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SXSW 2018
Free Events at SXSW
Festival music and more on the cheap
BY MAE HAMILTON
Famous People Looking Pretty
Photos from the first weekend
news
The Problem With K2, Downtown Austin’s Most Dangerous Drug
APD cannot depend on big busts alone to solve the problem
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Point Austin: Welcome to the Future
Texas is just like America, only more so
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Are We on a Road to Nowhere?
CodeNEXT – what a buzz kill!
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week: Eric Goff
Bears in the air
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Abused Hutto Detainee Gets Her Day in Court
BY MARY TUMA
Council: Danielle Skidmore to Challenge Kathie Tovo in D9
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Vandals at UT Strike Again
BY MARY TUMA
RideAustin Hangs On
Local nonprofit to trek on in world belonging to Uber and Lyft
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Council: It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over
City Council plans strategically, reappoints some judges, and cuts water rates
BY MICHAEL KING
The Road to CodeNEXT
Mapping out the final stages of the land use code rewrite
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Domestic Terrorism in Austin
Trio of package bombs target minority homes
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Medical Board Loses a Case ... and Attacks the Judge
Judge Hunter Burkhalter forced to resign by State Office of Administrative Hearings
BY MICHAEL KING
McKalla Place Eyed for Soccer Stadium
North Austin location identified as Precourt Sports Ventures' third first choice
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
food
SXSW 2018
Top 10 Austin Breweries of 2018
Power ranking the local leaders in craft beer
BY ERIC PUGA
Food Events
music
Playback: SXSW Again Pivots on Rap
Hip-hop sustains the Festival's star power
BY KEVIN CURTIN
SXSW 2018
International Female Producers
Beatmakers and sound shapers from Taiwan to Down Under
BY DAN GENTILE
11 Can't-Miss DJs at SXSW
What are you going to do with all these ones and twos?
BY DAN GENTILE
Must-See Country Acts at SXSW Music
This 12-pack of artists is rewriting the rules of C&W
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Essential Indie Acts at SXSW Music
Sneaks, Speedy Ortiz, and six other indie sets you won't want to miss
BY LIBBY WEBSTER
Future R&B and Old Soul Acts at SXSW Music
Lee Fields & the Expressions, Oshun, and 9 more soul sets to catch
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
SXSW Music's Hip-Hop Hierarchy
From up-and-comers to rap royalty, 20 key sets to see
BY ALEJANDRA RAMIREZ
SXSW Music Jazz Sampler
Psychedelic, post-bop, Latin-inflected, and more: 11 jazz artists
BY MICHAEL TOLAND
Priority Pop at SXSW Music
If you've gotta pick and choose, you can't go wrong with these 11 breakouts
BY ISABELLA CASTRO-COTA
Pivotal Punk at SXSW Music
Don't miss this gang of 10
BY TIM STEGALL
SXSW Music: Ruled by Women
10 from indie rock’s new fem-led gen
BY RACHEL RASCOE
99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music
Support the home team!
99 Luftballons (International Acts at SXSW Music)
South by Southwest by way of Sudan, Scotland, Colombia, and more
SXSW Music Interview: David Ramirez
Houston native tips his hat to Eighties pop
BY LAUREN MODERY
SXSW Music Interview: Dawg Yawp
Where sitar meets American folk song
BY GREG BEETS
SXSW Music Interview: Haley Heynderickx
Portland songwriter waters her garden with anxiety and heartache
BY LIBBY WEBSTER
SXSW Music Interview: Mozart La Para
Dominican singer born Erickson Fernández never had a plan B
BY ISABELLA CASTRO-COTA
SXSW Music Interview: Shamir
Las Vegas singer explains how a breakdown inspired his latest record
BY ALEJANDRA RAMIREZ
SXSW Music Interview: Snail Mail
18-year-old indie rock wiz delivers diaristic earnestness and minimalist melodies
BY RACHEL RASCOE
SXSW Music Interview: Tunde Olaniran
Flint, Mich., artist writes anthems for outcasts
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
SXSW Music Interview: Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
Blue-eyed soul wunderkind keeps screwing his life up and writing about it
BY TIM STEGALL
SXSW Music Interview: Max Richter
Contemporary classical polymath performs an eight-hour composition for an audience in bed
BY DAN GENTILE
screens
SXSW 2018
SXSW Film Reviews
SXSW Conference Coverage
SXSW Gaming at a Glance
From the Expo to the Awards, it's time to play
BY MILO WEBB
Film Reviews
The Death of Stalin
Russia's political upheaval rewritten as dark farce.
Gringo
Long-delayed stoner comedy is a little stale.
I Can Only Imagine
MercyMe's hit song gets its own biopic.
Love, Simon
Coming-out story remembers the romance.
7 Days in Entebbe
The 1976 hijacking of Air France Flight 139, retold again.
Souvenir
Isabelle Huppert as a musician reconsidering celebrity.
The Strangers: Prey at Night
Home invasion classic becomes a franchise.
arts & culture
"Rodney McMillian: Against a Civic Death" at the Contemporary Austin
In this thought-provoking exhibition, the Suzanne Booth Deal Art Prize winner asks, “What does an architecture of power look like to you?”
BY MELANY JEAN
Snapshot: SXSW Art Program
These art installations surprise by using technology to bring us closer to humanity
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Seen / Soon: March 16
Getting virtually swept away by A Colossal Wave! and hearing America singing via Bill Murray and Jan Vogler
Arts Reviews
Rude Mechs' Fixing Troilus and Cressida
The third show in the Fixing Shakespeare series makes his mess of a play about the Trojan War hilarious and even engrossing
ColdTowne’s Missed Connections ATX
The show improvised from actual Craigslist ads is as hilarious as it is oddly cathartic to the singles in the crowd
“Katy Horan and Teruko Nimura: Residual” at ICOSA
In their joint show, the two artists use paper crafts as a medium for exploring how traces of the past disrupt the present
columns
Oops!
Gay Place
SXSW keeps on trekking and we’re still here with your queer guide
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: The Goose’s Acre Pub, The Woodlands
Bar and restaurant transported to Texas retains its Irish brogue
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Truth Tellin'
Being diplomatic isn't being deceptive; it's being thoughtful and caring
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
