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SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Ashes and Diamonds Dir. Andrzej Wajda; writ. Jerzy Andrzejewski; feat. Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski, Adam Pawlikowski (NR) Acclaimed Polish director Andrzej Wajda made his name with his 1958 film, Ashes and Diamonds, the final chapter in a trilogy of films about World War II (the previous installments are A Generation and Kanal).…
RECENT REVIEWS
Buffalo Soldiers Dir. Gregor Jordan; writ. Eric Weiss, et al.; feat. Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Anna Paquin, Elizabeth McGovern, Michael Peña (R) A portrait of the peacetime Army as a den of thieves, Buffalo Soldiers is not so much political as opportunistic, like the scoundrel characters of its 317th Supply Battalion stationed outside…
DEVIL’S ADVOCATES
Cave Catt Sammy: MacArthur High classmates linked by their love of roots music. Photo by Richard Agudelo With its fourth CD, Cave Catt Sammy continues to stretch beyond its rockabilly base Cave Catt Sammy plays the Cigar Club almost every Thursday night, but it’s not really the foursome’s standard gig. This North Side bar,…
BARRIO ROCKERS
Cafe Tacuba: Eclectic Mexican art punks. Courtesy photo Mexico City’s Cafe Tacuba walks four paths in one musical direction The art punks in Mexico City’s Cafe Tacuba have been releasing music for 12 years now, creating genre-bending album after genre-building album, playing exactly what they’ve wanted whenever they’ve wanted. They’ve made important records and…
LOVE AND HAPPINESS
Four years ago, Mary J. Blige went on a mission of self-exploration, and decided to rid herself of the sizable chip she’d carried on her shoulder since childhood. Two years later, she told us that she wanted no more drama in her life. While these developments sounded like healthy moves for Mary the human…
MOOD SWING MUSIC
Mogwai Courtesy photo The wonder of Mogwai is that five nondescript Scottish blokes with little adherence to the conventions of song structure and almost no use for a vocal microphone can be such riveting performers. Taking its cues from the Velvets-Sonic Youth-Yo La Tengo chain of feedback-drenched underground rock, Mogwai has stripped this template…
HAVE YOU BEEN PROPOSITIONED LATELY?
Pediatric ophthalmologist Dr. James Mims III stands in his exam room with some of the tools of his trade. Photo by Mark Greenberg You’ll have to perform brain surgery on yourself. You won’t get a penny if a doctor removes the wrong leg. Doctors will disappear altogether. These are among the dire predictions surrounding…
SOUND AND THE FURY
The Blazers, making themselves a home in San Antone. a week on the scene BLAZER OF GLORY San Antonio music fans have long considered East Los Angeles rockers The Blazers a kind of adopted local band, and last week only confirmed the close bond they’ve developed with this city over the years. On Sunday,…
THE OTHER SEPTEMBER 11
Salvador Allende Thirty years ago, the U.S. was the aggressor in upending a foreign government Early one clear September morning, planes appeared in the sky, then hit their target. After the impact, a dense plume of smoke streamed from the building – a cherished architectural masterpiece symbolic of the people’s political values. A few…
CARP, WITH A SIDE OF ARACHLOR
Fish in Lower Leon Creek found with high levels of PCBs With its weedy banks and shallow waters, Lower Leon Creek looks lazy, idling beneath the willows that arch over its bends, and gently wending south towards the Medina River. It seems to be the perfect place to drop a line and wait for lunch…
ALL EARS
FIFTEEN ACRES OF MUSIC The logic is impossible to comprehend: Just around the point at which tolerable weather seems right around the corner, the outdoor-music-festival season draws to a close. At least the Austin City Music Festival, which in its second year (Sept. 19-21) is shaping up like a baby Jazz & Heritage festival, isn’t…
THE GOOD REVEREND’S ART
Reverend Seymour Perkins Courtesy photo Seymour Perkins exhibits his African-American sculpture and painting at San Angel Folk Art Born in the sleepy town of Halettsville, Texas, in 1930, Reverend Seymour Perkins has long called the East Side of San Antonio his home. The last decade has been one of serial tragedy for Perkins: He…
ARTIFACTS
News and notes from the San Antonio art scene San Antonian Dario Robleto recently earned the distinction of being the first non-NYC-based artist to install a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of Art at Altria. Robleto’s sculptural work blends hip-hop sampling technique with a Situationist’s sense of the absurd: authentic meteor fragments injected with…
NOXIOUS HABITS OF IRISH NUNS
A nun leads Rose (Dorothy Duffy), Bernadette (Nora-Jane Noone), and Margaret (Anne-Marie Duff) in The Magdalene Sisters. Courtesy photo ‘The Magdalene Sisters’ revisits the sins of the Catholic Church Until 1996, the Taliban operated in Ireland. The Hibernian branch of zealots called itself the Sisters of Mercy, and imposed its rigid brand of piety…
A MANY SPLENDORED THING
Hope Davis and Paul Giamatti star in American Splendor Courtesy photo Harvey Pekar’s real-life cartoons are acted out as real life on screen If a viewer were to go to see American Splendor knowing only that it was based on a comic book, he might understandably think he knew what he was getting. There…
Armchair Cinephile
BACK TO SCHOOL Animal House (Universal) The Sure Thing (MGM) Valley Girl (MGM) Weird Science (Universal) The Breakfast Club (Universal) Sixteen Candles (Universal) Three O’Clock High (Universal) Raising Victor Vargas (Columbia/Tri-Star) The yellow buses are rolling, Eckerd’s is selling spiral notebooks, and somewhere out there, a kid is getting his first wedgie – it’s back-to-school…
