Moving Pictures (Or, Fibs of Our Fathers)
Deck Flags of Our Fathers Dir. Clint Eastwood; writ. William Broyles, Jr., Paul Haggis, ; feat. Adam Beach, Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Barry Pepper, John Benjamin Hickey, Jamie Bell, Paul Walker (R) In Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood has a high purpose: to tear down false notions of heroism, while still honoring the real…
On the Street
Deck The Black Bean Death Lottery (12/06/2006) Historically, Texans have been known to be larger than life. And Texas history, similarly, has been just as super-sized. I believe that’s fairly accepted. Of course one can say that’s it’s all just a myth. But a myth doesn’t necessarily mean a falsehood; it just means that it…
On the Street
Deck Before the Battle (11/15/2006) Recently an old friend named Brett came through town on his way to Houston where he was to give a talk at one of the museums on something concerning contemporary art. I’ve forgotten the exact nature of his speech but I did later remember something entirely beside the point about…
Game Theory
So this is the human condition in our new century: We are more wired than ever before, but — in ways that count the most — we are profoundly disconnected Joseph DeLappe protests the Iraq war by bringing its deadly reality to the virtual battlefield of America’s Army. So this is the human condition in…
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ADOPT A SHELTER DOG MONTH San Antonio shelter pups just got on Petfinder My October observations By: Keli Dailey ADOPT A SHELTER DOG MONTH San Antonio shelter pups just got on Petfinder.com. Would anyone adopt that friendly swinging-teat-and-tan dog that begs at the San Pedro gas station? Her fate seems as dark as the 850-plus…
Black Moses
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Homily No Grit
Because they take years to finance and produce, movies follow fashion as much as create it Conversations with God Dir. Stephen Simon; writ. Eric DelaBarre, from books by Neale Donald Walsch; feat. Henry Czerny, Vilma Silva, Bruce Page (PG) Because they take years to finance and produce, movies follow fashion as much as create it.…
Black Moses
By their very nature, email interviews are a drag Hot-buttered or chocolate and salty, Isaac Hayes serves it like you like it at Sunset Station on Friday. Isaac Hayes 8pm Fri, Oct 27 $20-$95 Sunset Station (Lonestar Pavilion) 1174 E. Commerce 222-9481 By their very nature, email interviews are a drag. It’s hard enough to…
The Bar Tab
Every great drinker has one great original cocktail in them, just bubbling to get out Rhode Island Russian In a whiskey tumbler or a coffee mug: 1 part cold milk/soy milk 1 part vodka 5 good squirts of Autocrat (available at Autocrat.com) Every great drinker has one great original cocktail in…
A Dance with Dogma
Zen philosophy meets existentialism in Hurry Slowly, a spiritually fervent performance by Rudolph Harst (of the spiritual artists congregation Celebration Circle) at Jump-Start Theatre Rudi Harst takes the lead with death in Jump-Start’s Hurry Slowly. Zen philosophy meets existentialism in Hurry Slowly, a spiritually fervent performance by Rudolph Harst (of the spiritual artists congregation Celebration…
The Magic, Man
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Poll Positioning
The Express-News’ ugliest Page 3 girl, Ken Rodriguez, writes a lot of dumb shit in his columns (e The Express-News’ ugliest Page 3 girl, Ken Rodriguez, writes a lot of dumb shit in his columns (e.g. Last week’s WTF: “Sometimes … the slut is more credible than a suit.”). So, while compiling this guide to…
All You Can Eat
On the menu this week: beer and doughnuts On the menu this week: beer and doughnuts. Skip the uncertainty of trick-or-treating and head straight for a warm frosty goodie from Krispy Kreme. Participating locations (krispykreme.com) are busy minting little pumpkin-shaped, yeast-raised doughnuts with jack-o-lantern faces. Yum. Snarf ’em while they’re warm. Purchase a dozen (pun’kins…
Look Alive
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The Magic, Man
Many effective writer/directors spend their allotted hour-plus or so setting up a story and then gradually filing it down, hoping to arrive at a concise, elegant, truthful expression of a particular emotion “This would go so much quicker if I had my utility belt.” Christian Bale and Piper Perabo in The Prestige. The Prestige Dir.…
Poll Positioning
