Cover Story
Something to Talk About
Previewing SXSW Film 08
Bushwick!
Where da after party?
Cobb Endorses Lehmberg
Former rival picks Earle’s top assistant over Montford
The Buzz on ‘Humboldt County’
‘Humboldt County’ sells out big-time
My Taco With Margaret
Tacos taste better when you are learning things … especially things about awesome filmmakers like The Order of Myths’ Margaret Brown.
Last Chance to Catch ‘Here’s Johnny’
Here’s Johnny (and there he was at Austin Books last night)
The Gay Place at SXAustin Vibe
Getty is soaking in the non-California sun.
Documentaries and the Cult of Personality
How documentarians pick a winner
In Dreams with Tom Brosseau
What happens when you move from North Dakota to Bristol, England
You Want Fries with That?
Skip the movie, see the trailer
APD Releases Racial Profiling Report
Traffic and pedestrian stops down last year, searches up
Stuff the Cooler – With Black Tar Heroin!
APD trumpets big heroin bust
(don’t Go back To) ROCKVILLE
R.E.M. Accelerates
Urban Planning Buzz
FYI: The draft Station Area Plan for two of Austin’s future transit-oriented districts – MLK and Plaza Saltillo – is ready for a broad public vetting. The plans address redevelopment of areas surrounding two future Eastside stops on Capital Metro’s commuter rail Red Line. (A third plan for the Lamar/Justin Lane TOD will be ready…
The Gay Place in San Francisco!
Andy left his heart in Austin, but his fine booty is in the Castro.
Baking in Cook County
Stars of East Texas meth drama sweat for their art
Cut, Print, Your Turn
Web film making goes surrealist
Aztex Tryouts Continue, Upsets in Europe
Austin Aztex tryouts continue this weekend, Saturday-Sunday, March 15-16, 10am each day at St. Edward’s, 3001 S. Congress. Players should arrive at 9:30am Saturday; fans are invited to come out and watch, as well. The Aztex web site reports that 108 players showed up at the first weekend tryouts. A road win on Tuesday put…
SXSW Film Award Winners
And the winners are…
Plutopia: Where Robots and Corn Cups Come Together
The SXSW Interactive party at Scholz Bier Garten brought together a disparate mix of people last night, among them artists, musicians, gamers, futurists, and various techno-friendly types, as well as a few robots, which made their way through the crowd like children who couldn’t find the right grownup’s leg to hug. There was also music,…
Eisner Makes it Rain
Mark Cuban and Michael Eisner talk monetizing, and make it interesting
Blogging on the Front Line
Blogging from Ramadi to Austin
Win, Lose or Draw: City Council Edition
Determining the ballot order by random drawing
Coolest. Kit. Ever.
Those Minority Report gloves hit the trade show
SXSW Filmmaker Hospitalized
SXSW filmmaker Benh Zeitlin recovering after a major car accident
The Hand That Holds the Pen
Judge Dredd artists lays down the law
Free Snowballs Now
340 calories of gooey joy in the trade fair
Day Trippin’
More day parties than you can shake an iPhone at
Where’s the Party Yaar?
Chronicling the Chronicle’s SXSW Film Party
The Other Cinemas
Take time to visit all the SXSW movie venues: it’s worth it
Augustin a ‘Sporting News’ All-American
Texas point guard D.J. Augustin was named an All-American by the Sporting News Tuesday after developing into the Longhorns undisputed leader. This comes a day after his coach, Rick Barnes, was named Big 12 Coach of the Year by the Associated Press. The Sporting News tabbed North Carolina’s Tyler Hansbrough their player of the year…
Snapshot: ‘Chronicle’ Film Party
Black Joe Lewis howled through a headlining set at La Zona Rosa last night, kicking off South by Southwest 08 in style. Click the image gallery for more.
Austin Music Awards TOMORROW at Austin Music Hall!
