Armchair Cinephile: The Cine-Mini
Given that little holiday that just happened and the other around the corner, studios aren’t too worried about hustling new product onto shelves this week. Aside from Brian DePalma’s The Black Dahlia and the women-in-a-cave-with-slimy-beasties flick The Descent, there’s not much new of note. So instead of hot-off-the-press titles, here’s a roundup of recent music-oriented…
Sects Crimes
Back during the summer, we ran a story and follow-up on the reclusive leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a breakaway sect that defected from the Mormon church (the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) more than a century ago when the mainstreamers abandoned polgamy. Jeffs, widely called…
FCC Under Fire
On one level, AT&T’s proposed merger with BellSouth was simply the latest in a string of high-profile acquisitions by AT&T. But in 2006, the planned buyout dovetailed with national concerns about the NSA’s warrantless spying program and growing questions about whether the Federal Communications Commission has deliberately ignored damning evidence about the effects of media…
Comfy old hat
Frederick’s Asian-accented chapeau has plenty of wear left in it
A bite of burger heaven
Release Date: 2006-12-26 “0h, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt,” rhapsodized a hungry Frank McCourt in Angela’s Ashes — a sentiment I agreed with until recently. Now I would say that if there were a heaven, and it didn’t mind carnivores, it would taste like…
That’s a Wrap
And here it is: The last of the red-hot (movie) lover’s must-see list for 2006. Children of Men — directed by Alfonso Cuarón, one-third of the Mexican-born cinevirtuoso triumvirate that includes Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy, The Devil’s Backbone) and Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu (Babel, 21 Grams, Amores Perros), starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael…
Tough Love: T.O., The Cowboys, and The Post Season
Sometimes it’s hard to love the Cowboys. I learned this lesson as a youngster in the ’80s, when my grandfather decided he would treat his family to a game in Dallas in the dead of winter — back when Texas still had a winter. The Cowboys won the game, but what I remember most is…
La Frontera, the View from SA
When Tina Benkiser took the stage at the Texas Republican Convention on June 2, she had immigration on her mind. Benkiser, the state GOP chairwoman, drew the biggest applause of the convention’s first day by explicitly stating what many Republicans were thinking: that illegal immigration isn’t simply a law-enforcement issue, it’s a challenge to the…
The Year of Police Disgrace
Since my superiors are enforcing a temporary ban on all copy encouraging a certain self-promoting “civil rights” attorney (clue: we call it a “Myart-orium”), I’m forced to tip my ivy cap at San Antonio’s second-most-vocal critic of the San Antonio Police Department: Express-News columnist Ken Rodriguez. In October, I called him the daily’s “ugliest page-three…
Clothes-Minded – Fashion Deconstruction
Galeana Woodson’s eponymous new boutique in Monte Vista is filled with colorful, high-end, party-perfect clothes — none of them available in size 0. During several years in (eventually helpful, but terminally boring) international business, strategic planning, and advertising, Woodson dreamed about opening a clothing store stocked with the clothes she wanted, for the kind of…
Virgen Matricides
Two ways to view the Virgen de Guadalupe: Anna-Marie Lopez’s “Virgin,” left, draws on an Aztec deity. At right is a 16th-Century painting. Centro Cultural Aztlan’s light-filled Galeria Expresión is hung with images of the Guadalupana for the annual Celebracion a la Virgen de Guadalupe. But for all the variety of materials — mixed media,…
Beating the Meat, One Last Time
Be honest. When you first heard another sequel to Rocky was being made, the first thing you thought was, “Sylvester Stallone is desperate for a comeback.” Right? This was probably followed by, “What’s next, a sequel to Rambo? Oh wait, they’re doing that one, too? Sonuvabitch, Stallone is that desperate.” But here’s the thing: No…
Pro-Choice Barriers
Snap out of that auld-lang-syne reverie you latter-day Margaret Sangers. The luxury of hindsight is not accorded to the foes of anti-choice warriors, whose phalanxes are forever facing forward, lobbing the next round of restrictive legislation into the pre-filing bin. We will not therefore be reflecting on 2006’s gains and losses in this soundbite, but…
Last Call
The Davenport 200 E. Houston 354-1200 Wednesday nights at the Davenport generally attract big, festive crowds of committed dancers. On Wednesday, December 20, the numbers were even bigger than usual, but there was a bittersweet undercurrent to the dance-floor epiphanies. Many longtime patrons stopped by the hip downtown bar that night to say goodbye. They’d…
