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Bill Maddox died violently under bizarre circumstances – and left a legacy of music, love, and friendship
BY JORDAN SMITH
The budget battles are only skirmishes in the long march toward democracy
BY MICHAEL KING
One race, two walkovers, and games to be played later
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Thousands rally to save Texas schools
BY MICHAEL KING
Citizens' calendar, March 17-24
Fire chief sets the record straight
BY MICHAEL KING
Events in Japan cast a long shadow
BY NORA ANKRUM
LEGELAND
More reproductive health care antics at the Lege
BY JORDAN SMITH
Their strategy? Find someone else to blame.
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
A proposal to outlaw abortion
BY JORDAN SMITH
A bid for the humane treatment of animals
BY JORDAN SMITH
Where There's Smoke, There's Firing; and Plenty of American Jobs
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Favorites from Mexico on your SXSW breakfast plate
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
No green beer here, a short list of pubs and eateries for an authentic St. Patty's Day
BY WES MARSHALL
March 17-25
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Apps guide you to grub; and more
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Wednesday Music Preview Guide
Three Wednesday-night appetite-whetters
Thursday Music Preview Guide
Friday Music Preview Guide
Saturday Music Preview Guide
SXSW groupings: Metal, Austin jazz, Polish acts, plus everything else
All stages lead to the 2010-11 Austin Music Awards
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
South by Southwest 2011 Keynote speaker Bob Geldof played the Armadillo World Headquarters with the Boomtown Rats. Afterward ....
BY MARGARET MOSER
Yoko Ono walked on thin ice and lived to tell
BY JODY DENBERG
South by Southwest turns 25, the Austin Music Awards score a Bubble Puppy coup, and Ted Nugent leaves his hat on
BY AUSTIN POWELL
SXSW Records
On the Hunt, Rockpango
Marrow of the Spirit
Queens of the Stone Age
Ritual Abuse
Sever the Wicked Hand
Mad Oak Redoux
Last of the Country Gentlemen
100 Lovers
Cape Dory
Songs for the Ravens
What Makes Bob Holler
Mondo Amore
Are the Small Ponds
Innundir Skinni
James Blake
Harbors
Tre3s
Volume 2: High and Inside
Bad Time Zoo
End It All
1982
No Witch
Krush the Enemy
Top Hat & the Clapmaster's Son
Electric Endicott
Um, Uh Oh
Long Player Late Bloomer
Underneath the Pine
City of Refuge
The One ... Cohesive
IMAKEMADBEATS
Own Side Now
Tell Me
Here We Rest
El Sonido Nuevo
300 Miles From There to Here
Keys to the Kingdom
Pickin' Up the Pieces
Blessed
Scandalous
Barton Hollow
Civilian
Into Bass and Time
Colour Trip
Violet Cries
Several Shades of Why, Moody, Standard and Poor, He Gets Me High
Chico de Oro
Hidden Lands
Anthems for Doomed Youth
Unlearn
Endtables, The
Alhambra
Welcome New Machine
Rasa
Funstyle
Bright Example
Call It My Garden
Smoke Ring for My Halo
Middle Brother
Death of a Decade
The People's Key
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
SXSW news and carryings on
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels
Day Party Crawl
Live Shots
SXSW showcase reviews
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BY MATT ALLEN
Rising British talent at SXSW picked for your delectation by MOJO Editor-in-Chief Phil Alexander
BY STEVE WYNN
SHOWCASE PREVIEWS
The future's so bright Glasser put a ring on it
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
At 63, Emmylou Harris still drives a 'Hard Bargain'
BY JIM CALIGIURI
The 'Doll Revolution' continues
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Fela Kuti goes Latin
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
The prophecy fulfilled
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
The Grand Theatre: Volume One was only the beginning
BY JIM CALIGIURI
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
SXSW news and carryings on
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels
Day Party Crawl
Live Shots
SXSW showcase reviews
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BY MATT ALLEN
Rising British Talent at SXSW as selected by 'MOJO' editor-in-chief Phil Alexander
BY HAYES CARLL
SHOWCASE PREVIEWS
Taking The Austin Chronicle Music Anthology to the man on the streets
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
1am, Club de Ville
BY MEMORY HARKER
The Taiwanese will play anywhere, even South by Southwest!
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Back in business, strickly
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Denton's dark horse of suburbia
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
Str8 Killa
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
SXSW news and carryings on
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels
Day Party Crawl
Live Shots
SXSW showcase reviews
SXSW showcase reviews
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BY MATT ALLEN
Rising British Talent at SXSW as selected by 'MOJO' editor-in-chief Phil Alexander
BY SAHARA SMITH
SHOWCASE PREVIEWS
Better. Stronger. Faster. Harder.
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
Sean Lennon on making oatmeal cookies, by hand
BY JODY DENBERG
1am, Creekside at Hilton Garden Inn
BY JIM CALIGIURI
12:50am, Emo's Annex
BY AUSTIN POWELL
From Holy Modal Rounders to the Ether Frolic Mob
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
Straight raw forever ...
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
screens
Jury and audience award winners announced
Joe Cornish on working-class angst and alien invaders in Attack the Block
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
SXSW 2011 Film Reviews
Capsule reviews
Renée Zellweger, Rip Torn, and more
SXSW outtakes; in line with Roger Ebert; and bad karma
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
This stunning nature documentary about the vanishing lions of Africa is not your children’s Lion King.
As cautionary tales go, this is an entertaining take on finding your muse through chemical means.
Opens Thursday, March 17 – on St. Patrick's Day.
Catherine Hardwicke, the director of the first Twilight movie, helms this update of the fairy tale.
A few more days to go ...
arts & culture
Connor Hopkins and his friends are pleased to meat you
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Handling real people's secrets sends improv pros places they've never been before
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Laughmeister Kerry Awn retires from the Follies – and is twice as busy as before
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Steven Dietz's thoughtful, language-loving play may leave you not liking writers much
A cast that knows funny lands the laughs in Neil Simon's comedy about comedy
A lovely, carefully crafted exhibition of ancient techniques that invite contemplation
columns
Your Style Avatar repents for earlier anti-Renée Zellwegging, peanut butter, chocolate, and pee-pee
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
The Gay Place gets all tingly in her unmanned southerly territories.
BY KATE X MESSER
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Big Bend Ranch State Park includes some of the most rugged and scenic country in the state
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
And So(Co) it begins: Your Style Avatar flits through SXSW one daily issue at a time
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Welcome to your warm gay port in the storm, sailor.
BY KATE X MESSER
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
Your Style Avatar says, 'Ward, we have to talk about Mel Gibson ...'
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Austin loves itself. Hard. Gayness abounds.
BY KATE X MESSER
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
It's all about the give and take. And the swag.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu! It's the last SX Fest day and time for GayBi!
BY KATE X MESSER
WEEKLY ISSUE
Austin Music Hall, Saturday, March 19, 2011
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
UT baseball offers a nice respite from SXSW
Man U and AC Milan advance to Champs League final, and more
BY NICK BARBARO