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sxswi: Screenburn Arcade

Finding free stuff without a badge is generally a matter of exhaustive web browsing, diligent RSVPing, and no shortage of smooth talking. Not so for the Screenburn Arcade, which is generally lineless, blind to badges, and chock full of gaming awesomeness.

1:39PM Sat. Mar. 12, 2011, James Renovitch Read More | Comment »

sxswf: Famous People Looking Pretty

Duncan Jones, who broke big with his debut Moon at SXSW 09, showed up with his starry cast – Gyllenhaal! Monaghan! Farmiga! – for Friday night's Paramount premiere of new thriller Source Code. Click through for the gallery.

10:36AM Sat. Mar. 12, 2011, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

sxswi: Mad About @BettyDraper

Helen Klein Ross is so much more cheery than her Twitter handle, @BettyDraper, named for the sullen Mad Men character Ross channels to write her 140 character missives on Twitter. That made attending her Friday workshop on how to fully exploit the short, short, short form – aka the tweet – that much more enjoyable.

10:09AM Sat. Mar. 12, 2011, Belinda Acosta Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Queer Country Cinema: National Anthem

The Little Gay Shop

The Hunger feat. Lavender Scare at Double Trouble

Raveena, Renao
at The Scoot Inn

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

sxswi: Getting Folksy

Former UT graduate student and current Assistant Professor at Western Carolina University, Nathan Kreuter kicked off Friday afternoon’s panel Folkways These Days: Crafty Knowledge in Digital Networks with a definition of the term “folkways,” which is, broadly speaking, traditional behaviors of groups of people.

7:46AM Sat. Mar. 12, 2011, Melanie Haupt Read More | Comment »

Teasers for 'Turkey Bowl' 'Incendiary: The Willingham Case' 'Super'

sxswf: Trailer Park

Day two of SXSW film already? After Jake Gyllenhaal brought Congress to a halt last night for the Source Code premiere, tonight Rainn Wilson goes Super at the Paramount.

1:00AM Sat. Mar. 12, 2011, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

sxswf: Hand-Held 'Hobo'

Hobo With a Shotgun doesn’t screen at SXSW until Tuesday, but you can start gunning away now with a new Drafthouse app.

8:04PM Fri. Mar. 11, 2011, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

'LBF,' 'Taken by Storm,' and 'Source Code' screening tonight

sxswf: Trailer Park Finds the Source

So you've read about the films screening at SXSW, and now you have to work out which one you really want to see. Well, with a week full of premieres looming, we'll be bringing you the trailers for the big films and some under-the-radar flicks. So what's on-screen tonight?

5:47PM Fri. Mar. 11, 2011, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

sxswi: From In-World Friends to Meatspace Marriage

It's an avatar love story that started in Second Life and made the move over to just plain “real” life.

4:10AM Fri. Mar. 11, 2011, Memory Harker Read More | Comment »

sxswf: Even More 'Incendiary'

The death penalty case of Cameron Todd Willingham, executed in 2004 for the alleged arson murders of his three young children more than a decade earlier, has brought to the fore serious questions about the reliability of forensic evidence in criminal cases, and about whether Texas relied on outdated fire science in order to send a man to his death.

8:00AM Thu. Mar. 10, 2011, Jordan Smith Read More | Comment »

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