Framed
In the annals of funnybook history, EC Comics is not exactly an unsung hero. Countless artists, from filmmakers to songwriters, have cited the influence of the company that became famous for warping kids’ minds (their horror and crime stories were prime scapegoats in the mid-’50s movement to censor comic books), and the titles have been…
Virgen Matricides
Two ways to view the Virgen de Guadalupe: Anna-Marie Lopez’s “Virgin,” left, draws on an Aztec deity. At right is a 16th-Century painting. Centro Cultural Aztlan’s light-filled Galeria Expresión is hung with images of the Guadalupana for the annual Celebracion a la Virgen de Guadalupe. But for all the variety of materials — mixed media,…
Beating the Meat, One Last Time
The Stallion delivers a solid blow to latest opponent Mason “The Line” Dixon’s northern colonies. Rocky Balboa Dir. and writ. Sylvester Stallone; feat. Sylvester Stallone, Burt Young, Milo Ventimiglia, Geraldine Hughes, Antonio Tarver (PG) Be honest. When you first heard another sequel to Rocky was being made, the first thing you thought was, “Sylvester Stallone…
Along the River
In Alexander Garvin’s catalog of urban successes, The American City: What Works, What Doesn’t, the San Antonio entries are pretty brief. “What works” is our famed River Walk. Garvin hails it as “a powerful illustration of the effectiveness of intelligently planned open space …” But the success of the River Walk comes with a price.…
Ovah for Hova?
Jay-Z: the Michael Jordan of mogul-rap, and that’s no rave. It turns out Kingdom Come, Jay-Z’s big “I’m back” album, is his return to so-so-ness. The beats are mostly predictable and the rhymes are too safe; Jay settles for outside shots when he really should come strong to the hoop. There’s also the issue of…
Framed
Listen up, boys and ghouls: Tales from the Crypt gets the four-color treatment with the new EC Archives editions. In the annals of funnybook history, EC Comics is not exactly an unsung hero. Countless artists, from filmmakers to songwriters, have cited the influence of the company that became famous for warping kids’ minds (their horror…
A Bite of Burger Heaven
“0h, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt,” rhapsodized a hungry Frank McCourt in Angela’s Ashes — a sentiment I agreed with until recently. Now I would say that if there were a heaven, and it didn’t mind carnivores, it would taste like a Big’z Famous…
Celebrity Mooning
2006 was jam-packed with celebrity gossip — a full 12 months of it, in fact. Let’s look back at some of the highlights. Celebrity divorces were huge. It occurred to Kate Hudson that she is attractive and her husband, Chris Robinson, is not. Golden couple Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe split, and the world learned…
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Aural Pleasure
So Divided … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead (Interscope) It’s hard to think of a contemporary rock band that divides intelligent people as sharply as the Austin quartet …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead. The ultimate love-’em-or-hate-’em band of our time, Trail of Dead must deal…
Framed
Listen up, boys and ghouls: Tales from the Crypt gets the four-color treatment with the new EC Archives editions. In the annals of funnybook history, EC Comics is not exactly an unsung hero. Countless artists, from filmmakers to songwriters, have cited the influence of the company that became famous for warping kids’ minds (their horror…
Merry Constipation
Your schedule is filled with holiday parties, sometimes one right after another. You stand around with your little plates full of greasy hors d’oeuvre and cheese. Meanwhile, during these chilly days, it can be easy to forget about greenery, which seems out of place in the winter landscape. And the cold temperatures flick an internal…
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The Year of Police Disgrace
Since my superiors are enforcing a temporary ban on all copy encouraging a certain self-promoting “civil rights” attorney (clue: we call it a “Myart-orium”), I’m forced to tip my ivy cap at San Antonio’s second-most-vocal critic of the San Antonio Police Department: Express-News columnist Ken Rodriguez. In October, I called him the daily’s “ugliest page-three…
Aural Pleasure
So Divided … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead (Interscope) It’s hard to think of a contemporary rock band that divides intelligent people as sharply as the Austin quartet …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead. The ultimate love-’em-or-hate-’em band of our time, Trail of Dead must deal…
