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SXSW BLOG

  • Film Flam

    BY KIMBERLEY JONES, Feb. 17

    Machete forever, startup crawl, On Story, & a script reading

MUSIC

MARCH 13-18

 

03/25/11 ISSUE

  • Down the Line

    BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

    The 2010-11 Austin Music Awards crown South by Southwest's Saturday night

  • SXSW 2011 Aftershots

    Reviews of SXSW headliners day by day

  • Tuesday-Wednesday SXSW Live Shots

    Tuesday and Wednesday night SXSW showcase reviews

  • Thursday SXSW Live Shots

    Thursday night SXSW showcase reviews

  • Friday SXSW Live Shots

    Friday night SXSW showcase reviews

  • Saturday-Sunday SXSW Live Shots

    Saturday night SXSW showcase reviews

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    • FILM

    MARCH 9-17

     

    Feb. 3 ISSUE

  • Jump, Jive, and More

    BY KIMBERLEY JONES

    SXSW Film announces its feature lineup
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    08/12/11 ISSUE

  • The Spine Tingler

    BY LOUIS BLACK

    Horror pioneer and first-time novelist Tobe Hooper plays with the medium and metafiction in Midnight Movie
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    07/29/11 ISSUE

  • Brand Upon the Brain

    BY JOSH ROSENBLATT

    Art and advertising collide in the burgeoning genre of branded documentary
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    05/06/11 ISSUE

  • Go Into the Light

    BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN

    Jodie Foster on striking a balance between lightness and darkness in The Beaver
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    04/08/11 ISSUE

  • Amateurs and Old Friends

    BY JOE O'CONNELL

    Tom McCarthy works both angles in his winning third film. Make that Win Winning.
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    04/01/11 ISSUE

  • If You Build It ...

    BY MARC SAVLOV

    Turk Pipkin's continuing adventures in making the world a better place
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    03/25/11 ISSUE

  • SXSW Film Announces Audience Awards

    BY KIMBERLEY JONES

    Building Hope, Attack the Block, and more
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    03/23/11 ISSUE

  • How to Die in Oregon

    BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN

  • FUBAR: Balls to the Wall

    BY JAMES RENOVITCH

  • More Film Coverage

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    REST OF
    THE FEST

    Trying To Hit the Right Note

    BY MIKE KANIN, Jan. 27

    City's sound ordinance back on front burner
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    INTERACTIVE

    MARCH 9-13

     

    Jan. 27 ISSUE

  • The Spillover

    BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

    SXSW Interactive loosens its belt, expands to 14 venues
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    04/15/11 ISSUE

  • Sinking Deeper

    BY JAMES RENOVITCH

    Robin Arnott explores the outer limits of video-game immersion
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    03/25/11 ISSUE

  • TV Eye

    BY BELINDA ACOSTA

    How to innovate TV? Maybe lose the TV.
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    03/18/11 ISSUE

  • SXSW Interactive Conference Quickies

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    03/04/11 ISSUE

  • Congratulations! You Are Now the Proud Owner of Your Future.

    SXSW Interactive: An Introduction

  • Interactive Venue Locator

    Walk in, geek out

  • Anonymity: Never Gonna Give You Up

    BY MARC SAVLOV

    Is 4chan Internet freedom's best hope?

  • The World Is Your Cubicle

    BY NORA ANKRUM

    Making it work, geography of no consideration

  • Long-Distance Theatre

    BY ROBERT FAIRES

    Position of the speakers may affect the quality of their operation

  • The New Evolution

    BY JOSH ROSENBLATT

    Is technology providing the ladder to the next stage of human consciousness?

  • Some (Re)Assembly Required

    BY WELLS DUNBAR

    From mapping to extrapolating, recontextualizing the data we've been given

  • Gaming the System

    BY JAMES RENOVITCH

    Applying the mechanics of play to the everyday

  • The Fiction Writer as Futurecaster

    BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

    Charles Yu is keeping his eye on the robots

  • Will Blog for Food

    BY MELANIE HAUPT

    New stories – and problems – arise as foodie blogs proliferate

  • Reporting From the Front Lines

    BY BELINDA ACOSTA

    New media in troubled lands

  • When the New Thing Is Old News Already

    BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

    Call it Murphy's nth Law of Computing: 'Any given program, when running, is obsolete'

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