The Express-News’ ugliest Page 3 girl, Ken Rodriguez, writes a lot of dumb shit in his columns (e The Express-News’ ugliest Page 3 girl, Ken Rodriguez, writes a lot of dumb shit in his columns (e.g. Last week’s WTF: “Sometimes … the slut is more credible than a suit.”). So, while compiling this guide to…
All You Can Eat
On the menu this week: beer and doughnuts On the menu this week: beer and doughnuts. Skip the uncertainty of trick-or-treating and head straight for a warm frosty goodie from Krispy Kreme. Participating locations (krispykreme.com) are busy minting little pumpkin-shaped, yeast-raised doughnuts with jack-o-lantern faces. Yum. Snarf ’em while they’re warm. Purchase a dozen (pun’kins…
Look Alive
It’s nearly Halloween and that means it’s time for ghost stories Billy Muñoz and Rita Crosby bring old San Antonio bones to life in Sterling Houston’s The Living Graves. The Living Graves 8pm Fri-Sun Through Oct 29 $20 show; $36.95 show & dinner The Church Bistro & Theatre 1150 S. Alamo 271-7791 Churchbistroandtheatre.com It’s nearly…
AFF-inity
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The Mashup
Like most TV-watching, internet-surfing, mall-patronizing Americans, my affection for an advertising slogan has little to do with its reading on the truth-o-meter From the Editor Like most TV-watching, internet-surfing, mall-patronizing Americans, my affection for an advertising slogan has little to do with its reading on the truth-o-meter. Among my favorite product pick-up lines: “It’s the…
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The Mashup
Like most TV-watching, internet-surfing, mall-patronizing Americans, my affection for an advertising slogan has little to do with its reading on the truth-o-meter From the Editor Like most TV-watching, internet-surfing, mall-patronizing Americans, my affection for an advertising slogan has little to do with its reading on the truth-o-meter. Among my favorite product pick-up lines: “It’s the…
Race for the Loompaland Beltway
Lukin Gilliland — now that’s an unusual name — Lukin Gilliland Lukin Gilliland for U.S. Congress: The new golden ticket? Lukin Gilliland — now that’s an unusual name — Lukin Gilliland. Sounds like a character from a Roald Dahl children’s book. And as the field of seven lucky challengers in the Congressional District 23 race…
AFF-inity
FRIDAY, 10/20 Shia Lebouf in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. FRIDAY, 10/20 10:17 a.m. – Park ($5), collect self. Sift through promotional AFF totebag. Read list of daily additions/changes for the day. Find: “Writer/director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Dogma) regrettably notified us on Thursday night that he is unable to attend the Austin Film Festival.”…
Rough Eight
If you walk away from this year’s NBA pre-season campaign with one thing in mind, it’ll be that Ben Wallace looks pretty sharp in red. The Chicago Bulls signed Wallace to a $60-million dollar deal in the off-season, bumping the team up to title-contender status. In their recent stop in Alamo City, Big Ben and…
The Politics of Death
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Teach Your Children
When Jennifer Epstein and her husband Mark get together with family members, they are always careful to avoid one highly divisive issue Elizabeth Bean and her homeschooled daughter Julia, 8, stop to read a book together while browsing the selection at the FEAST bookstore. When Jennifer Epstein and her husband Mark get together with family…
Cursed Cinema
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The Politics of Death
Mount St Mount St. Mark Foley erupted in a plume of red-hot instant messages, flash-frying the fat off the House Republican leadership before propelling enough ashy filth into the atmosphere to cloud the Senate midterm elections as well. Republicans in state races were left to scramble, retreat, build dams, and dig moats, lest the lava…
Cursed Cinema
I was about 8 the first time I saw what I was sure was a ghost I was about 8 the first time I saw what I was sure was a ghost. I wasn’t at a séance, nor was I trying my hand at a Ouija board — anyone who’s seen that one movie where…
The Politics of Death
Mount St Mount St. Mark Foley erupted in a plume of red-hot instant messages, flash-frying the fat off the House Republican leadership before propelling enough ashy filth into the atmosphere to cloud the Senate midterm elections as well. Republicans in state races were left to scramble, retreat, build dams, and dig moats, lest the lava…
Aural Pleasure
