I’m No Angel
I’m No Angel 1933, NR, 87 min. Directed by Wesley Ruggles, Starring Mae West, Cary Grant. The one and only Mae West struts her stuff in the direction of playboy Cary Grant. The film is as verbally risqué as ever.
Soccer Watch
Iraqi soccer team makes the Olympics, but if only they had a country; the Lightning get whupped; and more soccer news from ‘Old Europe’
Music, Art, P.E. Teachers Want Their Money Back
Austin ISD’s ‘special areas’ experiment is dubbed a failure
DVD Roundup
Jonny Quest: The Complete First Season Warner Home Video, $64.99Samurai Jack: Season OneWarner Home Video, $29.99 Around-the-world adventures with human characters that had every imaginable weapon, vehicle, or gadget at their disposal made the animated series Jonny Quest a favorite when it ran in the 1970s. However, contemporary audiences may find Jonny Quest dated. The…
TCB
The Hole (birthday) enchilada, record store bargains, and Scott Weiland’s screed
The Common Law
How do I choose a lawyer?
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
DVD Roundup
Searching for Debra WingerLion’s Gate Home Entertainment, $24.99 “Can you have both?” asks director Rosanna Arquette – meaning, for women, an artistic career and a satisfying personal and domestic life. Half of Hollywood gives her an answer, as well as some internationally based female actors (Emmanuelle Béart, Julia Ormond). The result is an often absorbing…
Health, Wealth, and Happiness on E-Night
Hospital district backers top the list of happy people
To Your Health
What is CRP and what is the connection to cancer?
Naked City
Partners sought for the long-discussed reuse of the Downtown power plant
DVD Roundup
The Marx Brothers Collection Warner Home Video, $59.99 This long-overdue collection of seven classic (and not-so-classic) Marx Brothers films gathers up A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, A Night in Casablanca, Room Service, At the Circus, Go West, and The Big Store, which is as good an introduction to the cacophony…
On the Right Path
Playwright Tom White reflects on his latest work, The Misses Overbeck, and on the 30 years of playwriting that preceded it
About AIDS
Want to make a contribution to ending the AIDS epidemic around the world? Here’s your chance: Volunteer for vaccine research. Central Texas Clinical Research, the local research group, is seeking healthy, HIV-negative adult participants in a promising HIV vaccine study. The vaccine being tested, developed by pharmaceutical giant Merck, is made from a man-made copy…
Naked City
And Texans hint they might not oppose an income tax after all
DVD Roundup
Spaced: The Complete First & Second SeriesChannel 4 Video, £19.99 Although so far it’s only available Stateside as a Region 2 PAL import, this BBC Four sitcom from Edgar Wright, whose debut feature, Shaun of the Dead, is currently No. 1 at the UK box office, is worth the price of a new all-region player…
A Summer Place
Your Style Avatar does the unthinkable and exposes himself to sunlight, presenting the latest in summer fashion
The ‘N’ Word
Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?
Naked City
Disputed rape victim sues her attorneys for not filing a civil rights case
Pythons, Protests, and ‘Passion’
Terry Jones understands full well the gleeful irony of his film Monty Python’s Life of Brian enjoying its 25th anniversary at exactly the same time that Mel Gibson is exploring similarly theological territory with his The Passion of the Christ. The whole idea of putting Brian up against Christ – again! – was apparently too…
Changing of the Bard
Austin Script Works director Dan Dietz passes the pen to Colin Denby Swanson
Phases and Stages
Loretta LynnVan Lear Rose (Interscope) That Jack White produced, hand-selected the band, and plays on Loretta Lynn’s 47th album certainly kicks up the hipster quotient a few hundred notches. It also reveals that the First Lady of Country Music is as capable of sock-rocking as the White Stripes, and that Jackie boy is just a…
Naked City
Perry, BPP admit Houston crime lab victim is actually innocent
2004 Paramount Theatre Summer Film Series
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Arts Folks Nix Tex Tix Tax
When the Texas Legislature sought to pay for a property tax cut with a tax on performing arts events, local arts groups mobilized and made their opposition heard
Phases and Stages
Patti SmithTrampin’ (Columbia) In a year when women artists from Loretta Lynn to Eliza Gilkyson are making career-defining works, having Patti Smith conjure the past on Trampin’ is most appropriate. Touted as her return to form (as were Gone Again, Peace and Love, and Gung Ho before it), with PSG members returning as co-writers and…
Naked City
The state doctors’ group stands up for physician, patient rights
Short Cuts
Austin blazes another trail: the Cinema Touching Disability 2004 Film Festival
Arts Bullets
Physical Plant Theater invites you to share the joys of moonlight croquet and badminton at its garden party fundraiser
Phases and Stages
Patterson HoodKillers & Stars (New West) If you know Patterson Hood at all, you’ve heard his band, Athens, Ga.’s, Drive-by Truckers. DBT has almost single-handedly reinvigorated Southern Rock with their three-guitar lineup and shows that are loud, proud, and sweat-soaked to the bone. Hood has been selling homemade copies of Killers & Stars periodically at…
Naked City
The school board decides to boost the bond package price tag
TV Eye
The Lion in Winter roars back on Showtime
Exhibitionism
“The Collaborative Spirit: Prints, Presses & Deluxe Artists’ Books” at the Ransom Center is a terrific show that recalls the exuberance and true freedom of an earlier America through collaborations by visual artists and writers in printed books
Phases and Stages
Probot(Southern Lord)Eagles of Death MetalPeace Love Death Metal (AntAcidAudio / Rekords / Rekords) In the face of nü-metal and aggro-core comes the heaviest, most elaborate attempt at true metal: Dave Grohl’s Probot. An all-star army of thrash, grind, black, and heavy metal has assembled to take a meat tenderizer to the brain. From the opening…
Naked City
Austin ISD adopts a new – and obviously important – student dress code
Exhibitionism
Refraction Arts Project’s production of Orange is a true accomplishment, with interlaced stories weaving an explosive tale about the destruction of humanity
Phases and Stages
ECM New Series New Series, the child of highly respected jazz and world music parent ECM, regales with modern symphonies, early music chants, and avant-garde partnerships. Its latest series sings with a spiritual bent, spanning groundbreaking requiems to aural poems of mystic love. Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian re-collaborates with acclaimed Armenian violist Kim Kashkashian on…
Naked City
Richard Florida “answers his critics” – but misunderstands the question
Shrek 2
Shrek reloaded: DreamWorks discovers that it’s easy being green.
