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Beware the Shilldebeast, My Son

A bad day for Suicide Girls at the "Selling Sub-Culture Without Selling Out Panel" at SXSW Interactive. The alt.porn website was held up as the prime example of selling out. And no, it wasn't about the money.

1:05PM Sun. Mar. 14, 2010, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Ass-Kicking For Breakfast

Kick-Ass kicked off the big name films opening at SXSW on Friday night, and the stars still managed to make it to the Convention Center for Saturday's first major panel, "The Kick-Ass Cast Can't See Through Walls But They Can Kick Your Ass."

4:10AM Sun. Mar. 14, 2010, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Staple! Storms Austin

Pardon the pun, but the Staple! Independent Media Expo has become a, well, staple of the Austin sequential art scene. Last Saturday's event, with big-name graphic artist guests and local cartooning stars, was no exception.

11:45PM Wed. Mar. 10, 2010, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Pee-wee’s Big Adventure

Paramount Theatre

Amy’s Fest
at Bouldin Acres

Anton Chekhov Is a Tasty Snack at Penfold Theatre

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Harry Ransom Center + David Foster Wallace = <3 4EVER

Here we are now in the year after Infinite Summer, where literate people across the globe read Infinite Jest for the first time, and it's the year in which the University of Texas' heady body of archived culture – the Ransom Center, yes – has glommed onto most everything that remains, paper-trailwise, of what Our Man With The Bandanna created.

2:06PM Tue. Mar. 9, 2010, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

These Streets Were Made for Talking

Alex Karpovsky has had a charmed run with SXSW – 2010 marks his third consecutive year in attendance as a festival filmmaker or actor – but pre-SXSW, the peripatetic Austinite will be at BookPeople Thursday night to perform from the Basho-inspired Ten Walks/Two Talks.

12:21PM Tue. Mar. 9, 2010, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Time for Staple!ing

With some wet weather heading this way, the only thing better to do than sit home and read comics is to head to the Staple! indie media expo to meet some big name indie comics creators.

2:30PM Fri. Mar. 5, 2010, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Sports and Social Justice With David Zirin

David Zirin collects accolades like baseball cards. He was named one of the UTNE Reader's "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World," he’s been awarded Press Action's Sportswriter of the Year twice, and often graces television screens as a guest analyst on various CNN, ESPN, and MSNBC programs. However, Zirin is much more than a sports journalist.

12:20PM Fri. Mar. 5, 2010, Timothy Braun Read More | Comment »

'A People’s History of Sports in the United States'

In A People’s History of Sports in the United States ($26.95, The New Press), author David Zirin welcomes the reader to the proverbial adults table of American sports with a historical blow-by-blow of social engagement, race relations, gender struggles, and political upheaval that have surrounded some of our favorite pastimes.

12:17PM Fri. Mar. 5, 2010, Timothy Braun Read More | Comment »

Fiddler on the Roof at Bass

The road show of “Fiddler on the Roof,” in Austin through Sunday, is a thoroughly enjoyable production of the classic play. Veteran actor Harvey Fierstein plays Tevye, reprising his lead role in the record-breaking Broadway revival. It’s a great play - if you go, mazel tov.

3:08PM Thu. Mar. 4, 2010, Katherine Gregor Read More | Comment »

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