Meat: it does a body good
No wonder the Bible has a story of ribs
Meat: it does a body good
No wonder the Bible has a story of ribs
Meat: it does a body good
No wonder the Bible has a story of ribs
BACK IN BLACK
In the years since Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones last saved Planet Earth from destruction, the latter has been working in a rural post office, oblivious to his alien-policing past. The former, Men In Black’s new star agent, has gone through a long string of partners; he grows disillusioned quickly, missing the chemistry he…
NEW REVIEWS
THE POWERPUFF GIRLS: THE MOVIE “Monkey shines in TV cartoon’s big-screen adaptation” Children, parents, and Cartoon Network junkies can finally enjoy a TV-cartoon-to-big-screen translation that really works — and features a more dynamic talking animal. Of course, it’s been said that everything is funnier with a monkey — especially when said primate is a super-intelligent,…
Armchair Cinephile
Every day we brush past so many other people — people we may never meet, or people who may become close friends … The opening lines of Chungking Express (Miramax, $19.99), Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai’s 1994 film festival hit, are key to his approach to storytelling. In Express and Fallen Angels, its sequel-in-spirit (Kino,…
SPECIAL SCREENS
NORTH BY NORTHWEST “Grade-A Hitchcock” Texas Public Radio has some knack for timing, and they couldn’t possibly know it in this case: The spanking-new Minority Report has a sequence in a car factory in which Tom Cruise is trapped in an automobile as it rolls down the assembly line. In North by Northwest (DVD, Warner…
EXECUTION DAY
“Nobody understands what it’s like to watch somebody die,” says Reverend Carroll Pickett, Presbyterian minister and former Death House chaplain for “The Walls,” the Huntsville unit of the Texas prison system. From 1982-97 Pickett ministered to 95 men on the final day of their lives — all of them waiting to die by lethal injection…
BOUND FOR THE GALLOWS
In 1999, when Frank McFarland, convicted of sexual assault and murder, lay strapped to a gurney at Huntsville Prison, and received a dose of lethal poison in his vein, Rick Halperin watched. “It is one of the most horrible things I’ve ever seen,” says Halperin, president of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty…
TEXAS’ KILLING MACHINE
During the 2001 legislative session, Governor Rick Perry vetoed a bill that would have banned the execution of mentally retarded offenders, claiming that there were adequate legal safeguards to protect them. The bill would have allowed a jury to determine if a defendant is mentally retarded and if so, the sentence would be life in…
SHE IS A CHICANA POET
I’ve been doing some research among Latino writers and I’ve concluded that I could be a Chicana Poet and serve up Latino food innuendo by describing my tetas as melones your cosa as un chile my mother’s milk as aguas fresca my panocha as pan si pan dulce dulcita So begins Amalia Ortiz’ “Chicana Poet,”…
FREE RANGE FOUL
Sunday, July 14 marks the long-awaited homecoming of a San Antonio-bred creative anomaly. In 1981, Big Boys bassist Chris Gates mistakenly introduced a fledgling San Antonio band as the Butthole Surfers, which was actually just a song on their set list. Butthole guitarist and co-founder Paul Leary recalls, “Back then we changed our name every…
ALL EARS
Is Peter Gabriel the most prolific musician out there who hasn’t released a proper studio record in 10 years? Fans may have to keep their ears to the ground to keep up with the man, but he’s clearly neither lazy nor a hermit: Since 1992’s Us, he has undertaken a mammoth, lavishly staged tour, created…
THONG ALONG
Everytime they hit the stage, Ology gives guys, girls, and even bearded transvestites “happy feet” and showers musical “love juice” on them. Jose de la Cerda, Ology’s lead singer and “el mero mero,” assures that the “happy feet” syndrome stems from the band’s ability to get the crowd dancing instead of slam dancing. “We try…
