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Luv Doc Recommends: Eeyore’s 41st annual Birthday Party
Pease Park, Saturday, April 24, 2004
"...Tragically, the higher the Freak Tax gets, the fewer freaks there are in central Austin to justify the expenditure...."

April 23, 2004 Column by The Luv Doc

SXSW Film Reviews
"...together a team out of the local pool of freaks and miscreants is the premise of this flick. But..."

March 19, 2004 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Upping the Animé
Satoshi Kon's 'Tokyo Godfathers' is social commentary transposed onto a toonscape: an interview
"...reality -- the absence of scary monsters and super freaks caught everyone but longtime animé fans (who have appreciated..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

TV Eye
Thirty years later, Jeff Krulik and John Heyn still find the best spots
"...purpose? Who would want to film a bunch of freaks in a parking lot? Who would watch, and who..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Scary Monsters and Super Freaks: Stories of Sex, Drugs, Rock 'N' Roll and Murder
Sheet Music
"...SCARY MONSTERS AND SUPER FREAKS: STORIES OF SEX, DRUGS, ROCK 'N' ROLL AND MURDERby..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Music Review by Marc Savlov

Luv Doc Recommends: The Diamond Smugglers
, Wednesday, December 31, 2003
"...St. Patrick’s Day is for drunks, Halloween is for freaks, but New Year’s Eve is prime time for the..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Column by The Luv Doc

10 Twisted Texas Songs
"..."Dracula From Houston" A track from the beloved Austin freaks' most recent disc suggests they've mellowed with age, but..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Demolition Man
Documentarian Jesse Moss on Speedo
"...street kids or a film about a family of freaks, you know? I don't know if you've seen My..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Explosions in the Cinema
Rock band Cineophiles Explosions in the Sky and their favorite celluloid dreams.
"...In other words, Explosions in the Sky are film freaks through and through. Hrasky, James, Rayani, and Mark Smith..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

TCB
Slow news week in the Live Music Capital
"...community stemming from the club's short tenure as Hot Freaks. "Let's let bygones be bygones," urges Meshbane. "We all..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

On Ondine on Film
The pope and the artist, the hotel and the factory
"...time I really got the Factory: It wasn't just freaks and misfits posing and pretending. Their very preposterous audacity..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

On Ondine on Film: Editor's Cut
This is an extended version of the story that ran in the print edition.
"...time I really got the Factory: It wasn't just freaks and misfits posing and pretending. Their very preposterous audacity..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Luv Doc Recommends: Salvage Vanguard Labor Party
Tillery Street Theater, Saturday, August 16, 2003
"...like local theatre. Sure this town is lousy with freaks, fops, and funsters hellbent on subverting the norm, but..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Column by The Luv Doc

TCB
Austin soldiers on beyond SXSW with hot rods, SPAM, and puking
"...copies of the three-song disc on hand... Seminal avant-noise freaks Ed Hall reunite after six years and "months of..."

April 11, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Ray Wylie Hubbard
Texas Platter
"...Top that's just ambiguous enough so that yuppies and freaks alike finally have a rallying cry to replace Hubbard's..."

April 11, 2003 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Sending Off SXSW 2003
Film Reviews
"...children that the world might prefer to dismiss as "freaks" are instead treated as part of the group...."

March 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Peter Debruge

The Entertainment Economy
As the Austin film, music, and gaming scenes become a "cluster," civic leaders are looking for industrial-strength creativity
"...Ion Storm designer Warren Spector, often described by game freaks as "a godfather of the industry" and such. "Once..."

March 14, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

TCB
SXSW News
"...Flute-powered Seattle freaks Kinski, midnight at the Mercury...."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

After a Fashion
What do Osama Bin Laden, Aretha Franklin, and Blue Genie Art Industries have in common? Absolutely nothing, but go ahead and read about them anyway.
"..."them." Yeah, you know ... one of those simplistic freaks who thinks that maybe it's better to do away..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Need for Sleaze
Bill Landis will be at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown on Feb. 23 to introduce two films and talk about his new book, Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square.
"...Porn, soft-core, deeply sick Italian cannibal movies, Blood Sucking Freaks, snuff films, Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS, blaxploitation,..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Personals
While the material in Personals, a revue built around the ads placed by men and women desperately seeking soul mates, suffers somewhat from age, Naughty Austin's production makes a fine match with a cast that is exceedingly appealing and extremely adept at musical comedy.
"...so many people who place those ads: the control freaks, the social geeks, the blowhards, bozos, and bums...."

Feb. 7, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large: Too Many Cooks?
Restaurateurs Marc Katz and Brad Meltzer may spoil Will Wynn's (and Max Nofziger's) smooth mayoral campaigns.
"...intend to run for mayor. Some of them are freaks. Some of them are veteran politicians. And some of..."

Jan. 31, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Holiday in San Antonio
The birth of Austin's punk scene: the Sex Pistols at Randy's Rodeo in San Antonio, 25 years ago this week.
"...They were half rock & roll messiahs, half sideshow freaks. Johnny Rotten fomented chaos and rebellion; Steve Jones and..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Tasting 2002
The year in food
"...the way they used to be before the lean freaks ruined our meat supply. Grill it medium-rare, nap it..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Food Feature

The Santaland Diaries
The Santaland Diaries, which recounts writer David Sedaris' experience as a Macy's elf, is funny, irreverent, and sneakily heartwarming, and with Martin Burke in the driver's seat as Krumpet the elf, the Zachary Scott Theatre Center production is a nonstop, exhilarating ride.
"...line) seem like individual, unique weirdos, not just assembly-line freaks...."

Dec. 27, 2002 Arts Review by Molly Beth Brenner

Making Singles Drinking Doubles
Reissues
"...of goodness out of an artist, and for music freaks, it's still an item to be treasured. Here we..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Weak at the Knee?
Chief Stan Knee's tenure at the APD has had many external successes, and several internal failures.
"...Enforcement Associations of Texas. "[Knee's] advice comes from control freaks: 'Got trouble? What do you do? Squash it; take..."

Oct. 25, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Mr. Demme's Holiday
Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme takes a trip to the city of lights and of love, of Tati and Truffaut, in his latest, The Truth About Charlie.
"...by college journalists-in-training, slightly scary Silence of the Lambs freaks, or jaded old entertainment-beat pros looking for a current..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

After a Fashion
"...Le Privilege, and the owners of new club Hot Freaks (upstairs at Le Priv) for excellent service...."

Sept. 20, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Dancing About Architecture
Labor Days ends, people bummed.
"...Another club-within-a-club to check out is the new Hot Freaks, hidden discretely over Le Privilege. As we wait for..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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