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Passion Project
Fantastic Fest and its home base the Alamo Drafthouse have only gotten bigger, but its heart – pure and pulpy – stays the same
Aztex Rival Puerto Rico Beats Toluca
Champions League action from Wednesday
This Week’s Waste of Time
A free browser game without all the guilt
Deepest Roots
Justin Townes Earle’s blues, and more
AFF Honors Robert Rodriguez
Austin’s favorite troublemaker to receive award
Biznasty: A Preamble
Like a Gay Wall Street Journal (with fewer stock tips, and more nasty).
The Daily Hustle: 9/30/10
Council in East Austin, by way of Dominican Republic
Fantastic Fest: ‘Bedevilled’ Premiere
Director Jang Cheol-so gets an education in US audiences
GP Crush of the Week: Anderson Cooper
He’s cable’s hunky silver-haired fox, but that’s not why we love him.
Fantastic Fest: ‘From Beyond’
Stuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs share some Lovecraft
The Daily Hustle: 9/29/10
Council’s Carver Center card
Seasons in the Abyss
Pixies, Rush, Megadeth, and Slayer: the return of the album.
More Humpable Allies
A big hump to Bozeman, Montana!
Allies vs. Bullies
What can you do to stem the tide of bullying?
Fantastic Fest: ‘Balada Triste’ (The Last Circus)
There’s no clowning around in this Spanish parable
Knickers in a Knot
By way of introduction, please welcome new GP blogger, Julie Gillis.
Get Registered to Vote
Deadline for Nov. 2 election is Oct. 4
Bigmouth Strikes Again
By way of introduction, please welcome new GP blogger, Rob Cohen.
Fall X: The Good News
Standouts From the Fall 2010 Fashion Front
Atomic City Makes Some Time
Closing sale extended to Oct. 17. Or so.
Yes and No on Pot Prop
Fighting over plan to tax and regulate pot in California
Mo’ Music
The first in a series of random hot music round-ups
Brad Jones Named Toros New Head Coach
Moves over from Utah Flash
Fantastic Fest, Fantastic Arcade Awards Announced
Bedevilled wins audience award
UT Prez Powers: ‘Our Campus is Safe’
Police say students played key role in stopping shooter
Shooter Update: Students Free to Leave Campus
Cap Metro puts out list of locations for shuttle pick-ups
Austin Rockin’ 9/27/10
Margaret’s gone to L.A., but her local FOX 7 picks remain
UT Shooter Kills Self
Police are investigating possibility of second suspect.
Fantastic Fest: Hatchet II
Kane Hodder and the joy of latex mutilation
GOPathetic
Are Ann Coulter’s feet big enough to fill that mouth after what she said?
A ‘Giant’ Slice of Movie Memorabilia
A prototype house goes on the auction block
The Young Man Who Won’t Be King
He got the votes but he won’t get the nod
Things I Learned at Fantastic Arcade
A smattering of smart things people said about video games
News AggreGAYte for the Week of Sept. 27 – Oct. 2, 2010
New weekly Gay Place news round-up features new Gay Placer
DADT Gets a WITTness
Margaret Witt’s endurance changes the face of DADT.
Fantastic Fest: ‘Bedevilled’
Brutal and exquisite, Bedevilled is unflinchingly horrific
Fantastic Fest: ‘The Housemaid’ (2010)
Remake of a South Korean classic
Fantastic Fest: The Mind Reels
RZA, Tim League, Elijah Wood, and some wacky Spaniards karaoke madness
Fantastic Fest: Yuen Woo-Ping Double Bill
The RZA and the Paramount kneel to the Master
Fantastic Fest: Summer Wars
Anime presents a charming slice of virtual life
Fantastic Fest: ‘The Intergalactic Nemesis’
Austin’s own living graphic novel makes a Fantastic debut
Fantastic Fest: ‘X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes’
Roger Corman = Standing O. Obviously.
Fantastic Fest: Roger and Julie Corman Lifetime Achievement Award
The king and queen of the Bs get the royal treatment.
Fantastic Fest: Short Compilations
Getting lively and animated in short bursts
Fantastic Fest New Online Ticketing Not All That Fantastic
Fantastic Fest online ticketing: RIP.
Fantastic Fest: ‘Rubber’
Quentin Dupieux’s bizarre feature proves to be a head trip.
Acho and Co. Look To Snare Bruins
UT’s D will compensate for weak offense
The Totescast is (You Guessed It) Takin’ It To the Streets!
