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Jay Duplass Stars in Outside In at SXSW Film
Homegrown filmmaker on mumblecore, friends, and his first South By break
The Chili Dog Fest Caps SXSW Local Style
Impressive lineup of musicians to benefit Central Texas Food Bank
SXSW Panel Recap: New Jack Swing: The Renaissance of Hip Hop and R&B
Industry leaders Teddy Riley and Andre Harrell swap stories, advice
SXSW Music Review: Jazz Re:Freshed Outernational
A new generation of jazz stars is born
SXSW Film Review: Chef Flynn
A slice of life in the kitchen of a culinary enfant terrible
SXSW Music Review: Garden & Gun Showcase
Are you ready for the country (revolution)?
SXSW Music Review: Gang of Youths
Aussie hitmakers begin their North American takeover
SXSW Panel Recap: Elvis Presley: The Searcher
The King of Rock & Roll’s filmic dreamscape
SXSW Panel Recap: A Conversation with Kim Deal & Steve Albini
Indie rock revelations are all in the deets
The Pink Elephant (Radio) in the Room
Local LGBTQ advocates bring queer hip-hop to the radio and SXSW
SXSW Panel Recap: #TimesUp
Neil Portnow finally solved the issue of female inclusion…
SXSW Music Review: Kelela
D.C. electro R&B diva entrances fan girls
SXSW Music Review: Sassy 009
Even Norwegian royalty turns out for Oslo trio’s micro rave
SXSW Film Review: A Tuba to Cuba
Preservation Jazz Hall Band doc is filled with life and joy
SXSW VR Review: RONE
Architectural decay becomes a street-artist canvas you can navigate
SXSW Music Review: Hoodlem
Mary J. Blige meets Purity Ring
SXSW Music Review: Superorganism
Bubbly London ensemble debuts splashy “as fuck”
13 Must-Try Breakfast Tacos in Austin
Start your day the very best way
SXSW Film Review: Nossa Chape
Football’s tragedy becomes a tale of imperfect healing
SXSW Panel Recap: Horror in VR
Can terror in the virtual world have IRL success?
SXSW Panel Recap: The Bleeding Edge: A New Generation of Horror
Is horror more diverse than the rest of cinema? Maybe.
Travis Duncan Enters Mayor Race
Candidate says he’ll bring “people’s power plan” to Austin
SXSW Panel Recap: The Community, Culture & Science of BBQ
Three experts discuss all things meat, wood, and Texas barbecue
SXSW Film Review: Oculus VR for Good Creators Lab
Cultivating empathy through immersive film shorts
SXSW Panel Recap: Pedaler’s Palate
Four cyclists discuss better ways to fuel the body
SXSW Music Review: Shamir
Prolific indie writer ditches disco-house
SXSW Music Review: Low, Josh T. Pearson, SYML
Strange exorcisms in a Downtown church
SXSW Film Review: On Her Shoulders
Nuanced doc about a survivor’s stand against ISIS
SXSW Music Review: She Shreds Day Party
Diverse, inclusive representation of guitarists
SXSW Music Review: RVG
Melbourne quartet introduces new muse Romy Vager
SXSW Music Review: Meute
German techno marching band takes to the streets
SXSW Music Review: David Gtronic
Nocturnal subaquatic microclimate productions
SXSW Music Review: Bad Gyal
Catalonian feminist anthems for lux-filled lives
SXSW Music Review: Pussy Riot
Russians protest employing political techno
5th Circuit Upholds Sanctuary Cities Law
ACLU in response: “All legal options” on the table
SXSW Film Review: Time Trial
Redemption denied in this lyrical tale from the cycling seat
SXSW Film Review: If I Leave Here Tomorrow: A Film About Lynyrd Skynyrd
The highs and lows of one of the most iconic Southern rock bands
SXSW Film Awards Announced
Grand jury and special awards given out tonight
Rae Sremmurd Take Over SXSW
Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi plus Mike Will Made-It
SXSW Comedy Review: The Comedian’s Comedian
Stuart Goldsmith gets James Davis to let us in on the joke
SXSW Sneaks This Is Us Season Finale
Two seasons, one family, and millions of fans
SXSW Panel Recap: Influencing Food Culture & Policy Through Film & TV
Celebrity chefs discuss sustainability and Bourdain’s anthropology
SXSW Film: From Russia With Subs
The unbelievable true tale of submarine smuggling in Operation Odessa
SXSW Panel Recap: Women Who Create and Curate Culinary Careers
Four culinarians discuss kitchen culture and saying yes to challenges
SXSW Film Review: Most Likely to Murder
Sketch-friendly comedy proves you should never go home
SXSW Film Review: People’s Republic of Desire
The rise and fall of two Chinese webcam celebs
SXSW Film Review: The New Romantic
Love reconsidered in the age of swiping and sugar daddies
SXSW Music Review: Max Richter
SX one-off to rival the Flaming Lips’ garage boombox sync
SXSW Panel: Generation Mars
You’re not going to make it to the Red Planet, but your kids might
SXSW Music Review: Discover Denton Showcase
North Texans prove their own live music capital
SXSW Panel Recap: Alex Rodriguez
Baseball legend on getting Back in the Game
SXSW Music Review: Bully, Wye Oak, Superchunk
Nineties grit sandwiches a quieter reprieve
SXSW Music Review: Hamburg x Berlin Showcase
International cosmology from the German capital
SXSW Music Review: Nnamdi Ogbonnaya
Hyper-speed rapper subsumed by full band and tech issues
SXSW Music Review: Ivy Sole
“Black girl magic”
SXSW Music Review: Terminal Mind
Austin punk trio reboots Seventies relevancy
SXSW Panel Recap: Absurdity Sells: The Value of Playful Events
Keeping things weird for community, art, and profit
SXSW Film Review: The World Before Your Feet
The art of walking … and doing little else
Robot Monster
Robot Monster 1953, NR, 66 min. Directed by Phil Tucker, Starring George Nader, Gregory Moffett, Claudia Barrett. A demented, shoestring-budget sci-fi horror from the 1950s.
SXSW Film Recap: Ready Player One Premiere
Tech problems fail to dampen the excitement at star-studded event
SXSW Comedy Review: Jo Firestone & Friends
Packed lineup met packed house for fantastic stand-up
SXSW Film Recap: The Director and the Jedi Q&A
Mark Hamill and Rian Johnson on their different Skywalkers
Monday Explosions Jar Austin
If you see an unmarked package, quickly call 911
Nurture vs. Bloody Nature
The costs of being yourself in Wildling at SXSW
Robert Van Boven Coverage
Tracking the Chronicle’s continuing coverage on Dr. Robert Van Boven.
SXSW Panel: Am I Allowed to Like Anything?
Darian Harvin and Sama’an Ashrawi on their origins and influences
SXSW Comedy Review: The Randown With Robin Thede
Panel ran down the lack of representation in the industry
SXSW Panel: Film + Storytelling in a Politically-Charged Era
The mission hasn’t changed, but the urgency has
SXSW Film Review: Heavy Trip
A future cult classic, this Scandinavian export lacks the killer riffs
SXSW Film Review: You Can Choose Your Family
Jim Gaffigan nails the lovable and despicable dad role
SXSW Panel Recap: Sex & Text: Breaking Down Movie Stereotypes w/ AI
StoryFit on dismantling unhealthy gender roles in Hollywood
SXSW Film Review: The Dawn Wall
Impossible odds and sheer rock faces in this climbing doc
SXSW Film Review: Social Animals
Doc is a smart cautionary tale on the power of social media
SXSW Film Review: Fast Color
Why isn’t Gugu Mbatha-Raw a household name by now?
