Line Describing a Cone
Line Describing a Cone 1973, NR, 60 min. Directed by Anthony Mccall, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring . This experimental work is described as a time sculpture that uses “solid” light to create a three-dimensional image contained in the projector’s light beam.
Mr. Mean
Mr. Mean 1977, R, 81 min. Directed by Fred Williamson, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Fred Williamson, Pat Brocato, Lou Castel, Rita Silva, Crippy Yocardo, Angela Dori, Raimund Harmstorf. Footballer-turned-actor-turned-director Fred “the Hammer” Williamson stars as the the titular hero. (For more on the Something Weird Wednesdays series see http://austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-02-16/screens_feature.html.)
Fifth Annual Student Film Showcase Sneak Preview
Fifth Annual Student Film Showcase Sneak Preview NR. Directed by Various, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring . Fifth Annual Student Film Showcase Sneak Preview is a package of 13 short films produced by graduate and undergraduate students in the University of Texas Department of Radio-TV-Film. The program will be presented later this month…
The Lost Boys
The treacherous ground between teenagers and vampirism is explored by this hodge-podge cast of the ubiquitous Coreys and at least two of Julia Roberts’ exes.
Wanda
Wanda 1970, PG, 101 min. Directed by Barbara Loden, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins, Charles Dosinan, Frank Jordano. This first film in the new AFS series is a real gem, a film that has all but vanished from circulation. Wanda is the only film directed by Barbara Loden, an…
After a Fashion
College kids aren’t all about just khakis and baseball caps … the UT Fashion Spectacular has caught the eye of the fashion nation and is spicing up the Austin style scene with its innovations.
2001 Kids’ Summer Fun Guide
Science & Nature FUTURE KIDS Put the power of computers in kids’ hands and watch them rule the world! Camps boast alluring themes like PokenFun (as in Pokémon), space station, Harry Potter, robotics, and lots more. A preschool introduces computers in two-hour camps. Ages: 4-14. May 29-Aug 9. Far West and West Lake Locations. 346-8020.…
Naked City
A long-awaited decision on the rezoning of the Bennett Tract, which has sat vacant awaiting redevelopment for more than 10 years, should happen this Thursday.
Second Helpings: Italian
A smattering of Italian in this week’s “Second Helpings.”
Mr. Smarty Pants
Some wild data to enliven your Stone Age bonecage.
2001 Kids’ Summer Fun Guide
Summer Playground Program Ages: 6-12. Brought to you by the good people at the Austin Parks and Recreation Department. Playground leaders provide a safe and fun-filled environment with activities such as arts & crafts, sports, outdoor games, nature activities, and more. It’s on a drop-in basis, there’s no pre-registration to worry about, it’s free, and…
Naked City
The Open Door Preschool, which offers its services to low-income, disabled, and non-disabled children alike, gets to stay in its old building — from which its landlord had planned to evict it — at a new, more expensive, lease.
A Cuppa Hot Joe
On a comedy club stage, News Radio star Joe Rogan exudes a mad joy for life in all its insanity, depravity, and delicious dirt; if Henry Miller had done stand-up, it would have come out like Joe Rogan’s act.
Day Trips
The Jersey Barnyard is a third-generation working dairy farm featuring “Belle, the singing cow.”
2001 Kids’ Summer Fun Guide
Who Asked You: What’s your favorite thing about summer? Going swimming. When it gets hot I jump in cold water. — Andrew, future accountant I like swimming and going camping at Pedernales Falls. And I like to shop at the mall, buying clothes and stuff. If it’s too hot outside I go to the movies.…
Capitol Chronicle
House Bill 3125 attempts to hold corporations accountable for their actions — the corporate lobby won’t stand for it.
A Boone to Austin Theatre
In 10 years of leading Frontera productions, Vicky Boone has touched many lives and changed the community.
About AIDS
What’s up with this “knowing exposure?”
