Chronicle SXSW Coverage: 2010
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The Rest of the Fest


March 26

Page Two: Praying for an Early Death
BY LOUIS BLACK
Louis Black sucks, and he makes SXSW suck

After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Your Style Avatar is mistaken for a well-paid gossip columnist, and Sunny wraps SX with a 'Nutrub'

Gay Place
BY KATE X MESSER
This year was all about queering conventions ...


March 20

Gay Place
BY KATE X MESSER
The Gay Place loves you. All of you. Hard. And will miss you when you are gone.

After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Your Style Avatar accessorizes for Perez, and sidekick Sunny offers a new drinking game


March 19

Gay Place
BY KATE X MESSER
Friday's gay day is all about the soul and all about the bounce

After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Your Style Avatar yearns for ... patchouli?!


March 18

Gay Place
BY KATE X MESSER
The Gay Place celebrates the gayest SXSW ever

After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Your Style Avatar doesn't care what you wear in your own backyard; just don't stink up our Conference with it


March 19

Page Two: Having a Riot
BY LOUIS BLACK
The chaotic and beautiful birth of the Austin Music Awards

Gay Place
BY KATE X MESSER
We are queer for SXSW, and SXSW is queer for us

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Checking in to South by Southwest 2010


March 12

Page Two: And So It Begins
BY LOUIS BLACK
International spectacles of darkness and light

Gay Place
BY KATE X MESSER
We are proud as peacocks to announce our new totally all-gay all-day Gay Place Web page

New to Town
Check out these new Downtown restaurants for your mid-SXSW snacking

Event Menu
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Bacon, beer, and SXSW noms this week

New Bike City
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
In time for SXSW, Austin rolls out miles of new bike lanes and features

  • BY KATHERINE GREGOR
    Getting around on two wheels

Permit Unsustained: A Bad Day at Red Bluff
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Sustainable Waves pulls the plug on Austin


March 5

Page Two: Everlasting Love
BY LOUIS BLACK
Our annual ode to South by Southwest

Gay Place
BY KATE X MESSER
aGLIFF honors little old us, and we dance like hypnotized chickens


Feb. 26

Page Two: Same As It Ever Was
BY LOUIS BLACK
South by Southwest and other lifetime labors of love

Moving Pictures
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Alison Macor charts 30 years of Austin history, one film at a time


Feb. 19

Page Two: Mad Dreaming
BY LOUIS BLACK
Loud, barely intelligible SXSW incantations

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Unveiling the Austin Music Awards lineup and greeting England's newest hitmakers


Feb. 5

Page Two: Before the Impending Flood
BY LOUIS BLACK
An erratic list of memories and some dates

Music


April 2

Represent Texas
BY DENNY FREEMAN
Austin Music Awards 2009-10 Hall of Fame inductee Denny Freeman gets a second chance to deliver his induction speech


March 26

Tell Me True
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
2009-10 Austin Music Awards

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Checking out of South by Southwest 2010 and paying final respects to Big Star's Alex Chilton

Live Shots



March 20

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
SXSW news and carryings on

'Mojo' Recommends
BY PHIL ALEXANDER
The best British music at SXSW as selected by Mojo Editor-in-Chief Phil Alexander

My SXSW
BY BILLY BRAGG

Ice Cream Man Presents!
BY MATT ALLEN

Nneka
BY DAN OKO
Following the Black President into the Concrete Jungle

Tanya Morgan
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Meet the mayor of Brooklynati

Dâm-Funk
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
Back to the future of funk

Bernard Fowler
BY MARGARET MOSER
The Stones' go-to singer got to Sweden

Big Freedia & Katey Red
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
Project sissies making New Orleans bounce

Gudrid Hansdóttir
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Spending a few nights in Austin's House of Songs

Live Shots

Day Party Crawl

Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels




March 19

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
SXSW news and carryings on

'Mojo' Recommends
BY PHIL ALEXANDER
The best British music at SXSW as selected by Mojo Editor-in-Chief Phil Alexander

My SXSW
BY FREEDY JOHNSTON

Ice Cream Man Presents!
BY MATT ALLEN

Shearwater
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Man vs. nature on The Golden Archipelago

Neon Indian/Vega
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Austin's mad pop scientist on his Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Pharoahe Monch
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
An elder statesman on W.A.R.

Mayer Hawthorne
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
From Andrew Cohen to soul singer?

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
BY JIM CALIGIURI
100 Days, 100 Nights later

Smokey Robinson
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Even a soul legend has to obey the new music biz paradigm

Live Shots
Keynote

Day Party Crawl

Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels




March 18

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
SXSW news and carryings on

In Memoriam: Big Star Myths
BY KENT H. BENJAMIN

'Mojo' Recommends
BY PHIL ALEXANDER
The best British music at SXSW as selected by Mojo Editor-in-Chief Phil Alexander

My SXSW
BY SIMÓN MEJÍA
Bomba Estéreo

Harlem
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Psychedelic pop bust

Those Darlins
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
Coming down from the Tennessee mountain

Country Joe McDonald
BY DAN OKO
Gimme an F!

The Love Language
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Love is a four letter word

Slum Village
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Detroit's other Hitsville

Man or Astro-Man?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
It's a bird? It's a plane? It's sci-fi's surf guitar originators.

