news
Downtown stakeholders raise questions about
policing ... the police
BY JORDAN SMITH
City Council races pick up steam at candidate forums
BY MICHAEL KING
Comptroller delivers scathing audit of road agency
BY MICHAEL KING
Interim county development rules leave everyone
dissatisfied
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY LEE NICHOLS AND CHERYL SMITH
On trying my best to be scandalized by the
Comptroller's report on the CTRMA
BY MICHAEL KING
Dems and a few Republicans try to
hold back the privatization wave
BY AMY SMITH
Bush makes a mess of the Food and Drug
Administration; and preaches to Russia about the
merits of hypocracy err, democracy
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
How much more food and music can you ask for in
this town around this time and after?
SoCo explodes, again; plus, midtown movers and St.
Patrick's Day
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Van Dykes Parks: 'Smile' and the world smiles with
you
BY GREG BEETS
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Picks & Sleepers
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
Austin Music Hall, Wednesday, March 16
BY DARCIE STEVENS
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels
BY DARCIE STEVENS
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Music fest diary
BY STAN RIDGWAY
Brief conversations with very important people
BY ANDY LANGER
8pm, Stubb's
BY ANDY LANGER
9pm, La Zona Rosa
BY ANDY LANGER
10pm, Caribbean Lights
BY MELANIE HAUPT
11pm, Elysium
BY ROBERT GABRIEL
1am, Room 710
BY GREG BEETS
1am, Elysium
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
SXSW news
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
SXSW news
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
BY JIM CALIGIURI
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Music fest diary
BY MIKE DOUGHTY
Brief conversations with very important people
BY ANDY LANGER
7:30pm, Town Lake stage
BY JIM CALIGIURI
9pm, Soho Lounge
BY MELANIE HAUPT
10pm, Cedar Street
BY MARGARET MOSER
12mid, Elysium
BY GREG BEETS
1am, Whisky Bar
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
1am, Emo's Main
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
SXSW news
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Music fest diary
BY ROBYN HITCHCOCK
Brief conversations with very important people
BY ANDY LANGER
9pm, Red Eyed Fly
BY DARCIE STEVENS
12:30am, Antone's
BY MELANIE HAUPT
1am, Blender Bar at the Ritz
BY DARCIE STEVENS
1am, Maggie Mae's
BY GREG BEETS
1am, Vibe
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
1:15am, Emo's Main
BY ROBERT GABRIEL
WEEKLY ISSUE
Welcome to Deadwood: Sorting SXSW's
cocksuckers
from the hoopleheads
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
SXSW Records
In-store-o-rama
In-store-o-rama
In-store-o-rama
In-store-o-rama
SXSnapshots
SXSnapshots
SXSnapshots
SXSnapshots
screens
Scenes from the Fifth Annual Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards
Reviews and reports from SXSW Film and Interactive
05
The Best of the Fest
Sunday, March 13
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
SXSW Film Reviews
Our first daily installment of festival film reviews, from 'The Aggressives' to all of the shorts
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
WEEKLY ISSUE
The Legislature's $20 million in proposed incentives to
lure more film projects to Texas is emphasizing jobs
and aiming to boost rural areas as well as larger cities
like Austin; plus, Wes Anderson's next movie
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Anyone needing evidence on why the network sitcom
is failing should turn on their sets next week
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
A Douglas Sirk tour de force, 'Written on the Wind'
explores the director's typical fascination with
interfamilial relationships in a hold-on-to-your-cocktail-
hat production oozing with Technicolor angst
Film Reviews
Even though Born Into Brothels – winner of the 2004 Oscar for Best Documentary – is a devastating portrait of impoverished Calcutta children who are born into the sex trades, the film is also an inspiring document about human possibilities.
Uday Hussein's former pleasure palace is now home to an American artillery regiment, whose members we get to know from their poolside antics to their far more sobering responsibilities of patrolling Baghdad.
Bruce Willis is called back to active crime-fighting duty in this new thriller.
Japanese anime director Katsuhiro Ôtomo, best known for Akira, here delivers a dazzlingly straightforward rush that thrusts its protagonist into astonishing action set-piece after set-piece.
Travellers & Magicians feels a bit like Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as retold by Siddhartha, as this Himalayan beauty gently delivers a very accurate anti-materialistic Buddhist morality lesson.
arts & culture
Ellen Bartel's blood-spattered new dance 'Killsport'
mocks our love of the old ultraviolence
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Back home in Texas, Lisa Scheps finally gets her
place to play!
BY BARRY PINEO
Fifteen local arts organizations work together to
celebrate Shostakovich's 100th birthday
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The 2005 Texas Medal of Arts Awards have been
announced, and the Elisabet Ney Museum snags a
Historic Homes grant
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Cirque du Soleil's 'Varekai' begins with Icarus
tumbling from heaven but then leaps skyward again
with acts that convey the thrill of flight
'At Home With Dick' is approximately an hour and a
half of songs and memories from the funny, very
talented songwriter Dick Price
columns
Talented songwriter and performer Mandy Mercier
lends her voice to our ongoing conversation about
artistic recognition and creative success
BY LOUIS BLACK
Our readers talk back.
Donating money to causes is fine and necessary, but
it
doesn't get you off the hook; active human energy is
what generates change. Bite off a chunk of
trouble for yourself. There is no hope or solution
without
you.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Okay, SXSW has officially begun and your Style
Avatar is deep in it. Watch where you step.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
Austin's friendly neighborhood (not to mention cuddly)
Style Avatar, Stephen Moser makes the scene as the
scenesters take over Austin! Be sure to catch AAF in
each of our SXSW dailies!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
It's SXSW all over, especially all over that other acronymically correct paradise, Austin's SoCo, our hallowed South Congress Avenue, south of the river. See what our Style Avatar has been up to and what he recommends.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
Our Style Avatar and yours, SMM is the man about town this week. See where he's been seen and with whom!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
WEEKLY ISSUE
Tops may get HIV easier than thought
BY SANDY BARTLETT
What are the pros and cons of using macadamia oil?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Do I have to take the Breathalyzer?
BY LUKE ELLIS AND TRAVIS SMITH
Hydrogen-fueled Hummers and coffee beans in
animal
droppings
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Waltzing through the dance halls of Texas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Our latest batch.
Emo's, Sunday, March 20, 2005
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
SXSW brings soccer to the big screen with
'Hooligans'
BY NICK BARBARO