Cover Story
No. 1 Troublemaker
The guts and the glory (don’t forget the gory)
Handicapping the SXSWi Food-Related Panels
Your intrepid reporter learns about all things food and internet.
Let the Acquisitions Begin
Duplass Bros.’ pic & a Nazis-in-space thriller picked up
Radiohead week: Existential crisis?
Radiohead’s two-night stand in Austin reviewed
Heavy Metal, Turtles and Troublemakers
TMNT creator Kevin Eastman on the next Rodriguez project
Food paired w/ Wine paired w/ Rock & Roll?
Noise Pop & graffEats have you covered, body & soul.
The Good Music Club Part 5: Not in the Face
Three live videos from local SXSW hopefuls Not in the Face
Rest in Peace, Leslie
Local celebrity Leslie Cochran dies at 60
SXSW Food Fun
Parties/happenings/apps for foodies.
Food & Wine Magazine Announces Austin Hopefuls for Best New Chef Award
Foreign & Domestic will celebrate with happy hour voting party March 8
Grant Out of CD10 Race
Democrat cites interim maps as campaign wraps up
GOP Aide Jumps Ship Over Women’s Health Policy
Aide says boss’ actions ‘shameful’
The Road to Ransom Center
HRC acquires T.C. Boyle’s papers
Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Meat Loaf loads into the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards
Face Off Recap: Frankenweenies
Burton’s about more than black-and-white stripy stockings
And They’re Off!
City Council May ballot set
Top Chef Texas, The Finale. Finally.
Whose cuisine will reign supreme?
This Old Porch
Appraisal of Sunday’s Texas Heritage Songwriters HOF Awards
Why You’re Not Voting Today
How gerrymandering took Texas out of Super Tuesday
Gloria Gaynor Will Survive
Q&A with SXSW Music panelist/disco queen Gloria Gaynor
Megadeath at ACL Live
Heavy Metal Lives On!
Extras Needed for Gary Clark Jr. Video
ESPN NFL Draft shoot needs you!
Austin Music Festival No. 3: Pachanga!
Pachanga Latino Music Festival announces its initial line-up
Bedside Manner
Strip mall apocalypse
Comin’ Back at Ya!
Tony Anthony resurrects his 3D Western for Drafthouse Films
Primary Set for May 29
Filing re-opens, and parties change precinct rules
SXSW Tips Part II: Printing
IA’s got the goods on local printing for bands
Film Flam
Kyle Killen back on TV, Yen Tan news, and more
Downloaded: The SXSW Interview
Wednesday, March 14, 2pm, Austin Convention Center Room 18ABC From his uncle’s office in Massachusetts, 18-year-old college dropout Shawn Fanning created Napster in 1998. A martyr and hacker, the unassuming programmer spurred a vicious sea change in the digital era. “There were all sorts of fundamental reasons why Napster was the right answer,” maintains Fanning…
Black Like Who?
Baratunde Thurston lightens up the conversation on race, technology, and social change
Abbott Joins Anti-Birth Control Lawsuit
State jumps into contraceptive fray
Day Trips
The Franklin Mountains State Park
Coriolanus
Ralph Fiennes directs this terrific contemporary update of Shakespeare’s timeless play about war.
After a Fashion
You never know what you’re going to find on the way to the doctor �
The New Streaming Music Industry & Are Cloud Music Services the Same Old Song and Dance?
Wednesday, March 14, 5pm, Austin Convention Center Room 8BC Wednesday, March 14, 5pm, Austin Convention Center Room 13AB For years now, talk of music technology at South by Southwest has obsessed on the imminent arrival of the cloud, streaming services that deliver a boundless celestial jukebox. This year, that conversation shifts drastically from what will…
The Sound of Secrets
Bluebrain live-scores your true confessions
Entering Into Bondage
The Citizens Task Force takes up the fall bond package planning
Texas Rollergirls
Who will dominate this year’s flat-track Roller Derby?
Do Tell
The Living Room makes a space for everyone’s stories
What Happened to the Big Idea in Music Technology?
Wednesday, March 14, 2pm, Austin Convention Center Room 17A In 1997, Rick Moody’s second novel, The Ice Storm, a biting tragedy of Seventies malaise, was translated onscreen with an all-star cast by future Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee. Now a Criterion Collection DVD shown in December at the Blanton Museum with Moody present, the film…
Unpicked: The Underachiever’s Rejected Panel Proposals
The Underachiever’s Rejected Panel Proposals
Rate Case = Full Calendar for Council
Giving Austin Energy’s numbers the old scrub-a-dub-dub
Gay Place
Dress like a Banshee as you prepare for your gayest SXSW ever.
