Entries from Austinist tagged with 'eldorado'
April 10, 2008
Photo by slopjop on flickr More information has been released about some of the goings-on at the FLDS (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) compound near Eldorado. A witness told authorities that beds at the "temple" there was used by older men to deflower their young (underage) brides. When authorities stormed the "temple", they discovered a bed in a dishevelled state, with a long hair therein. Found in the "temple annex" were......
Continue Reading "More News on the Polygamous Sect in West Texas"October 12, 2006
In its month-long look at the finer points of the Polish film world, and under the banner of New Directions in Polish Film II, the Austin Polish Society and Austin Polish Film Festival proudly present another gem – one from the Lodz School film archives. Film school alumni Krzysztof Krause takes a critical look at the art world, examining a recognizable dichotomy as embodied by two artistically inclined characters in his 2004 film Moj......
Continue Reading "Austin Polish Film Festival Screens Moj Nikifor"July 7, 2006
Remember when these guys were all over MTV and sold millions of records? Yeah, us neither, but don't even front like you didn't spend your whole senior year tooling around in your El Dorado, singing along to Ruby Soho and putting Kool Aid in your hair. Way back in 1992--allegedly the "year punk broke"--cult punk revival bands from California were a dime a dozen, and they were all being offered millions by major labels to......
Continue Reading "Rancid at Emo's, Sunday and Monday"April 15, 2005
Marginal religious sects, ritual sodomy, women and children in danger and one “evil, evil man”? Just another day in our Legislature. Yesterday a House committee heard from Utah’s attorney general, Mark Shurtleff, about the hazards posed to the state by the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, a fringe sect of Mormonism which is currently building a compound outside El Dorado, near San Angelo. The leader of the Fundies, Warren Jeffs (pictured), is being......
Continue Reading "We're Kind of a Law and Order State"