Exhibitionism
The prints and drawings in the Blanton Museum’s “Heroines, Harlots, and Hussies: Old Testament Women in Renaissance and Baroque Prints” illuminate the way women shape biblical history, even though it’s often through their misbehavior
Phases and Stages
ECM Jazz Just four months before legendary drummer Billy Higgins died in 2001 waiting for a liver transplant, he reunited with his longtime, periodic collaborator Charles Lloyd at the latter’s California home to record Which Way Is East, an intimate and spiritually charged 2-CD set. The duets are, in fact, meditations ranging from the somber…
Austin @ Large: For Whom the Road Tolls
The Regional Mobility Authority takes small but necessary steps in the direction of multi-modal transportation
I’ll Sing for You
A documentary about Mali blues giant Boubacar Traoré.
News/Print
In the apocalyptic battle known as Keep Austin Reading, the city has struck yet another blow: On Friday, May 14, the Austin Public Library announced that the third selection in the Mayor’s Book Club is Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses. Past selections have been Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima and Austinite Louis Sachar’s Holes.…
A Battle on the Shuttle
For aggrieved UT drivers, the buck stops at Capital Metro
Snake Eyes
As Perry’s session goes down to defeat, the rest of Texas celebrates a victory
I’m Not Scared
Sun-dappled sadism and sweet innocence merge in this psychological thriller that sees evil from a young Italian boy’s point of view.
Page Two
The manufactured debate over Kerry’s war record, in light of Bush’s privileged nonparticipation, is testament to Republican strategists’ sound-bite brilliance
The Systems, Side By Side
Capitol Metro vs. the UT Shuttle
The Hightower Report
Nanotechnology will rain gold on us just like, um, high tech did; and Colin Powell promises jobs … to India
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring
A Buddhist monk, viewed from childhood to old age, becomes a vehicle for exploring the journey of the soul in this cinematically rich Korean film.
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar has attended 10 of Club De Ville’s fashion shows and has this to say about the direction they are going in: “Pfffft~!”
Ardmore Remembered
The Democrats gather at Scholz Garten to celebrate the Ardmore anniversary
DVD Roundup
Rounding up the latest in DVD
Stupidity
Could it be?: a study of human stupidity that’s not, um …, stupid?
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Climbing coatimundis, Castro’s cash flow, and a culture collector
The New Mueller: Prepare for Landing!
After 20 years of preparation, the City Council moves forward on the Mueller Airport Redevelopment plan
DVD Roundup
Desk Set Fox Home Entertainment, $14.99 Imagine a world before Google. People with photographic memories were worth their weight in gold. Companies employed entire research departments. 1957’s Desk Set, adapted by Nora Ephron’s parents, is the post-World War II battle of man versus machine in a Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn man-versus-woman vehicle. In this eighth of…
Day Trips
Lavender might some day join wildflowers, peaches, and wine as a signature product of the Texas Hill Country
Old West Austin Fights the Cut-Through Menace
Lamar, Enfield road reconstruction boxes in Downtown neighbors
DVD Roundup
Ripley’s Game New Line Home Entertainment, $26.99 This elegant, English-language thriller from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani is further proof – as if we needed it – that theatrical distribution in the U.S. has gone positively loony. Filmed two years ago, denied distribution Stateside since then, and now gone straight to DVD, Ripley’s Game stars John…
Luv Doc Recommends: “Live at the Nutt” with Matt the Electrician and Southpaw Jones
Several years ago William Jefferson Clinton, America’s greatest living president, said in a speech at UT that we should, “expand the definition of ‘us’ and shrink the definition of ‘them.’” Sage advice from a true American patriot, no doubt, especially coming from a former resident of Arkansas, where more than likely such a sentiment is…
