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October 13, 2011
Footloose: Still In Step
2011 remake has the moves to bridge generations and capture two demos.
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September 29, 2011
A Date with Duckie
2011 remake has the moves to bridge generations and capture two demos.
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September 1, 2011
Burning Hotels
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July 28, 2011
Crazy, Stupid, Love: Not Crazy Enough
Rom-com is sweet, but not groundbreaking.
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July 28, 2011
Slayer Is The Latest Act To Join The Increasingly Impressive Lineup For Fun Fun Fun Fest '11
The above video, released today, confirms the latest addition to the ever-impressive 2011 bill for Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest, which, by moving out of Waterloo Park and into Auditorium Shores, stands to be the fest's biggest offering yet. Who's the latest add? Why, the mighty Slayer, of course. Or " ... More >>
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July 14, 2011
Fun Fun Fun Fest Starts Leaking Lineup, Announces Odd Future, X, M83 Performances
We're big fans of Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest here at DC9 HQ -- and not just because the name of the festival reminds of our or favorite 1964 beach-pop jam. Fact is, the festival's a heck of a take, a capable competitor for Austin music festival supremacy, offering the hipster elite set a more palatab ... More >>
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May 5, 2011
Isn't She?
We're big fans of Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest here at DC9 HQ -- and not just because the name of the festival reminds of our or favorite 1964 beach-pop jam. Fact is, the festival's a heck of a take, a capable competitor for Austin music festival supremacy, offering the hipster elite set a more palatab ... More >>
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May 5, 2011
Jenerally Speaking
We're big fans of Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest here at DC9 HQ -- and not just because the name of the festival reminds of our or favorite 1964 beach-pop jam. Fact is, the festival's a heck of a take, a capable competitor for Austin music festival supremacy, offering the hipster elite set a more palatab ... More >>
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March 11, 2011
Last Night at 35 Conferette: The Biggest Pain of Being Pure at Heart? Realizing That, If You Make Crowds Wait, They'll Leave.
Stephen MaskerThe Pains of Being Pure at HeartThe Pains of Being Pure at Heart7:15 p.m. 7:55 p.m. at Main Stage TwoIf all had happened accordingly, last night's performance from New York's The Pains of Being Pure at Heart would have gone over exceedingly well, with crowds swaying back and forth a ... More >>
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December 21, 2010
The Best Songs in Dallas Music, 2010: The Other Guys From Ghosthustler Create Kimberly And Gloriously Recall The John Hughes Era at No. 9
[Over the next few weeks, we'll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 9 on the list -- and, please, feel free to click after the jump to grab a free download of the track. Also after the j ... More >>
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July 1, 2010
The Psychedelic Furs, She Wants Revenge
Thursday, July 1, at the Granada Theater
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June 29, 2010
Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets to See The Psychedelic Furs at the Granada of Thursday
You can't read Catherine Downes' take on the Psychedelic Furs's stop through the Granada Theater on Thursday night just yet--it's in this upcoming weeks' paper, and that sucker ain't out yet. But because I'm in a pretty decent mood this afternoon, here's a taste: Unlike many of their peers who rode ... More >>
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March 25, 2010
Hot Tub Time Machine
You can't read Catherine Downes' take on the Psychedelic Furs's stop through the Granada Theater on Thursday night just yet--it's in this upcoming weeks' paper, and that sucker ain't out yet. But because I'm in a pretty decent mood this afternoon, here's a taste: Unlike many of their peers who rode ... More >>
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December 7, 2009
Weekend Roundup: KISS, 311, Aesop Rock, AFI, 30 Seconds to Mars, Telegraph Canyon
KISS at American Airlines Center on Sunday, December 6:KISS: The only guys I know who wear more makeup than I do. Maybe except for Jared Leto. Oooh, burn!
