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Cap Metro Botches Yet Another Big Event
Lee Nichols
Thu Mar 18, 12:56pm
Simple question: If you’re running a transit agency, shouldn’t you plan ahead for big public events? If you said “yes,” then you have more foresight than Capital Metro.
Outta Towners, It's Pronounced 'Totally Awesome AusChron Newscast!'
Jordan Smith, Wells Dunbar
Thu Mar 18, 11:47am
Better late than never, the Totescast claws out of its South By Southwest haze to bring you the news you can use. First up: a rundown of two Austin tech issues – redesigning the city website, and attracting Google here – that were mulled in tandem with SXSW Interactive.
Big Star’s Alex Chilton Dead
Austin Powell
Wed Mar 17, 9:22pm
Power pop pioneer Alex Chilton of Big Star died today, according to a report from The Commercial Appeal of Memphis. The cause of death is suspected to have been a heart attack. He was 59.
Rebel Yell, Rebel Write Fiction
Kimberley Jones
Wed Mar 17, 4:48pm
You've got about an hour to get over to the south Hyde Park Bar & Grill (4521 West Gate Blvd.), where one of the more literary free parties is going down tonight (3/17). But don't expect anything too bookish – not with a name like Whiskey Rebellion.
TV-Related panels at SXSWi
Belinda Acosta
Wed Mar 17, 4:43pm
It’s just as well "The Future of Your Digital Living Room" panel was canceled. Frankly, all the TV-related panels I’ve sat in on have been enormously annoying, if not downright depressing.
Colbert on the SBOE
Lee Nichols
Wed Mar 17, 3:42pm
Tags: Education
Could the State Board of Education be more of a national embarrassment for Texas? Well, now we're being mocked by Stephen Colbert, so the answer is no – it could not.
A SXSW Easter Egg
Melanie Haupt
Wed Mar 17, 1:35pm
At Monday afternoon's screening of Helena From the Wedding at the Alamo Lamar, the audience was treated to an unexpected bonus: Danny Strauss' satirical short film, "Always a Bride."
Mind on his Money
Austin Powell
Wed Mar 17, 10:00am
Tags: SXSW
Chamillionaire has forced the issue of his long-delayed third LP Venom (Universal) with his free, four-part Mixtape Messiah 7 and latest union address, Major Pain. Tonight the Houston rapper reunites with Paul Wall at La Zona Rosa, 1am.
On Bomb Defusions and Boner Ghosts
Ashley Moreno
Tue Mar 16, 9:58pm
Some girls learn about womanhood with the help of health videos. As Kristin Wiig explained during the "How to defuse a bomb and other life lessons from the cast of MacGruber" panel, women who learn from Will Forte get the help of a "courtesy pillow."
SXSW Film Awards Announced
Kimberley Jones
Tue Mar 16, 9:30pm
Tags: SXSW
Eugene Mirman hosted the SXSW Film Awards tonight. After the jump, find out who went home happy …
The Digital Divide
Richard Whittaker
Tue Mar 16, 4:41pm
Scary statistic for the technorati, as reported here in the Chronicle: 15% of Austin ISD high school students either have no computer or no Internet access at home. As this afternoon's Touring the Digital Divide panel proved, it's the same in New York and Vermont.
World Wide Guinness Day
Wes Marshall
Tue Mar 16, 4:17pm
Today, people around the world will drink over 10,000,000 pints of Guinness. Tomorrow, heaven only knows how many pints will be downed in the name of St Patrick.
Double Entendres
Cindy Widner
Tue Mar 16, 3:30pm
Tim Blake Nelson and Edward Norton delighted a packed Alamo Drafthouse South Friday with the U.S. premiere of Leaves of Grass, which Nelson wrote and directed and which Norton co-produced and stars in. As twins.
The Urban Experience
Thomas Fawcett
Tue Mar 16, 3:08pm
Tags: SXSW
After my interview with Dâm-Funk, the 38-year-old Los Angeles DJ/keyboardist/composer, I sent an email to his manager letting him know it went well. “Yeah,” he replied knowingly. “We call him the Funk Yoda.”
If It's Too Loud, You're Not Lemmy
Marc Savlov
Tue Mar 16, 1:36pm
What's in a name? Lemmy, Greg Oliver and Wes Orshoski's portrait of Motorhead founder Lemmy Kilmister is one of the most thorough and entertaining rock and roll documentaries since Ondi Timoner's Dig! Like its subject, it's by turns, philosophical, brash, and thoroughly kickass.
Butches, Trash Humpers, Queer Jews, Soul Singers
Andy Campbell
Tue Mar 16, 1:16pm
Tags: SXSW
There's more to do - here are some GP suggestions for the next few days of SXSOOOOOOOOOOGAY.
Out of the Nest: Taylor Jacobson Graduates
Anne Harris
Tue Mar 16, 11:13am
For fans of The Rachel Zoe Project who fretted over what would become of junior stylist Taylor Jacobson when she left the comfort and psychosis of Rachel's non-existent bosom, fear not. Tay-Tay may seem herself bent at times, but she's crazy like a fox.
SX Page by Page
Richard Whittaker
Mon Mar 15, 11:27pm
The fact that a panel like "Creating a Graphic Novel Hollywood Will Buy" is needed shows that there's still some great divide between two of the great visual media. But, as screenwriter-turned-comic writer Martin Shapiro proved, the relationship can be a fruitful one.
For the Love of the Game
Ashley Moreno
Mon Mar 15, 7:27pm
We tell children they can be anything they want if they work hard and want it bad enough. But it’s not true. In the documentary, Pelada, the four co-directors, Luke Boughen, Rebekah Fergusson, Gwendolyn Oxenham, and Ryan White, travel the world talking to amateur players, who will unlikely turn pro, about their passion for soccer.
Copa Esperanza Benefits Local Charities
Christopher Bond
Mon Mar 15, 7:22pm
Tags: UT & Local
There are endless nonprofit organizations created all over the world. Some benefit children. Some benefit refugees or victims of natural disasters. We know about the need to fight hunger in Africa. We know about organizations doing their part to help the people of Haiti.
New Bike Nation!
Katherine Gregor
Mon Mar 15, 5:53pm
Tags: Transportation
Today at the National Bike Summit, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood unveiled a new federal policy and transportation funding priority: "Treat walking and bicycling as equals with other transportation modes.
It's on a roll with this week's "New Bike City" story.
Come Again?
Kimberley Jones
Mon Mar 15, 5:12pm
An hour and change into Elektra Luxx's premiere last night at the Paramount, projection issues put an abrupt end to the film. A do-over screening has been set tonight – but you'd best line up early.
Into the Vault
Austin Powell
Mon Mar 15, 3:11pm
After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Nov. 2008, the assets of Antone's Records, Texas Music Group, and Texas Clef Entertainment – a total of about more than 130 albums – were auctioned off by the United States Bankruptcy Court, Western District of Texas, on Monday morning.
Sign of the Times
Wells Dunbar
Mon Mar 15, 12:28pm
Big news: Snooki is coming to South by Southwest this year.
This breaking news was touted by New York Times media critic David Carr as some of the value real-time sites like Twitter can have in spreading info. But what if user-generated, unverified news streams became our only sources?
South by So Real 2010
Thomas Fawcett
Mon Mar 15, 12:10pm
Welcome to the third edition of South by So Real, where Bump & Hustle raps with Matt Sonzala, whose AustinSurreal now comes in blog and Internet radio form.
