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The Rest of the Fest


June 10

TCB
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Choosing Darkness, a Chairman, and the much-appreciated new air-conditioning at Emo's


April 1

My Breakfast With Karl
BY ED CONDRAN
The evil genius buys some huevos


March 17

After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Austin's friendly neighborhood (not to mention cuddly) Style Avatar, Stephen Moser makes the scene as the scenesters take over Austin! Be sure to catch AAF in each of our SXSW dailies!


March 11

Culture Flash!
BY ROBERT FAIRES
ALO has blood on the tracks in 2006, and Salvage Vanguard lands a new office

After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Stephen gears up for the celebrity onslaught by skewering more ... celebrities!


Feb. 25

After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Get ready for SXSW! Stephen is!


Feb. 11

TCB
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Doug Sahm's and Handsome Joel's memories live on, even as the international pipeline into Austin dries up


Feb. 4

Page Two
BY LOUIS BLACK
It's time to celebrate the coming of South by Southwest and think about how we're going to pay for our roads


Jan. 21

TCB
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Floating down Okkervil's river of golden dreams, taking Pinetop Perkins, Helios Creed, and a bunch of T-shirts along for the ride


Jan. 14

TCB
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Emo's Free Week leaves 'TCB' broken, battered, bloodshot, but happy

Music


March 25

Planet Rock
Austin, Texas, SXSW 2005

2004-05 Austin Music Awards
Backstage pass

TCB
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
SXSW 2005 plows a furrow of beer cans, cocaine, and music through downtown Austin




March 19

After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Our Style Avatar and yours, SMM is the man about town this week. See where he's been seen and with whom!

TCB
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
SXSW news

Girls Can Tell
BY MELANIE HAUPT

My SXSW
BY ROBYN HITCHCOCK
Music fest diary

The Insider
BY ANDY LANGER
Brief conversations with very important people

Spotlight: Menomena
BY DARCIE STEVENS
9pm, Red Eyed Fly

Spotlight: Phoenix
BY MELANIE HAUPT
12:30am, Antone's

Spotlight: The American Analog Set
BY DARCIE STEVENS
1am, Blender Bar at the Ritz

Spotlight: Daniel Johnston
BY GREG BEETS
1am, Maggie Mae's

Spotlight: Ronnie Montrose
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
1am, Vibe

Spotlight: MF Doom
BY ROBERT GABRIEL
1:15am, Emo's Main

Live Shots



March 18

TCB
SXSW news

Live Shots
BY JIM CALIGIURI

Girls Can Tell
BY MELANIE HAUPT

My SXSW
BY MIKE DOUGHTY
Music fest diary

The Insider
BY ANDY LANGER
Brief conversations with very important people

Spotlight: Ian Hunter
BY JIM CALIGIURI
7:30pm, Town Lake stage

Spotlight: Mary Lou Lord
BY MELANIE HAUPT
9pm, Soho Lounge

Spotlight: Nona Hendryx
BY MARGARET MOSER
10pm, Cedar Street

Spotlight: Rezillos
BY GREG BEETS
12mid, Elysium

Spotlight: Gorch Fock
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
1am, Whisky Bar

Spotlight: Blowfly
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
1am, Emo's Main

Live Shots



March 17

2004-05 Austin Music Awards
BY DARCIE STEVENS
Austin Music Hall, Wednesday, March 16

Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels

Girls Can Tell
BY MELANIE HAUPT

My SXSW
BY STAN RIDGWAY
Music fest diary

The Insider
BY ANDY LANGER
Brief conversations with very important people

Spotlight: 22-20s
BY ANDY LANGER
8pm, Stubb's

Spotlight: Kaiser Chiefs
BY ANDY LANGER
9pm, La Zona Rosa

Spotlight: Martha Wainwright
BY MELANIE HAUPT
10pm, Caribbean Lights

Spotlight: M.I.A.
BY ROBERT GABRIEL
11pm, Elysium

Spotlight: Pong
BY GREG BEETS
1am, Room 710

Spotlight: LCD Soundsystem
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
1am, Elysium

TCB
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
SXSW news

Live Shots
SXSnapshots
Live Shots

March 18

Page Two
BY LOUIS BLACK
Talented songwriter and performer Mandy Mercier lends her voice to our ongoing conversation about artistic recognition and creative success

Ate Days a Week
How much more food and music can you ask for in this town around this time and after?

Heroes and Villains
BY GREG BEETS
Van Dykes Parks: 'Smile' and the world smiles with you

SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Picks & Sleepers

TCB
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Welcome to Deadwood: Sorting SXSW's cocksuckers from the hoopleheads

SXSW Records

March 11

Page Two
BY LOUIS BLACK
Advice for artists, inspired during the whirlwind of SXSW 2005

 Songs of Pain Was Not in Vain
BY LOUIS BLACK
The day a skinny young kid named Daniel Johnston came shuffling to the back door of the 'Chronicle'

  • More on Daniel Johnston

    Not Fade Away
    BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
    The 2004 / 05 Austin Music Awards. In a word, roots.

    SXSW Picks & Sleepers
    Blurbing the first night of SXSW music

    TCB
    BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
    Bracing for SXSW, hailing the Dicks, avoiding the cow pies

    SXSW Records
    Phases and Stages
    SXSW Records

    March 4

    Page Two
    BY LOUIS BLACK
    South by Southwest 2005 is upon us. Please don't tell us to relax.