2001 Kids’ Summer Fun Guide
Fiercest Five Off-the-Beaten-Path Kids’ Activities EXOTIC PET STORES Look, we’ve had it up to here with puppies and kittens and bunnies and all the other cloyingly precious manifestations of the domesticated animal kingdom. Do your kid a favor and take him (or her, especially, because she’ll likely have already been half-brainwashed into abhoring any creature…
The Hightower Lowdown
Campaign finance scam, Chinese prison labor, & bookstore conglomerates
The Center of the World
The Center of the World 2001, NR, 86 min. Directed by Wayne Wang, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Peter Sarsgaard, Molly Parker, Carla Gugino. Wayne Wang’s graphically frank movie about the intersection of sex and commerce is about as titillating as a lap dancer dressed in a snowsuit. Wang’s “Last Tango in Las…
Articulations
Austin artists and arts companies continue to hit the road at a breathless pace.
To Your Health
Knee pain now hampers my ability to run. I have exercised vigorously in the past and I believe a lack of exercise would affect my health and life span. Can food supplements help?
2001 Kids’ Summer Fun Guide
Captain Day Trips’ Favorite Family Outings Seguin Wave Pool Max Starcke Park, South Austin Street, Seguin, 800/580-PECAN Ride big inner tubes atop the wild waves that swell nearly five feet high every 15 minutes at this small-town swimming pool. Park also has wading pools for toddlers and snack bar. Open Memorial Day through Labor Day.…
An Indomitable Culture
Director Maureen Gosling talks about the Zapotec women of Juchitán and ‘Blossoms of Fire,’ the documentary she made about them.
The Mummy Returns
The Mummy Returns 2001, PG-13, 125 min. Directed by Stephen Sommers, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Patricia Velazquez, Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje, Freddie Boath, Oded Fehr, The Rock. Exploding corpses, defiled tombs, POV shots of arcane weaponry, and more CGI monsters than you can shake the Staff…
Exhibitionism
Watching actors Travis Dean and Amy Hopper engage in bitter confrontations during the Disciples of Melpomene production of David Mamet’s Oleanna brings home again the terrible difficulty we humans have in understanding each other and making ourselves understood.
Coach’s Corner
In his “View From the Couch,” the Coach takes on a variety of pressing subjects, from the demise of the Detroit Red Wings and Pat Riley, to the sad state of women’s golf.
2001 Kids’ Summer Fun Guide
Think Like the Animals: Fun Furry Places to Take Kids Austin Zoo 10807 Rawhide Trail, 288-1490 Although most of the Austin Zoocademy sessions are filled for the summer, there’s still plenty to see and do at Austin’s premier zoo. In addition to the big three (lions-tigers-bears), the zoo features capybara, baboon, kinkajou, marmoset, coati mundi,…
Short Cuts
Austin Studios enter Phase 2 development, UT’s Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center shows off its movie wares, and the Alamo Drafthouse seeks campers willing to squeal like pigs.
The Forsaken
The Forsaken 2001, R, 93 min. Directed by J.S. Cardone, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Kerr Smith, Brendan Fehr, Izabella Miko, Johnathon Schaech, Phina Oruche, Matt Reid, A.J. Buckley, Simon Rex, Alexis Thorpe, Carrie Snodgress. It had to happen, I suppose. Given that by this point every other tired vampire cliché has already…
Exhibitionism
Welcome the Bedlam Faction, the latest theatre company to be founded by veterans of UT Austin’s Shakespeare at Winedale program, and its inaugural effort, Ben Jonson’s Volpone, a tale of greed, conniving, status, and, ultimately, morality that Bedlam stages with a seeming insanity that befits its name but which is really quite smart, energetic, creative,…
Unrequited Love
Considering the high prices and small portions, Cuisines Editor Virginia B. Wood admits that to pursue her tryst with Emilia’s would make her a fool for love.
They Got the Beat
Living the pop life in Austin
Video Reviews
A disturbing comedy that is both hysterical and wicked.
