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Page Two: Tom ‘Leatherface’ DeLay
1) Bow down before Almighty God — who “is using you, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for biblical worldview in everything that you do and everywhere you are.” Look in the Bible for mask guidance. Settle for 2 Corinthians 11:14-15. 2) Tell the neighbors you’re having a Halloween party that they must attend.…
I Spit on Your Grave
I Spit on Your Grave 1978, R, 100 min. Directed by Meir Zarchi, Starring Camille Keaton, Eron Tabor, Richard Pace, Anthony Nichols, Gunter Kleemann. One of the most notorious of the female revenge movies, I Spit on Your Grave lives up to its reputation. A novelist at work in a remote country setting is gangbanged…
Grave of the Fireflies
Grave of the Fireflies 1988, PG, 93 min. Directed by Isao Takahata, Voices by Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Akemi Yamaguchi. In this animated film, a young boy and girl in the port city of Kobe, Japan, are made homeless by the Allied bombs that rained down on their city during the waning days…
Phases and Stages
The latest entry into the niche of boutique jazz labels to make a splash nationally is MaxJazz. The St. Louis-based imprint was founded in 1998 and in just a few short years has distinguished itself with a roster of first-rate, underrecorded artists and the artfully stylish fashion presentation each one receives. All discs are similarly…
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The State Board of Education shows the Lege its backside on “virtual charters.”
Sylvia
Sylvia Plath biopic is sad dirge.
The Touch, The Feel
Three books that take on evil
Letters at 3AM
“Mediocrity is never passive; it avenges itself for its deprivation.” — Nelson Algren
Phases and Stages
The Fat Man on Game Audio: Tasty Morsels of Sonic Goodnessby the Fat Man, George Alistair Sanger New Riders, 507 pp., $35 George Alistair Sanger, aka the Fat Man, may be Austin’s all-time bestselling musician, with more than 20 million units shifted. You might not recognize his work off the bat, though. The Fat Man…
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The General Land Office throws the doors open for wind power in the Gulf.
My Life Without Me
Unusual film about dying young avoids sentimentality.
Second Helpings: Japanese, Part I
“Second Helpings” offers tasty, bite-sized restaurant 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. Benihana 9070 Research, 451-7505 Monday-Thursday, 5-10pm; Friday, 5-11pm; Saturday, 11:30am-11pm; Sunday, 11:30am-10pm At Benihana, the show’s the thing, with chefs cooking…
After a Fashion
Got a fetish for fashion? Read the verdict on Austin’s latest fetish fashion show. (Hint: Stephen seems to have kept his whip sheathed!!!)
Phases and Stages
Elliott SmithSteamboat, May 3, 2003 “I need to write more pleasant songs,” admitted Elliott Smith late one night in early May. He smiled and shook his head and continued strumming his Siren strings, pulling us closer to his rocky shore. He made believe that all was well in his world. Any rumors of his poor…
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Indigenous leader has fought Narmada dams for 20 years.
Brother Bear
A young Inuit hunter learns lessons when he is turned into a bear.
Last Days of Rocktober
A sampling of local acts bring Rocktober to a close.
Day Trips
Texas Basket Co. of Jacksonville, Texas, still makes wooden fruit-and-vegetable containers the old-fashioned way. Since the company first opened its doors in 1919, the factory has branched out into a variety of sizes and styles from the familiar tub-shaped peck baskets to woven baskets in the shape of wagons and watering cans to become the…
Phases and Stages
Austin Record ConventionCrockett Events Center, Oct. 25 A line of 50 anxious diggers awaited the opening of the Austin Record Convention as I pulled up to the Crockett Events Center on Saturday. Once through the door an expansive candy shop of records and music memorabilia presented itself. On a quest to bolster my vinyl collection,…
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San Marcos lawyer beats Garry Mauro to lead party’s comeback effort.
In the Cut
Jane Campion’s erotic thriller In the Cut dulls its cutting edge.
TCB
“TCB” gets in the van with Grand Champeen and encores at CMJ in NYC.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
In 1740, a French cow was found guilty of sorcery and hanged.Why do ghost hunters scatter salt on the floor? To hear if something is moving about the room of a haunted house.Has life been created in a laboratory? Romanian physicists have recently created blobs of gaseous plasma that can grow, replicate, and communicate, thus…
Journey Woman
A young Austin nurse takes her skills and faith to Bolivia.
Naked City
Fox News viewers most likely to not know what’s going on in Iraq.
Politics String
PromiseLand’s Virtual Hell haunted house offers salvation to trick-or-treaters.
Soccer Watch
With time running out in the final overtime, and a stinging rain slanting down almost horizontally in the bitter wind, Kelly McDonald calmly chested down a cross in the corner of the penalty area, and rocketed a half-volley into the far corner to give the UT women a dramatic 3-2 win over Nebraska Sunday afternoon.…
Mala Sangre: City Shoots Self in Foot, Then Reloads
The city’s legal strategy — or lack thereof — in the Jeff White suit.
Capitol Chronicle
The governor sells social service cuts as “enhancements.”
Daringly Perverse
Death chess, incest, maggots, kidnappings, hippies, cannibals, undead babes, Kaufman as a killer, corndogs, and the birth of slash: Halloween home viewing
To Your Health
Sometimes I notice that eating two foods at the same meal gives me an allergic reaction that I don’t get when I eat the same two foods separately.
Is There Really a Case Against Officer Glasgow?
The grand jury indictment in the Owens shooting may be impossible to prosecute.
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
The City Council moves to finesse the smoking ordinance.
Who Will Be the Arts Tsar?
The two finalists for the job of cultural arts program manager addressed the public Oct. 23.
