Fri., March 15, 2013
Volume 32
Number 29

NEWS

• Everybody Must Get Stoned! The national trend of marijuana reform law continues to build
• Point Austin: Explaining Austin Understanding Austin requires a cultural primer
• Then There's This: One Step Forward ... Updates on Barton Springs, Gables Hotel, and amphitheatres
• Civics 101
• Headlines Top state and local stories of the week
• LegeLines
• Gates Champions Classroom Computing Microsoft founder continues push for bridging education divide
• SideCar to City: Have App, Will Travel ... to Court Ridesharing tries to get past roadblocks
• Griffin Family Sues Nestande and Bar Family of hit-and-run victim seeking $1 million in damages
• Faulty Tower: Anti-LGBT Money Behind Fairmont Austin Doug Manchester was a major donor in the fight against same-sex marriage
• Council Notes: Know What's Below The Council's early agenda is likely to raise a little sand
• From Decriminalizing Pot to Banishing Junk Science The Lege considers a host of criminal justice bills
• The Hightower Report: Goofy is not just a cartoon character – he's a legislator in Texas Drew Springer fights Austin's bag ban

FOOD

• Culinary Bucket List The real deal: veteran foodies dish on where to eat in Austin
• • Down Home and Chicken-Fried ... Steak, That Is
• • Welcome to Austin! Now, Drink Some Beer.
• • Celebrity-Spotting and People-Watching
• • For Those Late-Night, All-Night Cravings
• • Places That Still Take Reservations in Casual-Town, Texas
• • Kickin' It Old School: Historic Dining in the ATX
• • Here's the Cheese: Chile Con Queso Options
• • Off the Beaten Path
• • Sweet Tooth Satisfaction
• Celebrating St. Patrick's Day Forgo the green beer in favor of some Guinness, Harp, and Smithwick's
• Food-o-File @ACFood dragged kicking and screaming into social media century

