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May 12

Page Two: Unreasonable Discourse

When it's 'good vs. evil,' political discourse is impossible


May 5

TCB

TCB enters the political arena with Neil Young's new album, Trail of Dead behind the Iron Curtain, and a hipster pop quiz


April 14

Crackin' Up

The Arm muscles up to 'Call You Out'


March 31

After a Fashion

Stephen takes on 'Project Runway'


March 17

Page Two: Tonight's the Night

Moving forward into the fog of SXSW

 Gay Place

A SXSW online extra


March 10

 Gay Place

The Gay Place gets all extended re-mix for SXSW, with interviews, chats, pics, blog entries, and more.

  • Are the Lesbians on Ecstasy really happy to be coming to Austin?
  • A Conversation with the three directors of the SXSW premiere Cruel & Unusual
  • The Gay Place polls Austin’s GLBTeratti, who welcomes you with open arms and tells you what’s hot about our town

Feb. 17

TCB

It's been rough out there, for you, me, Red River, Knife in the Water, and R. Kelly. Who else is 'Trapped in the Closet'?


Feb. 3

TCB

Handsome Joel remembered, inside Anthropos Arts, the drive to bring Roy Orbison to a postage stamp near you, and Chuck Berry deep in the heart of Texas.


Jan. 20

TCB

Art, food, football, TV, and even a little music: this one's got it all


Jan. 13

TCB

A week of free shows, a fire, and impending SXSW. Who says January in Austin is dead?


Jan. 6

TCB

More lists than there were albums released in 2005... almost.

Music


March 24

Page Two: Location, Location, Location

The key to South by Southwest is, as always, Austin

Roky Road

The 2005-06 Austin Music Awards

TCB

SXSW 06: Was it all a dream? Or a nightmare?

Like a Hurricane



March 18

Girls Can Tell

Gadding about

My SXSW

The Insider

Sam Moore wants to make you feel good; just ask Springsteen

Spotlight: Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk

Ivan Neville's New Orleans Social Club

Spotlight: The Jones Family Singers

Praise the Lord for the Jones Family Singers

Spotlight: Glass Eye

Austin's Glass Eye reunites!

Spotlight: What Made Milwaukee Famous

What Made Milwaukee Famous does pretty good for Austin, too

Spotlight: Lady Sovereign

'I'm the little girl with a big voice.'

Spotlight: Skullening

Welcome to Skullening's loud, guitarless, screwball drama

TCB

SXSW music news

Phases and Stages



March 17

Girls Can Tell

Gadding about

My SXSW

Spotlight: Archie Bell

Houston's Archie Bell still knows how to "Tighten Up"

Spotlight: Barbara Lynn

Beaumont's southpaw R&B queen, oh yeah

Spotlight: The Subways

'England's Newest Hitmakers' try to love up to the hype

Spotlight: Jana Hunter

Jana Hunter's unstaring DIY

Spotlight: The Clutters

Nashville's Clutters are cleaning out the garage

Spotlight: KT Tunstall

KT Tunstall, what a difference a year makes

TCB
SXSW music news

Live Shots
SXSW Life
In-Store-O-Rama



March 16

2005-06 Austin Music Awards

Girls Can Tell

Gadding about

My SXSW

Tres Chicas' Caitlin Cary

The Insider

Ultragrrl handicaps SXSW 2006

Spotlight: Richie Furay

Buffalo Springfield, Poco, and Richie Furay – one with God

Spotlight: Anthony Hamilton

Ain't nobody worryin' about the future of true R&B when Anthony Hamilton croons

Spotlight: Bobby Bare

Bobby Bare Sr. returns with one helluva fish story

Spotlight: DJ Rapid Ric

The king of the Lone Star mixtape

Spotlight: Ben Taylor

A chip off the ol' J.T.

Spotlight: Translator

Translator, 'Everywhere I'm Not' – except SXSW 2006

TCB
SXSW music news

Day Party Crawl

SXSW Live
Live Shots

March 17

Private Life

The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde tells it like it is

Over the Wall

Echo & the Bunnymen's guitarist Will Sergeant didn't much care for Donnie Darko.

SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Blurbing three nights of SXSW 2006

The Insider

With folks like Jason Flom at SXSW, yes, Virginia, there's a Santa Claus

TCB

What if Austin was its own satellite-radio service?

SXSW Records

March 10

Page Two: Aww, Canada ...

At last, a magical confluence of ice hockey, Neil Young, and SXSW 2006

I Am the Resurrection

Ignore Jim Morrison - do not cancel your subscription to the resurrection, because Roky Erickson is Lazarus unbound.


From the Archives:

The Pilgrim Returns

Q&A with Kris Kristofferson

ACL Music Festival Interview: Roky Erickson & the Explosives


Starry Eyes

Roky Erickson's monumental comeback

High Baptismal Flow: Part 2

The 13th Floor Elevators' ground floors: Where are they now?

