On the Drunk Bus With Pineapple Tangaroa

The Austin body modifcation artist isn't playing around in his surprise new comedy

"...After repeated rejection, he made an inroad into Austin's body art scene, being hired at Mercy Piercing Studios. Concurrently,..."

May 21, 2021 Screens Feature by Kevin Curtin

Crimes of the Future

Cronenberg's return to body horror is, well, Cronenbergian

"...for his first intrusion back into the realm of body horror since 1999, Cronenberg picks up where he left..."

June 3, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

FF2012: How Fantastic Fest Got Twisted Up By 'American Mary'

Jen and Sylvia Soska are the new twins of evil

"...the Canadian film making duo, American Mary, deals with body modification, their dentine difference is all natural...."

Oct. 3, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

It's a Trans, Trans, Trans, Trans World

"...struggles, especially in the women's community, with issues of body image versus body modification. Does breast reduction, for example,..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

DVDanger: 'American Mary'/'Ninja III: The Domination'

The changing POV of the female revenge flick

"...which we see their fascination with the world of body modification...."

June 15, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars

"...actors in bad Mad Max outfits and some serious body-modification issues. Mars isn't heaven, as Ray Bradbury wrote all..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Do Not Try This at Home

Tom Six on the surgical horrors of The Human Centipede

"...twisted, and satirical story of rural Euro-horror meets cringey body modification...."

May 7, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

American Mary

The plastic surgery performed in this horror film gives real meaning to going under the knife.

"...appendages. For most of us, the subculture of extreme body modification is unsettling and incomprehensible. (Admittedly, today’s ubiquitous piercings,..."

May 31, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

Veering from moments of breathtakingly visualized valor to outright stupidity, Sith is a vast improvement over the previous two outings, but still and all, it’s no Star Wars.

"...Earl Jones, surprises nonetheless with a horrific sequence of body modification gone Cronenbergian. (And best of all, for certain..."

May 20, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

About Time for a New Pair of Genes

Better SXSW through DNA modification

"...You think science might eventually help your body grow a new liver? Maybe longer legs, smoother skin,..."

March 2, 2012 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, March 31 - April 6

"...them that many cultures throughout history have engaged in body modification. In parts of Africa and Borneo, for example,..."

March 31, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

An Alien of Extraordinary Ability

Gaga's face candy

"...but provocative performance artist who continuously questions gender and body modification...."

March 17, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

In Person

"...some of the ideas behind her book Mutilating the Body: Identity in Blood and Ink (Bowling Green State University..."

April 10, 1998 Books Feature

Love Thy Neighbor

Christine Fugate's new documentary The Girl Next Door follows Stacy Baker from her childhood in Tulsa to her rise as porn star Stacy Valentine.

"...really do go on that roller-coaster ride with me. Nobody's life is perfect and up all the time, but..."

June 23, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Night Has (Nearly) a Thousand Eyes With Sideshow Revivalists 999 Eyes

Austin original celebration of exceptional oddity returns

"...to perform and show off their way more interesting body than the 10-finger, 10-toe model."..."

April 14, 2023 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Heartland Theatre Collective's The Vineyard

The reasons to see this staging of Nicole Oglesby's new drama are the thorny questions it leaves you to answer

"...vineyard owner (Will Gibson Douglas) reveals an interest in body-modification surgery (or "trans­humanism") and begins experimenting on his friends..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Arts Review by Trey Gutierrez

SXSW Film Review: Caterpillar

Impressionistic documentary evokes the trauma of beauty standards

"...Caterpillar examines the increasingly complicated nexus of self-esteem, marketing, body modification and technology. The movie operates on a global..."

March 18, 2023 Screens Post by Joe Gross

Fantastic Fest Review: Hellraiser

The Cenobites are back in the third best entry in the franchise

"...black leather of the originals and replacing it with body modification - skin stretched over bronze and gold, torn..."

Sept. 29, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

We Have an Issue: Life’s Rich Pageant

In praise of people watching, and a face to follow on film

"...around town the guy gracing our cover this week, body modification artist Pineapple Tangaroa. To wildly understate things, he's..."

May 21, 2021 Column by Kimberley Jones

Jenny Slate Returns to the Big Screen With Landline

Nineties comedy reunites the team behind Obvious Child

"...so many of us who toe-touched subversion through adolescent body modification, writer/director Gillian Robespierre admits, "I have an eyebrow..."

Aug. 4, 2017 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

Dark Run

Mike Brooks' ragtag gang on a galactic smuggling mission may seem familiar (cough, Firefly), but you'll love 'em all the same

"...in which the biggest tech advancements are related to body modification (both as decoration and as necessary prosthesis) and..."

June 17, 2016 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Fantastic Fest Adds 'Pusher', 'Antiviral' to Lineup

Final additions include docs, sequels, remakes and world firsts

"...drawn into a shady world of underground surgery and body modification...."

Sept. 12, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Making Pronoun Choices for the Dead

"...who have acquired the physical characteristics (by hormone therapy, body modification, or surgery) of the opposite sex and present..."

Feb. 4, 2004 Postmarks

RESearch Reviewed

"...brought you classic tomes covering alternative celebrities' views on body modification, pranks, weird movies, even weirder music, etc., has..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

A Regular Joe

The Revelations of Filmmaker Joe Christ

"...Freaks With Guns is now touring behind his radical body-modification documentary Sex, Blood, and Mutilation and the self-explanatory Is..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Latino Leadership

"...an opportunist in regard to things like postfeminism, punk, body modification, etc., is a) an irrelevancy in the context..."

Feb. 28, 1997 Column

Short Cuts

"...Blood and Mutilation, a documentary that gives the words "body modification" new meaning, and a preview of Christ's new..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Screens Column

Dark, Heavy, Grindy Music

Austin's Industrial Revolution

"...new motto is `Austin: Where Bands Come to Die.' Somebody ought to change those bumper stickers around town to..."

Oct. 13, 1995 Music Feature

Slaxx

Fashion horror is a good look

"...the ultimate in figure-hugging. Unfortunately for the wearers, that body shaping shifts into mangling, as this rotten cotton dispatches..."

April 2, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Developing Stories: The Long Capitol View

The Downtown Commission and Heritage Society of Austin square off over Capitol-view corridors

"...and 1985. These 11 CVCs were "recommended for re-evaluation, modification, or further study based on current criteria established by..."

June 1, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

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