MUSIC

• Playback SXSW news and carryings-on
• Ballroom Dancing SXSW panel reviews
• Songwriter Session: Richard Thompson
• SXSW Conversation: Bootsy Collins & Chuck D
• I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone: Life & Times of Jim Dickinson
• • Red Menace: Cuba's Heavy Metal Underground
• • Selling Albums in a Spotify World
• Day Party Crawl
• 'Spin' Party: Kendrick Lamar
• Public Radio Rocks the SXSW Day Stage
• Frightened Rabbit, Alt-J
• Patty Griffin
• Live Shots SXSW showcase reviews
• Charlotte Church Live shots
• Mac Demarco
• Phosphorescent
• FIDLAR
• Eric Burdon, Lost Brothers, Howlin' Brothers
• The Flaming Lips, Jim James
• Japan Nite
• Cheatahs
• Terakaft
• Celso Piña
• • Depeche Mode
• Green Day
• Kadavar
• My SXSW By Dana Falconberry
• MOJO Recommends: Laura Mvula 'Mojo' Editor-in-Chief Phil Alexander spotlights the best new British talent
• Spotlight: Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds 12mid, Maggie Mae's Gibson Room
• Spotlight: Royal Thunder Heavy metal thunder? Pretty much.
• Spotlight: Robert Glasper Experiment Jazz and hip-hop go together like R&B
• Spotlight: The Orwells Orwellian hijinks
• Spotlight: The Zombies Back from the dead
• Playback SXSW news and carryings-on
• Ballroom Dancing SXSW panel reviews
• SXSW Keynote: Dave Grohl
• 50 Years of the Beatles
• SXSW Interview: Stevie Nicks
• SXSW Interview: Clive Davis
• Leonard Cohen and His Women
• Day Party Crawl
• Reverberation Appreciation Society
• Heartbreaker Banquet
• Can't Stop The Bleeding
• Live Shots SXSW showcase reviews
• Daptone Soul Revue
• The Enemy
• Pissed Jeans
• Braids
• Big K.R.I.T.
• Café Tacuba, Molotov, Bajofondo, Jovanotti
• Brazos
• Föllakzoid
• The Legendary Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section: The Swampers
• Sound City Players
• Public Enemy, Doug E. Fresh
• My SXSW By Jim Lauderdale
• MOJO Recommends: The Staves 'Mojo' editor-in-chief Phil Alexander spotlights the best new British talent9:15pm, St. David's Historic Sanctuary
• Spotlight: Shoes These Shoes still fit
• Spotlight: Nik Turner performs 'Space Ritual' Hawkwind overlord still screams in space
• Spotlight: Eric Burdon We prefer "We Gotta Get Out of This Place"
• Spotlight: Brendan Benson Raconteur goes Nashville
• Playback SXSW news and carryings-on
• Ballroom Dancing SXSW panel reviews
• SXSW Interview: Depeche Mode
• SXSW Interview: Jim James
• A Conversation with Nick Cave
• Day Party Crawl
• Guitartown/Conqueroo
• Show No Mercy
• Consequences of Sound
• Live Shots SXSW showcase reviews
• 2012/2013 Austin Music Awards
• Natalie Maines
• Rough Francis
• Kendrick Lamar
• Iggy & the Stooges
• The ALLAH-Las
• People of Letters
• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
• Mike Scott & Steve Wickham, Billy Bragg
• My SXSW By Mike Scott
• MOJO Recommends: TOY 'Mojo' editor-in-chief Phil Alexander spotlights the best new British talent
• Spotlight: Robyn Hitchcock Manic Syd Barrett? God, let's hope so!
• Spotlight: Elias Haslanger Eli, blow your horn
• Spotlight: Frightened Rabbit Rabbit democracy? Almost.
• Spotlight: Jovanotti Italian superstar starts over again in the U.S.
• Spotlight: Bernie Worrell Orchestra P-Funk original channels divine rhythm
• Spotlight: Richard Thompson Still wry after all these years
• Dazed, But Not Confused The next 96 hours of SXSW Music starts here
• True Believer You're at SXSW today because of its late creative director, Brent Grulke.
• 2012-13 Austin Music Award This year's winners
• Wednesday Music Preview Guide
• • SXSW Wednesday Picks and Sleepers
• • SXSW Interview: The Specials Wed., 10:50pm, Mohawk; Thu., 11pm, Hype Hotel; Fri., 12:30am, Stubb's
• • SXSW Wednesday Showcases
• Thursday Music Preview Guide
• • SXSW Thursday Picks and Sleepers
• • SXSW Interview: Alt-J Thursday, March 14, 11:10pm, Belmont
• • SXSW Interview: Dikes of Holland Thursday, March 12, 11pm, BD Riley's
• • SXSW Thursday Showcases
• Friday Music Preview Guide
• • SXSW Friday Picks and Sleepers
• • SXSW Interview: Fat Tony Friday, March 15, 1:15pm, Hotel Vegas
• • SXSW Friday Showcases
• Saturday Music Preview Guide
• • SXSW Saturday Picks and Sleepers
• • SXSW Interview: Bobby Bare Saturday, March 16, TBA, ACL Live at the Moody Theater
• • SXSW Saturday Showcases
• Nick Cave
  Push the Sky Away
• Wild Belle
  Isles
• Unknown Mortal Orchestra
  II
• Paws
  Cokefloat
• Café Tacuba
  Objeto Antes Llamado Disco
• Feathers
  If All Here Now
• Sons of Fathers
  Burning Days
• Foxygen
  We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
• Tegan & Sara
  Heartthrob
• Jim James
  Regions of Light and Sound of God
• Jake Bugg
  Jake Bugg
• Chris Stamey
  Lovesick Blues
• Billy Bragg
  Tooth and Nail
• Ratking
  Wiki93
• Hayden
  Us Alone
• Spain
  The Soul of Spain
• Strangers
  Persona Non Grata
• White Lung
  Sorry
• deEP end
  New York, Ghost, Liquid
• For the Sake of the Song
  Howl, Come Cry With Me, Rule the World, The Fourth Wall, Carry the Fire
• Sound City
  Reel to Reel
• The Como Mamas
  Get an Understanding
• The James Hunter Six
  Minute by Minute
• Robyn Hitchcock
  Love From London
• Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale
  Buddy and Jim
• Pissed Jeans
  Honeys
• Richard Thompson
  Electric
• Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell
  Old Yellow Moon
• The Relatives
  The Electric Word
• Alt-J
  An Awesome Wave
• Useless Eaters
  Hypertension
• Josh Rouse
  The Happiness Waltz
• Kinski
  Cosy Moments
• The Flaming Lips
  The Terror
• Local Natives
  Hummingbird
• The Mavericks
  In Time
• The Skatalites
  Walk With Me
• Phosphorescent
  Muchacho
• Mixtape
  Birth of an Icon, Blue Chips, Mandatory Brunch Meetings
• Marnie Stern
  The Chronicles of Marnia
• Frank Smith
  Nineties
• Green Day
  ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, ¡Tré!
• Rhye
  Woman
• The Staves
  Dead & Born & Grown
• Jacco Gardner
  Cabinet of Curiosities
• FIDLAR
  FIDLAR
• Dawes
  Stories Don't End
• Metz
  Metz
• Haim
  Forever
• Chelsea Light Moving
  Chelsea Light Moving
• Skratch Bastid & the Gaff
  Soul Sisters Stand Up!
• Mac DeMarco
  2
• East Cameron Folkcore
  For Sale
• Spray Paint
  LP
• Hi Rhythm
  On the Loose
• Anders & Kendall
  Wild Chorus
• The Boxing Lesson
  Big Hits!
• HolySexyBastards
  HolySexyBastards