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Aural Pleasure
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The Green Goddess &ndash Changing the world one shopper at a time
Deck Buying local — haven’t you heard it’s the newest and hottest thing if you want to be a “with it” environmentalist? When I first found out that it was the latest in being a conscientious shopper, I thought, Wow! Look at me. I don’t travel outside of 410 to shop. But how ignorant can…
How To Eat Like There’s No Tomorrow
When you’re a journalist in the war-torn Caucasus, you should learn to do a few things Chaos correspondent Thomas Goltz demonstrates authentic shish at a Georgian feast. When you’re a journalist in the war-torn Caucasus, you should learn to do a few things. You’ll need to know how to board an MI-8 helicopter that’s swarmed…
Aural Pleasure
The Decemberists are sometimes accused of setting history lessons and graduate-school dissertations to music The Crane Wife The Decemberists (Capitol) The Decemberists are sometimes accused of setting history lessons and graduate-school dissertations to music. While this more-scholarly-than-thou reputation embarrasses them slightly, group leader Colin Meloy refuses to dumb things down for the unconverted. In fact,…
Home on the Range – A former New Yorker’s guide to the Texas adjustment
Last week, my husband Lindsay turned 40 Last week, my husband Lindsay turned 40. A friend of mine back east, whose husband happened to be turning 40 the very same week, was throwing an elaborate surprise party that involved roasting pigs on spits, hiring magicians, and flying in long-lost friends all the way from Japan.…
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And the Pursuit of Happenstance
Lithuanian poet Czeslaw Milosz kept butting in while I was reading Goodnight, Texas, the second novel by Texan William J Lithuanian poet Czeslaw Milosz kept butting in while I was reading Goodnight, Texas, the second novel by Texan William J. Cobb. When Gusef, the Russian café and motel owner in Goodnight by the Sea, Texas…
The Higher You Climb …
In its former incarnation, the restaurant atop the Tower of the Americas was often (and surely affectionately) known as Jim’s on a Stick, in recognition of its long-time operator Come for the seafood, stay for the view. The sake-glazed tuna did not inspire, but a Tower perch is still divine. Eyes Over Texas 600 HemisFair…
Sound and the Fury
GRUPO THERAPY Grupo Fantasma GRUPO THERAPY Grupo Fantasma has long been known as a band you have to hear live to fully appreciate. So it’s fitting that the 11-piece Austin ensemble named its new live disc, Grupo Fantasma Comes Alive, after the 1976 double album that transformed Peter Frampton from a pleasant journeyman into an…
Poll Positioning
The Express-News’ ugliest Page 3 girl, Ken Rodriguez, writes a lot of dumb shit in his columns (e The Express-News’ ugliest Page 3 girl, Ken Rodriguez, writes a lot of dumb shit in his columns (e.g. Last week’s WTF: “Sometimes … the slut is more credible than a suit.”). So, while compiling this guide to…
And the Pursuit of Happenstance
Lithuanian poet Czeslaw Milosz kept butting in while I was reading Goodnight, Texas, the second novel by Texan William J GOODNIGHT, TEXAS William J. Cobb Unbridled $24.95, 304 pages READING, SIGNING, TALK 7:30pm Thu, Oct 26 Borders in the Quarry 255 E. Basse 828.9496 Lithuanian poet Czeslaw Milosz kept butting in while I was reading…
The Dark Knight
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Guest Column
It was a real loss when the city’s first independent auditor, Pat Major, resigned in April It was a real loss when the city’s first independent auditor, Pat Major, resigned in April. As the mayor, council, and manager fumble to find a replacement, the importance of having a truly independent set of eyes and ears…
Game Theory
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The Dark Knight
Last November, Chris Knight — whom you might remember scored a minor hit with the down-on-yourself “It Ain’t Easy Being Me” almost a decade ago — said of country music, “I mean, if it’s not a drinking, silly-ass, redneck song, it’s almost bordering on Ch Knight in sleeveless armor: Country-singer Chris Knight bemoans the state…
That’s a Wrap
I feel like I haven’t seen Tim Robbins in a while. You? I mean, he was off doing that war play of his, and he popped up fairly memorably as a grizzled, nutty-like-a-Payday foil in War of the Worlds, but it seems like Mystic River was the last picture to give him something he could…
