ColdTowne Theater
Volume 35, Number 28
Issue Supplement
Guide to SXSW 2016
ON THE COVER:
features
Daily Editions and Online Guides
Knowledge is power, and we've got the know-how to guide you to your best Fest yet
news
Learning From Our Mistakes
Free, but not exonerated, Fran and Dan Keller are the victims of a continuing injustice
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Bridges From the Past to the Future
Take a walk along the historic bridges of Shoal Creek
BY NICK BARBARO
Notes on Kamp: Unfinished Business
Departing D.A. should exonerate the Kellers
BY AMY KAMP
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
City Council: Spring Break Is Here
Council will return for a work session March 22
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Improving Fire Dept. Response Time
AFD hopes to get five new fire stations
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Disproportionate Force
Police Monitor releases 2014 review
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Pedestrian Bridge Planned for the Grove
Project will improve trail connectivity
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Getting to Know Robert Morrow
Newly elected GOP county chair causing a Republican revolt
BY MARY TUMA
Ann Kitchen Not Going Anywhere for Now
City Clerk invalidates petition to recall District 5 council member
BY MAC MCCANN
SXSWedu Recap
Education tech finds new ways to reach kids
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Hightower Report
What did we learn from Antonin Scalia's death?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The New Brunch Bunch
12 new reasons why everybody's working for the weekend
BY BRANDON WATSON
Review: Don Japanese Food Truck
A good value that's also just good
BY BRANDON WATSON
Review: NaiNai
Simple doesn't mean plain at Singaporean trailer
BY BRANDON WATSON
Food Events
music
Lust for Life
The 2015/16 Austin Music Awards' bedrock mania
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Playback: Chicken Shit Bingo Splits
Chicken Shit Bingo franchises, Obama music photo–ops, and Austin Music Industry Award winners, and RIP John Morthland
BY KEVIN CURTIN
SXSW MUSIC
Tuesday SXSW Interview
Argentine rockers Capsula cover Bowie's Ziggy Stardust to open SXSW Music 2016
BY ALEJANDRA RAMIREZ
Tuesday SXSW Showcases
First night hangs – showcases!
Tuesday SXSW Picks
First night picks
BY TIM STEGALL, ALEJANDRA RAMIREZ, MICHAEL TOLAND, GREG BEETS AND KAHRON SPEARMAN
screens
Richard Linklater Gets the Mondo Treatment
Local gallery pays tribute with a new poster exhibit
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
SXSW INTERACTIVE
No Badge Required
Your guide to free events at SXSW
BY TUCKER WHATLEY
The Bumpy Road to SXSW's Online Harassment Summit
Learning the hard way
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Tilling the Soil of Tomorrow
How one design firm is tackling technology gaps to build the farm of the future
BY NORA ANKRUM
Autonomous Cars Are Coming! Is the Public Ready to Relinquish Control?
Driving on autopilot
BY ASHLEY MORENO
Making VR Look Good
Local personalities show you how to rock those awkward headsets
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Our Emoji Habits
The future of online pictorial language
BY MICHAEL AGRESTA
Bodhi for the Bitcoin Set
SXSW Interactive keynote speaker Andy Puddicombe on finding happiness through mindfulness
BY DAN GENTILE
Is Satire Superior to Straight News?
Keli Dailey explores the power of satire
BY KATIE MATLACK
Sports' Body Politics
The ethics behind data mining athletes' emotions
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Scam Your Way to the Top
Land that angel investment using the art of the con
BY DAN GENTILE
Staying on Message With the San Antonio Spurs
Twitter branding with the NBA's most notoriously conservative squad
BY BEEJOLI SHAH
The Big Screen on a Small Phone
Making cinema social for smartphones
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
SXSW FILM
Everybody Has Some
In a round-robin interview, Richard Linklater,
Ethan Hawke, and
Louis Black open up
about their new films
Paging Mr. Herman
Paul Reubens' hard work results in Pee-wee's Big Holiday
BY JOE O'CONNELL
"Yes, and ..."
