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Good Company
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Welcome to Austin and SXSW Film 09
Downtown Condos: What's Up?
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Developers deliver the lowdown on the economy and the future of Austin's new high-rises
Point Austin: Indelicate Balances
BY MICHAEL KING
Political compromise depends on who's holding the cards
City Hall Hustle: Who reads the 'Statesman'? Not its editors.
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Statesman lets its bias show
Headlines
Naked City
Local news briefs
Res Publica
Citizen affairs, March 12-19
Carstarphen on Tour: Reagan High
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The would-be superintendent meets more stakeholders
Hard Bargaining at KLRU
BY NORA ANKRUM
KLRU has hit a snag in contract negotiations with employees
Adding Insult to Brain Injury
BY LAUREL CHESKY
Brain injury lab and its former director on the skids
The Hightower Report
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
Words for Wall Street Greed; and Corporatist Court Favors Mountaintop Destruction
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Sold on the Cool
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The Blanton's 'Birth of the Cool' is midcentury modernism made sexy
David Box: Box on sax
BY ROBERT FAIRES
An Austin musician takes Adolphe Sax's horn back to its classical roots
Ray Donley: Lost and Found
BY ROBERT FAIRES
A rare local showing of the Austin artist's work includes his first sculpture
T.J. & Dave: Masters of the All Made Up
BY ROBERT FAIRES
One of improv's leading duos is on Film at SXSW and live at Spider House
Arts Reviews
- Fences
City Theatre Company delivers a strong production of August Wilson's 1987 Pulitzer winner
- Heroes
A strong ensemble abets this witty but quiet play about three old French soldiers
- Haven Gallery & Fine Gifts
The gallery does a nice job of mixing styles and types of artwork, all of it handmade
No Small Feat
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Scott Blackwood's novel experiments in form
Readings
- American Rust: A Novel
Former Austinite Philipp Meyer has impeccable, even prescient, timing with his debut novel about an economically ravaged steel town in Pennsylvania
Texas Culinary Icons
Austin is the place to try true Texas treats, from chicken-fried steak to frozen margaritas
Shiner at 100
BY LEE NICHOLS
After 100 years, the Spoetzl Brewery still shines
St. Patrick's Day Revels
BY WES MARSHALL
St. Patty's Day isn't all about the booze, but booze is good, too
Food-o-File
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Wheatsville Co-op celebrates its 33rd anniversary, and Zoot reopens at its new location
Event Menu
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Your local food events for March 14-17
SXSW FILM
Good Company
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Welcome to Austin and SXSW Film 09
Film News
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Welcome to the great state of South by Southwest
Every Step They Take
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Kathryn Bigelow dramatizes the dangerous business of bomb detonation in The Hurt Locker
The 11th Hour
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Tim McCanlies eyes the finish line
The Bee's Knees
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Andrew Bujalski's uncommon process
Magnificent Obsession
BY MARC SAVLOV
Charting the unlikely ascension of Troll 2 from crappiest movie ever made to cult darling
The Watchmen
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Three documentaries shine a light on playing to the audience
Boys Who Like Boys
Two takes on the bromance in Humpday and I Love You, Man
Found Film
BY LOUIS BLACK
The rehatching of Tobe Hooper's 1969 debut, Eggshells
An Expanding Definition of Family
BY SARAH JEAN BILLEITER
Karen Skloss' personal documentary explores mothers and daughters and the choices they make
Animated Ladies
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Signe Baumane and Sarah Jane Lapp illustrate their points
Rock and a Hard Place
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Exploring the elusiveness of fame and the ethics of the mash-up in 24 Beats per Second
It Came From Down Under
BY DARCIE STEVENS
Aussie films swarm SXSW 09
Shot on Location
BY ROBERT FAIRES
For All Mankind filmmaker Al Reinert goes walking on the moon one more time
In a World Where ...
BY MARC SAVLOV
Plumbing the depths of Joe Dante's Trailers From Hell
The Cutting Edge
BY SPENCER PARSONS
Trailer maker Mark Woollen talks shop
We Thank You Very Sweetly
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Remembering once and forever Munchkin Clarence Swensen
TV Eye
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
A new workplace sitcom addresses the tough questions. Like, if eyeballs explode at minus 20 degrees Celsius.
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SXSW MUSIC
Never Say Goodbye
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Past and present mash up at the 2008-09 Austin Music Awards
SXSW 09 Picks 2 Click
A septet of local acts with (inter)national appeal
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BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
Free drugs and living-room rock
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BY DARCIE STEVENS
Power trio creates a voltaic Sunshower
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BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
ATX hip-hop with a positive tip and call to action
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BY THOMAS FAWCETT
Latin funk beamed down from the Grupo Fantasma mother ship
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BY DOUG FREEMAN
Thickfreakness from the family band
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BY AUSTIN POWELL
Neoclassical instrumentalists venture into the wild
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BY JIM CALIGIURI
Chameleon singer-songwriter's aim is true
Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Blaze's blues strike a chord with the SXSW Film 09 and dropping out for the Black Angels' Psych Fest 2
Texas Platters
- deEP end
Tomorrow, Everest, Doniphan Nights, PJ & the Bear, Focus Group, Answer, Answer
- Jenny Wolfe
After School
- Michael Martin Murphey
Buckaroo Blue Grass
- Joe Ely
Live Chicago 1987
- Wideawake
Something That We Can't Let Go
- The Dark Water Hymnal
As Above, So Below
- girlie action
Mrandmrsmays, You're All I Ask, Lili and Walter, Carnival Beginning
Postmarks
Letters to the editor, updated daily
Page Two: The Incredibles
BY LOUIS BLACK
SXSW Film lines 'em up
Letters at 3AM
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
How far are you willing to go to make a picture?
After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Stephen gears up for SXSW and spring: Should he choose the pink crocodile or the one-shoulder with ruffles?
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Bigfoot Wallace lived a life as big as Texas
Gay Place
BY KATE X MESSER AND ASH BELL
South by So Gay
Playing Through
BY THOMAS HACKETT
The Aztex look to turn Austin into a soccer town
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Starbucks in church, Brits tortured Obama's grandfather, and more
 Ask Mr. Smarty Pants
Got a question? He's got the answer.
The Luv Doc Recommends
BY DAN HARDICK
A rambling recommendation to shore up that hole in your social calendar
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