District 13: Ultimatum Advanced Screening
Monday, February 1, 2010 Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar Hope you all enjoyed the free advanced screening of District 13: Ultimatum. Two years have passed since elite police officer Damien Tomasso teamed up with reformed vigilante Leito (parkour originator David Belle) to save the notorious District 13, a racially charged ghetto populated by violent drug dealing [...]
Still alive after 365
By Frank Garrett, Jr., The Austin Times columnist There are surveys out of the wazoo floating around the Internet wanting people to rate the first year of America’s first black president. I have pretty much ignored the effort to compile a citizen’s generated portrait of Barack Obama due to what I consider an unlevel playing [...]
Dart Music: Bringing international indie music to Austin
Meet Dave Dart. This former astronaut trainer and Systems Analyst at the University of Texas started Dart Music International (DMI), an Austin Area nonprofit that works to bring small indie/rock/pop bands from around the world to Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico, with the majority of their work centered around artists coming for the [...]
Dreamworks’ MLK film back on track
Plans for a feature film about civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. appeared back on track on Tuesday as DreamWorks Studios said it has hired Oscar-winning screenwriter Ronald Harwood to pen a script. DreamWorks announced in May that it had acquired life rights for the slain Nobel Peace Prize laureate, marking the first time [...]
Haiti to resettle victims to camp
Within days, the government will move 400,000 people made homeless by Haiti’s epic earthquake from their squalid improvised camps throughout the shattered capital to new resettlement areas on the outskirts, a top Haitian official said Thursday. Authorities are worried about sanitation and disease outbreaks in makeshift settlements like the one on the city’s central Champs [...]
‘Book of Eli’: Denzel is back to save the world
In the future, according to “The Book of Eli,” we’ll all dress like we’re in a Nine Inch Nails video. It is written. Most everyone wears goggles and leather in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of “The Book of Eli.” A meteorite and a subsequent war 30 years earlier has scorched the Earth and the population. The [...]
Rapper Mystikal released from prison after 6 years
Serving a six-year prison term for sexual battery and extortion, New Orleans rapper Mystikal was released from jail last week. “My feet back on the ground. Man it’s been a long time,” Mystikal — famed for hits like “Shake Ya Ass” and “Danger (Been So Long)” — told New Orleans’ Q93 radio station. “I’m back. [...]
Fitness with Román González: Austin Adventure Boot Camp
I have decided to tell you about some of the great exercise classes and groups in and around Austin that you can take part in. For my column in this series, I chose to do something that really pushes you, a boot camp. Drawn in by the name and the free first class, I decided [...]
Experts: Sitting too much could be deadly
Here’s a new warning from health experts: Sitting is deadly. Scientist are increasingly warning that sitting for prolonged periods — even if you also exercise regularly — could be bad for your health. And it doesn’t matter where the sitting takes place — at the office, at school, in the car or before a computer [...]
Hot careers in health care
“Transferable skills” is a favorite phrase of career counselors. In a nutshell, it means that your education, work, and life experiences have value, and you can apply that value to your next job. For those ready for a change, what industry has the most opportunities for talented people with transferable skills? 1. Dental Assistants. Think [...]
