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100 Best Sexy Moments
100 Best Sexy Moments NR. Directed by , Narrated by , Voices by , Starring . The Alamo programmers present their self-chosen selection of the 100 sexiest moments on film. The clips have been chosen with an eye toward seduction rather than porn – picking moments of allure instead of the big bang. Make like…
A Woman Is a Woman
Model-turned-starlet-turned-Godardian spouse Anna Karina seizes the screen as a contemporary woman who works as a topless performer and decides that she wants to have a baby. But neither of the two men in her life share her desires. The movie shows Godard reevaluating the musical genre and almost at a crossroads in his development into…
Love in the 3rd Position
Love in the 3rd Position 1972, NR, 81 min. Directed by Joseph Sarno, Starring Bosse Carlsson, Liliane Malmquist, Britt Marie Engstroem, Marie-Louise Fors. Early work from exploitation king Joe Sarno, Love in the 3rd Position features lots of Swedish babes in a free-love soap opera.
Sisters Within Circles
The new exhibition “Circles,” featuring abstract art by Jacqueline May and Benné Rockett, reveals a dreamy harmony between the two artists.
Sheiks of Industry
Part 2 of the Chronicle’s look at Austin record labels and their founders.
Texas Platters
Golden Arm TrioThe Cry Pitch Carrolls (SVT) Salvage Vanguard Theater’s latest CD, The Cry Pitch Carrolls, features three studio tracks before it gets to remastered excerpts from their original 1999 production of Ruth E. Margraff’s strange and beautiful musical. Longtime SVT collaborators the Golden Arm Trio provide substantial instrumental blessings for both sections. Those two…
Naked City
Briefs argue the usual subjects in preparation for next month’s trial
Standing by Stanley
It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad interview with actor Karen Sharpe Kramer, the widow of the iconoclastic director.
Articulations
Two theatre companies may have to cancel shows if they don’t raise funds by a certain date; ACoT gets down to business; and Hogg Auditorium is headed for a makeover.
Sheiks of Industry
Emperor Jones: Prince of Darkness “It’s like a bad drug habit, putting out records,” says Emperor Jones sultan Craig Stewart, shuffling CDs around the coffee table of his Hyde Park home. “I need to quit it.” Stewart’s latest hit is off the Crack Pipes’ Snakes in My Veins, an Aus-punk body blow signaling a River…
Texas Platters
OHNLet’s Get It … (Independent Records/Ill-Dough) It should come as no surprise to anyone that OHN, the Austin-based electronic supergroup featuring former members of everyone from 16 Volt to Retarded Elf, comes off more like a neo-noir film soundtrack more than any single band the various members have anchored in the past. The 12 tracks…
Naked City
The lite guv gets religion on state college tuition
Exhibitionism
Mexic-Arte Museum’s showing of selections from its permanent collection is a little confusing in setup and somewhat rough, but there’s also something charming about its rusticity.
Sheiks of Industry
Post-Parlo: Santa’s Helper With the simple urge to give a gift, Ben Dickey began blazing the enterprising path of Post-Parlo Records. “I put together an album for my old band Kapsize with the intention of giving it to friends and family as a Christmas present,” explains Dickey. “It eventually found its way into the hands…
Texas Platters
As DJ Screw disciples Lil’ Flip and Big Moe make waves within mainstream circles, fellow Texas rap artists have been busy cultivating the underground circuit. Houston’s K-Otix recently wrapped their second European tour, splitting the bill with Oakland’s Zion I. K-Otix’s latest is the self-released Ethos project, a collaboration with Grand Agent and Mood’s Donte.…
Naked City
The college’s president will depart a year ahead of schedule
The Station Agent
Award-winning indie favorite shows how human beings form emotional connections – despite their best efforts not to.
Exhibitionism
For their production of A Raisin in the Sun at St. Edward’s University, director Melba Martinez has her designers and cast support Lorraine Hansberry’s play in almost every conceivable way, and the rewards to be reaped from their investment are great.