She Lives

Clementine Hall was the 13th Floor Elevators' hip, maternal Wendy, providing food and security for the band's tribe of Lost Boys

A Hell of a Year

Kathy McCarty presses Jon Dee Graham about the good and the bad old and new days

Songwriters and Spirit Chasers

Jon Dee Graham and Stephen Bruton riff on their new albums and their resentments

Howlin' Wolf Does Not Wear Panties

Walter Daniels' punk blues stirs up a whole new generational ilk, like Black Joe Lewis

Chili Cold Blood Loves You!

Black & blues cowboy metal with a high-spit sheen

20 Questions With Eliza Gilkyson

SXSW Picks and Sleepers
The Blurbing of SXSW 06

TCB

Parsing the posters at SXSW's Flatstock show. Also gay cowboys, sex tapes, and Oscar-winning pimps: TCB classes it up.

SXSW Records

March 3

Picks 2 Click

Seven local bands you shouldn't miss

  • Voxtrot's utopian pop, ready for the Elysian Fields
  • The Glass Family, transparent talent
  • The Black Angels get their war on
  • LZ brings the Love, soulfully
  • D-Madness' one-man innervisions
  • Ex-Hot Club of Cowtowner fiddles as her Continental Two burn
  • The soundtrack of Django Reinhardt lounging in the back of Bob Wills' Airstream

TCB

A brief guide to SXSW panels and interviews. Plus Sigur Rós, Single Frame, or Van Morrison: Who's weirder?

SXSW Records

Feb. 24

Lone Star

Another man in black: Kris Kristofferson

SXSW International Bands

From Yugoslavia to Plutonia, here come SXSW's International bands armada.

  • 27 reason to further investigate the UK roster of bands at SXSW 2006
  • Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland – 26 inches of SXSW over four days and nights
  • Emerald Eire acts, Dublin and Donegal all the way
  • Those Canadians are too damn happy. Must be the the donuts.
  • Australia vs. New Zealand in a SXSW rugby death-match
  • SXSW's Japan Nite turns 10
  • The City of Light – Paris – shines at SXSW 2006
  • International remainders, including Zolar X, from Plutonia, Pluto

TCB

Finally, some SXSW wristband info – act fast! – and a rare Doug Sahm film appearance hits DVD. Elsewhere, Charles Attal and 'Misprint' magazine add to their local legends.

Film News

Reporting from the starting line of the SXSW marathon

Film


March 24

Page Two: Location, Location, Location

The key to South by Southwest is, as always, Austin

The Long Goodbye
We're having a tough time letting go of SXSW Film 06


March 18

March 16

SXSW Film
Interviews and reviews


March 17

2006 Texas Film Hall of Fame

After the Crash

'AMERICANese'

SXSW Film 06 Film Awards
Jury and Audience awards from the March 13 ceremony

What Have We Seen?
Well, quite a lot, actually. Where should we begin?

TV Eye

The theatre of outrage: What happened when I slipped into the packed house for the one-on-one with Henry Rollins at SXSW last Sunday


March 10

Page Two: Aww, Canada ...

At last, a magical confluence of ice hockey, Neil Young, and SXSW 2006

 Panelism

SXSW Film 2006

SXSW Film 06

March 10-18

The Home School

Austin's latest class of cinematic talent – represented by six anticipated films at SXSW – is going places, but they aren't leaving anytime soon.


From the Archives:

Six (Not So) Easy Pieces

A Collaborative Local Film Takes the Long Road From Paris to Here

The Reel World

Korey Coleman started The Reel Deal as a scam; he ended up with a show.

More Than a Festival, Less Than a Movement

At Slamdance, tenderness, anger, and a very steep slope

TV Eye: All Work, Little Pay

Local filmmaker Heather Courtney's award-winning doc, Los Trabajadores, hits the small screen.

On the Case: No. 1

The Burnt Orange kids and 'The Cassidy Kids'

On the Case: No. 2

Greetings from planet 'Cassidy'

On the Case: No. 3

Movin' on up

Me Talk Dirty One Day

Bryan Poyser and Jacob Vaughan come clean on their 'Dear Pillow'

Man on Fire

Mike Henry and the 'Slam Planet' recovery benefit

Pablo Veliz

'La Tragedia de Macario'

Mike Henry and Kyle Fuller

'Slam Planet: War of the Words'

Frank Bustoz and Ryan Polomski

'State vs. Reed'

Intelligent Briefing

In 'Nobelity,' nine Nobel laureates offer straight talk on the planet's future


From the Archives:

Master of the Improbable

When they say something can't be done, trust Turk Pipkin to say, 'Wanna bet?'

Pros@Cons

Flimflam experts (and old pals) Harry Anderson and Turk Pipkin reunite sans Celine

New Territory

Documentarian James Marsh's first narrative effort, 'The King,' is a dark one

Kar Gawk

Ron Mann's adventurous RIP for hotrod artist and icon Ed Roth


From the Archives:

The Merry Hempsters Hit the Road

Ron Mann and Woody Harrelson's 'Go Further'

The Toronto International Film Festival

A first-timer's diary

How You Became a Criminal

An interview with Canadian documentary filmmaker Ron Mann about his newest film, Grass.