About AIDS
Confusing Test Results? Get Tested Right — And Relax! “I had an HIV test because I heard that a former boyfriend is sick. I don’t know if he has HIV, but we didn’t use condoms, so I’m concerned. My test was ‘indeterminate’ and had to be repeated. Even though the second round said ‘nonreactive,’ I…
The Redistricting Shuffle Commences
Doggett jumps into the new District 25, Barrientos is peeved; Congressional wannabes find themselves on the new Texas map.
The Hightower Report
UNC acts like a public university; and the Bushites �save� endangered species by killing them.
The Killing Fields, Kind Of
A culinary history of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre farmhouse
Big-Box Ban Bollixes Up Lowe’s Plans
The City Council’s moratorium slows down the hardware giant’s settlement deal
Let the Work Speak for Itself
Yaphet Kotto has had the kind of career that must make other actors envious. His roles are as diverse as they are prolific, and not only is he recognized for the quality and breadth of his work but also his unwillingness to succumb to the dictates of racial stereotyping in popular culture. Although today moviegoers…
Piece of Work
Erika Kjorlie takes auto worship to the next level with a series of photo transfers showing parts of custom cars in antique-looking colors and deckled edges.
A Delectable Día de los Muertos
Earlier last month, I received a call from Sahar Arafat-Ray, director of the Central Market Cooking School here in Austin, wondering whether I would like to teach a class based on food for Day of the Dead. Since Day of the Dead is one of my favorite holidays, and since the class will be a…
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Headlines and happenings from around Austin and beyond
Mr. Creeptastic
Every day is Halloween when you’re Professor Griffin.
Piece of Work
Trying to walk through the purposefully spaced metal tines of Mowry Baden’s K Walk is a challenge, one that leads to the discovery that each person on this planet has a claim to his or her own singular pattern of movement through space.
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood updates you on all the food news you need to know.
Naked City
Council Member Alvarez pushes to close the Eastside plant two years ahead of schedule.
Short Cuts
Lightning strikes twice for vid artists Jason Archer and Paul Beck; plus Helen Lee, Kier-La Janisse, and Lunafest.
Articulations
Leaders in the campaign to build the Long Center for the Performing Arts have decided to scale back the long-delayed project and build only two out of four theatres in an attempt to get it off the ground.
Tia Carrera Reviewed
Tia CarreraThe November Session (Perverted Son) The next best thing to “Layla” is “The Jams” disc on the 3-CD Layla Sessions box set from 1990. On it, five unreleased jams from Eric Clapton & the Dominos and the Allman Brothers — all over 10 minutes, two nearing 20. Have tape, will roll — a shredder’s…
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Austin loses an appellate court fight to enforce its environmental rules.
TV Eye
Reverse psychology: ways for execs to wreck a promising sitcom.
Exhibitionism
Choreographer Stephen Mills packed Ballet Austin’s adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew with a rollicking physicality that spun ballet into slapstick and twirled slapstick into ballet and revealed an impressive grasp of Shakespeare’s characters.
Phases and Stages
Paris Sonic Jihad (Guerilla Funk) In this age of the lowest common denominator, dissenting opinions have all but disappeared from the rap game. No longer are we apt to hear a KRS-One teaching an alternative history lesson, let alone an Ice Cube lambasting a mayor and his police force. According to Paris, this has happened…
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Yet another allegation of misconduct by the beleaguered APD assistant chief.
DVD Watch
It’s not a Halloween movie, but Lost in La Mancha offers a glimpse into Terry Gilliam’s own personal nightmare.
Exhibitionism
A Chuck Mee play is a veritable playground for young artists, but while they put a lot of thought and effort into the UT Department of Theatre & Dance production of The Trojan Women: A Love Story, the students behind it only scratched the surface of his work.
Phases and Stages
Meshell NdegeocelloComfort Woman (Maverick/Warner Bros.) Ready for the first booty call on the moon, Meshell Ndegeocello’s fifth album gravitates toward space and the space between. Comfort Woman is short on the earnest lyrics of earlier work, less words making way for more sex. There’s good sex in the bassline of “Body” and the acidic organ…
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After 25 years, Doyne Bailey still commands attention at the courthouse.
Doubt and Caution at All Times
An interview DBC Pierre and Dan Rhodes on tour, together
Exhibitionism
In their debut performance as the UT School of Music’s faculty string quartet, the Miró Quartet repeatedly and impressively displayed its effortlessly immaculate, finely detailed sound and its sense of humor.
Phases and Stages
RZABirth of a Prince (Sanctuary) A decade beyond “Protect Ya Neck,” the abbot of Wu-Tang Clan, aka Bobby Digital, unleashes his first album under the moniker of RZA. Undeniable as a producer, his swords are as sharp as ever with “The Whistle” screaming, “We put those bees all on your map.” As the tribal war…
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Williamson Co. investigators build a case against Sheriff John Maspero.
Page Two
Critical response to Kill Bill ignores the current cultural resonance of cinematic vengeance.
Phases and Stages
LudacrisChicken-N-Beer (Def Jam South) Ludacris offers hip-hop something all too rare in these feud-ridden times: a sense of humor. Granted, it’s the type of humor that believes a 6-year-old saying, “We about to let our nuts hang,” is inherently hilarious (which it is), but it also proves to be a most effective weapon against haters.…
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The world’s largest everything wows the crowd at City Council.
Scary Movie 3
Third outing is 90% chaff, 10% wit, and pure Children of the Corny.
Luv Doc Recommends: Extravagasm Fantasy Ball
No one would argue that sitting on your front porch drinking beer and doling out candy (the rocket fuel of pre-adolescent hyperactivity otherwise known as granulated Satan) to the kids is a perfectly enjoyable and respectable way to spend All Hallows Eve. You might even meet a few single folks in the process but it’s…