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November 23, 2009
Top 10 Thanksgiving Dinners in Movies (And TV)
When it comes to movie holidays, Thanksgiving usually takes a back seat to that overplayed holiday in December. The one with the elves. The one that rhymes with "isthmus." (Sort of.) But why the second-class status, Thanksgiving? The holiday's got all the same potential for family chaos, waxing mor ... More >>
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September 14, 2009
How 'Bout Them Knockers: Brother's Pizza
Something's wrong with this picture.Each week in 'Knockers' we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Brother's Pizza 4151 Travis214-219-5200 Promised delivery time: 50 minutes Actual delivery time: 90 minutes The ScoreActually experien ... More >>
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September 10, 2009
Let My Cameron Go
Something's wrong with this picture.Each week in 'Knockers' we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Brother's Pizza 4151 Travis214-219-5200 Promised delivery time: 50 minutes Actual delivery time: 90 minutes The ScoreActually experien ... More >>
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August 7, 2009
Today In Music News: Jackson's Hard Drive Is Full Of Music, Tenacious D Replaces The Beastie Boys, Steven Tyler Falls and John Hughes Dies
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009...Looks like Michael Jackson's estate will produce as much posthumous music as Tupac's. Hard drives containing at least 100 unreleased songs--new and old--were taken by his sister LaToya.The Outside Lands Festival booked the most ... More >>
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August 6, 2009
Farewell, John Hughes
Pardon the break in postings -- I spent the last little while watching this nine-minute tribute to the eight films John Hughes wrote and directed, among them Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science (co-starring Fort Worth's Bill Paxton) and Pla ... More >>
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August 6, 2009
Wherein We Connect John Hughes to Kevin Smith to Zeus Comics' New Web Series
Speaking of the late John Hughes, one of his biggest acolytes is Kevin Smith, who told The Los Angeles Times last year, "Basically my stuff is just John Hughes films with four-letter words." So happens that the writer-director of Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma will bring his one-man stan ... More >>
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July 27, 2009
Gig Alert: VNV Nation and War Tapes at the Granada Tonight
VNV NationListening to VNV Nation is reminiscent of listening to alternative music when it was a viable and legitimate form of music. The band isn't something you're going to hear on a traditional modern rock radio station; combining elements of electronica, dance music and a little bit of industria ... More >>
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February 4, 2009
M83's Anthony Gonzalez Talks Killers, John Hughes
In last week's print product, we spoke with M83 frontman, founder and brainchild Anthony Gonzalez about the major influences on his latest release, 2008's stellar synth-heavy Saturdays=Youth.But what ran in the print issue was only a piece of the conversation--we also spoke with the Frenchman about ... More >>
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January 29, 2009
M83 Explains Its John Hughes Love
In last week's print product, we spoke with M83 frontman, founder and brainchild Anthony Gonzalez about the major influences on his latest release, 2008's stellar synth-heavy Saturdays=Youth.But what ran in the print issue was only a piece of the conversation--we also spoke with the Frenchman about ... More >>
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January 22, 2009
Patriotic, Not Platonic
In last week's print product, we spoke with M83 frontman, founder and brainchild Anthony Gonzalez about the major influences on his latest release, 2008's stellar synth-heavy Saturdays=Youth.But what ran in the print issue was only a piece of the conversation--we also spoke with the Frenchman about ... More >>
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July 31, 2008
Young Adult Fiction
High-school heroes and zeros roam the halls of Nanette Burstein's "documentary," American Teen
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May 1, 2008
The Croissant Club
High-school heroes and zeros roam the halls of Nanette Burstein's "documentary," American Teen
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April 24, 2008
Harold and Kumar Get Shipped to Gitmo in a Forced Act Two
High-school heroes and zeros roam the halls of Nanette Burstein's "documentary," American Teen
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October 31, 2007
Holiday Road
High-school heroes and zeros roam the halls of Nanette Burstein's "documentary," American Teen
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June 7, 2007
King of the Chill
High-school heroes and zeros roam the halls of Nanette Burstein's "documentary," American Teen
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December 14, 2006
Christmas Nuts
High-school heroes and zeros roam the halls of Nanette Burstein's "documentary," American Teen
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May 18, 2006
On a Bender
"Who has to go to the lavatory?"
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March 16, 2006
It's Dream Time
Hughes High looks so easy
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November 3, 2005
The Force Runs Its Course
Hughes High looks so easy
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July 14, 2005
We Heart Harry
Hughes High looks so easy
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March 3, 2005
Nope
Gettin' Up the Rent (Backlash Records) Competition (Not yet determined)
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October 14, 2004
Best Place to Make Out
Downtown
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June 3, 2004
The Geek
Anthony Michael Hall grows up
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April 29, 2004
This Week's Day-By-Day Picks
Anthony Michael Hall grows up
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April 29, 2004
Teen Spleen
Talking smack wreaks high school havoc in Mean Girls
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April 17, 2003
Wick's End
Plus: Anger Displacement
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April 17, 2003
Hallway Gangstas
When bad things happen to good kids, their Luck always holds
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February 7, 2002
Asking for It
Storytelling continues Solondz's bluster of sex, rage and insanity
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September 6, 2001
Rhythms of Youth
The documentary Chain Camera spins with the delirium of contemporary teenhood
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March 23, 2000
Teen beaten
Takes or leave this anachronistic teen film
Film
March 2, 2000
White-trash receptacle
With a sneer and a wink, Drowning Mona plunges us into a fresh deluge of idiotic Americana
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November 11, 1999
In God he trusts
Kevin Smith finally uses his religion in Dogma
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May 20, 1999
The New School
Everything I need to know about the modern American teen I learned by going to the movies
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November 27, 1997
The manic professor
This antiquated vehicle becomes a showcase for digital effects
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Cruella and unusual punishment
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The lost generation
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