Volume 36, Number 28
Issue Supplement
Guide to SXSW 2017
news
Balancing fear and power in the wake of ICE arrests
BY MARY TUMA
Alice's tea party was never as mad as the Lege this session
BY MICHAEL KING
Thinking big about planning and mobility
BY NICK BARBARO
Yes, they really said that
NAKED CITY
Texas' Supreme Court should issue a ruling by June
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Effluent flows could cripple three local endangered species
BY MICHAEL KING
Vanity Fair Confidential airs special on wrongly convicted couple
BY MICHAEL KING
The Texas Democratic Party's finance chair makes his bid for Lt. Gov.
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Peter Hefflin is not Peter Hefflin
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Joseph Mobley gets five years for manslaughter
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Affordability is in the details
BY MICHAEL KING
James Bigby will be the fourth Texan executed in 2017
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Political pandering in the face of actual action
BY MARY TUMA
Repeal, replace, voilà
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
SXSW 2017
So you’re hungry at SXSW?
BY THE FOOD STAFF
How the local brewery became the heir to the aluminum throne
BY ERIC PUGA
music
SXSW 2017
Thirty-five years of AMAs? More like 181 years of Texas on one stage, on one night!
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Wilson swirls psychedelia and breathy vocals over electronic beats
BY JIM CALIGIURI
"Jazz musicians, we feel the need to always educate people.”
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Little Deaths (Fraternity as Vanity)
BY MICHAEL TOLAND
“I’m a jazz artist by trade,” states the Philly-born Grammy winner
BY ALEJANDRA RAMIREZ
Best radio station, record store, club, and many more
Austin Music Industry Awards down, here come the 2016/17 AMAs and a slew of SXSW buzz acts
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
SXSW 2017
Marquee
Beloved artists in front of and behind the camera
State of the Union
Snapshots of the world we live in
Out Damned Spot
Films that will have a hard time getting the bloodstains out
Hybrid Reality
Fiction and real life collide in these films
Hometown Heroes
A bit of local flavor
Against the Odds
Don’t count out these unlikely heroes
Iconoclasts
Films on renegades going their own way
Matthew Salleh chronicles the world’s obsession with barbecue
BY DAN GENTILE
"That’s a challenge as an actor – and for any woman, to not be pleasing."
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Stephanie Beatriz comes home to Texas with potent drama The Light of the Moon
BY MICHAEL AGRESTA
Mixed signals from the White House put legalization advocates on high alert
BY ANNAMARYA SCACCIA
SXSW Interactive’s Tech Under Trump panels investigate
BY JOHNNY HOLDEN
A CEO at 25, Brian Wong draws us a road map to victory
BY DAN GENTILE
How to win food and influence barmen
BY JOHNNY HOLDEN
Interactive panels dive into the data
BY BEEJOLI SHAH
Yes, the future of Black Mirror is here
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Darren Lynn Bousman's immersive horror project the Tension Experience
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Bitcoin and the blockchain laid bare
BY JOHNNY HOLDEN
Your guide to free events on SXSW's first weekend
BY TUCKER WHATLEY
Mobile Loaves & Fishes team up with the Alamo Drafthouse
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
The cats of Istanbul shine in this affecting doc
A poignant stop-motion coming-of-age tale
Corny romance set during the Armenian Genocide
The spiritual journey of a tortured soul
arts & culture
SXSW 2017
A memoir, a podcast, a doc – McFarlane has lots going for her
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Dave Hill brings the legend of Witch Taint to extreme black life at SXSW
BY ROBERT FAIRES
As he leaves Austin, curator and artist Kevin McNamee-Tweed reflects on the city's artists and art community
BY CAITLIN GREENWOOD
Arts Reviews
A melting pot of creative talent brings to life this cross-cultural coming-of-age story
The program's mix of classical and contemporary work challenged its young dancers and left you wanting to see what's next for them
At its best, this solo exhibition captures the swagger of graffiti on the street and the introspection of the gallery
columns
A few words on the Day Without a Woman strike
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
The lowdown on LGBTQxyz free and unofficial SXSW events
BY SARAH MARLOFF
New grass house shows how the old ways provided shelter
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
It's OK for people to be wrong – horribly, obnoxiously wrong
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY LANCE MYERS
BY SAM HURT
BY RYAN HENNESSEE
BY TOM TOMORROW