Before things get too busy today wanted to make sure & blog about the Music Awards tomorrow night. Tickets are on sale at Waterloo Records for $15 or you can buy them at the door for $20! If you have a SXSW wristband or music badge you can get in for free. We have a…
Laughing in the Face of Bigfoot
Doc directors talk about laughing at and with the subjects of their film
Construction Time Again
What the big kids at SXSW are building
‘The Purest Treasure Mortal Times Afford, is Spotless Reputation’
How (not) to handle getting libeled on the Internet
McMurrey Endorses Noriega for Senate
Despite key policy differences, defeated candidate will support victor against Cornyn
IFC Entertainment Picks Up ‘Nights and Weekends’
Variety’s reporting that IFC Entertainment bought worldwide rights to Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig’s Nights and Weekends, which world-premiered at South by Southwest last night. SXSW has been interpreted by some industry figures as a great place to hang out, but not necessarily to buy films – a perception that might be shifting. The Nights…
Cross-Border Craziness: Frontera Residents Blast ‘Frankenfence’
As Democratic precinct caucus results trickle in from all along the Texas-Mexico border, a couple of things beyond candidate preferences are becoming clear: Hatred of the federal government’s planned fence/wall hybrid for the region is bipartisan, and it stretches in patches all the way from the Gulf of Mexico to the New Mexico border. Democratic…
Barnes Is the Best in the Big 12
Rick Barnes was named the Big 12 Coach of the Year Monday after leading the Longhorns to a share of the conference regular-season title and a school-record 26 wins this season. His sophomore point guard D.J. Augustin made the All-Conference first team, while A.J. Abrams and Damion James made the second team. Justin Mason fittingly…
It’s Like a Trailer but Bigger
Film makers: the web is your friend
Just in Time for SXSW Interactive!
Assassin emails making the rounds
Lost Coast Found
What do four friends find on the Lost Coast?
When Too Much Information Is Inevitable
Managing Saturday’s Managing the Media Blur panel
DIY Tech
knitting the tech way
I’d Like to Thank My Widgets
11th annual SXSW web award winners named by Eugene Mirman
Bitchin’ and Moanin’
No room at the Ritz?
Jeffrey Tambor Can Act, and So Can You!
George Bluth Snr. lays down the knowledge at acting workshop
I Can Has Metrics?
The lolcats guy explains his surprise success
That’s Pwnage
The Frag Dolls take on all-comers. All comers lose.
How Soon is Now?
Real-time blogging about real-time blogging
Hot Dog Dreams & Frankfurter Wishes
Oh I wish I were a Hotdogger for a year!
Misery Business
When do documentary film makers become war profiteers?
“I Don’t Think the Empire Had Wookies in Mind”
Beta testing is like the Force: Going up against remotes is one thing, going against the living is another
ScreenBurn Burns All
Arcade awesomeness
‘X’ Marks the Spot
No Country for Full-Lengths
Chicken & Waffles! YUM!
Chicken and waffles? Hell yes.
Bandwidth Ain’t Free
Presenting the best pitches for the worst websites in the world
My Computer isn’t Slow, Your Code is Too Fast
Steve Howard of AMD reminds developers that not everyone has a dual core processor
David Simon in Austin March 18
David Simon to speak at UT
When To Cancel That Account
Four easy steps for knowing when your users have gone too far
Things That Irk Me
SXSW, first day musings
McCanlies, Austin Benefit From Writers’ Strike
Secondhand Lions director to shoot new film The Two Bobs in Austin
Ode to a Dallas Doll & the Bearded Ones
Morgan Fairchild & ZZ Top get their props.
How to Derail Web Extremists
Counter-terrorism experts say the way forward is more Muslim voices
Harold and Kumar and Vaginas in Louisiana
The big stars arrive for tonight’s big premier
Exclusive SXSWI Interview: Tim Langdell, Part Two
Gaming guru talks about where the industry is missing out.
Social Network With You? But I Don’t Know You
Why advertisers shouldn’t try to be your Friend
Start Screen-Burning Now
Screenburn arcade open to the public this weekend
Resisting the Urge to Reference That Ch-Ch-Ch-Jingle
You never know who you’ll run into at the Texas Film Hall of Fame.
Hopeless Handbag
A glimpse into the desperate world of Dynasty Handbag.
The Compost of the Mind
SXSW Interactive: Day One
ZZ Top and Morgan Fairchild
The strangest revelation at the Texas Film Hall of Fame was Morgan Fairchild at age 15 dated a drummer who ended up in a band called ZZ Top. Frank Beard offered a lame denial, but, hey, every girl’s crazy about a sharp dressed drummer.
Battledecks II: It’s On
This ain’t your daddy’s PowerPoint
Wiki Communities Never Sleep
Why do gamers spend time boosting products for free?
Progress in Focus
Watch this week’s Austin in Focus, or Will Wynn will put his hands on you.
An Interview With the Toros/Clippers Andre Barrett
“He’s as good a point guard as there is in this league. And I know he doesn’t want to be in this league. And I think he may not be for long.” That was Quin Snyder discussing the newest Austin Toro, Andre Barrett. That’s also a pretty good summation of the 26-year-old NBA veteran who’s…
Exclusive SXSWI interview: Tim Langdell
A godfather of gaming development talks about how the tools for squad-based games are shaping game development
Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop Into the Unwired Place
Take a deep breath and unplug
Voter Registration Deadline March 10
If you want to vote in the April 10 runoffs and aren’t already registered, get signed up by Monday
Gamecock Media Throws SXSW Party No. 1
Gamecock Media kicks off SXSW Interactive
Quentin Tarantino’s Beloved Body Snatcher From Hell
“Goke: Body Snatcher From Hell”
Villa Muse: Don’t Let the Set Door Hit Ya!
We’re out, says proposed meag-studios.
Former Chilean Prez Has Common Sense – Can We Get Some of That?
Former Chilean President Ricardo Lagos gave a speech on globalization at UT
@ Newsdesk
U.S. Marshals Service nabs marijuana-trafficking fugitive in behemoth’s parking lot
March 4 Election Results
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY County State/District Delegates President Hillary Clinton 68,240 (36.8%) 1,455,487 (50.9%) 65 Barack Obama 116,137 (62.6%) 1,356,210 (47.4%) 61 John Edwards 737 (0.4%) 29,877 (1.0%) 0 Bill Richardson 256 (0.1%) 10,698 (0.4%) 0 Joe Biden 146 (0.1%) 5,304 (0.2%) 0 Christopher J. Dodd 80 (0.0%) 3,723 (0.1%) 0 U.S. Senator Rick Noriega 86,137 (61.7%)…
Readings
If the late Douglas Adams had made his mark as a writer of history textbooks, the resulting volumes might read like The Secret History of the English Language
Shape of Things to Come
What will the arts in Austin look like in 10 years? CreateAustin has a good idea – in fact, it has 10.
SXSW Platters
Tour:Smart and Break the Band by Martin Atkins Smart Books, 564 pp., $29.95 (paper) If you’re going on tour, this is the best $30 investment you’ll ever make. Writing with the sardonic, hard-assed bluster of a drill sergeant, Pigface/PiL drummer Martin Atkins draws on three decades of hard-won music-biz lessons to make an awfully convincing…
Frisco Bay Blues
It’s a thin line between love and hate for San Francisco in Barry Jenkins’ ‘Medicine for Melancholy’
Polygamist Prophet Back in Court … Again
Warren Jeffs faces prosecution in Arizona
After a Fashion
The rumors of Stephen’s debilitating automobile accident have been greatly exaggerated, but train wreck? That’s another story altogether.
Arts Review
In that tenuous space where heartbreaking loneliness meets relentless hope lives this beautiful, strange Daniel Johnston rock opera
SXSW Platters
Sons & Daughters This Gift (Domino) Singer Adele Bethel laments the state of her own emotions with a forthrightness that borders on the schizophrenic, while Scott Paterson’s chimey guitar runs rings around both Bethel and the stop-start drum work of David Gow. They oscillate wildly, but “The Nest” reveals partial siring from Phil Spector, in…
The Coast of Utopia
Two frustrated actors write a script, make it geographically specific, enlist A-list talent, and make the damn thing themselves. Why does ‘Humboldt County’ sound familiar?
Happenings
March 7-12
The Bank Job
When a gang of thieves break into some London safe-deposit boxes, they enter a world of police corruption, financial malfeasance, sexual degeneracy, political conspiracy, murder, torture, and upper-class salaciousness.
Event Menu
March 7-12
Arts Review
With David Stahl and Michael Stuart playing everyone in County Kerry, this Irish comedy is a delight from beginning to end
SXSW Platters
Roky Erickson & the Explosives Halloween: Live 1979-1981 (SteadyBoy) Varying degrees of sound quality make this new collection of vintage live recordings a mixed bag. Recorded in Texas and California during his horror-movie-driven re-emergence, Roky Erickson and his unflappable young backers blast through “Two Headed Dog” and “I Walked With a Zombie” before an appreciative…
The Streets of Philadelphia
Divorce pains framed against the backdrop of ‘The New Year Parade’
Point Austin: Democracy Rocks!
On this day, change happened from the bottom up
SXSW 08 Film Festival
Enjoy the madness while it lasts.
The Hightower Report
How to Get Young People Involved in Politics; and Monsanto Seeks to Ban the Truth
Arts Review
This solo show explodes with shapes that have big personalities and enough color combinations to make your eyes reverberate
SXSW Platters
Elf Power In a Cave (Rykodisc) Elf Power’s ninth LP wears like a pair of jeans. There might be a few splotches, stains, and holes, but the welcome softness more than compensates for aesthetic imperfections. Such is the case with one of the forgotten members of the Athens, Ga.-based Elephant 6 cadre. In a Cave…
Birds of America
Austin transplant Alex Karpovsky blends fact and fiction in his funny, heady tracking of the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker
Beside the Point
Gentlemen’s agreements, single-member districts, and more
Black & White
This new Bollywood film takes on the subject of terrorism.
Food-o-File
Threadgill’s new Old No. 1 almost done, keep Las Manitas on you food to-do list, and take advantage of Austin’s Downtown wine bars
Wednesday SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Handicapping the first night of SXSW 08
SXSW Platters
Shootin’ Pains Pray Like Crazy Every great bar needs a wizened codger who belches forth beery invective against the status quo. Shootin’ Pains has five of them. “Goat Fuckin’ Psycho-Ameracommunist Folk Rock” is how they describe themselves, but that’s an understatement given that the Austin quintet comes armed with Dicks veterans Buxf Parrott on banjo…
It’s a Dog’s Life
The Toe Tactic‘s existential angst and animated canines
Page Two: Love and Creation
An approach to the SXSW Film Festival
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Frances McDormand’s Miss Pettigrew is an unemployed nanny who bluffs her way into a job as the “social secretary” for the brain-dead, proto-fashionista, Yank-on-holiday starlet Delysia Lafosse, played by Amy Adams.
In Print
Sara Roahen ventures out of the Midwest and into New Orleans’ Cajun flavor
Wednesday Picks
All showcases subject to change 1001 Nights Orchestra 7pm, Copa Austin’s foremost Middle Eastern band has been providing the soundtrack to Persian nights in Austin for more than 15 years. Led by Iranian multi-instrumentalist Kamran Hooshmand, the fourpiece’s 2002 release, Music From the Middle East & Beyond, traversed the spectrum of Arab music from Israel…
SXSW Platters
The Kills Midnight Boom (Domino) Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart are the Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate of post-punk, preoblivion anti-rock, leaving a trail of blown woofers and sweat in their wake. Intense doesn’t begin to describe Midnight Boom, but loop the Russian roulette sequence from The Deer Hunter, splice in some grainy security-cam…
No Telling What’s What or Who’s Who
Confronting, and confounding, the color line in The Order of Myths
Oops!
In last week’s Screens feature “Down the Rabbit Hole,” we quoted GameLayers’ Merci Grace as saying, in reference to investment in her company’s products, “We’ll be selling attention but at the expense of the player.” In fact, Grace said, “We’ll be selling attention but not at the expense of the player.” The Chronicle regrets the…
The Band’s Visit
A lost band of Egyptian musicians from a police orchestra find refuge with some Israeli townspeople.
The Grove Wine Bar & Kitchen
A great wine guide, good eats, Reed Clemons hits West Lake
SXSW Platters
We Were the States Believe the Thieves (Chicken Ranch) Don’t let the moniker fool you. Murfreesboro, Tenn., quintet We Were the States clearly has a much larger target in mind than a small room of aging post-punk aficionados. To be sure, the building blocks of this spry full-length debut are dynamic left turns slathered in…
SXSW Platters
Balmorhea Rivers Arms (Western Vinyl) Not all instrumental music is cinematic in scope, but Austin’s Balmorhea has mastered the art of scenic, neoclassical compositions on its second LP, Rivers Arms, and does so without relying on post-rock dynamics to convey emotional significance. Essentially a recording project between pianist Rob Lowe and multi-instrumentalist Michael Muller, the…
Making More Than Ends Meet
Chasing the middle class dream in Intimidad
Day Trips
Texas coastal fishing piers provide the means to walk on water
Steep
The glories of extreme skiing are proclaimed from international mountaintops.
The Common Law
Can my bicycle be towed?
SXSW Platters
Malcolm Holcombe Gamblin’ House (Echo Mountain) With the guttural causticity of an Appalachian bred Howlin’ Wolf, “My Ol’ Radio” and “Goodtimes” open Holcombe’s sixth album moaning self-satisfaction like Austin’s Scott H. Biram full up on chicken. “Goin’ Downtown” and the title track grin with defiant self-destruction, the latter declaring, “I’m soakin’ up the slaughter, I’m…
SXSW Platters
Saul Williams The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust Like Radiohead’s In Rainbows, Saul Williams’ Trent Reznor-produced The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust is available by a payment-optional download. Most critics zero in on distribution method because, frankly, the music’s bloody complicated. The moment the chaotic machine-gun drums of “Black History Month”…
Greenlight Awards Premiere at SXSW
Celebrating digital TV
Playing Through
The Ice Bats are making it work the way a sublimely half-assed Will Ferrell movie works
War Dance
In this acclaimed documentary, Ugandan schoolchildren, victims of the brutal 20-year civil war, compete in a national dance contest.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The state (and world’s toughest) dog of North Carolina is the Plott Hound, Indiana Jones’ first name is Henry and more fun facts
Wednesday Sleepers
All showcases subject to change DJ Sun 8pm, Barcelona Following in the footsteps of seminal DJs Shadow and Krush, Houston’s DJ Sun blends trance grooves with an Al Green vibe that’s supplanted by the South American beats he grew up on in Surinam. A native of the Netherlands, Sun, who spins weekly for KPFT in…
SXSW Platters
Dan Dyer (Fat Caddy) It’s refreshing not falling back on labels like “retro” and “throw-back” when spinning Dan Dyer’s self-titled debut on Fat Caddy Records. Sure, the Austinite’s smoky vocals recall giants like Stevie Wonder and Donny Hathaway, but Dyer has as much in common with Spearhead’s Michael Franti and Lenny Kravitz, who produced his…
Boom and Bust in a Single-Stoplight Town
Crawford and the commander in chief
Soccer Watch
Austin Aztex U-23 tryouts, and more
Nathan and David and ‘Goliath’
After years of making shorts, the Zellner Brothers go big
SXSW Showcases
UGK FAMILY/HOT 93/’OZONE MAGAZINE’ 8pm, Fuze UGK’s always been about more than Pimp and Bun. As forefathers of the Houston rap scene, the Underground Kingz had a hand in the development of nearly every rapper to come out of Texas. Before his passing last year, Pimp C had taken under his wing a number of…
SXSW Platters
Lemonheads It’s a Shame About Ray Collector’s Edition (Atlantic/Rhino) Evan Dando loved heroin. The first time he tried it was in Australia, where he had gone to write songs for what would become 1992’s It’s a Shame About Ray, the Lemonheads’ fifth album. It worked for a while, too. The first two-thirds of Ray might…
Private Parts in Public Places
Bob Byington lifts the lid on Registered Sex Offender
Naked City
Quote of the Week “This historic turnout is another unmistakable sign that voters are ready to replace failed Republican leaders with Democrats who will work for all Texans in Austin and Washington.” – Texas Democratic Party Chair Boyd Richie Headlines • The big news was election turnout: Travis County Democrats turned out in such numbers,…
Black Like Me … and Me … and Me
Elvis Mitchell discusses why there’s no one African-American experience
SXSW Interviews
Bonnie Bramlett Pangaea, 10pm She was the latter half of Delaney & Bonnie, whose band was one of the 1960s’ original traveling rock caravans, then went on to a successful second act as a singer, songwriter, and actor. Although under the radar for the past decade, Bramlett returns to the soul and blues she helped…
Film News
Austin Film: The SXSW CliffsNotes version
Off the Record
The countdown to South by Southwest continues, while the Black Angels turn on and Ghostland Observatory marches onward and upward
Tax Assessor: Spears Pounds Maxey
Bitter race ends in landslide
All-Around Gal
Mumblecore baby Greta Gerwig acts, writes, directs, enunciates properly
SXSW Platters
The Judy’s Washarama (Wasted Talent) The Judy’s Moo (Wasted Talent) Squeaky clean yet savagely irreverent, the Judy’s epitomized adolescent New Wave existence at the cusp of the 1980s. Formed in 1979 in the Houston suburb of Pearland, the Judy’s were a high school rock combo that eschewed swagger. David Bean’s guitar remained undistorted, Jeff Walton’s…
TV Eye
It’s curtains for the Web crossover quarterlife
If You Have Ghosts
The 2007-08 AMA’s ghosts – past, present, and future
HD 46: Dukes Routs Thompson
Dawnna Dukes closes out a volatile contest
Truth or Vérité?
