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The Great Actor Mix-up of 2007new
Ryan Gosling is David Arquette in Lars and the Real Girl, director Craig Gillespie's follow-up to his acclaimed (cough) debut, Mr. Woodcock.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
10-31-2007 |
Reviews
The Worst of the Fall Seasonnew
Early fall is an exciting, disappointing time to be a TV fan. The best new shows won't show their true luster for weeks, but the worst are already totally obvious in their horribleness.
San Antonio Current |
Luke Baumgarten |
10-31-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Shootin' in 'Strangehold,' Hittin' Stuff in 'Eternal Sonata'new
Strangehold somehow continues John Woo's Hard Boiled, but mainly serves up blissful shooting action. In Eternal Sonata, Frederic Chopin is the main character and the game takes place inside his head as he's dying, so music is somehow involved.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Watkins |
10-31-2007 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
'Martian Child' Offers Lloyd Dobbler as a Widowernew
Frankly, it's the only way many of us will take our John Cusack, served up a la quirk, and his turn in Martian Child doesn't disappoint.
San Antonio Current |
Cynthia Hawkins |
10-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Martian Child, Menno Meyjes
'Lust, Caution' Offers Arty Escapismnew
When your choices are limited to the Dane Cook comedy, the depressing 9-11/Afghanistan/Iraq War film, the ubiquitous cops-mafia-drugs drama, and Sawstel, I say by all means bring on the World War II-era, foreign-language erotic espionage thriller by Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
10-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Ang Lee, Lust, Caution
San Antonio Symphony Debuts New Local Worknew
As California grapples with the ravages of wildfires, the San Antonio Symphony begins rehearsals for the world premiere of "Something Miraculous Burns," the newest work by local composer David Heuser.
San Antonio Current |
Diana Roberts |
10-31-2007 |
Music
Interview With a Vampire Professornew
Whether your concept of "vampire" stems from Bram Stoker's 1897 classic Dracula, Wesley Snipes blasting vamps into ash in Blade, or the Count adding up the number of bats in his castle on Sesame Street, Dr. Thomas Garza appreciates them all.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
10-31-2007 |
Culture
Remember When Bobby Brown Mattered?new
Brown is so desperate for TV exposure he'll giddily air his nasty laundry (Being Bobby Brown), or compete to make it as a country singer, as he's doing on CMT's upcoming series, Gone Country.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
10-24-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
'In Rainbows' Wears 'More Rock' Crownnew
It's kind of funny that every Radiohead album released post-Kid A has been heralded as the group's "return to rock" -- as though Thom Yorke's dips into electronic music and jazz have only delayed what we really want to hear: more versions of "High and Dry."
San Antonio Current |
Chuck Kerr |
10-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: In Rainbows, Radiohead
Barrio Brigadenew
Bombasta teams with San Diego's B-Side Players for a night of one-world polyrhythms.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
10-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Scare Factor of Silent Hill: Origins and Clive Barker's Jerichonew
Scary video games pack so much more visceral, immediate punch than their cinematic counterparts. Instead of watching some poor schlep being run down by a bloodsucker, it's you.
San Antonio Current |
Aaron R. Conklin |
10-24-2007 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Halle Berry Discusses 'Things We Lost in the Fire'new
Berry can say she is back on track to earn her second Oscar nomination for her intimate role in her new film.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
10-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
It Takes a (Mexican) Villagenew
Will the new critical biography of Josefina Niggli compel Chicana and Chicano writers to embrace her as their literary madrina?
San Antonio Current |
Pablo Miguel Martinez |
10-24-2007 |
Nonfiction
Chefs Step It Up for GEAA's Second Annual Feral Hog Roastnew
Word on the street is that cochinita pibil is on the menu for this year's Second Annual Feral Hog Roast, in which San Antonio’s finest chefs and restaurants compete to serve up the tastiest wild pig.
San Antonio Current |
Nicole Chavez |
10-24-2007 |
Food+Drink
CPS Energy: Wrong on Nukes, Putting Your Future at Risknew
Instead of scrambling to enhance the security of our communities by ramping up energy efficiency and making sure we all have the power we need in the event of an emergency, the utility will soon launch San Antonio into the fore of the "nuclear-energy revival" with only the haziest notions of the risks -- and the costs -- involved.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
10-24-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