    P2C05
    BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
    The magnificent seven: spotlighting a local septet showcasing SXSW 05

    • Film


    April 29

    Page Two
    BY LOUIS BLACK
    Notes on Daniel Johnston, 'Dead Dog's Eyeball,' and the soundtrack of our lives


    March 25

    Page Two
    BY LOUIS BLACK
    Finding peace in the wonderful chaos of SXSW

    Out Takes
    SXSW might be over and done with, but our coverage isn't quite yet: reviews and photos


    March 17

    SXSW Film Reviews
    Our first daily installment of festival film reviews, from 'The Aggressives' to all of the shorts


    March 18

    Page Two
    BY LOUIS BLACK
    Talented songwriter and performer Mandy Mercier lends her voice to our ongoing conversation about artistic recognition and creative success

    Big and Bright
    Scenes from the Fifth Annual Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

    Out There
    Reviews and reports from SXSW Film and Interactive 05

    SXSW Film 05 Awards
    The Best of the Fest

    Film News
    BY JOE O'CONNELL
    The Legislature's $20 million in proposed incentives to lure more film projects to Texas is emphasizing jobs and aiming to boost rural areas as well as larger cities like Austin; plus, Wes Anderson's next movie


    March 11

    Page Two
    BY LOUIS BLACK
    Advice for artists, inspired during the whirlwind of SXSW 2005

    The Movies That Matter
    BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
    An interview with Killer Films producer Christine Vachon

  • More on Christine Vachon

    Land of Plenty Time
    BY MARGARET MOSER
    The fifth annual Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

    I Live My Broken Dreams
    BY WILL ROBINSON SHEFF
    This year's rock docs examine the 'outsider myth' and more among the likes of Daniel Johnston, Townes Van Zandt, and Wild Man Fischer

    The Enron Autopsy
    BY SHAWN BADGLEY
    Alex Gibney on The Smartest Guys in the Room'

    We Interrupt This Program
    BY SHAWN BADGLEY
    Don't go trying to see any films until you read this

    The Redeemers
    BY BELINDA ACOSTA
    Ellen Spiro on 'Troop 1500,' the story of Girl Scouts and the inmate mothers who love them

    Andrew Does the Book of Luke
    BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
    The Wilson boys are back in town with their 'Wendell Baker Story,' which took one an eternity to write and the other a month to shoot

    Uneasy Lovin'
    BY SHAWN BADGLEY
    The Puffy Chair'

    Pray Tell
    BY JOE O'CONNELL
    'The Education of Shelby Knox'

    Anxiety of Influence
    BY SPENCER PARSONS
    Teenagers Georgia and Wyatt Pierson on their family's filmic mission to Fiji

    Horror, Period
    BY MARC SAVLOV
    'Dead Birds'

    Miami Heat
    BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
    'Code 33'

    Sleaze, Camp, and Social Justice
    BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
    AFS presents On the Border: Films of Rogelio Agras& #225;nchez Sr.

    Film News
    BY JOE O'CONNELL
    Look no further than this alt-weekly's SXSW coverage for proof that Austin is the film capital of Texas, but don't forget some of the stuff going on 'Between the Scenes'


    March 4

    Page Two
    BY LOUIS BLACK
    South by Southwest 2005 is upon us. Please don't tell us to relax.

    • Interactive


    March 25

    Page Two
    BY LOUIS BLACK
    Finding peace in the wonderful chaos of SXSW


    March 18

    Page Two
    BY LOUIS BLACK
    Talented songwriter and performer Mandy Mercier lends her voice to our ongoing conversation about artistic recognition and creative success

    Out There
    Reviews and reports from SXSW Film and Interactive 05

    SXSW Interactive 05 Web Awards
    Sunday, March 13


    March 11

    Page Two
    BY LOUIS BLACK
    Advice for artists, inspired during the whirlwind of SXSW 2005


    March 4

    Page Two
    BY LOUIS BLACK
    South by Southwest 2005 is upon us. Please don't tell us to relax.

    Get Visionary With Me Here
    BY BRUCE STERLING
    We are no longer pioneers of the digital age. We're miners.

    The Tip-Off
    BY NORA ANKRUM
    Where is Malcolm Gladwell's mind? What about now?

    Not Shutting Up Anywhere
    BY SHAWN BADGLEY
    This Al Franken is your Al Franken

    Superbadass Web Sites for Everyone!
    BY SPIKE GILLESPIE
    With the help of Knowbility's AIR-Interactive for the Arts and a team of professional designers, I am going to help reinvent the Internet

    Nellie Blog
    BY ROGER GATHMAN
    Why modern-day muckraker Ana Marie Cox couldn't care less about her critics – or even, at times, her audience

    Things to Do for Free
    Broke? Badgeless? Fear not.

    Self-Funded and Self-Made
    BY MARCEL MEYER
    Tom Fulp on 'Alien Hominid'

    It Doesn't End With the Internet
    BY COURTNEY FITZGERALD
    Amalia Anderson on old-fashioned organizing

    Everybody's Court Artist
    BY COURTNEY FITZGERALD
    Sam Brown on 'Exploding Dog'


    Feb. 25

    Page Two
    BY LOUIS BLACK
    It has never been a secret that the magic ingredient that makes SXSW work is Austin