Celia Maysles looks her father’s legacy head-on in Wild Blue Yonder
SXSW Platters
Jeffrey Lewis 12 Crass Songs (Rough Trade) Had Steve Ignorant, Eve Libertine, Penny Rimbaud, and all the rest of the early-1980s, UK-based anarcho-punk collective known as Crass realized that someday the unassuming, NYC-based folk balladeer Jeffrey Lewis would retune their vituperative, cats-and-gravel-in-a-blender sound into something approaching sunny-side-up genius, they’d likely have sided with Thatcher then…
Oh Boy! Another Campaign Season!
City of Austin, AISD, and ACC poised for another round of elections
D.A. Race: Final Verdict Pending
The race for Travis Co. district attorney will go into overtime, with an April 8 run-off featuring Democratic contenders Rosemary Lehmberg and Mindy Montford. With incumbent D.A. Ronnie Earle finally retiring from the county’s top law enforcer spot that he first won in 1976, the race to replace the don of the D.A.’s office attracted…
Pub Grub
A guide to some of the best food-serving bars in town
Tapestry Dance Company:Getting those tap shoes re-‘Soul’ed
The troupe’s thrilling Souls of Our Feet program is back, with more reconstructions of classic rhythm tap routines
SXSW Platters
Lightspeed Champion Falling Off the Lavender Bridge (Domino) Note to those turning themselves inside out for a grand musical statement: Be articulate and compelling. On his Domino solo debut as Lightspeed Champion, Houston-born ex-Test Icicles principal Dev Hynes abandons spastic London dance-punk for the worst excesses of Saddle Creek. Recording in Omaha, Neb., with members…
Big Hair, Big Stars, and a Mechanical Bull
Previewing the 2008 Texas Film Hall of Fame
Panel Upholds Olsen Firing, but Case Doesn’t End Here
APD officer loses first round of appeal challenging his firing
Here Come the Judges
Tuesday night was a wild ride – not just for the whales but also for the downballot flounder. Several of the less headline-sexy but important Dem judicial races featured close calls and nail-biters. Here’s the roundup: In the statewide races for Texas Supreme Court, Place 7 candidate Sam Houston (no relation to that guy), a…
Election Results
Primary leaves Craddick with glass half-empty. Or is it half-full?
Long Center for the Performing Arts: Opening the house before it opens
The long-awaited cultural facility throws wide its doors for four days of free performances and tours
SXSW Platters
Tiger! Tiger! The Kind of Goodnight (Chicken Ranch) Don’t let the indie-pop surface trappings fool you. There’s something sinister about Atlanta’s Tiger! Tiger! The quintet’s ? & the Mysterians-style organ swirls and tawdry B-movie themes deliver easy prey to vocalist/guitarist Buffi Aguero, who sings like Chrissie Hynde’s sneering kid sister raised on a steady diet…
Ministering to the Dead
A death row chaplain has a change of heart in At the Death House Door
Developing Stories
City off to promising start with Seaholm East Redevelopment District
CD 10: Doherty Over Grant
The race for Congressional District 10 – the sprawling House district starting in Travis County and stretching east to Austin, Bastrop, Burleson, Lee, Waller, Washington, and Harris – was expected to be hotly contested. With attorney and television personality Larry Joe Doherty’s cash advantage and international-elections expert Dan Grant’s collection of impressive endorsements, this battle…
Readings
Robert Bryce’s dissection of the energy market isn’t likely to win him friends.
ColdTowne: Getting Upright with the originals
Core members from cult comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade raid Austin for the first time since 2000
SXSW Platters
Faceless Werewolves Pardon Me, Are Those Your Claws on My Back? (Super Secret) Though their treble-heavy, Death Valley ’69-style warble remains fundamentally sound, the Faceless Werewolves’ second album doesn’t pack the same adventurous spark of their superlative 2006 debut, Medium Freaky. While Claws attempts to reframe the Austin trio’s B-movie guy/gal glam-punk into a more…
Outsider Art
Music on the margins
Reefer Madness
Convicted drug felons slated for early release this week under new crack-cocaine guidelines
Luv Doc Recommends: SXSW Film Regional Premiere of ‘Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson’
There used to be a time when everyone you met in Austin was either a musician or fucking one. That’s still pretty much the case, but increasingly those sullen, tattooed, artsy types who work on the assembly line at the sandwich shop are aspiring filmmakers. Sounds glitzy on the surface, but if you’ve ever spent…
