Volume 29, Number 29
ON THE COVER:
news
Curious tidbits and Austin arcana
BY THE NEWS STAFF
City says latest bond delay just another stop on the line
BY MICHAEL KING
It was that other mayor who jumped off bridges
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Citizens' calendar, March 18-25
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL
Texas Democratic Party rejects 'LaRouche Democrat'
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER AND LEE NICHOLS
Gaffes found in endorsement list for AISD board candidate
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Senate committee passes compromise bill on sentencing disparity
BY JORDAN SMITH
Curing Congress and going green
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
What, where, when, and who on the Red Line
BY LEE NICHOLS
Extreme waiting times leave drivers idling
BY LEE NICHOLS
Share your thoughts at a series of upcoming public meetings hosted by CAMPO
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Far-right SBOE members are far out!
BY LEE NICHOLS
An upcoming meeting will focus on bringing federal transportation funds to Central Texas
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Changes afoot at Austin Climate Protection Program
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Tastes Like Profit; and Toiling on Wall Street
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Trailer parks are everywhere, but it's not what you think
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
SXSW beer snobs have some great options Downtown
BY LEE NICHOLS
The best wine deals in Downtown
BY WES MARSHALL
A turf war yields more farmers' markets for everyone
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Austin gets multicultural with St. Patrick's Day, the Persian New Year, and Uchi
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
At the crazy heart of the 2009-10 Austin Music Awards sits Stephen Bruton
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
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
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
Year One
Reservoir
Broken Bells
Dirty Genes
Midwestgangstabox framecadillacmuzik, The Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs
Carving Desert Canyons
Constellations
XXXX
It's About Dam Time
North Hills
Big Echo
Astro Coast
Circular Colectivo
The Kinks Choral Collection
Magic Chairs
A Love Supreme 2.0
Analog Drift (Muy...Esniqui)
Black Dynamite (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Concrete Jungle
Warm Heart of Africa
No More Heroes
B.A.M.!
Carried Away
Eyelid Movies
Summer of Fear
Dear Companion
Messenger
Við og Við
Fight Softly
Permalight
Volume Two
The XX
Double Jointer
I Will Be
The Monitor
Invisible Violence
Descending Shadows
Gorilla Manor
In the Court of the Wrestling Let's
The Big To-Do
The Soft Pack
Pardon Me
The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night
The Bronze
¡Está Bueno!
Mr. Sad Clown
Punchline
São Paulo
Black Vodoun Space Blues
¡Let Freedom Ring!
American Gong
Fluorescent Black
The Salvation
Fool's Gold
Boys Meets World.
Couple Tracks
Yancey Boys
Flood
The Stimulus Package
Three Ring Circus
Talking to You, Talking to Me
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
SXSW news and carryings on
BY AUSTIN POWELL
BY KENT H. BENJAMIN
The best British music at SXSW as selected by Mojo Editor-in-Chief Phil Alexander
BY PHIL ALEXANDER
Bomba Estéreo
BY SIMÓN MEJÍA
SHOWCASE PREVIEWS
Psychedelic pop bust
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Coming down from the Tennessee mountain
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
Gimme an F!
BY DAN OKO
Love is a four letter word
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Detroit's other Hitsville
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
It's a bird? It's a plane? It's sci-fi's surf guitar originators.
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
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
Day Party Crawl
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
SXSW news and carryings on
BY AUSTIN POWELL
The best British music at SXSW as selected by Mojo Editor-in-Chief Phil Alexander
BY PHIL ALEXANDER
BY FREEDY JOHNSTON
BY MATT ALLEN
SHOWCASE PREVIEWS
Man vs. nature on The Golden Archipelago
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Austin's mad pop scientist on his Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
BY DOUG FREEMAN
An elder statesman on W.A.R.
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
From Andrew Cohen to soul singer?
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
100 Days, 100 Nights later
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Even a soul legend has to obey the new music biz paradigm
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
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
Day Party Crawl
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
SXSW news and carryings on
BY AUSTIN POWELL
The best British music at SXSW as selected by Mojo Editor-in-Chief Phil Alexander
BY PHIL ALEXANDER
BY BILLY BRAGG
BY MATT ALLEN
SHOWCASE PREVIEWS
Following the Black President into the Concrete Jungle
BY DAN OKO
Meet the mayor of Brooklynati
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Back to the future of funk
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
The Stones' go-to singer got to Sweden
BY MARGARET MOSER
Project sissies making New Orleans bounce
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
Spending a few nights in Austin's House of Songs
BY MELANIE HAUPT
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
Day Party Crawl
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels
screens
Writer/director Floria Sigismondi on capturing the Runaways
BY CINDY WIDNER
Jessica Bendinger on the 10th anniversary of her snarky cheer comedy Bring It On
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
AFS Documentary Tour presents Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Audience, jury, and special awards
SXSW Film Reviews
Capsule reviews
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
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.
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.
This breathtaking IMAX documentary follows NASA's May 2009 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
This riveting French film is the best prison/crime saga to come along in quite a while.
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.
A grittily femme perspective governs this otherwise conventional music saga about the Runaways, America's first all-girl rock band.
An average guy finds the woman of his dreams, but his insecurities undermine the relationship.
Hal Holbrook has the lead role as a crotchety but wily old-timer in this Southern-fried melodrama.
arts & culture
Curator Annette Carlozzi invites art lovers to dive down into images of longing
BY ROBERT FAIRES
A visiting puppeteer flies in with a show about a really wild duck
BY ROBERT FAIRES
For his company's final show, Ricki Vincent takes a look at the end of it all
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
A local sculptor has a more creative use for those big orange-and-white traffic barriers
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Slow pacing aside, City Theatre's revival brings Hansberry's message home
To fully enjoy this exhibit, bring a kid and watch him become ignited by the music
If the future is now, then the future of percussion will likely make it So
columns
The chaotic and beautiful birth of the Austin Music Awards
BY LOUIS BLACK
We are queer for SXSW, and SXSW is queer for us
BY KATE X MESSER
Your Style Avatar's SX kicks off stylishly
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
The Collin Street Bakery along the northbound side of I-35 in Waco serves up fruitcakes for weary travelers
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Walt Disney's phobias, the Village People's photos, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
The Gay Place celebrates the gayest SXSW ever
BY KATE X MESSER
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
Friday's gay day is all about the soul and all about the bounce
BY KATE X MESSER
Your Style Avatar yearns for ... patchouli?!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
The Gay Place loves you. All of you. Hard. And will miss you when you are gone.
BY KATE X MESSER
Your Style Avatar accessorizes for Perez, and sidekick Sunny offers a new drinking game
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
WEEKLY ISSUE
Austin Music Hall, Saturday, March 20, 2010
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
The TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls auction off pin-up-style posters to benefit local charities
BY MARK FAGAN
Aztex fall to Dynamo in exhibition, and more
BY NICK BARBARO