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Buttigieg Back for SXSW, Plus Kenan Thompson and More

What do Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Governor George W. Bush have in common (aside from having laid dibs on bedrooms in the White House, to varying success)? They've both just been added to the speaker line-up at this year's SXSW virtual conference.

10:00AM Wed. Feb. 24, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Sundance Review: Summer of Soul (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Ahmir Khalib Thompson, better known as Questlove, has always been a multihyphenate of hip-hop and Black pop culture at large. In his filmmaking debut film, which memorializes the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, the rapper-producer-DJ-instrumentalist-journalist puts all of that perspective to work.

2:00PM Sun. Feb. 14, Selome Hailu Read More | Comment »

Sundance Review: Cusp

Cusp hurts. Little can be said about the film before that. Being a teenage girl hurts, and so Cusp hurts, too.

1:28PM Sun. Feb. 14, Selome Hailu Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

ACMC: Celebration

Austin Chamber Music Center

Post-Gaylentine's Weekend Market at Revival Coffee, 1405 E. Seventh

Austin Classical Guitar: Rupert and Laura

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Lee Isaac Chung Recalls Growing Up in the Fields of Minari

In Minari, Lee Isaac Chung's semiautobiographical story of growing up in rural Arkansas as a Korean immigrant, accuracy is everything - even down to the details of farm life. In fact, especially those. He explained, "I tried to stay true, because I knew a lot of farming friends would be watching."

9:29PM Fri. Feb. 12, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

She Wants Revenge: The Horror of The Queen of Black Magic

It was seemingly destiny that Kimo Stamboel was going to remake classic Indonesian horror film The Queen of Black Magic. After all, it was the movie that scared him so much as a kid that (inevitably) he fell in love with the genre.

8:29PM Thu. Feb. 11, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

SXSW Online to Feature Stacey Abrams and N. K. Jemisin in Conversation

The Venn diagram sweet spot of people who are going to fangirl over voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams and sci-fi/fantasy author N. K. Jemisin is – I suspect – very large. I’m in the overlap. You’re in it, too, right? SXSW is definitely in it.

11:00AM Thu. Feb. 11, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Are We All Ghosts in the Machine?

A few hundred days into the most digitized era of our lives, and it's hard not to see the world as all zeroes and ones. Even documentarian Rodney Ascher, whose technological doc A Glitch in the Matrix debuted last week at the Sundance Film Festival, is getting those analog blues. "The irony that this is a virtual Sundance has not been lost on me."

11:30PM Wed. Feb. 10, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Music and the movies, the two oldest and most defining elements of South by Southwest, find harmony in the three headlining films announced for this year’s streaming festival.

1:00PM Wed. Feb. 10, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Sundance Review: CODA

In sweet, funny, and rudely charming coming-of-age comedy drama CODA, three-quarters of the Rossi family are defined by something other than congenital deafness.

6:07PM Thu. Feb. 4, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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