Baron Wolman
Volume 28, Number 29
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features
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
Where the queers at? SXSW!
BY ASH BELL AND KATE X MESSER
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
Where the queers at on Friday? SXSW!
BY ASH BELL AND KATE X MESSER
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
Where the queers at on Saturday? SXSW!
BY ASH BELL AND KATE X MESSER
news
Texas schools' sex ed favors 'don't ask, don't tell ... and keep 'em ignorant'
BY JORDAN SMITH
Hard times reveal the way things actually work
BY MICHAEL KING
A funny thing happened on the way to the candidates forum
BY WELLS DUNBAR
ON THE LEGE
Perry's stingy rejection of the stimulus money might backfire
BY LEE NICHOLS
Meanwhile, Texas' death machine churns stronger than ever
BY JORDAN SMITH
House Dems eager to stick a fork in voter ID bill
BY LEE NICHOLS
Odds and ends from the Capitol
BY THE NEWS STAFF
With the session at the 60-day mark, bills are running out of time
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Budget rider targets Planned Parenthood
BY JORDAN SMITH
Carona aims to stop gun-running to Mexico
BY JORDAN SMITH
At least three council members question cost
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Stop, hey, what's that sound?
BY WELLS DUNBAR
A homeowner near a BFI landfill thought the scourge of vultures was bad enough – then they turned up dead
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Retail bagpipes sound a dirge for Highland Mall
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Corporate Control of Independent Scientific Research; and Death, Taxes ... and Debt Collectors
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Defeating the porcelain god and that pounding brain
BY MICK VANN
The best places to grab a biscuit breakfast in Austin
BY MM PACK
Your local foodie events for March 21-28
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Austinites rake in foodie honors, and Downtown food keeps getting better
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Quincy Jones has lived a career that would make his hero, Duke Ellington, proud
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Devo's 21st century 'de-evolution' hopefully won't get anyone arrested
BY MARGARET MOSER
SXSW 2009
Wednesday Music Preview Guide
Thursday Music Preview Guide
Friday Music Preview Guide
Saturday Music Preview Guide
The Future Is Unwritten: 360 Degrees of South by Southwest
BY AUSTIN POWELL
SXSW Records
The Hazards of Love
Hold Time
Glasvegas
Living Thing
Sigh of an Angel
The Truth Is Here
To Willie
Alpinisms
Betrayer, Static Tensions, Winter Hours, Absu, Please, Please, Sorry, Thank You, Black Cascade, Live at Roadburn
Face Control, I Blame You, Tight Knit, Bunny Gets Paid
Fortune, All Is Wild, All Is Silent, Vacilando Territory Blues, Here We Go Magic
Instead the Forest Rose to Sing
Elvis Perkins in Dearland
Midnight at the Movies
The Atlantic Ocean
Love Ire & Song
I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day
Grrr ...
Wavvves
Never Better
The Truth Is Here
Fruit
Vivian Girls
Women
A New Tide
Mind Raft, Violens, Reviver, Danger Is
Tell 'Em What Your Name Is!
Long Leaf Pine (No Smack Gum)
House of a Thousand Guitars
To Be Still
The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele
Ready for the Flood
Yonder Is the Clock
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Mama, I'm Swollen
Underneath the Owl
Jigsaw
O+S
Me Not Me
Tentacles
Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
And Girls Club
A Woman a Man Walked By
Baby
Poseidon and the Bitter Bug
Take to the Sky
Slipway Fires
Telekinesis!
Dissolver
The Airing of Grievances
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
Austin Music Hall, Wednesday, March 18
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW Panels
Day Party Crawl
SXSW music news and carryings-on
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Live Shots
The Parish Downstairs
Vice
Buffalo Billiards
Central Presbyterian Church
Headhunters
Emo's Main
La Zona Rosa
Speakeasy
Back Alley Social
The best British music at SXSW as selected by 'Mojo' editor-in-chief Phil Alexander
Thursday's Flavor: Still Flyin'
BY MATT ALLEN
BY SUZANNA CHOFFEL
SHOWCASE PREVIEWS
The psychotic musical plays on
BY DARCIE STEVENS
Fetish funk and rubber soles
BY GREG BEETS
SXSW 08 success story returns for her encore
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Cajun licks with Michael Doucet
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Unloading both sides of the gun
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Hot buttered soul that aims to please
BY GREG BEETS
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
Live Shots
SXSW showcase reviews
SXSW showcase reviews
SXSW showcase reviews
SXSW showcase reviews
Keynote address
SXSW showcase reviews
SXSW showcase reviews
SXSW showcase reviews
SXSW showcase reviews
SXSW showcase reviews
SXSW showcase reviews
Playing in Traffic with Los Lonely Boys, Daniel Johnston, Roky Erickson's Ice Cream Social, and Dan Auerbach
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW Panels
Day Party Crawl
Mojo showcasers prog the rock
Ice Cream Man slings the Love Language
BY MATT ALLEN
What it took for one metal band to make it from Tehran to SXSW
SHOWCASE PREVIEWS
Where the past comes alive
BY GREG BEETS
What wouldn't the Renaissance woman do?