Fertile Art
Step into a tribal time warp at Gallery Nord for a sensual experience of undulating forms and vibrating patterns. Daniel Chadbourne’s solo exhibition, complete with outdoor installations, features a variety of figures that emerge in spiraling equilibrium. These sculptures and paintings, rendered in organic fibers, stoneware, wood, beads, horn, and the occasional eggshell, beget an…
Merry Constipation
Your schedule is filled with holiday parties, sometimes one right after another. You stand around with your little plates full of greasy hors d’oeuvre and cheese. Meanwhile, during these chilly days, it can be easy to forget about greenery, which seems out of place in the winter landscape. And the cold temperatures flick an internal…
A (Very Nice) Cinematic
BY THE CURRENT’S REVIEWERS Illustration by Chuck Kerr Who remembers the titles on last year’s best lists? Since even the films themselves are quickly forgotten, I cherish the ones that linger, that cling to the soul and refuse to let go. Several recent films, among them Blood Diamond, The Departed, The History Boys, Infamous, The…
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The Year of Police Disgrace
Since my superiors are enforcing a temporary ban on all copy encouraging a certain self-promoting “civil rights” attorney (clue: we call it a “Myart-orium”), I’m forced to tip my ivy cap at San Antonio’s second-most-vocal critic of the San Antonio Police Department: Express-News columnist Ken Rodriguez. In October, I called him the daily’s “ugliest page-three…
A (Very Nice) Cinematic
BY THE CURRENT’S REVIEWERS Illustration by Chuck Kerr Who remembers the titles on last year’s best lists? Since even the films themselves are quickly forgotten, I cherish the ones that linger, that cling to the soul and refuse to let go. Several recent films, among them Blood Diamond, The Departed, The History Boys, Infamous, The…
Fertile Art
Step into a tribal time warp at Gallery Nord for a sensual experience of undulating forms and vibrating patterns. Daniel Chadbourne’s solo exhibition, complete with outdoor installations, features a variety of figures that emerge in spiraling equilibrium. These sculptures and paintings, rendered in organic fibers, stoneware, wood, beads, horn, and the occasional eggshell, beget an…
Merry Constipation
Don’t let this happen to you or someone you love this holiday season. Your schedule is filled with holiday parties, sometimes one right after another. You stand around with your little plates full of greasy hors d’oeuvre and cheese. Meanwhile, during these chilly days, it can be easy to forget about greenery, which seems out…
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‘Stop Talking, Start Digging’
It’s the mayor’s penchant for action over reflection that’s caused some citizens first-term dyspepsia, not the actual initiatives, say Hardberger supporters. And it’s easy to imagine Hizzoner’s staff catching the hot potatoes as they fly unheralded from his hands, tossing them to a councilperson to cool (best, if not fastest, method: public hearings), and then…
The Year of Police Disgrace
Since my superiors are enforcing a temporary ban on all copy encouraging a certain self-promoting “civil rights” attorney (clue: we call it a “Myart-orium”), I’m forced to tip my ivy cap at San Antonio’s second-most-vocal critic of the San Antonio Police Department: Express-News columnist Ken Rodriguez. In October, I called him the daily’s “ugliest page-three…
Beating the Meat, One Last Time
The Stallion delivers a solid blow to latest opponent Mason “The Line” Dixon’s northern colonies. Rocky Balboa Dir. and writ. Sylvester Stallone; feat. Sylvester Stallone, Burt Young, Milo Ventimiglia, Geraldine Hughes, Antonio Tarver (PG) Be honest. When you first heard another sequel to Rocky was being made, the first thing you thought was, “Sylvester Stallone…
Fertile Art
Danville Chadbourne 10am-5pm Tue-Sat Through Jan 19 Gallery Nord 2009 NW Military 348-0088 Step into a tribal time warp at Gallery Nord for a sensual experience of undulating forms and vibrating patterns. Daniel Chadbourne’s solo exhibition, complete with outdoor installations, features a variety of figures that emerge in spiraling equilibrium. These sculptures and paintings, rendered…
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Don’t Trust Him America: The Historic Case Against Bush’s Spying Powers
Who hasn’t found herself in a quagmire with a pathological lover who comes home at 3 a.m. wearing just one sock (“Baby, I left with only one.”) and sweating Lady Stetson (“Baby, don’t you trust me?”) and swearing he didn’t bed down with some skank from club Anthro? A duplicitous dirty bastard will always deny,…
The Storm After the Storm
