Found Footage Festival
Found Footage Festival This live comedy event and screening features odd and amusing clips from videotapes found at thrift stores, garage sales, warehouses and Dumpsters throughout the country. Each screening is hosted by a festival curator who provides his unique observations and commentary on these found video obscurities. Fans of the sadly defunct access program…
Fanny and Alexander
This semi-autobiographical film from the great Swedish master’s late career is regarded by many as his crowing achievement.
Food Sites
The Clearinghouses The eGullet Society for Culinary Arts & Letters: Read, Chew, Discuss, www.egul let.org, loosely based on the Usenet forum concept originally, has evolved into perhaps the ultimate Web site for anyone with any interest in food or drink. eGullet is a nonprofit clearinghouse for any kind of culinary information, including a very strong…
Texas Platters
Brown WhörnetValamaranaro I had a freaky dream last night. I was sitting in a Twenties lounge with golden curtains and crisp linens, as a singer with greased-back hair belted out gibberish (“Schway”). Next thing I know, the crooner’s tracksuited and rapping to death metal (“Gobbalin”). Suddenly, everything backtracks at warp speed (“Valamaranaro”), and I’m in…
A Split for the 3rd Court
Democratic and GOP incumbents both hold their seats
DVD Watch
In the wake of this country’s most recent exercise in colonialism, Criterion has released, on three DVDs, Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 masterpiece, a film so rich in aesthetic and political relevance as to be almost uncanny
TCB
Looking at this microwave world from the grassy knoll
More Food Links
Localwww.slowfood.com/eng/sf_ita_mondo/sf_scheda_condotta.lasso?idcond=en_sw10 The Slow Food USA group has an Austin/Hill Country convivium, spearheaded by Mary Jo O’Grady. Linked here is her e-mail address for direct information about their affairs. www.texascooking.com Once you wade through the obnoxious ads, there’s some great content here on traditional Texas and Southwestern cooking, with recipes. www.homepage.mac.com/ravnhaus/BBQ This site is Ceramic Green…
Texas Platters
Friday Night LightsOriginal Motion Picture Soundtrack (Hip-O) Already it’s impossible to imagine anyone other than Austin-from-Midland rock astronauts Explosions in the Sky scoring H.G. Bissinger’s beloved West Texas football tome, Friday Night Lights. Or rather, actor Peter Berg’s rousing, multiplexed panorama of it. And make no mistake, with 11 out of 14 cloud drifts racked…
The Little Engine That Did
Capital Metro rides the train out of the political doghouse
Page Two
Tomorrow, we fight; today, we mourn
An Island in the Red Sea
Do you feel united yet? Both John Kerry and George W. Bush, in their respective speeches on Wednesday, urged reconciliation after the bitter battles of the last year or four. This did not stop protesters from flocking to the State Capitol Wednesday night to do otherwise, but local disgust at the God-gays-and-guns-driven Democratic disaster was…
Food-o-File
Attention, chocoholics; plus, the Granite Cafe is eroding
Texas Platters
Steve EarleLive From Austin TX (New West) The Flatlanders Live From Austin TX (New West) Robert Earl KeenLive From Austin TX (New West) Susan TedeschiLive From Austin TX (New West) There have been efforts to mine the vast archives of PBS’ Austin City Limits over the decades, but it’s always been a scattershot affair, with…
State Picks Up a Toll-Free Call
Road-weary local leaders win a sympathetic hearing at Transportation Commission
After a Fashion
Whoa! Your Style Avatar is older than dirt! Oops, we mean, “just celebrated another b-day!” Come celebrate within.
Becoming Birds
‘The Philomel Project’ allows myth to take wing at the Blue Theater
Heat Stroke
Austin’s Amplified Heat turn both � their amps and the heavy metal heat
Circling the Hearses
State funeral regulators are dancing to the undertakers’ tune – and that’s bad news for consumers
Warren Hangs Up His Chief’s Hat
After 31 years with the fire department, Gary Warren looks back to his roots
November is Dvorák month in Austin!
The University of Texas is marking the centenary of Dvorák’s death with an ambitious multidisciplinary festival called “New Worlds: Dvorák in Search of America.”
The Rule of Three
Dixie Witch Started in Denton, and now the unofficial house band at Room 710, the Witch brings a distinctly Southern sensibility to stoner and Seventies rock on 2003’s One Bird, Two Stones (Small Stone). Heavier than weapons-grade plutonium. Grady Canadian swinging dicks Gordy “Grady” Johnson and Big Ben Richardson recruit local ringer Chris Layton to…
The Consolidators
Four funeral home giants gobble 20% of the U.S. business.
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
Thérèse: The Story of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
Saints alive! To each her own biopic.
Culture Flash!
New theatre that aims to light a political fire under you, a new warehouse theatre for South Austin, and Central Texans sing out at Carnegie Hall
Reviewed
Amplified HeatIn for Sin (Arclight) Break out the Jim Beam, and put away the crystal – the Ortiz brothers are gonna destroy everything. Toting the savviest name change Red River’s ever seen, Amplified Heat is dying to blow your speakers. With their debut on local imprint Arclight, In for Sin, Jim, Chris, and Gian are…
Judge: Let’s Bust Bradley’s Trust
Bankruptcy ruling opens up developer’s assets to creditors
Naked City
Education commissioner Shirley Neeley reverses her decision to make it easier to waive the 22:1 student- teacher ratio in elementary classrooms
Alfie
Jude Law’s new Alfie is less tramp and more scamp: the modern metrosexual.
Arts Review
‘Provocative’ aptly describes the Rude Mechanicals’ ‘Cherrywood,’ which thrusts you into a strange, relentlessly intense party that’s never boring but never really engaging either
One Night on Red River
Darcie Stevens returns to the live music beat – for just one night – on Red River
A Good Day for Intolerance
Voters say no to gays, marijuana, immigrants, and so on
Naked City
Student accused of murdering piano professor may proceed to trial
The Incredibles
Animated take on the superhero genre overflows with wonderfully silly shenanigans and knowing insight into modern parenting.
Arts Review
Tapestry Dance Company’s season premiere was a swingin’ jazz affair that made the Paramount Theatre feel like a smoky little club between Birdland and heaven
Texas Platters
Riddlin’ KidsStop the World (Aware/Columbia) Thanks to Green Day and Blink 182, pop/punk maturity has become synonymous with composing rock operas or adding piano and synthesizer. For Austin’s Riddlin’ Kids, growing up punk only means aging gracefully within the genre, gimmicks be damned. The band’s sophomore major label release, Stop the World, features songs that…
Drowning in the Red Tide
Donkeys get their asses kicked on Capitol Hill
Naked City
Bike rodeo contains a message amidst its madness
Sideways
A sophisticated date movie about male midlife malcontents and the women who love them, from the director of Election.
Arts Review
‘Rising Stars’ is an apt title for this small but sparkling exhibit of works by Robert Pruitt, Leona Scull-Hons, and Young-Min Kang.
Texas Platters
Talk about a horse of a different color: Big & Rich, the songwriter-performers who brought bling-bling to Nashville on “Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy),” contribute the decidedly un-bling title track to Austinite and longtime Merle Haggard guitarist Freddy Powers’ My Great Escape (Hag). Powers co-wrote the album’s other 11 songs, each as comfortable as…
The Texas Five Minus Four
The Congressional races perform almost as the GOP designed
The Siege Continues
No matter who wins the election, Iraqis awaken to occupation, devastation, and slaughter
Stage Beauty
Victor/Victoria meets Shakespeare in Love at A Star Is Born in this gender-bending backstage story.
A Different Kind of World
Comics legend Joe Kubert talks about his life as it was and as it might have been
Texas Platters
Cowboy JohnsonA Grain of Sand (MoonHouse) “Cowboy Johnson” isn’t a name anyone but the most hardcore Austin music fan is likely to recognize, but A Grain of Sand could very well change that. Johnson, currently a Wimberley resident, has been around the block a few times. UK born with the name Kent, he spent most…
Doggett Seals the Deal
Austin’s hometown hero smashes ‘Armendariz!’ Klein in the ‘fajita district’
The Hightower Report
Let’s rein in CEO pay; and, ‘conservatives’ support Big Brotherism
Zelary
Life during wartime is always difficult, but never more so than when you’re in love as this Czech movie demonstrates.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Arcane ephemera from the bespectacled one
Texas Platters
Danny SantosDone Gone Got Lucky (Wind River) Having been part of the Austin music scene since 1993, Danny Santos has most recently fronted a band called the Bluegrass Vatos. An acoustic group, the Vatos’ music is typically Texan, that is, all over the place, but with a Latin edge that reflects Santos’ heritage. On his…
Windmills 3, Quixotes 0
The GOP prevails in three new Central Texas strongholds
Out of the Shadow
Which new scary-programming cable channel will longtime Austin access host Joseph Fotinos choose?
