Blue Starlite North
Volume 33, Number 28
news
Fun and Games With Stratfor
APD and DPS collaborated with private 'geopolitical intelligence firm'
BY JOHN ANDERSON AND MICHAEL KING
Point Austin: Primarily Texas
Musings on the day after a frozen vote
BY MICHAEL KING
Then There's This: It's Our Turn Now
Women are ready to kick ass, take names, clean house
BY AMY SMITH
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Travis County Judge: Eckhardt 'Pitches' a Winning Race
Eckhardt wins brutal slugfest
BY AMY SMITH
Defeated Brown Looks Toward November
Judge candidate concedes after long night
BY MICHAEL KING
Precinct 2: Shea Wins in a Walk
Early Night in Commissioners Race
BY AMY SMITH
The Long Shots
Ramey Ko: Cheerful to the End
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin's New (No) Sex Institute
Nascent think tank enters the culture wars
BY BRANDON WATSON
Council: Are You Suddenly Sleepy?
Council rolls through the resolutions as Leffingwell becomes a jetsetter
BY MICHAEL KING
Springsteen Sues for Innocence – in Bexar County
Freed inmate takes his case to a friendlier venue
BY JORDAN SMITH
A Step in the Right Direction
Judge rules in favor of marriage equality
BY BRANDON WATSON
SXSWedu: Weingarten and Ravitch on Schools
Highlights from the education conference
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Facebook 'Threat' Case Unresolved
A year after making a sarcastic comment, Justin Carter still faces prison
BY MAC MCCANN
The Hightower Report
Climate change, drought, beer, and me
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Burger Town
How do our hometown patties match up against the influx of trendy national chains?
BY MELANIE HAUPT, RACHEL FEIT, CLAUDIA ALARCÓN, WES MARSHALL, ANNA TOON, JESSI CAPE, GRACIE SALEM AND MICK VANN
Down-home and Delicious
Behind the scenes at Rodeo Austin's annual BBQ Cook-off
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Culinary stars align for SXSW
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
March 6-12
music
Passionate Kisses
2013/2014 Austin Music Awards: Lucinda Williams plants one on Margaret Moser
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Playback: Sound Bleed
As Interactive kicks off SXSW, its bookings merge with Music
SXSW MUSIC 2014
screens
SXSW FILM 2014
The Geckos Go Chameleon
The sun rises on Robert Rodriguez's 'From Dusk Till Dawn' TV adaptation
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Nacho Average Thriller
Elijah Wood and Nacho Vigalondo update 'Rear Window' for the Digital Age
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Hell's Belle
'Hellion' marks Kat Candler's long road to overnight success
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Time Is on My Side (and My Other Side)
Wrap your head around wibbly-wobbly time-travel features like 'The Infinite Man'
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
About a Boy
On Aaron Swartz, the NSA, and the complicated story of digital reality
BY MARC SAVLOV
Unconventional Love Stories
1, 2, 3, 4, tell me that you love me more
BY JESSI CAPE
Spillers' Guts
Ashley Spillers stepped out of her comfort zone to write these 'love letters to Austin'
BY ASHLEY MORENO
Leave No Stones Unturned
Stones Throw founder Peanut Butter Wolf on vinyl, hip-hop's roots, and record labels
BY DAN GENTILE
Shadow on the Ground
Matt Muir's 'Thank You a Lot' tackles the tensions of performance
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Seeing the Invisible
Margaret Brown dives headfirst into the BP Gulf oil tragedy
BY KATE X MESSER
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
'Beginning With the End' teaches us not to fear the reaper
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Austin Gets a Slice of the Most Magical Place on Earth
Mondo's favorite artists get their hands on Disney's greatest creations
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Grand Piano
Elijah Wood and John Cusack play cat and mouse in this concert-stage suspense dazzler.
Gulaab Gang
Indian film.
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
The genius dog and his adopted human son return for these animated adventures in time travel.
Queen
Indian film.
Son of God
This biopic is strictly for easily-entertained believers.
South by Southwest Film Festival 2014
There are no wrong choices. Go forth and partake.
300: Rise of an Empire
Better than the first movie, this sequel is a more deserving Aegean “epic.”
Total Chaos
Indian film.
Ya Rab
Indian film.
arts & culture
The Pete Principle
The star of TBS' 'The Pete Holmes Show' is a poster boy for SXSW Comedy's impact on a comic's career
BY RUSS ESPINOZA
Bill Cosby
Playing a cozy venue at SXSW won't be this comedy legend's first encounter with adverse conditions
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
'FOUND: Photographs of the Rolling Stones'
The DEN shows lost images of the world's greatest rock & roll band when it was still a buncha young punks
BY ROD MACHEN
Arts Reviews
The Liar
Austin Playhouse's colorful production gives heightened dimension to an already heightened farce
Menuhin Competition 2014 Closing Concert
The Cleveland Orchestra and three violinists gave performances that had the crowd on its feet after every piece
Charles Long: CATALIN and Pet Sounds
Charles Long's sprawling and ambitious installations work, mostly
columns
Letters at 3AM: BigBoy's 'Slap Noir'
James BigBoy Medlin's 'Slap Noir' changed my life in a most concrete fashion
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Gay Place
Where my queers at? SXSW, b'duh.
BY KATE X MESSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Oops!
The Good Eye: Oscar Beige
Oscar beige
BY AMY GENTRY
The Common Law: Rent Your Place During SXSW?
Rent your place during SXSW?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Day Trips
RV Museum in Amarillo shows how Americans take the edge off of roughing it
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Falling in Love
Mac people are annoyingly fond of their computers
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