In July, we reported that, after a series of deadlines, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was on the verge of pulling the plug on housing assistance to thousands of Katrina evacuees, including approximately 6,000 in Texas. Indeed, FEMA estimates in a December 3 Washington Post story stated that by October 19, of the 720,590 households…
Comfy Old Hat
Frederick’s fresh Maine lobster and jumbo crabmeat with asparagus and Grand Marnier dressing. Used to be that Frederick’s was favored by the blue-haired, big-Caddy set, an audience Frederick Costa took with him when he departed L’Etoile for digs in the shadow of Chateau Dijon. However, a look around at a recent dinner suggested that, despite…
Fertile Art
Danville Chadbourne 10am-5pm Tue-Sat Through Jan 19 Gallery Nord 2009 NW Military 348-0088 Step into a tribal time warp at Gallery Nord for a sensual experience of undulating forms and vibrating patterns. Daniel Chadbourne’s solo exhibition, complete with outdoor installations, features a variety of figures that emerge in spiraling equilibrium. These sculptures and paintings, rendered…
Comfy Old Hat
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Aural Pleasure
So Divided … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead (Interscope) It’s hard to think of a contemporary rock band that divides intelligent people as sharply as the Austin quartet …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead. The ultimate love-’em-or-hate-’em band of our time, Trail of Dead must deal…
Toxins (and citizens) Falling Through the Cracks
For residents of the Toxic Triangle, the Southside neighborhood surrounded by the former Kelly Air Force Base, 2006 brought some measure of vindication. For years, residents have contended that cancer rates in the area are abnormally high and can only be explained by the plume of toxins under their houses, caused by long-term secret dumping…
Toll Roads: The Congestion, Sniffling, Coughing, Aching, So You Can Commute Medicine?
What’s the best bridge between the state’s available funds and its growing mobility needs? If you said “thousands of miles of privately funded gray and whale-wide toll roads,” you’ve probably been sipping the Texas Transportation Commission’s kool-aid. It’s hard not to, when their arguments are so concentrated and sugared-over (tolls — the answer to all…
Merry Constipation
Don’t let this happen to you or someone you love this holiday season. Your schedule is filled with holiday parties, sometimes one right after another. You stand around with your little plates full of greasy hors d’oeuvre and cheese. Meanwhile, during these chilly days, it can be easy to forget about greenery, which seems out…
Fertile Art
Danville Chadbourne 10am-5pm Tue-Sat Through Jan 19 Gallery Nord 2009 NW Military 348-0088 Step into a tribal time warp at Gallery Nord for a sensual experience of undulating forms and vibrating patterns. Daniel Chadbourne’s solo exhibition, complete with outdoor installations, features a variety of figures that emerge in spiraling equilibrium. These sculptures and paintings, rendered…
Comfy Old Hat
Frederick’s fresh Maine lobster and jumbo crabmeat with asparagus and Grand Marnier dressing. Used to be that Frederick’s was favored by the blue-haired, big-Caddy set, an audience Frederick Costa took with him when he departed L’Etoile for digs in the shadow of Chateau Dijon. However, a look around at a recent dinner suggested that, despite…
Sound and the Fury
freeholie night Promotions don’t come more beautifully simple than Casbeers’s “Free Freeholies” night on December 21 to celebrate the release of Augie Meyers’s CD, My Freeholies Ain’t Free Anymore. It was fitting, since few musical artists can match the Zen simplicity with which Meyers writes, sings, and stabs at his Vox Continental organ. Meyers was…
Net Neutral, Please
On all sides of the political spectrum, technology advocates were deeply relieved by the outcome of the November elections. Only a few months earlier, Senator Ted (“The internet is a series of tubes”) Stevens was a hair’s breadth away from dramatically rewriting the nation’s telecommunication laws and gutting the internet’s vital tradition of network neutrality.…
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Winter Spice
Our beer critic recommends Sierra Nevada’s Celebration Ale for its citrus and allspice flavors. Cinnamon spice and everything nice … that’s what my beer is made of. Seasonal winter ales are now on the shelves and brew aficionados get goosebumps from the options. Pumpkin, allspice, chocolate, and all things holiday spruce up ales and lagers…
Fertile Art
Danville Chadbourne 10am-5pm Tue-Sat Through Jan 19 Gallery Nord 2009 NW Military 348-0088 Step into a tribal time warp at Gallery Nord for a sensual experience of undulating forms and vibrating patterns. Daniel Chadbourne’s solo exhibition, complete with outdoor installations, features a variety of figures that emerge in spiraling equilibrium. These sculptures and paintings, rendered…
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Sound and the Fury
freeholie night Promotions don’t come more beautifully simple than Casbeers’s “Free Freeholies” night on December 21 to celebrate the release of Augie Meyers’s CD, My Freeholies Ain’t Free Anymore. It was fitting, since few musical artists can match the Zen simplicity with which Meyers writes, sings, and stabs at his Vox Continental organ. Meyers was…
Chimp Symp
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Pickup Town
In November, the first new Tundra pickups came off the assembly line at San Antonio’s Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas plant. We now have realized the thousands of new, well-paying jobs that Toyota’s announcement promised in early 2003. But while the jobs are welcome news, much of the promise of Toyota’s arrival has yet to be…
Virgen Matricides
Two ways to view the Virgen de Guadalupe: Anna-Marie Lopez’s “Virgin,” left, draws on an Aztec deity. At right is a 16th-Century painting. Centro Cultural Aztlan’s light-filled Galeria Expresión is hung with images of the Guadalupana for the annual Celebracion a la Virgen de Guadalupe. But for all the variety of materials — mixed media,…
Fertile Art
Danville Chadbourne 10am-5pm Tue-Sat Through Jan 19 Gallery Nord 2009 NW Military 348-0088 Step into a tribal time warp at Gallery Nord for a sensual experience of undulating forms and vibrating patterns. Daniel Chadbourne’s solo exhibition, complete with outdoor installations, features a variety of figures that emerge in spiraling equilibrium. These sculptures and paintings, rendered…
lastwords
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Sound and the Fury
FREEHOLIE NIGHT Promotions don’t come more beautifully simple than Casbeers’s “Free Freeholies” night on December 21 to celebrate the release of Augie Meyers’s CD, My Freeholies Ain’t Free Anymore. It was fitting, since few musical artists can match the Zen simplicity with which Meyers writes, sings, and stabs at his Vox Continental organ. Meyers was…
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Eggin On Stonewall SA
Gene Elder, the archivist at the Happy Foundation, says the drag brunches at W.D. Deli were the most important events in San Antonio queerdom this year. “I believe the personal is political,” he told the Current. We might argue that the closing of the Diversity Center, the continuation of gay-positive events — the AIDS Walk,…
Virgen Matricides
Two ways to view the Virgen de Guadalupe: Anna-Marie Lopez’s “Virgin,” left, draws on an Aztec deity. At right is a 16th-Century painting. Centro Cultural Aztlan’s light-filled Galeria Expresión is hung with images of the Guadalupana for the annual Celebracion a la Virgen de Guadalupe. But for all the variety of materials — mixed media,…
The Urban Geographer – Walk softly and carry a good new year’s resolution
Here’s a game you can play this holiday season. You can do it at home in front of your television if you like. It’ll be fun, I promise. And you can decide how long you want to play. Ready? Here goes. Pick a movie, any movie. As you watch it, pay close attention to the…
Ovah for Hova?
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Chimp Symp
First, The Rule of Tail. Monkeys have tails, apes do not. So, we’ll have none of that “monkey trouble” or “monkey in the middle” wordplay here. The battle over the custody of seven chimps at the Primarily Primates, Inc. sanctuary in Northwest Bexar County was one of the most passionate courtroom dramas of the year,…
A Sculley Year
Just over a year has passed since Sheryl Sculley arrived in San Antonio to take over as city manager. The first outsider to fill the manager’s job since Tom Huebner in the late 1970s, Sculley came with an impressive price tag and the promise of turning San Antonio into one of the nation’s “best cities.”…
The Urban Geographer – Walk softly and carry a good new year’s resolution
Illustration by Roland Rodriguez Here’s a game you can play this holiday season. You can do it at home in front of your television if you like. It’ll be fun, I promise. And you can decide how long you want to play. Ready? Here goes. Pick a movie, any movie. As you watch it, pay…
The Urban Geographer – Walk softly and carry a good new year’s resolution
Here’s a game you can play this holiday season. You can do it at home in front of your television if you like. It’ll be fun, I promise. And you can decide how long you want to play. Ready? Here goes. Pick a movie, any movie. As you watch it, pay close attention to the…
Ovah for Hova?
