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November 30 • 2007

Nov 30 - Dec 6, 2007 / Vol. 27 / No. 13
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Some New Lights

Art Basel Miami, the city’s annual art clusterf*ck, is about to explode a can of art and design lovin’ whoop-ass onto the generally depressed real-estate market and populace of Dade County, Florida. Down in the dumps because you can’t sell your condo for a couple mil? It’s ok – go to Swarovski’s booth and purchase…

by Andy Campbell

Road Trip?

The NCAA Women’s Final Four is this weekend, at Aggie Soccer Stadium in College Station. The semifinals are Friday, Dec. 7: Florida St.-Notre Dame at 4pm; UCLA-USC at 6:30pm. The championship final is Sunday, 1pm. See www.AggieAthletics.com for ticket info. In case you can’t make it to Aggieland, all three games will be shown live…

by Nick Barbaro

Signed Sealed Delivered

To define Stevie Wonder solely in musical terms undervalues his full contribution to humanity. The pure, unfettered joy and message of love the 57-year-old musician has spread worldwide since his youth at Motown Records – for whom he still records – takes on Martin Luther King-like proportions in their unification of a species. Stevie Wonder’s…

by Raoul Hernandez

Finding Myself in the Shoe Closet

A few years ago I added up the time and money I typically spent per year on personal appearance. Realizing the absurd drain it all was on my resources, especially the time spent in chasing down favorite aestheticians wherever they happened to be pitching their tents, I became home-groomed. No more Fritos on my fingers,…

by Anne Harris

Rock ‘n’ Roll Books Redux

The stack of rock & roll books on my desk was barely mined in this week’s review section. Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock & Roll’s Legendary Neighborhood by Michael Walker (Farrar Strauss Giroux, $14, 226 pages) accompanied my reading of Morgana Welch’s Hollywood Diaries. In this book, Welch is grown up and her…

by Margaret Moser

Thursday Night Football

Wow, everybody really freaked out about their beloved Cowboys not being shown on Time Warner last night. And honestly, I was a little miffed as well. Not because I’m a Cowboys fan, because I’m not, but because I’m a fan of the NFL and 1) I don’t like being inconvenienced (you heard me, I’m spoiled…

by Mark Fagan

Aaja Nachle

A dancer in New York returns home to India to see the teacher who taught her to dance and, ultimately, fight to save the school he built.

by Marjorie Baumgarten

Romance & Cigarettes

John Turturro directs this oddball musical in which the stars (the eclectic cast of James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi, Mary-Louise Parker, Christopher Walken, Aida Turturro, and Mandy Moore) lip-sync and dance to popular songs.

by Kimberley Jones

Holly

Ron Livingston plays a lost soul in Cambodia who rescues a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl, who has been sold as a prostitute by her parents.

by Josh Rosenblatt

Film News

Local production heats up, and a UT professor makes it to the Oscar doc short list

by Joe O'Connell

Reefer Madness

North Dakota hemp farmers go to court to defend right to tell DEA to butt out of plans to grow nonnarcotic hemp plant

by Jordan Smith

Rock & Roll Books

The days the music died, the Police in their Speedos, and a pictorial companion to the new documentary Runnin’ Down a Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

by Darcie Stevens

TV Eye

Thoughts on Thanksgiving dinner and four different Nutcrackers for the month of December

by Belinda Acosta

Arts Review

Adultery may be a serious matter, but the Austin Playhouse gang succeeds in playing it for farcical fun

by Avimaan Syam

What Worked at Webb

Last fall, as the 2006-07 school year began, it was hard to find anyone who believed that the “low-performing” Webb Middle School was going to pull itself back from the brink of failure. Like Johnston High, Webb had tried many instructional strategies against similar challenges with its students and its community, with some improvement, but…

by Kimberly Reeves

Arts Review

While director Karen Sneed’s vision for this Moliere comedy is clear, it’s not always consistently presented

by Barry Pineo

Arts Review

A parade of spooky black-and-white fever dreams in which we’re less alive than the soulless being from folklore

by Robert Faires

A Second Shot at ‘Shootin’ Match’

On the eve of the pending DVD release and Friday night’s premiere of the restored and remastered The Whole Shootin’ Match, Sonny Carl Davis and Lou Perryman reminisce about the late Eagle Pennell and the films they made together

by Louis Black

Naked City

Quote of the Week “I am proud that Texas has taken bold, visionary steps toward our looming infrastructure problems. There is no silver bullet to infrastructure needs, but we’ve taken the issue off the back burner and made it a priority. Commun­ities now have the power and tools to address infrastructure needs as never before.…

by Chronicle Staff

@ Chronic

John Zogby is polling for Ron Paul supporter and conspiracy-theorist entrepreneur Alex Jones. Yikes!

by Wells Dunbar

Off the Record

Jon Dee Graham goes under the lens for a new documentary, Joel Laviolette culls spirits with Rattletree Marimba, and the new Austin Music Hall finally opens (sort of)

by Austin Powell

Day Trips

The Texas Musicians Museum in Hillsboro runs the gamut of Texas music history from Gene Autry to ZZ Top

by Gerald E. McLeod

Luv Doc Recommends: Man Fest

What does it take to be a man? Scrotum? Check. Nads? Yuppers. Johnson? Well, it is sort of iconic. Facial hair? Yeah, a scruffy stubble will man you up a bit, but facial hair on some dudes just makes them look like Frida Kahlo … or worse yet, John Waters. Take away the basic sports…

by The Luv Doc

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