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Fleeing from her village, she becomes an unlikely picaresque heroine, living by her wits while resisting a seemingly inevitable descent into prostitution. Eventually she winds up in Britain, where she finds a job in a massage parlour and enters into a marriage of convenience with an obliging elderly customer (Geoffrey Hutchings) – but her adventures don’t end there. The writer-director Guo Xiaolu films this chronicle in an unadorned style, as if she and her crew were simply tagging along for the ride; the film flirts with cliche in evoking a familiar modern sensation of drift (an emblematic image: Mei slumped with her backpack by the side of an overpass, watching the cars go by). But Guo’s intelligence is evident in her refusal to portray Mei as either heroic or hateful – and in her division of the story into wryly titled chapters, perhaps a nod to Jean-Luc Godard’s Vivre sa vie (1962).

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Photos by Aaron Geiser and Chaz Gordon from aGLIFF’s annual BLOOM fundraiser, which took place last Friday at Action Figure Studios. The evening’s performers included aerialist Agent Red, artist Rob Rough, the Queertastiks, Austin based arts collective Queer Sol, Kings N Things and walker-assisted stripper Granny P.

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The ‘Shattered Dreams’ program is one of the initiatives that all District Representatives in the South Bureau worked just prior to prom and graduation. The graphic, day-long program, where reenactments of DWI collisions are depicted and the focus is on not drinking, is coordinated with the Austin Fire Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety.
In increasing ongoing operations, DR’s from one district will be pulled to assist in other parts of the South Bureau. “Our unit was temporarily located for several weeks to help out with the South Central district. We were assisting with operations targeting street level narcotics, gang activity, weapons and prostitution in south central Austin,” said Officer Zachary LaHood, DR for the southwest sector. ” One of the other things we have been doing is spending about half our time on DR duty and the other half on street response. This has been extremely successful and helps develop cohesiveness in the different units throughout the south bureau,” he added.

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Outfest’s standout world premiere is not a feature (yet); it is the 27-minute short film “Fourplay:  San Francisco,” which centers on a transvestite prostitute who is hired to have sex with a paralyzed man.  Though they’re headed to Chicago soon, Kyle Henry and the people behind the “Fourplay” series still consider themselves Austin filmmakers.  Working with a mostly Austin crew, Henry and team are in the process of finishing the four short films that make up their “Fourplay” series.  Each short is set in a different U.S. city (San Francisco, Tampa, Austin, New Haven), and features a different transgressive sex act as the scene on which the characters’ arcs hinge.
Henry and his partner/co-writer Carlos Treviño were inspired by stories their friends and acquaintances told them about their sexual experiences.  In the San Francisco installment, the couple was delighted to create a transvestite character based on their friend, the sex-positive sex worker activist Chloe, staying away from any trans-cliché. When writing the character of Aliya (played by Paul Soileau, who moonlights as performance artist Christeene), the couple was intent not to create another asexual transvestite, so they gave Aliya a very intimate sex scene.

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On the After Show, when asked about the ending, Kristin and Brody said it was open to viewer interpretation. What was real? What wasn’t? We’ll never know.
As for the rest of the cast, Stephanie Pratt got herself a real biker boyfriend (yes, they actually had “the talk”). “Old soul” Lo Bosworth moved in with her boyfriend and dullsville Audrina Patridge moved into an awesome house on Hermosa Beach, the lucky bitch. Meanwhile, on the After Show, Lauren Conrad returned to pimp her new books, while Holly Montag was subjected to a video montage of just how much her estranged sister has changed, reducing her to tears. The video almost had an “In Memoriam” feel to it, like Heidi Montag is no longer with us. Perhaps she’s not. It does seem like she’s been replaced by a plastic fembot.

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… Yeah, I know where I stand in the game,” Dondero says. “[It] doesn’t mean I’m not gonna keep playing. I didn’t think I had another song in me, but here we go again. They just crept up and wouldn’t leave me alone, wouldn’t let me sleep. I don’t even know where the hell they came from or remember how they got here.”
The songs come from Dondero’s own life. On a never-ending tour and living out of his car, Dondero has long trudged through the detritus of humanity, turning his acute observations and experiences into sometimes twisted tales. It’s a world populated by raving drunks, bored strippers, the perpetually broke and lonelyhearted. Dondero exposes this backroads landscape and all its emotional land mines on Number Zero With a Bullet. With each listen, it stands out as his sharpest and most inspired work.

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Fleeing from her village, she becomes an unlikely picaresque heroine, living by her wits while resisting a seemingly inevitable descent into prostitution. Eventually she winds up in Britain, where she finds a job in a massage parlour and enters into a marriage of convenience with an obliging elderly customer (Geoffrey Hutchings) – but her adventures don’t end there. The writer-director Guo Xiaolu films this chronicle in an unadorned style, as if she and her crew were simply tagging along for the ride; the film flirts with cliche in evoking a familiar modern sensation of drift (an emblematic image: Mei slumped with her backpack by the side of an overpass, watching the cars go by). But Guo’s intelligence is evident in her refusal to portray Mei as either heroic or hateful – and in her division of the story into wryly titled chapters, perhaps a nod to Jean-Luc Godard’s Vivre sa vie (1962).

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12 Since 1943 House Park Bar-B-Q has been serving Austin residents barbecue out of the same pit at 900 W. 12th St. Owner Joe Sullivan purchased the business in 1981 and has operated the pit ever since with the motto “Need no teef to eat my beef.” The restaurant is only open for lunch Mon.–Fri.11 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Call 472-9621.
13 An Austin landmark built in 1916, The Tavern has been located on North Lamar Boulevard at 922 W. 12th St. since before Lamar was built. The building is modeled after a German Public House and was once the home of The Enfield Store, which moved out in 1929. The building was then a steak restaurant, and when Prohibition ended in 1933, The Tavern was born. Legend has it that the building’s upstairs was also home to a popular speakeasy and brothel. Today the restaurant is known as a happy hour hangout and place to watch sporting events. Call 320-8377 or visit www.austintavern.com.

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Janine, however, is allowed to keep Sunny with her for the rest of the summer until school starts in Texas in August. She will be allowed to visit her and is entitled to spend at least one weekend per month with Sunny in California. She can be with her for the majority of the holidays, too.
Jesse has recently bought a $2 million house near Sandra Bullock’s place in Austin and plans to shift very soon.
Jesse didn’t comment on the verdict after he came out of courtroom, but his lawyer John Schilling was rather cruel on his estimate of Lindemulder and her habits.
“She is an admitted drug addict, stripper, criminal and porn actress, who has moved nine times in the past five years. The only stability she has had was when she was in prison for six months,” Schilling was quoted as saying by RadarOnline.

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Travis County prosecutors won an early victory today in the battle over how much recently revealed problems at the Austin Police Department’s DNA lab will affect criminal prosecutions.
The win came when state District Judge Charlie Baird denied motions for a new trial filed by two men sentenced to decades in prison in May for aggravated robbery.
Joseph Foley, 34, and Michael Cooper, 35, were convicted in part based on DNA evidence found near the scene of a July 16, 2009, home robbery that linked them to the crime. The evidence, including gloves and a bandana, corroborated a co-defendant’s testimony that the men followed two women they thought were strippers from Sugar’s Uptown Cabaret to a nearby house, where they beat, shot and robbed some of the people inside.
Linda Icenhauer-Ramirez and Kiele Linroth Pace, lawyers for Cooper and Foley respectively, argued that the men should have received prior to trial a February memorandum in which Cecily Hamilton, then a police DNA analyst, revealed alleged problems with the lab.

See the full article from “Austin American-Statesman (blog)”