Sheiks of Industry
Mortville: Rocky Road Has it really been eight years since Austin’s garage rock heyday, when the Motards, the Inhalants, and the Cryin’ Out Louds were filling up dives around town? It was then that Motards bassist Toby Marsh joined up with Alex Walston, making Mortville Records the local garage punk stronghold it is today. “Being…
Barbecue and Good Ol’ Boys
A promotions scandal suggests the good ol’ boy network is alive and well at DPS.
Naked City
Lone Star Cab –a drivers’ co-op — seeks a new city taxi franchise
Gothika
Halle and Penelope de-glam for this running, screaming, jumping thriller that never allows logic to interfere.
Exhibitionism
The Bedlam Faction’s sci-fi, action-movie, musical upgrade of Aphra Behn’s 17th-century comedy The Emperor of the Moon is a good time that’s edgy enough for the wilder bunch and tame enough for conventional crowds.
Sheiks of Industry
Super Secret: a Little Louder Now One night last year, Richard Lynn was out bar-hopping and checking out local rockers Manikin. It occurred to him that the worst thing that could happen to the band would be for them to never release a CD and fade away with no proof of their existence “I’ve got…
Fudging the Numbers
Results of 2001 exam scores for the DPS captain promotion process. Note that the 11 promotion slots (boldfaced names) went to the top 11 scorers on the Nov. 27 oral interviews, ensuring that applicants who finished as low as 32nd of 33 on the Oct. 9 written exam got promoted. Also note that each of…
Naked City
The PC giant’s one-day events aren’t enough — in their own opinion
Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat
Bad cat makes stink in theatre.
Readings
Robert Hughes’ description of Goya is tinged, unconsciously, with the image he himself presents to the public: the art critic as macho, for whom the acuteness of response to the occasions of sensibility becomes one of the fine tests of masculinity.
Sheiks of Industry
Perverted Son: Sweatshop Surrealists None of the bands on Perverted Son Records can say co-owners Josh Chalmers and J.D. Fanning aren’t working up a sweat for them. “If bands put out records with us, they want to see us sweat,” says Chalmers. “And we do, especially with no AC.” Perverted Son is housed in an…
The DPS Throne and the Power Behind It
There’s a simple formula for predicting who will be the next director of the Texas Department of Public Safety. Divide the agency by two, with traffic law enforcement (the uniformed troopers) on one side and criminal law enforcement (the detectives) on the other. Even though the three-member Public Safety Commission, appointed by the governor, has…
Naked City
The State Capitol’s commandments win another round in federal court
Elephant
Gus Van Sant examines the petri dish that grows the lethal seeds of high school disaster, à la Columbine.
Readings
Traveling to exotic places with very little money presents many, many pitfalls, and author Ayun Halliday has encountered every one of them. Fortunately, she never leaves home without her solid gold sense of humor.
Sheiks of Industry
Peek-a-Boo: Hole in One After eight years and almost 40 releases, it’s safe to say Peek-a-Boo Records head Travis Higdon has exceeded his goals. “In high school, my big dream to be involved in music was to get a job at Sound Warehouse in San Antonio,” he reveals. “From there, I’d get a transfer up…
Obscene Calling
In the last half of the 20th century there was a governor of Texas who had a mistress in West Austin, and he visited her once a week. This particular governor — not now living in the White House — instructed his bodyguards from the Department of Public Safety never to follow him to the…
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
On the Blizzard / Stratus scandal, the Statesman misses the real story — as usual.
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
The rise and fall of Eighties skateboard king Mark “Gator” Rogowski.
Ourshelves
What sort of brain food sits on the shelves of the women who spin Ear Candy?