Arts Review
This riff on Greek tragic conventions stuffs plays within plays with giddy charm
Digital Musicologists: Online Music’s Tastemakers
Wednesday, March 14, 11am, Austin Convention Center Room 11AB In a world where bands teem like bacteria, how does anyone tap into the real goods? You look to digital musicologists. They’re behind a large portion of the music content on the Web. Suggestions you see on music sites (“If you like Van Halen, here are…
A Patchwork Planet
How blogging became the (very lucrative) 21st century quilting bee
SXSWedu Spreads Its Wings
Time to hit the books on broader education topics
Soccer Watch
U.S. beats Italy for the first time ever, and more
Arts Review
In this play, jumping to a new life when the going gets tough proves a not-so-easy way out
War Stories From the Songwriting Battlefield With Paul Williams
Wednesday, March 14, 12:30pm, Austin Convention Center Room 16AB “I did 48 Tonight Shows. I remember six.” That’s pretty exceptional, even by a drunk’s standard. And Paul Williams was certainly that. Strange as it might seem now, Williams was also once borderline omnipresent in Hollywood. Not only did the diminutive entertainer appear in everything from…
Don’t Click Us, We’ll Click You
How the Internet started searching us
The Further Trials of Eroy Brown
Eroy Brown’s parole is in the hands of the TDCJ
The Luv Doc: Organic Gardening
Dear Luv Doc, A few weeks ago, my husband and I put a small vegetable garden in our backyard – mostly beans, tomatoes, and spinach. We finally have a few seedlings coming up, but they are being torn up by a cat who poops in the garden and then covers his poop by scratching holes…
Arts Review
Ambe’s milky topography may make your aesthetic senses go snow blind in appreciation
Woody Guthrie at 100
Thursday, March 15, 1:30pm, Austin Convention Center Room 18ABC Down in Texas, my gal fainted in the rain./I throwed a bucket o’ dirt in her face just to bring her back again. – Woody Guthrie, “Dust Pneumonia Blues” Woody Guthrie had a sophisticated understanding of America. It was an education he earned empirically – through…
Tumblr Today, the Tate Tomorrow
Does the rise of social media mean more art or just more noise?
Groundwater Ruling Favors Landowners
Water district may restrict use, but not without proper compensation
Act of Valor
Navy SEALs conduct a rescue mission in this film that employed actual soldiers and their experiences in its making.
Fizzy Logic
Drink local soft drinks – from Dublin to Maine
Mandate My Ass: Gil Scott-Heron’s Activist Legacy
Friday, March 16, 5pm, Austin Convention Center Room 17B Poet, revolutionary, singer. Prophet, visionary, addict. The late Gil Scott-Heron, who died last year at 62 after capping a prolific career with one final comeback, was all that and then some. Meshell Ndegeocello – herself an activist, poet, and musician – is among the panelists charged…
Man or Machine? Circle Option C.
Digital pioneer Amber Case on cyborg anthropology
The Hightower Report: Girls Gone Wild
Tiny angry terrorists assail America with cookies
Gone
Is Jill really the victim of a serial abductor or is she just very troubled?
Restaurant Review
Un-Pho-Gettable
How Stella Got Her Masters Back: Reversion Rights
Thursday, March 15, 1:30pm, Austin Convention Center Room 11AB Whether you’re going through divorce, disease, or despair, Gloria Gaynor’s worldwide disco smash “I Will Survive” is a triumphant anthem for all adversities. The song, written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris, recently became one of 25 recordings inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for…
The (Re-)Rise of Start-Up Culture
Are we closing in on a sustainable model?
Point Austin: Making Connections
Organized labor reaches out to all workers
Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds
Tyler Perry also stars in his latest film, playing a wealthy businessman whose orderly life comes undone as the result of a good deed.
Second Helpings: Interactive Foraging Downtown
Everyone has to take a break from panels and parties long enough to fuel up for the slate of evening events to come. 24 Diner This “chef-inspired comfort food” includes stuffed Swiss chard, beer cheese, and a fancy twist on fried jalapeños plus burgers, breakfast, and meat loaf. Don’t forget about the milk shakes. 600…
Do Music Moguls Know a Secret About K-Pop?
Friday, March 16, 2pm, Austin Convention Center Room 11AB Wait, do music moguls know a secret about Korean pop? It’s not much of a secret anymore. Not when Hyuna Kim’s ode to teenage experience, “Bubble Pop!,” racks up 25 million views on YouTube with only two words of English in the lyrics. Not when G-Dragon…
About Time for a New Pair of Genes
Better SXSW through DNA modification
Quote of the Week
“I will continue to stand up to Rick Perry and other extremists, whose misguided policies are threatening our families’ security.” – Austin Congressman Lloyd Doggett on the new redistricting maps
Wanderlust
A downsized Manhattan couple played by Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd stumble into a modern hippie commune and begin to reassess their goals in life.
Cowboy Breakfast
Kick back and enjoy the food at the kickoff for the Star of Texas Fair & Rodeo
New Atlantis: New Orleans Music Rebuilds
Saturday, March 17, 12:30pm, Austin Convention Center Room 15 John Swenson, who has written about popular music since 1967, is a writer’s writer, meaning his work speaks as much to the art as its subject. To Swenson, the subject remains music, as dear to his heart as the city of New Orleans, where he’s lived…
Then There’s This: Fixing a Hole
PromiseLand gets its amphitheatre � so who’s next?
Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax
Even though it’s primarily a cautionary ecological tale, this animated film is fun and visually pleasing.
Food-o-File
Vaca y Vino previews its salute to the cow (and the grape)
Value of Vinyl: Production, Pressing & Promotion
Saturday, March 17, 3:30pm, Austin Convention Center Room 17B So maybe you’re an up-and-coming band and you aren’t sure whether to include a vinyl component when you release your new album. Perhaps you’re a label looking to increase sales and you’re wondering how best to maximize your marketing dollars. Jay Millar, director of marketing at…
Take This Awesome Job and Show It
Tim and Eric, tackling big screens and small
Headlines
› City Council meets today (Thursday) with a daunting agenda – most notably, consideration of a proposed interim rate increase for Austin Energy and a possible phase-in of the long-debated single-use plastic bag ban, a slew of proposed event fee waivers, a sturdy brace of zoning cases, additional taxi permits, and a boathouse concession contract.…
Project X
In the vein of John Hughes, this movie celebrates that innocent time of life when a badass backyard party is the ultimate key to social success.
Food Events
Get a little spring in your step (and mouth) this week
A Conversation With Steve Stoute & Dan Charnas
Saturday, March 17, 11am, Austin Convention Center Room 12AB “Don’t say multicultural,” Russell Simmons once told journalist Dan Charnas. “Say multiracial. It’s one culture.” Simmons is partially responsible for the latter point being more true today than it’s ever been. As the founder of pioneering hip-hop label Def Jam Recordings, he played an integral role…
Team Spirit
The 2012 Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards
Civics 101
Friday 02 RALLY AGAINST HIGH STAKES STANDARDIZED TESTING Occupy AISD meets at 11th & Congress at 3pm and then marches to the Travis Building for the rally for more teaching and fewer tests. 4:30pm. Texas Education Agency, Travis Building, 17th & Congress. Free. occupyaisd@gmail.com. Saturday 03 BARTON SPRINGS SPRING CLEAN Sign up online to join…
Thin Ice
Greg Kinnear plays a larcenous insurance agent who steps into a caper that spirals out of control.
Austin Eats Food Tours
There’s no need to sing for your supper; take a walk or a bike ride
Inside Out … Outside In
The growing influence of fringe movements on City Hall reflects either a healthy populism or the implosion of civic engagement
South by Southwest ScreenBurn Arcade
Holy crap! It’s free! OMG! Parking!
Page Two: Strange Days
Surfacing into the riptide of SXSW
Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie
This cult comedy duo from TV demonstrate with this feature-length film that more, quite frequently, equals less.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Nationwide, the number of people who bike to work is up 57% since 2000. It’s still a tiny percentage – 0.6% – of total commuters. Among the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives are one physicist, one chemist, one microbiologist, six engineers, and nearly two dozen with medical training. City Lights was originally…
Ex-Punk Author, DIY or Die Forever
Test-driving the newest iBooks Author app (bumps ahead)
One, Two, Tres, Cuatro: Roadie
The shot about midway through ‘Roadie’ that travels from her sparkling shoes slowly up to her beaming face – that’s Margaret Moser.
All Over Creation: Sweet Release
By Thursday, the week felt like it had been going for, oh, about two years. Long, long days at the office had bled into nights at the office as I fought to wrestle the week’s Arts feature to the ground. (Is it fair to say that by press time I had developed a Schwemmer’s cramp?)…
Kill List
This British crime film is very dark, funny, and violent – and thoroughly unpredictable.
Can’t Touch This
South by Southwest Music panels remain as star-studded as actual showcases
Where No Man Has Gone Before
What Jeffrey Zeldman thinks about Jeffrey Zeldman’s induction into the SXSW Interactive Hall of Fame
Interactive Introduction
All the info you need to follow our SXSW coverage, a list of the SXSW 2012 Interactive campuses, and how to Aurasma-fy our cover.
Austin Lyric Opera
ALO finds its new general director at the Metropolian Opera
Crazy Horse
Paris’ famed erotic showcase at the Crazy Horse saloon is profiled in this Frederick Wiseman documentary.
MC Hammer
Monday, March 12, 3:30 & 5pm, Hilton Austin Downtown MC Hammer used to spend his time hanging out with Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur. Twenty years later, the rapper-turned-tech-expert is kicking back with Silicon Valley’s personalities and next-generation tech minds, trying to unearth the tool that will eventually wrangle the Internet’s endless amount of information.…
The End of the Double Rainbow
Does it take a pot of gold now to go viral?
Another State Assault on Women’s Health Care
New state rule targets Planned Parenthood, cuts almost 200,000 women from basic health care
‘Tenebrae – Shadows of France’
I know, I know, Easter isn’t even on your radar at this point. You’ve only just recovered from Mardi Gras, and you have to make it through Texas Independence Day, Rodeo Austin, South by Southwest, St. Patrick’s Day, March Madness, and April Fools’ before you can get serious about that celebration. While I’m sympathetic to…
Chico & Rita
The music, scored by Cuban pianist Bebo Valdés, is the real star of this animated movie.