Live Shots

Day Party Crawl

Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels


March 19

2009-10 Austin Music Awards

Love Bath
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
SXSW 2010 keynote speaker Smokey Robinson originally wanted to be a cowboy, but they didn't have any horses in his hood

Wednesday Music Preview Guide

Thursday Music Preview Guide

Friday Music Preview Guide

Saturday Music Preview Guide

SXSW Records

March 12

Casual Victim Pile
Hometown SXSW showcasing sampler

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Paying tribute to Tony Campise and rolling out the red carpet for the Kashmere Stage Band and SXSW Film

The Music in Moving Images
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Texas Music Extravaganza and the works of Alan Govenar


March 5

Asymptopia
Musical tech talk at SXSW Interactive and Music


Jan. 15

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
The Parlor family serves pizza by the slice at the Monarch, Zeale gets down with Grooveline Horns, and crunching numbers for South by Southwest

Film


April 16

Dressing Down the Superhero
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
How the irreverent comic Kick-Ass made the leap from page to picture show


March 26

Food-o-File
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Truck Farm Farmers' Market, the Taco Taxi, and a South by Southwest food Fest round-up

SXSW Film Festival 2010
Thanks for the memories

Come Together
BY MARC SAVLOV
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the HitRECord.org Midnight Matinee

SXSW 2010 Film Audience Awards
SXSW Film announces the last of its awards; no surprise, Fest fave Thunder Soul nabs a win

Keep Your Ear to the Ground
COMPILED BY THE SCREENS STAFF
Overheard at SXSW 2010

SXSW Film Reviews
Capsule reviews


March 20

SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews


March 19

SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews


March 18

SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews


March 19

After A Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Your Style Avatar's SX kicks off stylishly

Teenage Kicks
BY CINDY WIDNER
Writer/director Floria Sigismondi on capturing the Runaways

SXSW 2010 Film Awards
Audience, jury, and special awards

Snapshots of the 2010 Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

SXSW Film Reviews
Capsule reviews


March 12

Ellen Fullman
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
The former Austinite returns to turn Seaholm into a giant stringed instrument

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Paying tribute to Tony Campise and rolling out the red carpet for the Kashmere Stage Band and SXSW Film

Letting the Freak Brothers Flag Fly
BY MARGARET MOSER
Gilbert Shelton on his iconic comic's long, strange trip to the screen

The Freak Goes On
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
SXSW Film: an introduction

Kismet in Kashmere
BY KATE X MESSER
Thunder Soul brings the generations back together

To 'Mars,' With Love
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Reinventing the romantic comedy, to infinity and beyond

Quiet on the Set
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Less talk, more action: Aaron Katz and Cris Lankenau sound off on Cold Weather

Rant, Revisited
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
A new doc explores the life and times of underground comic Bill Hicks

Jerry's Kids
BY ROBERT FAIRES
A new generation dances Jerome Robbins' 'ballet in sneakers' to the big screen

Bizarre Love Triangle
BY MARC SAVLOV
Bryan Poyser's comedy of catharsis, Lovers of Hate

Muhammad Was a Punk Rocker
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
How a fictional music genre blossomed into a real movement

Riding the New Range
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Ride goes to the rodeo

We Are Having a Hootenanny
BY MELANIE HAUPT
And Stephin Merritt is not the life of the party

Country Bear Jamboree
BY KATE X MESSER
Malcolm Ingram finds his people, and films 'em, too

Artist in Exile
BY MARC SAVLOV
Can Bahman Ghobadi ever go home again?

Small Town, Big Find
BY JOE O'CONNELL
The energy debate gets personal in Haynesville

The Music in Moving Images
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Texas Music Extravaganza and the works of Alan Govenar


Feb. 19

Family Programming
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
The Overbrook Brothers premieres on IFC on Demand


Feb. 5

SXSW Film Announces Feature Lineup
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
MacGruber, Mr. Nice, Micmacs among titles


Jan. 29

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Rod Kennedy's 80th birthday

Interactive


March 26

Food-o-File
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Truck Farm Farmers' Market, the Taco Taxi, and a South by Southwest food Fest round-up

Gowalla Battles Foursquare, Interactive Wins
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Social media systems square off at SXSWi

Keep Your Ear to the Ground
COMPILED BY THE SCREENS STAFF
Overheard at SXSW 2010

TV Eye
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Mark Cuban and Avner Ronen have a heated debate about the future of TV


March 5

Asymptopia
Musical tech talk at SXSW Interactive and Music

The Best Medicine
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
SXSW Interactive 2010: an introduction

Technology, Take Us Away
BY NORA ANKRUM
Are our gadgets and gizmos troubleshooters or troublemakers?

Mind Games
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
New science that gets in your head

The Revolution Will Be Tweeted
BY AMY SMITH
Harnessing social media's potential for political change

We're With the Brand
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The fluxing future of brand identity

Geeking Out
BY KATE X MESSER
How gay community and the interwebs are enjoying a more than civil union

Future Perfect
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Contemplating the digital afterlife

Now What?
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Mediamakers consider what happens when traditional media meets its maker

Print & Paper Über Alles
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
A more perfect publishing today

A Work in Progress
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
How technology is shaping the way we tell stories

The Face of Inclusiveness
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Hint: It isn't white or male

Burn After Reading
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
ScreenBurn at SXSW Arcade: totally free, totally open to public