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Confessions of a 'Little House' Lover
Bonnets and braids and pioneer lovin': Christina Smith treks to the land of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
"..."slough" was. Yeah, we loved Laura, but we weren't freaks about it or anything. And the bonnet thing --..."

Aug. 16, 2002 Screens Feature by Christina Smith

Stuart Bloody Stuart
Filmmaker Stuart Gordon hits the Alamo with his latest H.P. Lovecraft adaptation.
"...why Peter Pan is really a metaphor for the Freaks vs. the Man. Trippy, indeed...."

June 28, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...for our community. It reinforced stereotypes of homosexuals as freaks (and that newspapers are only interested in hype and..."

June 21, 2002 Column

Melville in Cubicle Hell
Tyro film director Jonathan Parker brings "Bartleby the Scrivener" back to the future. And who better to ride shotgun than freaky, geeky Crispin Glover?
"...special gift is his uncanny ability to make these freaks and geeks likeable, even lovable...."

June 14, 2002 Screens Feature by Sidney Moody

Pop Beloved
Revisting the Reivers
"...where natives are treated with a curiosity befitting circus freaks. History has a tendency to be ephemeral, but what..."

April 26, 2002 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Another State of Mind
Back in 1984, when it was neither profitable, nor especially safe, to be a Mohawk-wearing punk rocker, the tour doc Another State of Mind showed a softer side of hardcore -- the positive, politically conscious one.
"...who only felt comfortable around other like-minded rejects and freaks. Adam Small and Peter Stuart II's tour documentary Another..."

April 26, 2002 Screens Review by Mark Fagan

Eliza Gilkyson Reviewed
"...hymn-like album closer, "Riverside," she sings: "Saints and psychos, freaks and Indians, side by side worshipping all their gods..."

April 19, 2002 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

SXSW News
"...Beerland. During a party there for the Troma Films freaks (like Troma founder Lloyd Kaufman), travelling band of mutants..."

March 15, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Behind the Web Site That Works
The crude charms of Heavy.com.
"...extremely cocky. "When we started Heavy, we were considered freaks," says Assad. "Our mantra back then was not to..."

March 1, 2002 Screens Feature by Roger Gathman

Hedwig and the Angry Inch
In the Zachary Scott Theatre Center's production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Andrew Rannells is wonderfully ablaze in the role of the German-born rocker whose sex-change operation was botched, and everything about this hilarious musical spectacle has been fine-tuned to maximum pleasure.
"...for keeps among the winners, the losers, the everyday freaks like you, reader, and me...."

Feb. 8, 2002 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

20 Years of Austin Gifts
... And a slew of other local businesses celebrating significant anniversaries
"...a la carte by the pound). For recovering control freaks and the psychopathically undecided, a nice, fat gift certificate..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Brant Bingamon

New Fest
Why the Texas Book Festival decided to loosen its criteria
"...consuming desire to wipe the streets with the predatory freaks he always seems to run up against. If Vachss..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Dancing About Architecture
Champ Hood takes his fiddle to heaven.
"...a coke bottle up your butt... You super high-fidelity freaks will be glad to know that Eric Johnson's Ah..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture
L.A. vs. Austin -- Tinseltown wins.
"...Danny Masterson (That 70s Show, Face Off), Seth Rogan (Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared), Eric Balfour (Six Feet Under, What..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dead Man Blues
7-CD box set contains all anyone could ever want to know about Charley Patton.
"...Blackwood was conversant enough with the freaks and the ropers that he was able to elude..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Music Feature by Clay Smith

TV Eye
The best of the new fall shows
"...What I love: some of the same spunk as Freaks and Geeks (it's from the same creator) without the..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror
Far more readable than the majority of critical studies of pop-culture grue, David Skal's The Monster Show is a landmark work and nearly as entertaining as that dead clown underneath your bed.
"...her transgressive photography and Tod Browning's legendary, banned "fotoplay" Freaks. From there, The Monster Show lurches backward a bit..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

Best of Austin 2001
"We Can Be Heroes, Just for One Day..."
"...favorite response pretty much summed it up: "We the Freaks."..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Best of Austin Feature by Kate X Messer

The Original Hipster
Chronicle writer Dick Holland on the comeback of Texan Terry Southern, the all-around bad boy of black humor
"...for quite a while, through a devouring gauntlet of freaks, faggots, psychiatrists and aesthetic cults...."

Sept. 14, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Playing the Bad Guy
With actor David Stahl currently appearing as the wicked Richard III and actor Katherine Catmull having recently played the evil Goneril in King Lear, the challenge of playing villains seemed a ripe topic to launch a series of artist-to-artist conversations on craft.
"...that are less fun to play are these control freaks like Pentheus and Devlin...."

Aug. 17, 2001 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Playing the Violin
Mr. Sinus Theater's Jerm Pollet is also a musician!
"...I needed to be. And there were so many freaks!..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

TV Eye
The legend of James Dean, and TNT's take on it
"...James Franco (Freaks and Geeks) stars as Dean in the TNT movie..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Chuck & Buck
Chuck & Buck is often disturbing, but remains watchable thanks to director Arteta's fine blend of urban horror and dark humor.
"...helmed American Pie, White served as writer for TV's Freaks and Geeks). The final product is often disturbing, but..."

July 20, 2001 Screens Review by Mike Emery

Ms. Unruly
Marion Winik gives advice?
"...hackers, my eggheads with dreadlocks ... all my little freaks and dreamers out there." Which one of those were..."

May 4, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

TV Eye
So what's snapped Belinda Acosta's bra strap this week? It's the announcement that the Wonderful World of Disney will remake Brian's Song.
"...It's bad enough that NBC canceled Freaks and Geeks and Fox was too short-sighted to continue..."

May 4, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye
Belinda Acosta frees her inner dork, with big ups for The Lone Gunmen and BattleBots, among others. Also, a partial Oscar ballot.
"...China bombed Pearl Harbor ...") was a hoot. Like Freaks and Geeks, Lone Gunmen features a palette of unlikely..."

March 23, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Austin Avalanche of Rock & Roll!
When IRS Records' 'The Cutting Edge' Came to Town and Made Me Want to, Too
"...and lots of postcards and invited all these traveling freaks to come visit you in South Florida (We're so..."

March 16, 2001 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

SXSW Picks & Sleepers
"...spiked. Their new Megaforce CD, They Missed the Perfume, freaks like Jerry Garcia gone electronica, and with two rock..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers
"...lives, Greg Beets et al. represent the smart-asses, AV freaks, and asthma survivors' ultimate triumph in the arena of..."

March 9, 2001 Music Feature

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers
"...BABOON: These Denton-bred sci-fi noise-punk freaks released material on Grass and BMG subsidiary Wind-Up before..."

March 9, 2001 Music Feature

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