Volume 32, Number 28
Issue Supplement
SXSW 2013 Film Preview
news
Austin Energy fends off rate case with only minor loss
BY MIKE KANIN
The National Instruments deal provides a model for economic development
BY MICHAEL KING
Developer wants to cancel wage agreement but keep incentives
BY AMY SMITH
Zilker neighbors have beef with condo tower
BY ELIZABETH PAGANO
National Instruments incentives, Rainey Street, and more ...
BY MICHAEL KING
What's the secret to fixing a broken system?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
First United Methodist and St. David's Episcopal move towards LGBT inclusion
BY BRANDON WATSON
EMS union leader calls for Mike Levy's resignation from city panel
BY JORDAN SMITH
Appeals court reverses death penalty
BY JORDAN SMITH
Collective bargaining? UN support? Is this the same GOP?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
A roundup of Austin's best spots for plant-based dining
BY JESSI CAPE
Local restaurant news never stops
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
March 8-14
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
A roundup of Austin's best food trailers for plant-based dining
BY MELANIE HAUPT
SXSW 2013 INTERACTIVE
Weight management and Big Food are on the menu for food and health-related panels at SXSW Interactive
BY JESSI CAPE
Food panels at SXSW Interactive
BY MELANIE HAUPT
music
At the crossroads of the Austin Music Awards.
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Headliners avalanche SXSW a week out from the music fest
BY KEVIN CURTIN
On your marks, get set, Tuesday SXSW showcases!
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
screens
SXSW 2013 INTERACTIVE
SXSW Gaming Expo opens Palmer to the public this year
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Technology, privacy, hacking, and legislating in the new Digital Age
BY JON LEBKOWSKY
Studying WWE's playbook for social TV domination
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Heath care: an oral future
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
Entering the new age of spaceflight with some unconventional leaders
BY JOEY KEETON
Keeping up in the world of Tumblr and Reddit and Facebook and more
BY DAN SOLOMON
Could Julie Uhrman's Kickstarted project be the innovation the gaming industry was waiting for?
BY SEAN CAREY
Oculus Rift prototypes are coming to the SXSW Gaming Expo
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Popular LGBTQ blog expands to brick-and-mortar restaurant
BY KATE X MESSER
Heart Tina Roth Eisenberg? Wear it on your sleeve.
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Matthew Inman is The Oatmeal
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Rachel Maddow blazes her first trail to SXSW
BY AMY SMITH
Great hope or so much hype?
BY JEFF WINKLER
What's next in tech-enhanced fashion
BY AMY GENTRY
Political cartoonist Ted Rall on war reporting in Afghanistan and the new media battleground
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
Online dating as existential crisis
BY ASHLEY MORENO
SXSW 2013 FILM
The South by Southwest Film Festival means everybody has a full plate
BY MONICA RIESE
Joss Whedon follows 'Avengers' with a Shakespearean labor of love filmed at his house
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'The Punk Singer' turns up the volume on Riot Grrrl pioneer's passion, politics, and devastating illness
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
Pussy Riot, 'The Punk Syndrome,' and – count 'em – two docs about Green Day: Yep, punk is having a moment in the movies
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
Three documentaries highlight a generation of gay icons
BY ANDY CAMPBELL
Yen Tan's 'Pit Stop' finds humanity in transaction
BY BRANDON WATSON
Mark a tile once you've seen the actor in at least two films
BY MONICA RIESE
Bryan Poyser's 'The Bounceback' strives to strike a balance between comedy and emotion
BY DAN SOLOMON
Cultural snapshots give viewers something to write home about
BY JESSI CAPE
Archivist Rick Prelinger debuts an interactive ode to America in moving pictures
BY LEAH CHURNER
The larger-than-life John Milius and the enigmatic, introverted Harry Dean Stanton come into focus
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
Local actor shares his SXSW with a teen rom-com and a brutal thriller
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Michael Morton tells Al Reinert his story of wrongful conviction and 25 years behind bars
BY JORDAN SMITH
With 'Some Girl(s)', Neil LaBute circles back from stage to screen
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'Zero Charisma' and the social costs of geekdom
BY DAN SOLOMON
The Beatles' longtime secretary takes center stage
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Film Reviews
This Bollywood drama is based on the events of Nov. 26, 2008, when Pakistani terrorists attacked numerous Mumbai locations.
Tommy Lee Jones is Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Matthew Fox his adviser in this historical drama set in postwar Japan in which the general must decide the fate of the Japanese emperor.
The greedy lying bastards are those responsible for destroying our planet's climate, and this documentary is naming names.
In this sequel, the devil follows the same girl from the backwoods to New Orleans; sadly this follow-up has none of the smarts of its predecessor.
A German girl at the end of World War II leads her four siblings to safety while also confronting a world more complex than her Nazi upbringing equipped her for.
Neither a besmirching nor a instant classic, this sometimes clunky prequel in which James Franco plays the Wizard when he was a mere, young huckster also has Sam Raimi's ravishing visuals.
Some clever moments rescue this fall-down-drunk comedy from its baser instincts.
arts & culture
With new venues and showcases, SXSW Comedy keeps giving Austin more to laugh about
BY RUSS ESPINOZA
Arts Reviews
The loneliness of an African-American seamstress in 1905 is staged with powerful honesty by UT
With a gripping turn by Andrew Bosworth, this City Theatre production of Shakespeare's tragedy belongs to Iago
Wendy Wagner's cartoonish world celebrates escapism from the doom of cancer to a world of positivity
Yolanda Kondonassis joins ASO to show there's much more to harps than angel strumming
BY NATALIE ZELDIN
Hidden Room Theatre lets SXSW Interactive play with time travel
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Remembering the Texas Book Festival co-founder and Austin Arts Hall of Famer
BY ROBERT FAIRES
columns
Across generations and geography, doppelgängers emerge
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Stephen put his heart on the line and has peace to show for it
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
It's heeeeere: The throng, the buzz, the madness, the Maddow.
BY KATE X MESSER
Botanical garden provides unimpaired view of nature
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Yes, you can do SXSW totally commando
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
The sluggish Horns host Santa Barbara and Oral Roberts
BY MARK FAGAN
Dynamo dominate first leg of CONCACAF Champions League, and more.
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY SAM HURT
BY JEN SORENSEN
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE