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A Walk in Austin's Shoes
Curious tidbits and Austin arcana
BY THE NEWS STAFF
Point Austin: Whistling for the Train
City says latest bond delay just another stop on the line
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: Austin Interacts
It was that other mayor who jumped off bridges
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Headlines
Res Publica
Citizens' calendar, March 18-25
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL
Dems Ditch Rogers
Texas Democratic Party rejects 'LaRouche Democrat'
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER AND LEE NICHOLS
Trustee Trouble
Gaffes found in endorsement list for AISD board candidate
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Reefer Madness: Federal Sentencing Law Up for (Watered-Down) Reform
Senate committee passes compromise bill on sentencing disparity
BY JORDAN SMITH
Developing Stories: Charrette Duet
Curing Congress and going green
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
The Train! The Train!
What, where, when, and who on the Red Line
BY LEE NICHOLS
Expect Long Wait at MetroRail Gate
Extreme waiting times leave drivers idling
BY LEE NICHOLS
Transportation Plan
Share your thoughts at a series of upcoming public meetings hosted by CAMPO
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Social Studies Debate
Far-right SBOE members are far out!
BY LEE NICHOLS
Transportation Money for Austin?
An upcoming meeting will focus on bringing federal transportation funds to Central Texas
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
A Different Kind of Climate Change
Changes afoot at Austin Climate Protection Program
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
The Hightower Report
Tastes Like Profit; and Toiling on Wall Street
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
What's New on the Local Trailer Cuisine Scene?
Trailer parks are everywhere, but it's not what you think
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Beer Flights
SXSW beer snobs have some great options Downtown
BY LEE NICHOLS
Wine of the Week
The best wine deals in Downtown
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
A turf war yields more farmers' markets for everyone
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Austin gets multicultural with St. Patrick's Day, the Persian New Year, and Uchi
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
2009-10 Austin Music Awards
Crazy Heart
At the crazy heart of the 2009-10 Austin Music Awards sits Stephen Bruton
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Love Bath
SXSW 2010 keynote speaker Smokey Robinson originally wanted to be a cowboy, but they didn't have any horses in his hood
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Off the Record
Checking in to South by Southwest 2010
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Wednesday Music Preview Guide
Thursday Music Preview Guide
Friday Music Preview Guide
Saturday Music Preview Guide
SXSW Records
Sixteen Deluxe
Year One
Fanfarlo
Reservoir
Broken Bells
Broken Bells
MoJoe
Dirty Genes
Freddie Gibbs
Midwestgangstabox framecadillacmuzik, The Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs
Scale the Summit
Carving Desert Canyons
Balmorhea
Constellations
You Say Party! We Say Die!
XXXX
The Marshall Ford Swing Band
It's About Dam Time
Dawes
North Hills
The Morning Benders
Big Echo
Surfer Blood
Astro Coast
Maldita Vecindad
Circular Colectivo
Ray Davies
The Kinks Choral Collection
Efterklang
Magic Chairs
U-N-I
A Love Supreme 2.0
Chico Mann
Analog Drift (Muy...Esniqui)
Black Dynamite Sound Orchestra
Black Dynamite (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Nneka
Concrete Jungle
The Very Best
Warm Heart of Africa
Solillaquists of Sound
No More Heroes
Binary Audio Misfits
B.A.M.!
People Under the Stairs
Carried Away
Phantogram
Eyelid Movies
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
Summer of Fear
Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore
Dear Companion
Joe Pug
Messenger
Ólöf Arnalds
Við og Við
The Ruby Suns
Fight Softly
Rogue Wave
Permalight
She & Him
Volume Two
the XX
The XX
Golden Triangle
Double Jointer
Dum Dum Girls
I Will Be
Titus Andronicus
The Monitor
We Are Wolves
Invisible Violence
Pierced Arrows
Descending Shadows
Local Natives
Gorilla Manor
Let's Wrestle
In the Court of the Wrestling Let's
Drive-By Truckers
The Big To-Do
The Soft Pack
The Soft Pack
Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights
Pardon Me
The Besnard Lakes
The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night
Woodgrain
The Bronze
Texas Tornados
¡Está Bueno!
BoDeans
Mr. Sad Clown
Boulder Acoustic Society
Punchline
Deadstring Brothers
São Paulo
Pirate Love
Black Vodoun Space Blues
Chuck Prophet
¡Let Freedom Ring!
Quasi
American Gong
Anti-Pop Consortium
Fluorescent Black
Skyzoo
The Salvation
Fool's Gold
Fool's Gold
Fashawn
Boys Meets World.
Fucked Up
Couple Tracks
Illa J
Yancey Boys
Moreland & Arbuckle
Flood
Freeway & Jake One
The Stimulus Package
the Explosives
Three Ring Circus
the Watson Twins
Talking to You, Talking to Me
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
Off the Record
SXSW news and carryings on
BY AUSTIN POWELL
In Memoriam: Big Star Myths
BY KENT H. BENJAMIN
'Mojo' Recommends
The best British music at SXSW as selected by Mojo Editor-in-Chief Phil Alexander
BY PHIL ALEXANDER
My SXSW
Bomba Estéreo
BY SIMÓN MEJÍA
SHOWCASE PREVIEWS
Harlem
Psychedelic pop bust
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Those Darlins
Coming down from the Tennessee mountain
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
Country Joe McDonald
Gimme an F!
BY DAN OKO
The Love Language
Love is a four letter word
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Slum Village
Detroit's other Hitsville
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Man or Astro-Man?
It's a bird? It's a plane? It's sci-fi's surf guitar originators.
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Live Shots
The Trishas
SXSW showcase reviews
Fanfarlo
SXSW showcase reviews
Catherine MacLellan
SXSW showcase reviews
The Yellow Dogs
SXSW showcase reviews
Stones Throw Showcase
SXSW showcase reviews
Grooms
SXSW showcase reviews
Melissa Auf der Maur, Voivod, Michael Monroe
SXSW showcase reviews
Nneka
SXSW showcase reviews
Naam
SXSW showcase reviews
Pegi Young
SXSW showcase reviews
Day Party Crawl
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
Off the Record
SXSW news and carryings on
BY AUSTIN POWELL
'Mojo' Recommends
The best British music at SXSW as selected by Mojo Editor-in-Chief Phil Alexander
BY PHIL ALEXANDER
My SXSW
BY FREEDY JOHNSTON
Ice Cream Man Presents!
BY MATT ALLEN
SHOWCASE PREVIEWS
Shearwater
Man vs. nature on The Golden Archipelago
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Neon Indian/Vega
Austin's mad pop scientist on his Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Pharoahe Monch
An elder statesman on W.A.R.
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Mayer Hawthorne
From Andrew Cohen to soul singer?
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
100 Days, 100 Nights later
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Smokey Robinson
Even a soul legend has to obey the new music biz paradigm
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Live Shots
Ólöf Arnalds
SXSW showcase reviews
Harlem
SXSW showcase reviews
Brownout
SXSW showcase reviews
Bajofondo/Banda de Turistas
SXSW showcase reviews
Woven Bones
SXSW showcase reviews
Miles Kurosky (Ex-Beulah)
SXSW showcase reviews
The Soft Pack
SXSW showcase reviews
Ray Davies
SXSW showcase reviews
Peter Rosenberg's Noisemakers With Bun B
SXSW showcase reviews
Smokey Robinson Keynote Interview
Day Party Crawl
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
Off the Record
SXSW news and carryings on
BY AUSTIN POWELL
'Mojo' Recommends
The best British music at SXSW as selected by Mojo Editor-in-Chief Phil Alexander
BY PHIL ALEXANDER
My SXSW
BY BILLY BRAGG
Ice Cream Man Presents!
BY MATT ALLEN
SHOWCASE PREVIEWS
Nneka
Following the Black President into the Concrete Jungle
BY DAN OKO
Tanya Morgan
Meet the mayor of Brooklynati
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Dâm-Funk
Back to the future of funk
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
Bernard Fowler
The Stones' go-to singer got to Sweden
BY MARGARET MOSER
Big Freedia & Katey Red
Project sissies making New Orleans bounce
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
Gudrid Hansdóttir
Spending a few nights in Austin's House of Songs
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Live Shots
Band of Horses
SXSW showcase reviews
Carolina Chocolate Drops
SXSW showcase reviews
Smokey Robinson, Raphael Saadiq, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Mayer Hawthorne
SXSW showcase reviews
Japan Nite
SXSW showcase reviews
Band of Skulls
SXSW showcase reviews
Gay Witch Abortion
SXSW showcase reviews
Alejandro Escovedo & the Sensitive Boys Orchestra
SXSW showcase reviews
Sarah Jarosz
SXSW showcase reviews
The So So Glos
SXSW showcase reviews
The Carrots
SXSW showcase reviews
Day Party Crawl
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels
screens
Teenage Kicks
Writer/director Floria Sigismondi on capturing the Runaways
BY CINDY WIDNER
Still Bringing It
Jessica Bendinger on the 10th anniversary of her snarky cheer comedy Bring It On
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
The Reich's Right-Hand Man
AFS Documentary Tour presents Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
SXSW 2010 Film Awards
Audience, jury, and special awards
Snapshots of the 2010 Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards
SXSW Film Reviews
Capsule reviews
TV Eye
Timothy Olyphant stars in Justified as a lawman with serious daddy issues
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews
Film Reviews
The Cry of the Owl
Based on the 1962 Patricia Highsmith novel, this mood-heavy film contemplates what happens to a stalker when the object of his obsession returns the favor.
Green Zone
With Matt Damon's Bourne director at the helm, the actor plays an officer in Iraq who's mystified by why he's unable to uncover any WMDs.
"Hubble 3D"
This breathtaking IMAX documentary follows NASA's May 2009 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
A Prophet
This riveting French film is the best prison/crime saga to come along in quite a while.
Red Riding: 1974
This is the first of three absorbing adaptations (filmed concurrently by different directors) of David Peace’s linked novels about crime and corruption in Yorkshire, England.
The Runaways
A grittily femme perspective governs this otherwise conventional music saga about the Runaways, America's first all-girl rock band.
She's Out of My League
An average guy finds the woman of his dreams, but his insecurities undermine the relationship.
That Evening Sun
Hal Holbrook has the lead role as a crotchety but wily old-timer in this Southern-fried melodrama.
arts & culture
Depths of 'Desire'
Curator Annette Carlozzi invites art lovers to dive down into images of longing
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Trouble Puppet Theater Company
A visiting puppeteer flies in with a show about a really wild duck
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Geppetto Dreams Puppet Company
For his company's final show, Ricki Vincent takes a look at the end of it all
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
'Barton Barriers'
A local sculptor has a more creative use for those big orange-and-white traffic barriers
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
A Raisin in the Sun
Slow pacing aside, City Theatre's revival brings Hansberry's message home
'American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music'
To fully enjoy this exhibit, bring a kid and watch him become ignited by the music
So Percussion
If the future is now, then the future of percussion will likely make it So
columns
Page Two: Having a Riot
The chaotic and beautiful birth of the Austin Music Awards
BY LOUIS BLACK
Gay Place
We are queer for SXSW, and SXSW is queer for us
BY KATE X MESSER
After A Fashion
Your Style Avatar's SX kicks off stylishly
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
The Collin Street Bakery along the northbound side of I-35 in Waco serves up fruitcakes for weary travelers
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Walt Disney's phobias, the Village People's photos, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
Gay Place
The Gay Place celebrates the gayest SXSW ever
BY KATE X MESSER
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar doesn't care what you wear in your own backyard; just don't stink up our Conference with it
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
Gay Place
Friday's gay day is all about the soul and all about the bounce
BY KATE X MESSER
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar yearns for ... patchouli?!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
Gay Place
The Gay Place loves you. All of you. Hard. And will miss you when you are gone.
BY KATE X MESSER
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar accessorizes for Perez, and sidekick Sunny offers a new drinking game
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
WEEKLY ISSUE
Luv Doc Recommends: Austin Chronicle Music Awards
Austin Music Hall, Saturday, March 20, 2010
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Debs of the Derby: A Pin-Up-Scale Event
The TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls auction off pin-up-style posters to benefit local charities
BY MARK FAGAN
Soccer Watch
Aztex fall to Dynamo in exhibition, and more