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Bring Out Your Deadnew

Día de los Muertos celebrations are being held throughout the city this week, and though the public events began at Centro Cultural de Aztlán in 1977 and at the Instituto Cultural de México shortly thereafter, the festivity’s roots go deep into Mezoamerican culture.

San Antonio Current | Scott Andrews | 10-26-2011 | Art

The Exorcist Novel Turns 40new

Perhaps the reason The Exorcist is such a terrifying experience is because author William Peter Blatty wasn’t even trying to be scary.

San Antonio Current | Enrique Lopetegui | 10-26-2011 | Fiction

Tags: The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty

Man vs. Beastnew

Truth be told, the title American Hoggers didn’t fill me with anticipation for this new reality series. But it turns out to be a fascinating look at boar hunters in Texas, where the feral beasts are terrorizing landowners.

San Antonio Current | Dean Robbins | 10-26-2011 | TV

Stratocruiser's The Sparknew

Stratocruiser's fourth album successfully highlights more nascent psych influences that augment the ringing jangle pop and glammy hard pop of antecedents such as Badfinger and Cheap Trick.

INDY Week | Chris Parker | 10-26-2011 | Reviews

Tags: Stratocruiser

Sting: 25 Yearsnew

Even if Sting never went solo, his place in the rock 'n' roll Hall of Fame was secure thanks to the glorious way he mixed punk, reggae, and pop with the Police.

San Antonio Current | Enrique Lopetegui | 10-26-2011 | Reviews

Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez travel El Camino de Santiago in The Waynew

My son is in a class by himself,” actor Martin Sheen (Apocalypse Now, TV’s The West Wing) told the Current during a phone interview when asked how his son, Emilio Estevez, compares to some of the great directors he has worked with during his 50-year career

San Antonio Current | Kiko Martínez | 10-26-2011 | Reviews

Coming Attractions: Oscar-Buzz Moviesnew

Who's looking good for a gold statue? Boise Weekly has a list of the year's about-to-be-released must-see films.

Boise Weekly | George Prentice | 10-26-2011 | Movies

Tags: 2012 Oscars

Heads on Sticks' Brutish & Shortnew

In the last two years, Heads on Sticks have gone from a largely studio-bound offshoot of a prominent local bandleader and sideman to one of the best live acts in the area.

INDY Week | Jordan Lawrence | 10-26-2011 | Reviews

Tags: Heads on Sticks

Pa. Abortion Bill 732 is Bad Medicinenew

Journalist Steve Lopez once wrote that Philadelphia is a city without pretense in a state without shame—and that was long before Harrisburg legislators stooped low enough to exploit murdered babies to push a bill into law that would result in what critics call a “back-door ban” on abortion in Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia Weekly | Tara Murtha | 10-26-2011 | Policy Issues

Teachers Fight Politicians' War on Schoolsnew

After a decade-long war on public education by Democratic and Republican presidents and Wall Street that has wracked schools with high-stakes bubble tests and crowded classes beyond fire codes but has left kids no better educated, teachers are finally starting to fight back.

Eugene Weekly | Alan Pittman | 10-26-2011 | Education

Tags: testing, Portland schools, Oregon, protest, teachers, Arne Duncan, cost of testing, school reform, time spent testing