SXSW Film Review: Wild Nights With Emily
Molly Shannon helps give Emily Dickinson’s life a comedic twist
SXSW Panel Recap: Spike Lee Master Class
Audience with a master turns bizarre
SXSW Comedy Review: Cavett on Comedy With Dave Hill
Dick Cavett’s fave talk-show moments and friendship with Ali
SXSW Film Review: Daughters of the Sexual Revolution
Muddled bio of Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders’ leader
SXSW Film Review: Profile
A cat-and-mouse game is told in first-person perspective
Shakey Graves’ SXSW Scavenger Hunt
Tape Quest encourages fans to explore Austin
SXSW Panel Recap: Ira Glass
The king of podcasts on achieving audio storytelling success
SXSW Film Review: Lean on Pete
Growing up fast as a race horse in this gritty but moving drama
SXSW Film Review: Galveston
Coastal revenge thriller sparkles with humor and humanity
SXSW Panel: Barry Jenkins Keynote
A year after “the mix-up,” Oscar winner finally delivers his speech
SXSW Film Review: Final Portrait
Stanley Tucci’s film cuts a wonderful slice of artistic anguish
SXSW Film Review: Alt-Right: Age of Rage
Doc is a serviceable primer on white supremacy for the uninformed
SXSW Film Review: Agave: The Spirit of a Nation
How a cactus is part of Mexican identity
SXSW Film Review: TransMilitary
Doc provides a compelling platform for transgender service members
SXSW Film Review: More Human Than Human
Exploring the human condition by studying artificial intelligence
SXSW Panel: Theatrical vs. Streaming
Finding distribution and finding an audience on big and small screens
SXSW Panel: A Conversation With Beto O’Rourke
Texas Democratic Senate hopeful pulls no punches
SXSW Film Review: Unfriended: Dark Web
More screengrab mayhem in Blumhouse’s budding anthology series
SXSW Film Review: Take Your Pills
Netflix doc looks at the way modern society leads to amphetamine use
SXSW Panel: Christiane Amanpour on Sex & Love Around the World
From covering international politics to female sexuality worldwide
SXSW Adds Ready Player One
New Spielberg movie takes the Sunday night prestige slot
SXSW Film Review: Blood Fest
Austin meta-horror lands GIF-able gags
SXSW Film Review: Narcissister Organ Player
The woman (and the mother) behind the mask
SXSW Panel: Lawrence Wright
“Trump is the most ‘Texas’ president we’ve ever had”
Rodeo Austin: Your Guide to All the Bands, Barrel Racing, and Buckin’ Broncs
Ludacris, Young the Giant, and mutton bustin’ top the bill
Meet The Unicorn Boyz
The writers of the SXSW sex comedy The Unicorn
SXSW Panel: Keep the Internet International, Not Internal
Combating nations’ “race to the bottom” of the web
SXSW Film Review: Support the Girls
Andrew Bujalski sets a feminist comedy in a sexy sports bar? Bold move.
The Horrors of SXSW Can’t Touch Nate Southard
Local screamworthy scribe is sitting, we reckon, on a killer property
SXSW Hit and Run Victim Gives Back
Mason Endres champions the healing power of music
Auckland City Limits? Absolutely.
Expanding the “City Limits” brand beyond Austin
First Look: Ready Player One Experience at SXSW
Step into the Oasis from the new Steven Spielberg film
Inside SXSW’s Westworld Theme Park
Violent delights have violent ends at this SXSW pop-up event
Max Richter Puts SXSW to Sleep
UK classicist previews his eight-hour SXSW debut
Thoroughbreds
America’s class system goes under a bloody scalpel.
Death Wish
Bruce Willis picks up where Charles Bronson left off.
The Cured
The zombie apocalypse is over. So now what?
A Wrinkle in Time
Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of the children’s classic rarely soars.
The Hurricane Heist
It’s a soggy hold up!
Submission
Based on a Francine Prose novel, Submission stars Stanley Tucci as a liberal arts professor who becomes dangerously close to a student.
