkey Skin.� Three hundred years later, Jacques Demy adapted it.
Blazing Saddles
An alliance long past overdue, locals MC Bavu Blakes and DJ Baby G bond like Crazy Glue on their Blazing Saddles mix disc. Reinforcing some of Blakes’ originals, an armory of black-market instrumentals are freestyled with verses altering their intent. Dispersing his quick-witted baritone amidst brief vocal stabs culled from Scarface’s “Recognize” and Devin the…
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Unidentified person of interest will make self known to investigators
TV Eye
It might have been the first time in ‘TV Eye’ history that I watched a review screener twice
Phases & Stages
Nine Inch NailsWith Teeth (Nothing) Poster boy for the industrial Nineties, Trent Reznor returns clean and sober and packing a ferocious chomp on With Teeth. When last the dark lord checked in, on 1999’s sonically numbing The Fragile, it was a weak coda to the powerful NIN machine that turned out genre-defining discs Broken, The…
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Lone Star State needs to adopt Illinois reforms, group says
Arts Review
Topography, organic forms, and the role of water become metaphors in new works by Austin artist Jacqueline May
Phases & Stages
Wouldn’t it be nice if Mike Love had just shut up and let Brian Wilson Smile? David Leaf’s Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson & the Story of Smile doesn’t dwell on its “Heroes and Villains” particularly, thanks to the documentarians being front and center for the four-decade drama’s happy ending. Sunk in the wake of the…
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Money will clean up and redevelop contaminated areas
Musicals Mocking Musicals
Hits like ‘The Producers’ and ‘Bat Boy’ have their singing, dancing cake and spoof it, too
In Person
CODEPINK at BookPeople, May 16
Phases & Stages
OneidaThe Wedding (Jagjaguwar) In 1983, Huey Lewis proclaimed, “I want a new drug, one that won’t make me sick.” Well, ladies and gentlemen, the freaks known as Oneida have been ingesting that drug for the last seven years, their brains properly massaged by feedback and noise, stimulated into creating music that’s a cross between an…
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Slusher and Goodman reflect on a decade of service
Juke Jaunt
The South Austin Museum of Popular Culture treats Austin to a long, loving look at Armadillo Art Squad graphics master Guy Juke in a new solo exhibition
Page Two
The price of Republican domination and the pleasures of repeated listening
Phases & Stages
The EelsBlinking Lights and Other Revelations (Vagrant) Could mopey folkie Mark Oliver Everett (aka “E”) of the Eels finally be content? For a man who spent the last decade winning fans by dealing “Novocaine for the Soul” and “Cancer for the Cure,” his latest work sounds like relief for the masses. Over 33 tracks, Blinking…
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Owners maintain operation is environmentally friendly
22, Two
The Austin Museum of Art has lined up the next 22 local artists that we ought to keep our eyes on
Luv Doc Recommends: Austin Air Guitar Championships
Experts tell us that between 60% and 90% of all communication is nonverbal – exactly the kind of statement of fact that you can’t communicate with your eyes. Fortunately, people don’t pay much attention to experts – much in the same way they don’t pay attention to mimes. Most folks are far too involved with…