Mike Birbiglia tackles improv group dynamics with Don't Think Twice
BY BEEJOLI SHAH
Kill the Trumpet Player
Don Cheadle does Miles Davis in freak-fusion biopic Miles Ahead
BY MICHAEL AGRESTA
Acid-Laced Sun Kisses
Hippies, LSD, and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love in Orange Sunshine
BY MARC SAVLOV
An Unusual Pastime
Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America couldn't be more timely
BY NORA ANKRUM
The Art of the Steal
The Liberators uncovers how Nazi gold ended up in a small Texas town
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Demon Seed
Adam Wingard talks about translating Robert Kirkman's exorcism comic Outcast to TV
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
S.O.S.
Twentysomethings adrift in Search Party
BY JACOB CLIFTON
Gone to the Dogs
A Stray looks at Somali refugee life in the Midwest
BY ASHLEY MORENO
Mass Shootings and Musical History
Tower and A Song for You explore different sides of Austin
BY SEAN L. MALIN
Dance Hall Days
New doc celebrates Austin institution the Broken Spoke
BY DOUG FREEMAN
The Theft of the World Cup
Jules and Dolores shares the untold story of Brazil's lost trophy
BY DAN GENTILE
First-Person Mayhem
Insane POV film Hardcore Henry unleashes the ultraviolence
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Nicolas Cage Talks The Trust
The actor on working with Elijah Wood and Jerry Lewis, and "finding the jazz"
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Public Education Under Fire
New doc Starving the Beast uncovers ideological clash
BY NORA ANKRUM
Cycling With the Psycos
Counterculture feminism in East L.A.
BY ASHLEY MORENO
Forward Compatible
Silicon Cowboys details how Compaq took down IBM
BY NORA ANKRUM
Art Interrupted
Laura Dunn's The Seer is an anti-screens screen
BY JESSI CAPE
It's Hard to Compete With My Blind Brother
Sophie Goodhart on expanding her award-winning short into a feature
BY BEEJOLI SHAH
You Can't Go Home Again
Two old friends reunite in Donald Cried
BY MARC SAVLOV
Shipping & Handling
Coming-of-age comedy Slash peeks into the world of erotic fan fiction
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
What Is Loev?
Romance blooms in Mumbai
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Dead Man's Curse
Simon Rumley mines horror from a real-life death row case
BY MARC SAVLOV
Homaro Cantu's Moto-Vation
Documentary charts a dazzling chef's tragic end
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Shock and Awe
Midnight short "The Procedure" brings down the house
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Auteur Factory
Papagajka is the strange product of Béla Tarr's Sarajevo film school
BY DAN GENTILE
Film Reviews
The Club
Chile's Oscar nominee is a dark drama about pedophile priests
Creative Control
This whip-smart comedy received Special Jury Recognition at SXSW 2015
Kalyana Vaibhogame
Telugu romantic comedy
The Mermaid
Comic fantasy from Stephen Chow is China's biggest blockbuster ever
The Other Side of the Door
The portal between the living and dead is once again breached
The Perfect Match
A playboy finds the woman of his dreams but gets rebuffed
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Tina Fey becomes a war correspondent in her new comedy
The Young Messiah
Anne Rice's novel about the childhood of Jesus Christ is now a movie
arts & culture
SXSW COMEDY
Cameron Esposito
No joke, this queer comedian is at the forefront of the digital revolution
BY SEAN L. MALIN
Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s
Kier-La Janisse and Paul Corupe's superb history Satanic Panic revives the Eighties in all its fearful hysteria Kier-La Janisse and Paul Corupe's superb history revives the Eighties in all its fearful hysteria
BY MARC SAVLOV
Arts Reviews
Marie Antoinette
Capital T Theatre's production asks just how accountable the French queen was for all her actions
At the Statue of Venus/Three Decembers
The Butler Opera Center's pairing of these Jake Heggie chamber operas opened up small concerns to an enduring sense of love
"Jan Heaton: The Market"
The artist's visits to farmers' markets have yielded vivid watercolor images that capture the essence of plants
columns
Day Trips: Big State Fountain, Irving
Classic diner and soda fountain returns to Happy Days
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Page Two: Roger Ebert Added a Star to His The Whole Shootin' Match Rating
Last Night at the Alamo restoration revives Eagle Pennell's early promise for posterity
BY LOUIS BLACK
Gay Place
Ain't no party like a SX party cuz this SX party don't stop.
BY SARAH MARLOFF
The Luv Doc: Too Many Exes
Not all exes are bunny boilers
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Hornography
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
