Surreal Science

Looking at three books -- Plague Time, Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy, and The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine, Roger Gathman observes that for every advance in technology, nature counterbalances with new opportunities for disease.

"...too eager to pass EBINT off as some radical, avant-garde idea, which leads him to take, at times, the..."

March 2, 2001 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Straight, No Chaser

Brannen Temple, aspiring to be Austin's Max Roach

"...from the Fifties. While Ken Burns' Jazz incited the avant-garde into a frenzy by all but ignoring them, Blaze..."

March 2, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Spatial Engineer of the Invisible City

He is everywhere. He is unavoidable. He is Tha' Subliminal Kid.

"...store." His father's record collection may have primed his avant-garde taste, but it was his own time spent in..."

March 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

News and events of interest to local filmmakers.

"...and Rude Mechanicals are sponsoring another of their ongoing avant-garde film screenings at the Off Center (2211-A Hildalgo), Monday,..."

March 2, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

After a Fashion

Our Style Avatar discovers dirt cheap cigs and trumpets the extravagant Bikes & Babes in Toyland benefit.

"...Whit Hanks, Fox Racing Clothing, Austin Angler, Wet Salon, Avant, Pink Salon, Power House Gym, Tesoros Trading, and many..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Jazz: By the Episode

"...Ellington's careers (and lives). A brief section on the avant-garde movement of the Seventies; John Coltrane is spotlighted. Burns..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Cubana Be Cubana Bop

Field guide to Cuba's second-biggest export after cigars

"...straight-ahead jazz recordings with bassist Charlie Haden and the avant-garde Blue Note disc Flying Colors with Joe Lovano. Another..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Short Cuts

To the eyes of Austin animator Bob Sabiston, those ubiquitous Earthlink.com commercials by Klasky Csupo Inc. (the creators of Rugrats) look an awful lot like the work created by his proprietary software, which is being used in the new Richard Linklater feature Waking Life.

"...other duties. If you have a strong background in avant-garde filmmaking and a general knowledge of small-gauge productions, this..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

Richard Linklater goes to Sundance.

"...also conceivably discontinued production of some of Kodak's more avant-garde small gauge stocks. Not a good time to be..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Tokyo Drifter & Branded to Kill

Japanese filmmaker Seijun Suzuki was fired from his film company for his off-the-wall cinematics; these two Sixties gangster movies explain why.

"...minimalist gem. It brings together elements of American noir, avant-garde abstraction, and beatnik sensibilities for a film that's more..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Bang on a Can All-Stars, Hogg Auditorium, November 11

"...classical music and the improvisation and irreverence of the avant-garde, the Bang on a Can All-Stars played something for..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Music Review by Michael Chamy

Godspeed You Black Emperor! Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (Kranky)

"...to the proceedings. Yet what propels GYBE! past their avant-garde contemporaries is the their keen compositional abilities. "Static," off..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Music Review by Michael Chamy

Eleventh Dream Day Stalled Parade (Thrill Jockey)

"...but the band's later material evolved along the more avant lines of singer/guitarist Rick Rizzo's solo work as well..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Hess

Rock en Tijuana

The border city of Tijuana gives birth to the bastard genre of Norteño and Electronica, Nortec.

"...the early Eighties Tijuana bands like 3-D TV and Avant Garde played to small crowds of loyal electronic music..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

Short Cuts

Turk Pipkin goes to The Sopranos and other upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.

"...in a role on the upcoming season of HBO's avant-gangster series The Sopranos. Pipkin was apparently handpicked for the..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

TV Eye

Belinda Acosta runs down programs to take our minds off the upcoming election, along with programs to make us confront it.

"...and animation shorts. Many people shy away from the avant-garde or experimental, thinking it too high-brow, perplexing, or just..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

After a Fashion

The Style Avatar digs into the subatomic particles of the Atomic Cafe Fashion show and goes on a "Bender"…

"...confections by Graves. The second act began with the avant garde (for Austin) designs of Levi Palmer for Leviticus...."

Oct. 27, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

His Films, His Way

Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It

"...the Frostee Cream Boy, and in Alex Cox's overlooked avant-Western free-for-all Straight to Hell as the mysterious Mr. Dade,..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Territory Schedule

"...mind of Kenneth Anger and the making of his avant-garde classic, Scorpio Rising...."

Oct. 20, 2000 Screens Feature

Short Cuts

Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.

"...19, 9:30-11:30pm (location TBA), and memorial screening of seminal avant-gardist Kurt Kren, Sat., Oct. 21, midnight (location TBA). Who..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Radio, Radio

Satellite radio, the burgeoning technology that may ultimately shake up the broadcast world the most, is right around the corner.

"..."Sonic Attack" (eclectic and psychedelic), "Le Vide" (experimental and avant-garde), among many others. There are Christian Net-only stations, Ireland's..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Deep River Of Song: Big Brazos Texas Prison Recordings, 1933-34 (Rounder)

Texas Platters

"...at Liberty Lunch in the early Nineties. These jazz avant-gardists ended their set with a tune extolling the virtues..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

After a Fashion

Nothing validates a scene like its own magazine.

"...the show, expect dazzling beauties from Maximum FX and Avant, among others, as well. Integrated throughout the fashion segments..."

Sept. 15, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

By the Book

Recent Fiction and Nonfiction Reviewed

"...this usually do not give instant recognition to controversial avant-gardists. As it stands, however, it's an excellent, extremely useful..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Books Feature by Harvey Pekar

Home for Heroes (and Others)

Transforming the storefront at 617 Congress into The Hideout, a multilevel arts venue, has been a learning process for proprietors Shana Merlin and Sean Hill. But after $250,000 of investment, the developer's dance of securing permits, and many hours of hard labor, they have created one of Austin's most user-friendly theatre spaces.

"...rentals. Salvage Vanguard Theater, one of the more accomplished avant-garde companies in town, used The Hideout to stage Mac..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Arts Feature by Phil West

Andrew Hill Dusk (Palmetto)/
Greg OsbyThe Invisible Hand (Blue Note)

"...among a handful of defining testaments to that era's modern/avant ethos and remains a source of guidance and inspiration..."

July 28, 2000 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...fault if you are so deeply unfunny that your avant-garde bullshit doesn't make us laugh. Get a new schtick,..."

July 14, 2000 Column

Dynamite Hack Superfast (Woppitzer/Universal)

Texas Platters

"...at KVRX if the local student-run frequency weren't an avant-garde version of noncommercial beacon KUT. The meat of the..."

June 30, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

From Zero to Infinity: Yayoi Kusama in Context: Orgiastic Color, Fuzzy Haze, and Naked Bodies

She was Pop before Andy silkscreened soup cans or Oldenburg piled up erasers, and the Blanton Museum of Art's new exhibition "From Zero to Infinity: Yayoi Kusama in Context" shows her pioneering influence in a survey of Pop Art that is freakin' amazing.

"...peers, a group of artists who worked with the avant-garde zero movement (which worked to bridge the gap between..."

June 16, 2000 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

Ute Lemper Punishing Kiss (Decca)

"...be a bit nerve-taxing, but even at her most avant and inaccessible, Lemper would make a much better Sex..."

June 16, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Gray

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