Daily SXSW - The Austin Chronicle

There are a thousand versions of The Idea of You that would be a bad or at least uninteresting film: a sickly, bland, trope-laden rom-com about an older woman and a younger pop star. But none of those would have been directed by Michael Showalter.

2:51PM Mon. Mar. 18, 2024, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

The Chronicle’s Hair of the 3-Legged Dog Party Brings Breezy Grooves to Hotel Vegas

Maybe it was the bloody marys and THC drink samples, but folks were grooving at The Austin Chronicle’s ninth annual Hair of the 3-Legged Dog South by Southwest day party. We’re going to credit the music we booked, though.

11:48AM Sat. Mar. 16, 2024, Carys Anderson Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: The Greatest Hits

We all have those moments when hearing a certain song instantly transports us back to a specific moment in time, when a sudden flash from our personal past overwhelms the present. In the romantic drama The Greatest Hits, however, this human quirk becomes pathological rather than pleasant.

10:07AM Sat. Mar. 16, 2024, Marjorie Baumgarten Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Swamp Dogg, L.C. Franke

Antone's Nightclub

Pride Drag Brunch
at Verbena Food & Drink, 612 W. Sixth St.

Christopher Cascio: “Portals” at Ivester Contemporary

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

The Black Keys Turn Back the Clock With a Set of Raw Hill Country Blues at Mohawk

In the early days of the Black Keys, circa The Big Come Up and Thickfreakness, their name was rarely uttered without mention of R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough.

2:29PM Fri. Mar. 15, 2024, Kevin Curtin Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Cuckoo

German filmmaker Tillman Singer became a phenom on the festival circuit in 2019 for his experimental demonic horror Luz, but there was a creeping suspicion that it was undeniable style over substance.

7:00AM Fri. Mar. 15, 2024, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Civil War

Civil War is not the film you think it is. The trailers. The initial, enigmatic descriptions. The title. It all infers an analysis of America as a divided nation, one where the risk of a second great conflagration seems all too imminent.

11:00PM Thu. Mar. 14, 2024, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Arcadian

In another world, Joseph (Jaeden Martell) would probably be winning medals at science club and thinking about college, while Thomas (Maxwell Jenkins) would be hanging out after class, trying to spend a few extra minutes with Charlotte (Sadie Soverall), the girl next door.

3:22PM Thu. Mar. 14, 2024, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

SXSW Panel Discusses Promoting DEI in the Workplace

Wednesday’s DEI in Tech panel underscored the importance of sustaining – and amplifying – commitments to diversity in the rapidly changing tech world. Paria Rajai from ModelExpand moderated the conversation with Iesha Berry (DocuSign), Erin L. Thomas (Upwork), and Emil Yeargin (Gusto).

2:57PM Thu. Mar. 14, 2024, Jessi Cape Read More | Comment »

Can Museums Solve America’s Education Inequality Problem?

What is the role of a city museum? What comes to mind for most people is a stuffy, academic institution where you have to whisper and can’t touch anything. For Sean Decatur, president of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, that couldn’t be further from the truth.

1:29PM Thu. Mar. 14, 2024, Lina Fisher Read More | Comment »

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