12 Breakthrough Austin Bands at SXSW Music
Parisian songstress specializes in openly romantic and discotheque-ready pop
SXSW Turns the Tables on Comedy Connoisseur Dick Cavett
The veteran talk-show host matters because he took the art of being funny seriously
Tracy Morgan on Almost Dying, The Last O.G., and Being Barbershop Famous
SNL star goes back to the gentrified hood at SXSW
Seven SXSW Conference Speakers You Just Can’t Miss
Ray Kurzweil, Melinda Gates, and other brilliant minds come to town
Hyde Park Theatre’s Wakey, Wakey
This production of Will Eno’s solo show puts us at ease with our mortality through a captivating talk from a dying man
2018 Primary Elections: Giddy With Energy
Tracking back on a wild election night
12 Breakthrough Austin Bands at SXSW Music
“The banjo is such an interesting instrument because it’s like a musical id and ego”
The Comedian’s Comedian Live Podcast Recording at SXSW
Stuart Goldsmith gets under the skin and psyches of professional stand-ups
Stranger Than Fiction
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
12 Breakthrough Austin Bands at SXSW Music
12 Austin Picks 2 Click at SXSW 2018
LOLA’s La Clemenza di Tito: A Retelling
The quality of mercy is never not strained in this new adaptation of Mozart’s late opera
12 Breakthrough Austin Bands at SXSW Music
Singer-songwriter had a calling
The Dollop Live Podcast Recording at SXSW Comedy
Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds serve up events from yesteryear with a topping of WTF
Britain’s Outsider Art Icon Frank Sidebottom Unmasked at SXSW
Where the man ends and the mask begins in Being Frank
Snapshot: Balloon Art Power Couple Stacy “Pineapple” Wheeler and Nate “The Great” Culpepper
It’s not just about twisting balloons into dog shapes, you know
Day Trips: Old Settler’s Music Festival, Tilmon
Annual music festival is rocking in a new location after three decades
12 Breakthrough Austin Bands at SXSW Music
Singer-wongwriter Michael Winningham on the story behind his genre-fusion debut, Ryou Cannon
Poster Children
SXSW regulars discuss what the festival means to them
SXSW Doc Hunts Down the Truth Behind Those Bizarre Bill Murray Encounters
Tommy Avallone investigates the phenomenon in The Bill Murray Stories
Gay Place
1, 2, SXSW is coming for you
Soccer Watch
Fox Sports, which will be broadcasting the 2018 World Cup this summer, is using SXSW to launch its 100-day countdown to the June 14 kickoff. Their Fox Sports House will be open to the public from 11am-8pm daily, Fri.-Mon., March 9-12, at the Hangar Lounge, 318 Colorado. It’ll host the SXSW Sports Kickoff party, various…
12 Breakthrough Austin Bands at SXSW Music
Afro-Colombian funk crew connects disparate dots of diasporic music across the Americas
The Horror, the Horror
The darkest side of sxsw
Five Austin Chefs Reveal Their Favorite Foods to Start the Day
Who says you can’t have ice cream and french fries for breakfast?
Nuclear Freeze for Amazon?
Council members throughout the country reject HQ2
12 Breakthrough Austin Bands at SXSW Music
This fuzzy rock fourpiece is the first to admit – they’re better live
Anna Margaret Hollyman’s Directorial Debut at SXSW
Austin’s own on her films, Don’t Leave Home, Cleansed, and “Maude”
SXSW Survival Thriller Asks What Keeps You Alive
Not just another Cabin in the Woods
Virginia B. Wood Dies at 67
Austin food community mourns the loss of one of its champions
Contract Talk: What About EMS?
Police impasse overshadowing EMS?
Elizabeth Crook’s The Which Way Tree
Chasing revenge on the Texas frontier in this remarkable new novel from the author of Monday, Monday
Meow Wolf Pounces Into the SXSW Fray
The Santa Fe-based art collective debuts newest creation and new film
SXSW Midnighters Go Into the Woods With The Ranger
Jenn Wexler pits punks against nature
Fasten Calls It Quits
Another rideshare bites the dust
The Austin Music Awards’ Ecstatic Experience
Thirty-four awards and six musical sets in 211 minutes
HBO Documentary Elvis Presley: The Searcher Debuts at SXSW
New archival footage of the king, the musician, and the man behind the music
Telling Some Very British Ghost Stories at SXSW Film
Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman on the evil seed that would become their Midnighter
The People’s Plan to Curb Displacement
“This is coming from the Eastside, not coming from above, but below”
County Delays Funding for New Women’s Jail
A surprising turn of events
Hometown Heroes
Austin’s finest, and more Texans we love
SXSW Doc Brewmaster Takes a Sip of the Heady World of Craft Beers
Douglas Tirola puts a human face on those labels in the liquor store
Robert Rodriguez Goes Back to His Roots for New Reality Series
The rebel without a crew becomes a rebel with a cable show
Free-Net: Council Keeps It Local
Delayed vote finds local provider besting out-of-town option
The Brewer’s Table Is Not Your Average Brewpub
Discussing the core values of Austin’s forthcoming public house at SXSW
Lawsuit and Untapped Locations Add to Soccer Drama
Many balls in play for the Columbus Crew
SXSW Short “Come & Take It” and the Story Behind #CocksNotGlocks
Documentary about controversial UT protests plays Texas Shorts Competition
Team Hurricane Is an Arthouse Anthem for Teenage Girls at SXSW
Annika Berg’s feature film debut dives into the maelstrom of youth
Austin Film News
Locals at SXSW, plus RSVP for a Maybe Shower
Council: Spring Has Sprung
A light agenda promises an early farewell
12 Breakthrough Austin Bands at SXSW Music
Late Sixties pop with a surprising bite
The Border Patrol Myth
The most dangerous policing job? Not so.
