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Inside Out ... Outside In
The growing influence of fringe movements on City Hall reflects either a healthy populism or the implosion of civic engagement
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Point Austin: Making Connections
Organized labor reaches out to all workers
BY MICHAEL KING
Then There's This: Fixing a Hole
PromiseLand gets its amphitheatre … so who's next?
BY AMY SMITH
Quote of the Week
Headlines
Civics 101
Another State Assault on Women's Health Care
New state rule targets Planned Parenthood, cuts almost 200,000 women from basic health care
BY JORDAN SMITH
Abbott Joins Anti-Birth Control Lawsuit
State jumps into contraceptive fray
BY JORDAN SMITH
Entering Into Bondage
The Citizens Task Force takes up the fall bond package planning
BY MICHAEL KING
Rate Case = Full Calendar for Council
Giving Austin Energy's numbers the old scrub-a-dub-dub
BY AMY SMITH
SXSWedu Spreads Its Wings
Time to hit the books on broader education topics
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Further Trials of Eroy Brown
Eroy Brown's parole is in the hands of the TDCJ
BY MICHAEL KING
Groundwater Ruling Favors Landowners
Water district may restrict use, but not without proper compensation
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Hightower Report: Girls Gone Wild
Tiny angry terrorists assail America with cookies
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Fizzy Logic
Drink local soft drinks – from Dublin to Maine
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Cowboy Breakfast
Kick back and enjoy the food at the kickoff for the Star of Texas Fair & Rodeo
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
SXSW 2012 INTERACTIVE
Food-o-File
Vaca y Vino previews its salute to the cow (and the grape)
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
Get a little spring in your step (and mouth) this week
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Austin Eats Food Tour
There's no need to sing for your supper; take a walk or a bike ride
Elizabeth Street Cafe
Un-Pho-Gettable
music
Can't Touch This
South by Southwest Music panels remain as star-studded as actual showcases
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
One, Two, Tres, Cuatro: Roadie
The shot about midway through 'Roadie' that travels from her sparkling shoes slowly up to her beaming face – that's Margaret Moser.
BY MARGARET MOSER
screens
No. 1 Troublemaker
The guts and the glory (don't forget the gory)
BY MARC SAVLOV
Take This Awesome Job and Show It
Tim and Eric, tackling big screens and small
BY ASHLEY MORENO
Team Spirit
The 2012 Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
SXSW 2012 INTERACTIVE
Interactive Introduction
All the info you need to follow our SXSW coverage, a list of the SXSW 2012 Interactive campuses, and how to Aurasma-fy our cover.
Don't Click Us, We'll Click You
How the Internet started searching us
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Black Like Who?
Baratunde Thurston lightens up the conversation on race, technology, and social change
BY CINDY WIDNER
Man or Machine? Circle Option C.
Digital pioneer Amber Case on cyborg anthropology
BY JON LEBKOWSKY
Ex-Punk Author, DIY or Die Forever
Test-driving the newest iBooks Author app (bumps ahead)
BY JESSE SUBLETT
The Sound of Secrets
Bluebrain live-scores your true confessions
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
The (Re-)Rise of Start-Up Culture
Are we closing in on a sustainable model?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Unpicked: The Underachiever's Rejected Panel Proposals
The Underachiever's Rejected Panel Proposals
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Where No Man Has Gone Before
What Jeffrey Zeldman thinks about Jeffrey Zeldman's induction into the SXSW Interactive Hall of Fame
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
The End of the Double Rainbow
Does it take a pot of gold now to go viral?
BY DAN SOLOMON
About Time for a New Pair of Genes
Better SXSW through DNA modification
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Tumblr Today, the Tate Tomorrow
Does the rise of social media mean more art or just more noise?
BY ASHLEY MORENO
A Patchwork Planet
How blogging became the (very lucrative) 21st century quilting bee
BY MELANIE HAUPT
South by Southwest ScreenBurn Arcade
Holy crap! It's free! OMG! Parking!
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Film Reviews
Act of Valor
Navy SEALs conduct a rescue mission in this film that employed actual soldiers and their experiences in its making.
Chico & Rita
The music, scored by Cuban pianist Bebo Valdés, is the real star of this animated movie.
Coriolanus
Ralph Fiennes directs this terrific contemporary update of Shakespeare's timeless play about war.
Crazy Horse
Paris' famed erotic showcase at the Crazy Horse saloon is profiled in this Frederick Wiseman documentary.
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
Even though it's primarily a cautionary ecological tale, this animated film is fun and visually pleasing.
Gone
Is Jill really the victim of a serial abductor or is she just very troubled?
Kill List
This British crime film is very dark, funny, and violent – and thoroughly unpredictable.
Project X
In the vein of John Hughes, this movie celebrates that innocent time of life when a badass backyard party is the ultimate key to social success.
Thin Ice
Greg Kinnear plays a larcenous insurance agent who steps into a caper that spirals out of control.
Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
This cult comedy duo from TV demonstrate with this feature-length film that more, quite frequently, equals less.
Tyler Perry's Good Deeds
Tyler Perry also stars in his latest film, playing a wealthy businessman whose orderly life comes undone as the result of a good deed.
Wanderlust
A downsized Manhattan couple played by Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd stumble into a modern hippie commune and begin to reassess their goals in life.
arts & culture
Do Tell
The Living Room makes a space for everyone's stories
BY JILLIAN OWENS
All Over Creation: Sweet Release
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Austin Lyric Opera
ALO finds its new general director at the Metropolian Opera
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'Tenebrae – Shadows of France'
Ensemble VIII gets dark
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The 21 Would-Be Lives of Phineas Hamm
In this play, jumping to a new life when the going gets tough proves a not-so-easy way out
Messenger No. 4 (Or... How to Survive a Greek Tragedy)
This riff on Greek tragic conventions stuffs plays within plays with giddy charm
'Noriko Ambe: White Scape'
Ambe's milky topography may make your aesthetic senses go snow blind in appreciation
columns
Page Two: Strange Days
Surfacing into the riptide of SXSW
BY LOUIS BLACK
After a Fashion
You never know what you're going to find on the way to the doctor …
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Gay Place
Dress like a Banshee as you prepare for your gayest SXSW ever.
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
The Franklin Mountains State Park
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Luv Doc: Organic Gardening
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Texas Rollergirls
Who will dominate this year's flat-track Roller Derby?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Soccer Watch
U.S. beats Italy for the first time ever, and more