Mobile food vendors & more
Murdering Oscar
A brief conversation with Patterson Hood of the Drive-by Truckers
Fantastic Fest: ‘Stone’
Tense and provocative piece about a parole officer
The Daily Hustle: 9/24/10
Spelman, city staff, and lots of drugs
Jumpstart Your Heart
Music Mondays rocks the docs
Fantastic Fest: ‘Fire of Conscience’
Dante Lam’s good cops versus bad cops thriller is sensational.
Fantastic Fest: ‘The Life and Death of a Porno Gang’
Sex and death make a bloody mess in Serbia
Wine of the Week
Box wine finally deserves the frugal connoisseur’s choice
‘… Might Be Good’
Wendy Vogel takes over as editor of Austin’s online visual arts journal
Commission Jerks Bradley’s Chain
Chairman loses bid to close arson case on Cameron Todd Willingham
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar, Sept. 23-30
Event Menu
UT football pregaming, olive oil, and lucha libre? You do the math.
After a Fashion
After a Fashion is people!
Keller Keeps Foot in Courtroom Door
The judge continues to fight ‘warning’ issued by SCJC
Letters at 3AM: Beginnings
How I learned that writing for publication wasn’t just about me
Food-o-File
The seductive aroma of smoking meat wafting over Downtown last weekend came from Texas Monthly‘s first Texas BBQ Festival
Running the Numbers
A packed agenda yields some interesting figures
The Tillman Story
Documentary about the high-level cover-up of the circumstances surrounding the death of NFL star turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman.
Phases & Stages
Grinderman Grinderman 2 (Anti-) Free jazz indie rock? John Zorn might approve. Shards of corrosive woodshedding imbedded at every angle, Grinderman 2 sequels the lashing 2007 debut by Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds satellite quartet beginning with the Jesus Lizard vamp and release of “Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man.” Profane pole rider “Worm Tamer” pulses…
Culture Flash
Your chance to dance with Jack Black, and votes pour in for the Paramount
Page Two: New Jersey Reverie
Autumn rain, returning memories
Alpha and Omega
This 3-D animated film is about two wolves trying to find their way back to their pack.
Phases & Stages
Buke & Gass Riposte (Brassland) At times on their debut, Riposte, Brooklyn duo Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez duel like early bluesmen. At others, they strip down their folk to downstrokes that blister and neck-snapping tempo changes. Such are the experimental results of this instrumental hybrid: Dyer plays the buke, a six-string baritone ukulele, and…
The Movie Bug
Touching down at the Toronto International Film Festival
Slow Burn
City’s climate protection plan sputters in 2010
Devil
A group of strangers takes a ride with the devil on an elevator to hell.
Phases & Stages
Raul Malo Sinners & Saints (Fantasy) Few things drive women into hubba-hubba mode as quickly as news of a Raul Malo album. The Miami native of Cuban heritage and longtime Nashville dweller carries a near-legendary singing voice that poured wild dark honey over the Mavericks’ country rock throughout the 1990s and in recent years has…
Great Are the Myths
Edward Norton introduces Leaves of Grass to Austin
How Cool Is Austin
2010 snapshot of the ACPP ‘five plans’
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Oliver Stone delivers an enlivening and wickedly entertaining take on the occasional angels and plentiful demons that have run the country into financial ruin.
Phases & Stages
Michael Franti & Spearhead The Sound of Sunshine (Capitol) Michael Franti the political activist is dead. The Sound of Sunshine, the bulk of which the Bay Area singer and MC wrote while recovering from a burst appendix, follows in the manner of last summer’s top of the pops, “Say Hey (I Love You).” Expressing the…
Day Trips
Pine Creek Country Inn creates a European-style retreat among the towering pine trees of East Texas
Unrealized Opportunities: Ester Matthews on the Austin Climate Protection Program
Ester Matthews reflects on the progress of the ACPP
You Again
A high school loser who reinvents herself as a successful adult regresses when she returns home in this comedy starring Kristen Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sigourney Weaver, and Betty White.
Phases & Stages
The Black Crowes Croweology (Silver Arrow) Relaunching the Black Crowes brand with 2008 tomahawk Warpaint and the mature winter blues of follow-up Before the Frost/Until the Freeze here earns the Robinson boys a victory lap. Double-disc mini gatefold and pop-up card self-songbook, Croweology opens atop a stripped but thick take of “Jealous Again,” in which…
Gay Place
Friends in need need you now
San Marcos Pet Fest 5K & Fun Run/Dog Jog
Do it for the pups
Leaves of Grass
Edward Norton plays dual roles as twin brothers from Oklahoma in this off-kilter mash-up of comedy and drama that co-stars Susan Sarandon and Richard Dreyfuss.