Exhibitionism
In The Automated Body Project, Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks’ latest attempt at synthesizing dance and technology, the company took a step back from larger venues and as a result, the humanness and beauty within the movement became more evident.
Food-o-File
Chefs in transit in this week’s Food-o-File.
Explosive Dynamic Super Smash Hits!
Remembering ultimate cheese label K-tel
Video Reviews
One of the best comic adaptations ever produced as well as one of Tim Burton’s most understated fantasy efforts.
Making Gestures
“‘You can have my husband but please don’t you mess with my man’ is my kind of cheek,” visiting Michener Center poet Heather McHugh says in an interview with Chronicle writer Lissa Richardson. “And cheek’s my favorite part of a Texas anatomy.”
Mini-Review
O’s Campus Cafe 24th & Speedway (ACES Building on the UT campus), 232-9060 Mon-Fri, 7:30am-4pm www.aces.utexas.edu/ocafe/ The last time you could find a good fish sandwich within walking distance of the UT campus was many years ago, when the Mad Dog and Beans hamburger stand was still around, offering their magnificent Nanook of the North.…
Dancing About Architecture
Keeping up with Lucinda, Britney, Thurston, Kim, and a bunch of sick people
Video Reviews
Another failed effort to capture Marvel magic.
Ms. Unruly
Marion Winik gives advice?
2001 Kids’ Summer Fun Guide
You’re not one of those parents who has every minute of their kids’ summer planned out before Valentine’s Day, are you? We assume, you being a Chronicle reader and all, that you’re a bit more slackerish than that. Our annual Kids’ Summer Fun Guide has always been published around the antepenultimate week of school (give…
Live Shots
Built to SpillTexas Union Ballroom, April 20 There were a couple of interesting things about this hastily arranged show on the UT campus: namely, opening acts Explosions in the Sky and Windsor for the Derby. And Built to Spill? Oh, they merit a few lines too, but only because they were so remarkably unexciting. We’re…
TV Eye
So what’s snapped Belinda Acosta’s bra strap this week? It’s the announcement that the Wonderful World of Disney will remake Brian’s Song.
Postscripts
The continuing roll call for Texas Writers Month.
2001 Kids’ Summer Fun Guide
General Camps and Classes BOB BULLOCK TEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM Although it’s been open for less than a fortnight, our new state history museum already has a summer camp in place, fittingly called “Texpeditions.” Campers have access to all Museum exhibits as well as free admission to the IMAX and Texas Spirit Theaters. Each morning…
Live Shots
Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain BoysCactus Cafe, April 27 Though it is with skeptic fear and fatalism that we watch our rock stars grow old, practitioners of the more tradition-bound types of American music — jazz, folk, bluegrass — enjoy a forgiving reverence from fans more in respectful accordance with their mileage traveled and…
Blossoms of Fire
Blossoms of Fire 2000, NR, 75 min. Directed by Ellen Osborne, Maureen Gosling, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring . Blossoms of Fire is a bright, amiable chronicle of the vivid lives of the women of Juchitán, a small, sun-soaked city on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, Mexico. The Tehuantepec women are already…
Readings
How Cities Work Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken by Alex Marshall University of Texas Press, 216 pp., $50; $24.95 (paper) Does this ring a bell? “The standard choice today of lacing a metropolitan area with big freeways for purely internal travel means we will have a sprawling, formless environment.” Uh-huh. Now more than…
2001 Kids’ Summer Fun Guide
Arts & Crafts Camps MITCHIE’S FINE BLACK ARTS has two Saturday programs that are free for kids this summer. At Mitchie’s Fine Arts Camp, children learn about art styles of Nigeria and other African countries from professor Christopher Adejumo, an art history professor at UT. All materials provided. Third & fourth Saturdays, 1-4pm, May-August. Mitchie’s…
Live Shots