Austin Filmmaker Emily Hagins Debuts Series at SXSW Film
Hold to Your Best Self is a high school Rashomon
Charlene deGuzman Tackles Sex and Love Addiction in SXSW Film Unlovable
Love is sickness, not the cure in this anti-rom-com
The Luv Doc: Services Rendered
Idle hands are the Devil’s playthings
It’s Official: Statesman Sold to GateHouse
Local daily goes to new media giant for $47.5 million
12 Breakthrough Austin Bands at SXSW Music
Local garage band recounts their origin story
Something Rotten at EMS
Hawley retirement shines light on systemic issues
Yen Tan Sets a Timeless Drama Against the AIDS Crisis at SXSW Film
A different spirit of Christmas in Dallas filmmaker’s 1985
Is Virtual Reality Heading to Its Next Great Leap Forward?
From Virtual Boy to Oculus Rift, VR tech is always improving
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
A northern Alaska tradition was a quartet of husbands and wives who swapped partners. The amino acid glycine, a fundamental building block of proteins, has been found in the comet Wild 2 in January 2004, bolstering the theory that the raw ingredients of life arrived on Earth from outer space. MacGyver’s first name was Angus.…
One in a Crowd
Student Filmmakers Need Your Help
12 Breakthrough Austin Bands at SXSW Music
ATX siblings make refreshingly breezy R&B
Point Austin: Primary Afterthoughts
Waking up wondering if Texas will ever be purple
SXSW Documentary Gives Migrants in Austin a New Voice
Learning to listen with They Live Here, Now
Virtual Reality Offers a World Without Rules for Filmmakers
The first rule of VR storytelling is that there are none
Playback: Next Big Buzzes at SXSW 2018
Forecasting this year’s breakout acts
12 Breakthrough Austin Bands at SXSW Music
After backing all kinds of rap/R&B/soul luminaries, Kydd Jones is putting his own sound on the front burner
What’s Cooking at the SXSW SouthBites Food Trailer Park
The sixth annual on-site food hub is extra-special
In Black America
Race relations reconsidered
Laser-Focused SXSW Panels on Making Progress in the Food World
Altering the future, one bite at a time
Headlines
City Council meets today (Thursday, March 8) with an unusually light agenda, albeit with a handful of matters that might provoke debate: a “Strategic Plan” to amend and adopt, a public hearing on (reducing) Austin Water rates, and the usual spate of zoning cases. “Council: Spring Has Sprung,” Mar. 9. Travis County Dems got their…
12 Breakthrough Austin Bands at SXSW Music
Frontman Tomar Williams on the soul music that stitched together his fivepiece
Four Tasty Pop-Up Food Events at SXSW
Fiction meets reality with several bonus dining events
A Fresh Look at Gentrification in SXSW Feature Blindspotting
Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal on their comedy-tinged drama about modern America
How Do You Pet a CryptoKitty?
ConsenSys Capital co-founder Andrew Keys on how Ethereum could be a game changer
Quote of the Week: Bruce Elfant
The county tax assessor and voter registrar weighs in on primary voting
12 Breakthrough Austin Bands at SXSW Music
Local sitar maestro looks inward
The Four Pillars of Austin Food During SXSW
We get by with tacos, pizza, barbecue, and burgers
The Greatest Meets the Brainiest in SXSW Doc Ali & Cavett
Outside the ring and on the couch with Muhammad Ali and Dick Cavett
Ending the Boys’ Club of Online Film Culture
Female industry professionals on power in parity, equality in cinema at SXSW Interactive
Public Notice: Hurry Up Please, It’s Time
We’re late, we’re late, for a very important date …
Free Events for the Cash-Strapped at SXSW
Festival films, music, and more, on the cheap