Sheiks of Industry
Tight Spot: Guided by Choices “Isn’t indie rock dead?” puzzles Tight Spot Records’ Chuck Stephens, one of the art form’s biggest local boosters. “Does anybody listen to jingle-jangle guitars anymore?” It’s not easy being the sole beacon of optimism among a group of musicians renowned for their fatalism. As Stephens stares into his bowl of…
Maspero: Drinking, Whizzing, Barking
The Williamson County sheriff is accused of a slew of embarrassing transgressions
Capitol Chronicle
Despite the hopeful numbers, the economic outlook on Main Street remains glum.
Shattered Glass
Before Jayson Blair there was Stephen Glass, a fabricator of magazine stories, whose fall from grace is told here.
Page Two
Our political differences are rarely as black and white as partisan politicking makes them seem.
Texas Platters
Broadcasts Vol. 11(107.1 KGSR Radio Austin) A review of KGSR’s annual fundraising 2-CD set seems almost superfluous, since it’s sure to sell out before Christmas and then be available on eBay for at least twice the $15 purchase price not long afterward. Nevertheless, as the Broadcasts series moves into its second decade(!), Vol. 11 offers…
Boy Scouts and United Way Agree to Disagree
Despite calls for a boycott, local reaction muted to split between United Way and Boy Scouts
The Hightower Report
Public financing of elections works; and a Houston firm wants to take American tax dollars without giving any.
After a Fashion
Why is Stephen peeing all over himself this week, and how does he dress to go to Taco Bell???
Texas Platters
Toni PriceBorn to Be Blue (Antone’s/TMG) Celebrating death through music is a bittersweet undertaking, particularly on feel-good music. Titled for Mel Tormé’s torch ballad of the same name, Born to Be Blue displays the maturity of Austin’s Toni Price and her uncompromising quest for quality while mourning her late accompanist Champ Hood. She’s as assured…
Wal-Mart War: Southside Goes It Alone
South Austin neighbors hire their own engineers and planners to salvage the Blunn Creek Supercenter project
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
In 2002, Slovenian archaeologists uncovered a wooden wheel 20 kilometers from Ljubljana. Austrian experts believe the wheel is between 5,100 and 5,350 years old, which makes it the oldest wooden wheel ever found anywhere in the world.Ted McGinley (Happy Days, Married With Children) is rumored to have played a Sleestak on the 1970s kids show,…
Texas Platters
Alejandro EscovedoWith These Hands (Rykodisc) Since back catalog is the only product that sells in this waning era of the Music Business as We Know It, Alejandro Escovedo’s day has finally arrived. Following last year’s beautifully boutique reissues of 1992’s Gravity and ’94’s Thirteen Years is the Austin rocker’s most assured work, which has been…
Naked City
Breaking news from Austin, the region, and elsewhere
Big Beeps and Powerhouses: Animation in Austin
HorseBack Salad may be the new kids on the block, but they’re hardly the only ones in town working on cutting-edge animation, motion graphics, and interactive audio-visual madness. With its wealth of artists and designers still going strong years after the tech bubble burst, Austin is home to many other creative outfits intent on pushing…
Day Trips
Elgin’s City Cafe raises pies to an art form.
Texas Platters
Delbert McClintonLive (New West) Delbert McClinton has dedicated his life to the preservation of honky-tonk blues-rock, a niche the ex-Texan has carved out for himself playing dance halls and roadhouses for more than five decades. For any other musician, a live album is a placebo, but for McClinton, it’s the opportunity to show off. The…
Naked City
The Lakeway ban, the Lowe’s deal, and the aquifer size cap
Views to a Kill
Throughout his career, Gus Van Sant has always shown a special affinity for the predicaments of young people. From his first film, Mala Noche, through My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, and Finding Forrester, Van Sant reveals some of the cold realities of being a kid in America. Unsurprisingly, in his new film Elephant,…
To Your Health
I would like to eliminate food additives from my diet but that seems to be an impossible task. What are the worst ones that tend to cause the most problems?
Texas Platters
Trish MurphyGirls Get in Free (Raven) Something’s happened to Trish Murphy. Girls Get in Free, her fourth CD, is her most assertive work yet. Now, Murphy’s never been the quiet, shy type, but the 11 songs here find the Houston native in full-on rock mode, and it’s a perfect fit. Reunited with Jim Ebert, who…
Naked City
But don’t tell Maspero what they said about him! He might get mad!
The Bold One
Action / horror heartthrob John Saxon brings two classics to the Alamo.
Bounty Without Opulence
The Food staff assembles a stellar $75 Thanksgiving feast for six
The Common Law
My husband and I throw a blowout party during the holidays that normally involves the heavy drinking of his friends. What kind of responsibility do we have if one of them gets in a car accident while trying to drive home after the party?
Texas Platters
The Neal Pollack InvasionNever Mind the Pollacks (The Telegraph Company) Should writers rock? Should rockers write? Never mind the second question … As for the first, there are the Rock Bottom Remainders, the all-star garage band that features Dave Barry, Amy Tan, Stephen King, and a few other renowned writers not taking themselves very seriously.…
Naked City
A response to charges of “a different brand of law enforcement” in East Austin
Short Cuts
Steve Bilich here, in Manhattan, and everywhere
Second Helpings: Home away from Home
“Second Helpings” offers tasty, bite-sizedrestaurant listings compiled from new and previous reviews, guides, and poll results. This week’s entries were updated by Erin Mosow. For quick, reliable info about Austin eateries, check here. Hoover’s Cooking 2002 Manor Rd., 479-5006 Monday-Friday, 11am-10pm; Saturday-Sunday, 9am-10pm Why spend hours working in a hot kitchen when Hoover Alexander is…
About AIDS
“The AIDS epidemic continues because HIV-positive individuals keep infecting HIV-negative people through their behaviors.” This statement of fact seems simple enough, but in truth, it is loaded with nuance — and no small amount of philosophical, practical, and political baggage and controversy. Policywise, it is the linchpin of a major change in the nation’s approach…
Texas Platters
Damn, It’s 2 Early(KLBJ FM) Both fans and detractors of KLBJ’s Dudley & Bob Show will find value in Damn, It’s 2 Early, the latest in-studio compilation from the mega-popular morning radio show. First off, there’s practically no Dudley & Bob — practically no talk at all, in fact — just 23 tracks of local…
Naked City
A local investor charges Endeavor’s tax-rebate package is not just stupid but illegal
TV Eye
Trio’s Epic TV: The Top Ten Miniseries of All Time recalls a time before TiVo.
TCB
Kickin’ ass and takin’ names (for later litigation) with Gibby Haynes, Spoon, Masonic, the Tuna Helpers, and President Bush himself
Food-o-File
The 2003 Beaujolais Nouveau debuts, Austin’s Pizza makes some changes, and several Austin restaurants were hot spots during the Texas Book Festival.
Texas Platters
The BreathersWork and Sleep (Mix-o-Rama) “Mundane” is seldom intended as a compliment. Generally translated as “boring,” strictly defined it means “everyday.” Thus it’s an apt description of the Breathers’ debut Work and Sleep: rich with day-to-day minutiae, whether a weary waitress wishing for a better life, a passing lightning storm, or a couple drinking Boone’s…
Naked City
Is the Austin hospital chain still a tax-exempt nonprofit? The issue heads back to trial.
Soccer Watch
Lady Longhorns Season ends; Club Teams at Nationals Well, the UT women have still never won a game in the NCAA tournament. They lost to Mississippi on Friday, 1-0, and once again it was a lack of finishing that did them in. As in every one of their conference and tournament losses this year, they…
Luv Doc Recommends: Drag the River at Beerland
If you really put some brain to it, this is probably your last weekend of normalcy before the shitstorm of holiday schmaltz blights the aesthetic landscape. By next Wednesday, you’ll have already begun the screaming descent into holiday hell, creeping along the slow road back to some faceless suburb in a doomed attempt to fulfill…
