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SXSW Drama American Sweatshop Contemplates the Extreme Content That Can’t Be Unseen

There’s a new and terrifying rite of passage for parents: giving their kids unfettered access to the internet for the first time.

6:15AM Sat. Mar. 8, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Another Simple Favor

A Simple Favor, the fun-yet-tonally-baffling 2018 comedy-noir about a mom vlogger (Anna Kendrick) who becomes entangled with an impossibly cool con artist (Blake Lively) built a word-of-mouth cult on Kendrick’s comic chops, Lively’s incredible suits, and their sexual tension. The sequel is more yet less.

11:42PM Fri. Mar. 7, Joe Gross Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: The Threesome

The idea of more than two people getting intimate is instantly titillating to many. Well, the magic number is three, but the point stands. Being a little taboo might just be the thing to spice up the love lives of a small group.

8:13PM Fri. Mar. 7, Rod Machen Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

The Night of the Hunter

Paramount Theatre

Just for Teens: Captive Creatures at Terrazas Branch Library

Rainbow Girls, B.R. Lively at Radio/East

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Scholars Visiting Austin Discuss the Building Blocks of a “Just Economy”

The field of economics has a physics problem. Or, more specifically, a playing-dress-up-as-a-natural-science problem, says Nick Romeo, a longtime writer for The New Yorker magazine and a professor of journalism at UC Berkeley.

6:00PM Fri. Mar. 7, Maggie Quinlan Read More | Comment »

In I Really Love My Husband, a Couple Becomes a Throuple

What’s your superpower? That was the question GG Hawkins was asked while attending New York’s Gotham Film & Media Institute.

3:25PM Fri. Mar. 7, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Chasing the Yeses: Bluesky COO Rose Wang Heads to SXSW

To say that Rose Wang’s career trajectory has been unusual may be an understatement. A decade ago, she was selling cricket meal as an alternative protein source. Now she’s COO of Bluesky, the first major social media platform launched in almost a decade.

12:14PM Fri. Mar. 7, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Short and Sweet: “Neuro”

What would you do to get rid of a bad memory? In retro sci-fi mindbender "Neuro" by first-time director Wes Ellis, the cost may be too high.

12:00PM Fri. Mar. 7, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Short and Sweet: “Red Sands”

In the desert outside of El Paso, Texas, the dunes glow like rust. It's from the iron oxide in the soil. Thirty-four million years ago, it was covered by an ocean, but now the sound of waves has receded, to be replaced by that of internal combustion engines.

11:55AM Fri. Mar. 7, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Dust Bowl Blues and Dystopian Futures in South by Southwest Musical O’Dessa

Geremy Jaspar has a confession to make. “I’m a music guy,” he explained, but with a coda. “I’m not a huge musical person.”

7:30AM Fri. Mar. 7, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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