BY KATE X MESSER
The official reunion has begun
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Ancient garage-rock back from before the Summer of Love
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Savage punks from the Australian outback
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Positive MC gets second lease on life
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
Live Shots
SXSW showcase reviews
SXSW showcase reviews
SXSW showcase reviews
SXSW showcase reviews
SXSW showcase reviews
SXSW showcase reviews
SXSW showcase reviews
SXSW showcase reviews
SXSW showcase reviews
SXSW showcase reviews
SXSW showcase reviews
SXSW showcase reviews
SXSW showcase reviews
Surprise, guess what Bay Area metal behemoth played Stubb's after all?
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels
Day Party Crawl
Blur guitarist returns to SXSW for some BBQ.
R&B raunch, an ice cream flavor you never knew existed.
BY MATT ALLEN
SHOWCASE PREVIEWS
Erykah Badu takes you higher
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
Tinker Toys in the attic
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
American Analog Set's Andrew Kenny takes solo flight
BY DARCIE STEVENS
Classic. Power. Trio.
BY DANIEL MEE
Kat Edmonson redefines jazz and pop
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Still revolutionary and gangster
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
screens
And the winners are ...
Career advice and self-help evangelism at SXSW
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
SXSW 09 Film Reviews
SXSW Interactive Bytes
'TV Eye' puzzles over Kings and ponders 10 years in print
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
SXSW Film
Reviews and Interviews
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
SXSW Film
Reviews and interviews
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
SXSW Film
Reviews and interviews
Film Reviews
This is a Kannada-language romantic thriller from India.
Julia Roberts and Clive Owen star in this new thriller about schemers and double-dealers.
Appearing as the has-been mentalist Buck Howard, John Malkovich delivers another memorably eccentric performance.
Paul Rudd stars in this "bromance" comedy in which sweet scenes of male camaraderie contrast with moments of gross-out humor.
Two parents take revenge on the scum who raped and savaged their daughter in the remake of Wes Craven's grisly horror landmark.
Two-fifths of the Whitest Kids U'Know comedy troupe wrote, star in, and co-directed this nubile sex romp about a road trip to the Playboy mansion.
In this updated remake of the beloved Disney series of family movies, two siblings with supernatural powers seek refuge with a cabbie and a UFO specialist.
Go out and explore. With so many options, it's hard to go wrong.
arts & culture
Austin punk gets the museum treatment, but does the scene come off as dead or alive?
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The veteran stand-up comic isn't a rock star, but he played one on TV
BY STEVE BIRMINGHAM
The pop sensibility and humor of this Philadelphia artist feel a lot like Austin
BY RACHEL KOPER
As the performing arts venue turns one, Marvin Hamlisch sings "happy birthday" to it
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Stories told this well don't come around very often, and this one deserves to be seen
Two siblings mourning their jerk of a dad are cause for hilarity rather than grief
Tom Molloy's drawings are delicate but have the power to give you nightmares
columns
The untalented, the ungifted, the slow, and the lost
BY LOUIS BLACK
Your Style Avatar is all agog at the gods of film and music
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
The Gay Place is queer for SXSW!
BY KATE X MESSER AND ASH BELL
Enchanted Rocks & Jewelry sits near the center of one of the richest geological areas in Texas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
At the Boot Camp Challenge, 'what you hate the most works the best'
BY MARK FAGAN
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Lawyer Referral Service of Central Texas
BY LUKE ELLIS
Auditorium Shores at the Long Center, Thursday, March 19, 2009
BY THE LUV DOC
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