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SXQ&A: TMS Ruge
Richard Whittaker
Sat Mar 13, 2:19pm
Tags: SXSW
Social entrepreneur and Project Diaspora co-founder TMS Ruge is a SXSW Interactive veteran. He'll be back on Sunday to bust some misconceptions about technology in developing nations during his talk Africa 3.0: A Look at the Future of a Connected Africa.
Big Bag, Big Canvas
Kimberley Jones
Sat Mar 13, 11:30am
Tags: SXSW
Polish artist Leszek Zebrowski already has a relationship with Austin – he’s long designed the poster for the annual Austin Polish Film Festival. Now his local visibility just rocketed: You can currently see his work hanging over the shoulder of 20,000 festivalgoers.
SX Day One
Richard Whittaker
Sat Mar 13, 1:09am
As SXSW attendees bring their first day to an end, and ponder another week of quesadilla for breakfast and three panels before lunchtime, there's already been a lot of excitement.
South By Street Closures
Wells Dunbar
Fri Mar 12, 8:48pm
If you're anywhere in vicinity of the South by Southwest events popping off, you're altogether aware that Downtown is an unqualified clusterfuck. The city has released a list of street closures for those of y'all heading into the belly of the beast, posted below.
Yates Lions Dare to Dream Big
Anne Harris
Fri Mar 12, 6:11pm
Tags: High School Basketball
In case you didn't know from the pre-SXSW traffic insanity on Red River, the UIL Boys High School Basketball Tournament, aka the State Championship series, is all over the Frank Erwin Center this week. As usual, the backstory is the story, namely the hard work and mutual support of one inner-city Houston team, the Yates Lions.
Waitgate
Lee Nichols
Fri Mar 12, 3:04pm
Tags: Transportation
Could Capital Metro’s MetroRail Red Line, the new Leander-to-Austin commuter rail that begins passenger service Monday, actually make traffic congestion worse? In my personal experience, it already has – at least for one intersection near the train’s route.
Snaps From the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards
Joe O'Connell
Fri Mar 12, 1:44pm
Tags: SXSW
My favorite snarky comment of the festival so far took place at last night's Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards red carpet. Austin TV personality Victor Diaz on seeing this reporter from National Lampoon: "Will their report go straight to video?"
Let Me See That Sissy Bounce
Thomas Fawcett
Fri Mar 12, 11:39am
Tags: SXSW
In New Orleans - a city defined by Mardi Gras, where gender-bending is the norm - Big Freedia and friends came up in the bounce scene, performing mainly at straight clubs and parties where the frenetic call-and-response sound has been booming since the early 1990s.
Et Tu, Arte?
Jordan Smith
Fri Mar 12, 10:49am
Tags: Police
The increasingly interesting will-Acevedo-stay saga rolls on: After City Manager Marc Ott offered the moon, Ace said he'd rather bet on the stars.
Catching Up With the No-Kill Millennium
Wells Dunbar
Thu Mar 11, 3:26pm
City Council’s passage earlier today of a “no-kill” plan for Austin’s animal center was long in the making. Bill Spelman, who voted for a no-kill plan in 1997 said he was happy to “stop talking about it, and start doing something about it.”
Who Loves Art? We Do!
Jordan Smith
Thu Mar 11, 12:24pm
Tags: Police
Just days after Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo announced that he was one of six finalists for the top-cop spot in Dallas, Austin City Manager Marc Ott says the city will do its best to keep Ace in place.
Before the Deluge
Jim Caligiuri
Thu Mar 11, 11:18am
The biggest news among 1960s fanatics is that the T.A.M.I. Show (Shout! Factory) is being released for the first time on DVD. Filmed at California’s Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in October 1964, it was the first concert film of its kind. Shown in theatres later that year, it disappeared save for occasional clips and bootleg copies.
SXSoGAY
Kate X Messer
Thu Mar 11, 1:45am
Yeah, we know you're out there, desperate in your posh hotel suite, having drowned your loneliness in trail mix, M&Ms, and those teeny bottles of Gallo from the minibar, cruising the Craigslist personals to find some shred of human connection – your tribe in the ATX…
Staple! Storms Austin
Richard Whittaker
Wed Mar 10, 11:45pm
Tags: Comics
Pardon the pun, but the Staple! Independent Media Expo has become a, well, staple of the Austin sequential art scene. Last Saturday's event, with big-name graphic artist guests and local cartooning stars, was no exception.
It's a Jad World
Audra Schroeder
Wed Mar 10, 4:52pm
It's been a little while since we heard a peep from Jad Fair. 2008's Half Japanese reunion at SXSW was a total geekgasm, but 2009 saw little from the prolific musician and artist. However, Fair's not one to stay dormant for long.
More 'No Rail' Reactions
Katherine Gregor
Wed Mar 10, 4:18pm
Laura Morrison says "Don't blame me for the push-back," Randi Shade says, "It'll be better in a year," and explains the bond fund scenario. All reactions from city council members to Mayor Lee Leffingwell's "No 2010 Rail Vote" announcement, more below.
Rail Reactions
Wells Dunbar
Wed Mar 10, 2:27pm
Should we be surprised at the news of a rail delay?
Mayor Kills Nov. Rail Vote
Katherine Gregor
Wed Mar 10, 1:42pm
On his mayoral web site, Mayor Lee Leffingwell just announced he's killing Austin voters' opportunity to approve bond funding for urban rail in November. Council was to vote on this next month; however, the mayor's announcement effectively closes that door. "We have discussed this at length with the entire council," said aide Mark Nathan. Text follows.
You Better Cop the Totally Awesome AusChron Newscast!
Jordan Smith, Wells Dunbar
Wed Mar 10, 12:01am
The Totescast has a special call-in guest this week: Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, who’s been shortlisted among the top cops to run the Dallas shop. We do our best to remind him Dallas kinda sucks.
My Dinner with the Tornados
Margaret Moser
Tue Mar 9, 6:41pm
“Looky at that man with the cowboy hat, mama!” The little boy at a nearby table in Threadgill’s hadn’t quite mastered the art of the stage whisper and stared at the rope of hair down Augie Meyers' back, recognizable even through a window at night. The Texas Tornados had arrived, hungry, happy, and with their new CD Esta Bueno in tow.
Mendoza's Mis-Step
Richard Whittaker
Tue Mar 9, 6:00pm
Capital Metro vice-president Dianne Mendoza came out of the gates with her guns blazing for her run for AISD Board of Trustees Place 9, touting the endorsements of former mayor Ron Kessler and current Mayor Pro Tem Mike Martinez. Slight problem: Kessler was never mayor and Martinez didn't endorse her.
AISD Trustee Races Set
Richard Whittaker
Tue Mar 9, 2:10pm
For a while, it seemed unclear how much new blood would be running for the Austin ISD Board of Trustees on May 8. Now the two incumbents who faced challengers get a clean walk, the two who were challenger-free initially are now in competitive races, and the empty seat is a brawl. So who is running for what? (* denotes incumbent)
Harry Ransom Center + David Foster Wallace = <3 4EVER
Wayne Alan Brenner
Tue Mar 9, 2:06pm
Here we are now in the year after Infinite Summer, where literate people across the globe read Infinite Jest for the first time, and it's the year in which the University of Texas' heady body of archived culture – the Ransom Center, yes – has glommed onto most everything that remains, paper-trailwise, of what Our Man With The Bandanna created.
That's "邵氏片場" to You, Pal...
Marc Savlov
Tue Mar 9, 12:57pm
Tags: Alamo
Or, if your Mandarin isn't up to par, it's the Shaw Brothers, Hong Kong's wonder twins of chopsocky filmmaking, whose punchy oeuvre is now overseen in Austin by the new Director of the American Genre Film Archive, Oliver Franklin.
These Streets Were Made for Talking
Kimberley Jones
Tue Mar 9, 12:21pm
Alex Karpovsky has had a charmed run with SXSW – 2010 marks his third consecutive year in attendance as a festival filmmaker or actor – but pre-SXSW, the peripatetic Austinite will be at BookPeople Thursday night to perform from the Basho-inspired Ten Walks/Two Talks.