Jay-Z: the Michael Jordan of mogul-rap, and that’s no rave. It turns out Kingdom Come, Jay-Z’s big “I’m back” album, is his return to so-so-ness. The beats are mostly predictable and the rhymes are too safe; Jay settles for outside shots when he really should come strong to the hoop. There’s also the issue of…
Chimp Symp
First, The Rule of Tail. Monkeys have tails, apes do not. So, we’ll have none of that “monkey trouble” or “monkey in the middle” wordplay here. The battle over the custody of seven chimps at the Primarily Primates, Inc. sanctuary in Northwest Bexar County was one of the most passionate courtroom dramas of the year,…
“Toxic, Burned Out, Brain-Dead”
An abridged list of the men and women we couldn’t dump and run fast enough: • Tom DeLay, corrupting one server at a time. Viewer comments from the first 75-minutes of his December-released Tomdelay.com, that were immediately taken down: “You left Congress disgracefully and you want people to take you seriously? You should be in…
Fertile Art
Danville Chadbourne 10am-5pm Tue-Sat Through Jan 19 Gallery Nord 2009 NW Military 348-0088 Step into a tribal time warp at Gallery Nord for a sensual experience of undulating forms and vibrating patterns. Daniel Chadbourne’s solo exhibition, complete with outdoor installations, features a variety of figures that emerge in spiraling equilibrium. These sculptures and paintings, rendered…
The Urban Geographer – Walk softly and carry a good new year’s resolution
Illustration by Roland Rodriguez Here’s a game you can play this holiday season. You can do it at home in front of your television if you like. It’ll be fun, I promise. And you can decide how long you want to play. Ready? Here goes. Pick a movie, any movie. As you watch it, pay…
The Mashup – Hooray for people with computers!
From the Editor Dear You, Happy New Year! I’m writing to you personally because I know you’re probably concerned about falling into a post-2006 funk in the wake of the online revolution and all the attention the media has payed to you — well, itself, really, now that you’re part of the new media. I…
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Death In District 7
San Antonio Express-News columnist Ken Rodriguez surely expressed the view of many local voters in his November 25 column when he branded District 7 Councilwoman Elena Guajardo a rat who betrayed the trust of one of her constituents. Whether or not Guajardo succeeds in her re-election bid in 2007, she will be remembered primarily for…
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Framed
Listen up, boys and ghouls: Tales from the Crypt gets the four-color treatment with the new EC Archives editions. In the annals of funnybook history, EC Comics is not exactly an unsung hero. Countless artists, from filmmakers to songwriters, have cited the influence of the company that became famous for warping kids’ minds (their horror…
That’s a Wrap
And here it is: The last of the red-hot (movie) lover’s must-see list for 2006. Children of Men — directed by Alfonso Cuarón, one-third of the Mexican-born cinevirtuoso triumvirate that includes Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy, The Devil’s Backbone) and Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu (Babel, 21 Grams, Amores Perros), starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael…
Last Call
The Davenport 200 E. Houston 354-1200 Wednesday nights at the Davenport generally attract big, festive crowds of committed dancers. On Wednesday, December 20, the numbers were even bigger than usual, but there was a bittersweet undercurrent to the dance-floor epiphanies. Many longtime patrons stopped by the hip downtown bar that night to say goodbye. They’d…
War On Terror: America Finally Says “J’Accuse”
It took clueless Britney only two years to wake up to K-Fed’s loser-ificness, and America three to realize the folly of Operation Iraqi Freedom, or at least to bear enough dissent that a peacenik like Ivan Eland, director of the Independent Institute’s Center on Peace & Liberty, could get away with calling the invasion “colossally…
A Bite of Burger Heaven
“0h, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt,” rhapsodized a hungry Frank McCourt in Angela’s Ashes — a sentiment I agreed with until recently. Now I would say that if there were a heaven, and it didn’t mind carnivores, it would taste like a Big’z Famous…