Sound Checking for a Pulse, and Finding It

The rock docs in this year's 24 Beats Per Second program rattle and hum with soul and revolt.

Buzz Kill

Director Kelly Reichardt's keeping quiet on the darling of Sundance and Rotterdam

What Hath Eagle Wrought?

After the smoke cleared, 'The Whole Shootin' Match' helped give rise to the contemporary indie


From the Archives:

In Memoriam
Longtime friends and colleagues of Eagle Pennell remember the filmmaker.

Page Two

Remembering the tragic life and brilliant filmmaking of indie pioneer Eagle Pennell.

See What They Do to You

How Jonathan Demme and Neil Young made a film about a concert attended by spirits


From the Archives:

Old King: Neil Young and Jonathan Demme in Nashville

Neil Young's new 'Prairie Wind' howls for the decades

The Toronto International Film Festival

A first-timer's diary

The Passion of the Journalist

Jonathan Demme on 'The Agronomist,' his tribute to Radio Haiti's bravest voice for democracy

The Perfect Ride

John Hyams' ode to rodeo stays on for a surprising 5,760 seconds

The Notorious Irving Klaw

My grandfather's photography studio made him rich and Bettie Page famous. It also made him into a target for Fifties censors. So, what has director Mary Harron made of him?

I'll Sleep When I Figure Out Why I Can't

Analyzing Alan Berliner's most personal documentary yet


From the Archives:

Alan Berliner's 'The Sweetest Sound'


Family Matters

The Texas Documentary Tour: Alan Berliner

The Searcher

Wim Wenders on his sense of the right direction

Hello Mother, Hello Father

'51 Birch Street'

Are You There, God?

'Eve and the Fire Horse'

TransAmericans Behind Bars

'Cruel and Unusual'

Animal Magnetism

'Lifelike'

Open Up – It's the Filmmakers!

Kirby Dick raids the MPAA

The Recognizables

One night, one of a kind


From the Archives:

Lone Star

Kris Kristofferson, walking tall down 'This Old Road'

The Pilgrim Returns

Q&A with Kris Kristofferson

Lyle Lovett

What you see and hear is truly what you get with Lovett -- and then some.

Adonis Rising

Matthew McConaughey

Matthew McConaughey: Lone Star Rising

The Luck of the Drawl

The Film That Launched a Thousand Faces

Scads of young actors made their first impression in Dazed and Confused

Lone Star

The uncompromised vision of legendary independent John Sayles

A Work in Progress

East Timor begins the process of reconstruction in its struggle for independence.

Sayles Assistant

On the Set of John Sayles' Limbo in Juneau, Alaska

Every Picture Tells a Story

Lone Star Producer Maggie Renzi

Page Two

The agony and the ecstasy of SXSW 2002

Page Two

Scouting Lone Star locations with Maggie Renzi

Page Two

Steve Earle brings Townes Van Zandt's ghost along on Silver City's magical mystery tour; it hangs around for the Toronto Film Festival

The Big Thrill

Austin Film Festival honors writer/director Lawrence Kasdan

Snapshots From the Fest
Lawrence Kasdan at the Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference

Parking Lot Pictures

Hands on a Hard Body: The Texas Documentary Tour

Film Fever

Austin Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference & Festival

Film News

The Sundance Channel and NetFlix make 'Room' for Kyle Henry

Interactive


March 24

Page Two: Location, Location, Location

The key to South by Southwest is, as always, Austin


March 17

SXSW Interactive 06 Web Awards
Eminem.com and Technorati win big, while the Dewey Winburne goes to Dale Thompson


March 10

Page Two: Aww, Canada ...

At last, a magical confluence of ice hockey, Neil Young, and SXSW 2006

 Embrace Your Wipe-Assness

Trolling SXSW Interactive 2006

 Gettin' Wiffy With It

The blogged, branded, and dooced at SXSW Interactive 2006

Ana Sisnett

Celebrated author, visual artist, and community activist / volunteer diagnosed with ovarian cancer


March 3

SoCo Dining Spots

Just across the river from downtown, the broad expanse of South Congress Avenue is the main artery of a dynamic city neighborhood and a microcosm of what we like best about Austin

South by Southwest Interactive 06

March 10-14, Austin Convention Center

Reciprocal Demand

Ladies, what has the gaming business done for you, lately?

City of Games

ScreenBurn reinvents itself for launch

The Consequences of Getting Personal

BlogHer founders Elisa Camahort, Jory Des Jardins, and Lisa Stone

Don't Fear the Interface

Web designers are wielding the coolest new tools for the greater good

The New Reliable

With Dooce.com, pro blogger and crazy Utah housewife Heather Armstrong stands by her brand

Come in From the Old

Warming up to folksonomies, recommendation systems, and glocalized environments

The Summit
We asked some of the loudest, clearest, and leading voices in Cyberspace why they're coming to SXSW Interactive, what they bring to the proceedings, and who they want to encounter. Here are their responses.

Redemption Song

Dick Rude on 'Let's Rock Again!' and the legacy of Joe Strummer

Felipe Cazals
Presented by the Austin Film Society and Cine Las Americas