SCREENS

• SXSW Film Daily reviews and interviews
• • Sons of Anarchy 'The East' director Zal Batmanglij dishes on life as an anarchist
• SXSW 2013 Film Reviews: 'Touba'
• SXSW 2013 Film Reviews: 'An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story'
• SXSW 2013 Film Reviews: 'Continental'
• SXSW 2013 Film Reviews: 'Museum Hours'
• SXSW 2013 Film Reviews: 'The Retrieval'
• SXSW 2013 Film Reviews: 'Linsanity'
• SXSW 2013 Film Reviews: 'Xmas Without China'
• SXSW 2013 Film Reviews: 'Rewind This!'
• SXSW 2013 Film Reviews: 'Pete and Toshi Get a Camera'
• SXSW 2013 Film Reviews: 'Yellow'
• SXSW 2013 Film Reviews: 'Downloaded'
• SXSW 2013 Film Reviews: 'Artifact'
• SXSW 2013 Film Reviews: 'Fall and Winter'
• SXSW 2013 Film Reviews: 'Fuck for Forest'
• SXSW 2013 Film Reviews: 'Brothers Hypnotic'
• SXSW 2013 Film Reviews: Good Ol' Freda
• SXSW Film Reviews and Interviews
• • 'Good Night,' Sleep Tight How living together strengthened the ensemble in Sean Gallagher's debut feature
• • Ready, Aim ... Geoff Marslett's 'Loves Her Gun' inadvertently finds itself in the crosshairs of a political discourse
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'Los Wild Ones'
• SXSW Film Reviews: '12 O'Clock Boys'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'Hawking'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'We Cause Scenes'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'The Punk Syndrome'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'Unhung Hero'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'This Is Where We Live'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'When Angels Sing'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'Twenty Feet From Stardom'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'Scenic Route'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'Milo'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'The Short Game'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'LICKS'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'We Always Lie to Strangers'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'Kiss of the Damned'
• SXSW Film Reviews and Interviews
• • Up Close and Personal With 'Milo' Ken Marino, Gillian Jacobs, and director Jacob Vaughan on their monster Midnighter
• • Do or Do Not SXSW sports docs follow heroes' journeys
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'The Act of Killing'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'Go For Sisters'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'Lunarcy!'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'Plus One'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'Improvement Club'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'Hey Bartender'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'William and the Windmill'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'Reality Show'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'Sake-Bomb'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'Awful Nice'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'Everyone's Going to Die'
• SXSW Film Reviews: 'The Network'
• SXSW 2013 Film Awards Jury awards for this year's Festival announced
• SXSW Interactive Conference Quick Cuts
• • #catvidfest: Is This the End of Art?
• • Deadliest Catch's Twitter for Tough Guys
• • The Signal & the Noise
• • Cory Booker: The New Media Politician
• SXSW Film Conference Quick Cuts
• Much Ado About Much Ado
• A Conversation With Matthew McConaughey
• This Panel Is Not Yet Rated
• Tiny House Tour
• SXSW Film Reviews
• 'Hours'
• 'Swim Little Fish Swim'
• 'Our Nixon'
• 'The Wait'
• 'Much Ado About Nothing'
• 'Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton'
• 'Maidentrip'
• 'Drinking Buddies'
• 'Coldwater'
• 'Diario a Tres Voces (Three Voices)'
• 'Haunter'

ARTS

• Figure in the Frame The exhibit Arnold Newman: Masterclass gives us all a lesson in the power of the photographic portrait
• 'Beat the Rush' Butler School of Music's new concert series connects great music with great art
• Austin Creatives' Day Free tax prep for artists from Foundation Communities and Austin Creative Alliance
• The Girl With Time in Her Eyes Hidden Room Theatre's crafty techno-noir turned an ordinary audience into an army of smartphone-wielding detectives
• The Rite of Spring Joffrey Ballet's reconstruction of the 1913 Nijinsky ballet gave audiences a frame of reference for dance history
• A Certain Reality All three artists in this grayDUCK Gallery show present characters with a depth of backstory that amazes

COLUMNS

• Oops!
• After a Fashion Your Style Avatar offers his best, most fabulous bets for the SX season
• Gay Place: Howdy, Sailor Gayest. South by. Ever.
• Day Trips Museum preserves history of Texas polka
• Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
• After A Fashion: Texas Film Spiff it up, slacker, and you might make Your Style Avatar's 'Seen at SX' list
• Gay Place: Furballz SXSW Thursday
• After a Fashion Your Style Avatar-dy for the party
• Gay Place SXSW Friday
• After a Fashion The rest of Your Style Avatar's bird's-eye view of the Austin Music Awards and more
• Gay Place SXSW Saturday

SPORTS

• Soccer Watch A historic comeback for Barcelona in European Champions League play, and more

COMICS

• Eyebeam
• This Modern World
• Peppermint Tears
• Maakies

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