Phases & Stages
Torche Songs for Singles (Hydra Head) Torche has slowly turned a corner. Beginning on 2005’s self-titled bow, the Miami metalheads improved upon the sludge breakdown of their predecessors (like singer/guitarist Steve Brooks’ semilegendary 1990s band Floor), with most songs hinging on the start-stop-annihilate formula. Meanderthal three years later found them ramping up tempos and experimenting…
Arts Review
At St. Edward’s, Molière’s satire is a tight two hours of irreverent, blue humor
Soccer Watch
Aztex final regular season home game, and more
Lebanon
This brutally real-feeling Israeli film about the war in Lebanon in 1982 received the top prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2009.
Melodymaker
Slayer’s oracle originates from Palestine, Texas, for 15 years now
Phases & Stages
Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin (Disney) From its jazz-style cover depicting piano keys levitating and scattering into colorful bars, you might think Brian Wilson’s homage to George Gershwin explores new musical frontiers. While this 14-song collection demonstrates how the composer’s evocative work fed the foundation of the Beach Boys’ Southern California soundscape, it doesn’t reimagine them…
Arts Review
Shakespeare’s best-known play is performed too fast for the audience to absorb
Football Watch
Horns win a big one in Lubbock, and more
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Surprisingly, Zhang Yimou’s Chinese remake of the Coen brothers’ debut film, Blood Simple, winds up something of a limp noodle.
Phases & Stages
Efterklang Tripper + Springer (Leaf) Efterklang Parades + Under Giant Trees (Leaf) This year’s exquisite Magic Chairs (4AD) served as a stateside introduction for the grand orchestral vision of Danish post-rock quartet Efterklang, whose moniker translates roughly to “after-noise” or “remembrance.” Leaf’s reissue campaign illustrates the band’s long path to get here. Released in 2003…
Arts Review
A thoughtfully hung show that draws one deep down a river of paper-based beauty
Engagement
UT’s new Visual Arts Center connects its art department with the world
Oh, Ho, Oslo!
Norwegian spotlight
The Hightower Report
Pocketful of Coal; and Go for the Feingold
Off the Record
Tuning in to KOOP Radio, dropping out for the Pixies, and turning up for HAAM Benefit Day
The VAC Opening
The Visual Arts Center will mark its grand opening this weekend. On Saturday, Sept. 25, the VAC galleries will be open for two hours prior to the kickoff of the Texas vs. UCLA football game. On Sunday, Sept. 26, the center will host a series of events from noon to 9pm. All are free and…
Joystick Junkies Unite
Pixelated panels and tourneys with no save point in sight
TV Eye: Under the ‘Boardwalk’
A new HBO series explores seedy, Prohibition-era Atlantic City
AISD: Matching Buildings to Kids, or Vice Versa?
AISD aims to resolve under- and overcrowding issues with its facilities master plan
Point Austin: Learning From Experience
The things they won’t tell you in Texas schools
Restaurant Review
The food here is too exceptional to not be fully supported by consistent service and comfortable ambience
As He Lay Dying
From deathbed to spiritual rebirth in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tinkers
Down and Out in Texas
New data puts Texas among states with highest poverty rates
City Hall Hustle: Go Foodie and Multiply
Council sings happy food trails to you
Restaurant Review
Check out Bess for the welcome atmosphere, friendly and efficient service, and well-executed menu with something for everyone
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Paul McCartney’s first girlfriend was Dorothy “Dot” Rhone. The song “P.S. I Love You” was written about her. According to a study at New York University, gay men can recall familiar faces faster and more accurately than their heterosexual counterparts, because, like women, they use both sides of their brains. According to Violent J, it…
Sanders Lawsuit: ‘A Deal Is a Deal’
Family attorney argues city’s rejection of settlement was breach of contract
Headlines
� City Council meets today, Thursday, Sept. 23, with a lengthy, if not terribly contentious, agenda: Regulations for food trucks and trailers are on tap, along with a discussion of social-service contracts and form-based code zoning along Airport Boulevard. Next week, Sept. 30, council leaves City Hall to hold its meeting in the Boyd Vance…
Restaurant Review
Spartan Pizza does the Greek gods proud with its pies
Shakespeare Around Austin
Productions this fall show us there’s no limit to how the Bard’s plays get done
Waterboarded in South Austin
Polly Parsons is still getting hassled by water supplier
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Fantastic Fest: ‘Buried’
How Ryan Reynolds became the man in the box
Luv Doc Recommends: Fantastic Fest
How could you go wrong with something named Fantastic Fest? Well, OK, if you really loved The English Patient or Lost in Translation, you might not appreciate the jackhammer nuance of Fantastic Fest fare. If The Remains of the Day is your idea of two hours well-spent, then it’s unlikely your taste is going to…