Day Trips
Boondocks Cafe on TX 36 south of Caldwell isn’t your ordinary Texas roadhouse
Texas Platters
Eric BlakelyStill Life at Full Speed When Eric Blakely sings, “I don’t dwell on the past anymore ’cause it made me who I am,” it’s lyrical license. Blakely’s songs dwell on the past, but with a practiced eye to the future. It’s obvious Blakely is at a crossroads in life since coming to Austin in…
Stick Sunk; Barely Baxter; Rose Reblooms
A narrow defeat, and an even narrower win, for Travis Co. GOP legislators
Talk of the College Town
‘The New Yorker’ on tour in Austin
The Common Law
Power of attorney
Texas Platters
Teye & BelénFlamencObsesionArte (CoraZong) It’s one thing to master an art, but it’s another to do so in a foreign land. And it’s still another to successfully relocate your hard-earned skills to a third culture. So goes the story of strummer extraordinaire Teye (pronounced like “hi ya”). Teye was raised in the Netherlands, but flamenco…
Has the Bleeding Stopped?
The House races may mark the roots of a Dem revival
It Is Risen
The newly restored ‘Heaven’s Gate’ plays the Paramount
Soccer Watch
The UT Lady Longhorns beat Nebraska 2-0 in the first round of the Big 12 conference tournament on Wednesday, avenging a regular season loss, and stretching their unbeaten streak to seven games behind a pair of goals by Kelly Wilson. The ‘Horns now take on top-seeded Kansas at 5pm Friday, Nov. 5, in a game…
Texas Platters
Matt the ElectricianLong Way Home Those of us who’ve only ever seen Matt the Electrician live would expect his recorded material to be Tom Waits-influenced affairs, but Long Way Home is more Grant Lee Phillips than Waits. The rough edges of Sever’s gritty voice have been sanded down in the production (not that they needed…
Hamilton Takes Top Cop Slot
Democrat becomes Travis Co.’s first black sheriff
SXSW 2005
Scouting SXSW 05
About AIDS
Ever feel blue around the holidays? Lots of people do, but depression can be especially damaging for HIV-positive people, for whom studies clearly show that depression has both physiological and psychological negative impacts. Depression causes the body to produce higher levels of norepinepherine, a hormone related to blood pressure. But, norepinepherine also speeds up HIV…
Texas Platters
Todd SniderEast Nashville Skyline (Oh Boy) East Nashville is closer to Austin than it is to Nashville. It’s the place where the artists, musicians, and all the other creative types that don’t really care about what’s happening on Music Row live. Todd Snider is one of those types. East Nashville Skyline, the onetime San Marcos/Austin…
McCain Keelhauls the GOP
Democratic tide swamps a Keel brother in the Precinct 3 constable’s race
Congratulations, Kudos, and Free Bar Tabs
‘Dear Pillow’ does it again
World Wide Menu
Accessing all things culinary on the Internet
Texas Platters
Dan Dyer…Of What Lies Beneath (Roxie/Reprise) For such a hard-partying, model-dating rock star, Lenny Kravitz has always seemed remarkably wholesome. He even named his new record label after his late mother. He is not, however, what some people might call a “hands-off” producer. Far from it: Kravitz is credited with “guitars and all other instruments”…
… And So Does Yelenosky
Yet another Keel fails to break the GOP’s losing streak at the courthouse
TV Eye
Fox sees Sunday as its anchor, and aims to keep it that way
Luv Doc Recommends: Waiting on Godot
Now that the morons in the middle have collectively sealed our fate for the next four years, we can finally relax and get our mack on, right? No use screaming in terror as the four horsemen of the apocalypse come thundering toward us. Hey, they’re only making way for the rapture, right? Hopefully you’re not…