Houston International FestivalDowntown Houston, April 28-29 Over the past two weekends, Houston hosted what is possibly the biggest, if not the best, music festival in Texas. Set among the city’s gleaming downtown skyscrapers, the International Festival brings in music from around the world for two weekends; each day, the price of a couple of beers…
Shadow Magic
Shadow Magic 2001, PG, 115 min. Directed by Ann Hu, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Li Yusheng, Liu Peiqi, Xing Yufei, Xia Yu, Jared Harris. Shadow Magic imagines a time before movies, a time when people had their initial encounters with moving pictures, when living culture was first witnessed on the screen and…
Readings
Call If You Need Me The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose by Raymond Carver Vintage, 285 pp., $13 (paper) Raymond Carver is perhaps the most influential short story writer of the late 20th century. Before his death in 1988, his collections revealed such a level of austere and swift mastery over the short story form…
2001 Kids’ Summer Fun Guide
Music Camps CHILDREN’S DAY ART PARK Symphony Square is ablaze with music, dance, arts & crafts, and storytelling during this perennial summer activity. Kids get up close and personal with symphony musicians and their instruments through the “instrumental petting zoo” and can create masterpieces at the Art Tent. Different guest musicians headline the mini-festival each…
Who Owns Sixth Street
Is Austin’s Sixth Street Entertainment District undergoing an identity crisis? — and who are the designated shrinks?
Town & Country
Town & Country 2001, R, 106 min. Directed by Peter Chelsom, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Garry Shandling, Jenna Elfman, Nastassja Kinski, Andie Mcdowell, Charlton Heston, Marian Seldes. Though Town & Country’s title refers to its characters’ dual residences, it also calls to mind those smarmy style…
Local Bestsellers
Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests.
2001 Kids’ Summer Fun Guide
Theatre & Dance Camps KIDS ACTING For 20 years, KidsActing has been puttin’ on shows chock-full of young folks, sometimes perfoming original songs by noteworty local musicians. Dede Clark has put her formidable skills behind this camp with locations in Austin, Lakeway, Round Rock, Oak Hill, Pflugerville, Cedar Park, and Georgetown. Camps in all aspects…
Naked City
All eyes downtown may be on Intel and CSC, but down at the other end of the Central City, another “redevelopment” project took a bow last week, perhaps its last. The troubled Waller Creek tunnel, the woefully over-budget project that was supposed to funnel floodwaters out of the 100-year flood plain that covers much of…
Hit and Runway
Hit and Runway 1999, R, 108 min. Directed by Christopher Livingston, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Michael Parducci, Peter Jacobson, John Fiore, Hoyt Richards, Kerr Smith, Judy Prescott, J.K. Simmons, Teresa De Priest. The old writers’ adage goes: Write what you know. While that advice might make for a more authentic writing experience,…
Page Two
The economy begins to affect local businesses, as the ongoing debate over Sixth Street continues.
2001 Kids’ Summer Fun Guide
Horse Camps BEE CAVE RIDING CENTER These summer camps provide training in both Western and English riding as well as classes in horse science and management. There’s a horse show at the end of each week for both beginner and experienced campers to test their skills, an arts program featuring pottery and ceramics, and even…
Naked City
UT President Larry Faulkner’s comments about minority hiring and recruitment anger many minority members of the Texas Legislature.
Public Notice
Hey, what’s going on this week in Austin, public service-wise? Just read this!
2001 Kids’ Summer Fun Guide
Sports Camps AUSTIN SOFTBALL AND BASEBALL TRAINING CENTER America’s favorite pastime besides Web surfing becomes even easier to learn! Austin will be holding summer sports camps for girls and boys. Campers get a snack each day and pizza on Friday, as well some excellent help with their swing. Special one-day clinics available, too. Ages: 7-13.…
Naked City
Rick Green and Ken Armbrister push a flurry of bills creating special water and development districts — including the reviled, though much-revised, “Bradley bill” — through their respective chambers at the Legislature.
