features
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
A field guide to festival attendees, and more random notes from inside the circle
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
Your Style Avatar is on the scene at the AMAs!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
Our Sytle Avatar's Style Avatar, one Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las rocked his little world
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
news
Reporter of 'Statesman' racial cleansing series disowns published version
BY KEVIN BRASS
Texas Civil Rights Project says failure to follow policy and provide adequate medical attention in timely manner are to blame in prisoner deaths.
BY JORDAN SMITH
District won't formally separate Kealing Middle School's magnet program from neighborhood school
BY JUSTIN WARD
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
Friday music in pictures
WEEKLY ISSUE
Health care no match for hot air
BY MICHAEL KING
Protecting the Furnishings; and Black's Abacus
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Pro-gambling interests try their luck again; and other Lege news
BY AMY SMITH
But DEA still refuses to admit hemp and pot are different crops
BY JORDAN SMITH
Garbled Translations; and Another War in Iraq
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
In planning your SXSW itinerary, make room for these 10 dining destinations
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Beannachtam na Femle Padraig
BY WES MARSHALL
Rodeo Cook-Off and Stall Crawl
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Mother's is tough; Vera's Pies are stuffed; and Dream Bakery offers a Persian puff
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Iggy Pop, whistling a merry tune
BY MARGARET MOSER
Pete Townshend pays tribute to Ronnie Lane
BY JODY DENBERG
SXSW Music Fest Preview Guide
Picks & sleepers
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
Austin Convention Center, Wednesday, March 14
BY GREG BEETS
Hilton Grand Ballroom, Wednesday, March 14, 6:30pm
BY MICHAEL BERTIN
Gadding about
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Day Party Crawl
Music Fest Diary
BY THOMAS DOLBY
Blogosphere's big gun on SXSW and who to stalk
BY ANDY LANGER
Division Day
BY MATT ALLEN
SXSW Music News and Carryings On
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
The sampled sound of the South: Billy Cook
BY ROBERT GABRIEL
Okkervil River offshoot Shearwater finally takes flight
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Back from back surgery, Micah P. Hinson tries his hand at Roy Orbison
BY DOUG FREEMAN
The Hacienda Brothers' Western soul gives Chris Gaffney his uppercut
BY JIM CALIGIURI
The King of dieselbilly, Bill Kirchen, taking one step forward and two steps back
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Tom Morello doesn't have to preach revolution through Marshall stacks
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW Panels
British picks for SXSW by 'Mojo' Editor-in-Chief Phil Alexander
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
Chuck D, gathering no moss
BY ANDY LANGER
Music Fest Diary
BY DONOVAN
Friday's Flavor: The Pipettes
BY MATT ALLEN
Gadding about
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys, driving popsters and cows mad
SPOTLIGHTS
Pam Tillis plots her comeback.
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Willie Tee won't just be "Teasing You" at the Ponderosa Stomp
BY ROBERT GABRIEL
Dennis Coffey, "Scorpio," and funk soul brother forever
BY ROBERT GABRIEL
Aussie essentials Hoodoo Gurus, back from the dead
BY MICHAEL BERTIN
Japanese prog-punk in two minutes or 40
BY GREG BEETS
Dallas soulman Bobby Patterson, no blues caddy
BY GREG BEETS
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW Panels
SXSW music news and carryings on
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Day Party Crawl
Thursday music in pictures
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
Conan O'Brien's music booker sees Explosions in the Sky
BY ANDY LANGER
Music Fest Diary
BY ANDREW W. K.
Field Music, from the Beatles and Monk to Igor Stravinsky
SPOTLIGHTS
Japenese metal trio Boris lurch into drone
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Soon to be Austin garage quartet the Strange Boys and their American Bandstand
BY DARCIE STEVENS
Graham Parker, still squeezing out the sparks
BY MICHAEL BERTIN
The Saints, not stranded in punk nostalgia
BY MICHAEL BERTIN
Girl Talk's fantasy mash-ups
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Trae's not too 'Restless' to be real
BY ROBERT GABRIEL
SXSW music news and carryings on
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW Panels
Gadding about
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Day Party Crawl
SXSW showcase reviews
BY DOUG FREEMAN
WEEKLY ISSUE
SXSW at 21 is one heckuva wascawwy wabbit
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
SXSW Reviews
SXSW showcase reviews
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screens
Jury and audience awards announced on Tuesday, March 13
OwnYourC wins Best in Show, and more from Sunday's ceremony
Reports From Interactive Panels on Gaming
BY CARSON BARKER
From the festival front: reviews, panel reports, photos of famous people, and more
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
Indie film icon John Sayles, not lip-synching
BY MICHAEL BERTIN
SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews
WEEKLY ISSUE
Texas could be like New York
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Showtime for This American Life
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
A wickedly entertaining postmodern take on the hallowed, Eighties-era slasher flicks.
New Bollywood film linking stories about the game of cricket.
An Italian couple’s decision to adopt a Russian boy creates a troubling situation for young Vanya, who doesn't want to leave the country without meeting his birth mother.
A documentary about our credit-card mess and some of the casualties of debt.
Something for everyone. See this week's Screens section, issue insert, and www.sxsw.com/film for full schedule and lots of info.
In this inspirational film, a deceased tycoon's will decrees that his grandson perform a series of tasks to determine if the young man is worthy of inheriting the fortune.
The third and final installment in this film series based on the bestselling series of novels about Mormon history.
arts & culture
Two Austin playwrights join dozens of writers from across the hemisphere to 'dream the Americas'
Veteran Texas rocker Joe Ely forsakes the roadhouse for the Ransom Center, to show off his lifetime of artwork and verse about a musician's life on tour
BY ROBERT FAIRES
A new stage musical adapted from John Waters' 1990 film Cry-Baby needs a hunky musician for the title role and thinks he might be in Austin
BY ROBERT FAIRES
This is the season when new visual arts galleries seem to sprout up everywhere like bluebonnets, and this spring brings us a bumper crop
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Yellow Tape Construction Company's I Am Not Tartuffe reimagines Molière's satire as a tale of scheming French people plotting to take over America's future
BY ELIZABETH COBBE
Arts Reviews
The cast of this touring production of Disney's The Lion King performs with such skill and fullness of spirit that the show soars on an uplifting freshness
Gallery Lombardi is in its new space on Seventh Street with another group show hanging salon-style, but there's something a little different about "Draw"
Christa Palazzolo was an astounding painter before she left Austin for New York, but her solo show at 1906 Gallery shows that her artistic skill has only deepened
columns
Celebrating the insane energy and rippling barrage of popular culture
BY LOUIS BLACK
These Lubbock friends of mine were always writing books thick notebooks of drawings and words
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
How many times did Stephen wear that suit? Come along to the premiere of the Domain and this year's Texas Film Hall of Fame.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Simon Vega pays tribute to Elvis with his own Little Graceland
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Landlord's perspective on tenant disputes
BY LUKE ELLIS
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Auditorium Shores at the Long Center, Saturday, March 17, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO