ALL EARS
RECOVERING DEPRESSIVES Pernice may be blissed out now, but there’s not much risk of a sugar coma. The album kicks off with “The Weakest Shade of Blue,” a track so pushed-front, bright and unstoppable that it’s difficult not to sing along, or at least mouth the words; there’s a frightened little Scuds song buried in…
TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO PRESENTS SCREENING OF THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
The Age of Innocence screens Tuesday, May 27 as part of Texas Public Radio’s “Cinema Tuesdays” series. 7:30 pm at AMC Huebner Oaks, admission $10 members / $12 non-members, 614-8977 or tpr.org for reservations. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE Dir. Martin Scorsese; Writ. Edith Wharton (novel), Jay Cocks & Scorsese; Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona…
JUDGING G-STRINGS
Strippers sought cover under First Amendment Judge Biery pointed to a painting on the wall of his courtroom that depicts the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and wondered if George, Ben, and John could have foreseen the possibility that a federal judge would consider whether the First Amendment protects the right A dancer…
PORTRAYING DIGNITY
Mayoral hall of fame stands in silent vigil outside City Council chamber Some of them gaze off into the distance, and some of them look you straight in the eye, with various expressions on their faces. At least one of them appears to cast an accusing eye: “You’re gonna spend how much taxpayer money?” And…
GROSS EXAGGERATIONS
Regis Shephard’s new installation reminds viewers of what it means to be an American The tiny quarters of Blue Star’s Gallery 4 provide a stark white backdrop to an assemblage of black-and-white charcoal Regis Shephard’s What Is Really What? installation, currently on view at Blue Star Art Space. Photo by Mark Greenberg caricatures. Their…
TIMBER-R-R-R!
Mark D. Granados and Hill-Granados Retail Partners claimed that Coalition President Richard Alles sent an e-mail that included “false and defamatory statements” about the plaintiff: “Such statements were made by Defendants with recklessness and malice and were intended to harm the reputation of Plaintiffs in the community and to disrupt, stop and/or impede the ongoing…
DANCING ABOUT TERRORISM, SINGING ABOUT FILMMAKING
The Dancer Upstairs ‘Latin America. The recent past.” Although The Dancer Upstairs is inspired by events involving a specific terrorist group (called the Shining Path) in the country of Peru, Javier Bardem and Laura Morante in The Dancer Upstairs filmmaker John Malkovich and screenwriter/novelist Nicholas Shakespeare have chosen to peel off the story’s identifying…
ARTIFACTS
News and notes from the san antonio art scene. Performance, video, and installation artist Michael Smith will deliver a lecture on Thursday, May 22, at ArtPace. Smith’s extensive body of work wavers between contemporary art and stand-up comedy. Since the late ’70s, the New York City-based artist has successfully navigated the slippery terrain between modern…
NEW REVIEWS
COWBOY BEBOP In this feature-length episode of the phenomenally popular anime series, “cowboy” equals “bounty hunter,” “bebop” is the name of the bounty hunters’ space ship, and the action takes place a few hundred years from now on Mars, where colonists have created a multi-ethnic metropolis resembling a patchwork of every major city on earth…
Armchair Cinephile
“I’ll show you the life of the mind.” Miller’s Crossing (Fox Home Entertainment) Barton Fink (Fox Home Entertainment) Three Colors Trilogy: Blue, White, Red (Miramax) Fans of the Coen Brothers (that’s all of us, right?) will be happy to see that Barton Fink and Miller’s Crossing make an even 100 percent – now all of…
STILL PLAYING
AGENT CODY BANKS Dir. Harold Zwart; writ. Ashley Edward Miller; feat. Frankie Muniz, Hilary Duff, Angie Harmon (PG) Teenaged CIA operative Cody Banks has all the concerns common to adolescence, and some that aren’t so common – his mission is to woo a foxy girl so he can learn more about her scientist father, who…
FOUR STRONG WOMEN WITH STRINGS
The Austin-based Tosca String Quartet makes its San Antonio debut Floria Tosca is so dependent on her man that when a firing squad under orders from treacherous Baron Scarpia executes him, she hurls herself to her death The Tosca String Quartet from the ramparts of Rome. The four women who constitute the cheeky Tosca…
BIGGS’ WORLD
Forty-four years after their first hit, the Isley Brothers re-emerge as patriarchal pop stars It has often been said that Madonna and David Bowie are pop music’s greatest chameleons, its supreme masters of reinvention. Of course, what passes for reinvention in pop music tends to be about as deep as a change in hair color,…
SOUND AND THE FURY
a week on the scene WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN? By 1939, June had joined her mother and sisters on the road, which included trips through Texas. During the coldest months of the year from 1939 to 1942, when they would have had trouble traveling in Virginia, the Carter Family lived in San Antonio.…
