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Entries from Austinist tagged with 'brucelee'

October 16, 2007

There are so many great films playing at this year's Austin Film Festival that we've been having trouble keeping track of them all. And one that flew completely under our radar until this morning is a Vietnamese martial arts film called The Rebel, which is screening at the Paramount tonight. Billed as the "first ever Vietnamese martial arts film", The Rebel looks like all kinds of action-packed awesome. Secret agents? Check. Black magic? Check. Face-kicking......

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September 17, 2007

Don't forget to submit your entry for our Fantastic Fest Bruce Lee Lookalike Contest! The festival starts this Thursday, so get your entry in ASAP for a chance to WIN TWO FESTIVAL BADGES! Fantastic Fest is our favorite eight days of the year. No lie. In fact, last year's fest was quite possibly the best eight days of our entire lives. And though we didn't think it was possible, this year is shaping up to......

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September 12, 2007

Fantastic Fest is our favorite eight days of the year. No lie. In fact, last year's fest was quite possibly the best eight days of our entire lives. And though we didn't think it was possible, this year is shaping up to be even better! To celebrate the festival's opening night, we cordially invite you--nay, we challenge you--to compete in the Finishing the Game: Bruce Lee Lookalike Contest! Here's how it works: Dress up like......

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September 10, 2007

Are you a master of Jeet Kune Do? Do you possess fists of fury? Well, friends, even if you don't, you can still strive to match in visage alone the badassitude of the all-time greatest martial artist by participating in our Bruce Lee Impersonation Contest. You heard us! In conjunction with our friends at Fantastic Fest, we're looking for a sweaty-chested action hero (or heroine) to call our own, but we prefer that said sweaty-chested......

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August 4, 2006

Dateline: Budapest. Mullet-wearing, cowboy boot-wearing, justice-keeping, Texas martial arts phenom Chuck Norris is close to putting another feather in his black belt. Or something. Hungarian government officials need a name for a new bridge that crosses the Danube in Budapest. Being the grand, tech-savvy democracy that they are, they decided to let the voice of the people be heard, so they took the name-voting to the intraweb. And, not surprisingly, the leading vote-getter thus far,......

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June 11, 2006

LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other. Where do ist editors go when they hang up the 'editorial we'? They take on MySpace, apparently. At least Ben Brown does. Austinist reminds us of the just rewards of less savory careers this week and then they witness the Arctic Monkeys and We......

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