SXSW isn’t a marathon, my colleague Kate X Messer recently joked: It’s a death march. As the official print sponsor of the festival, the Chronicle gets hit by the South by tsunami around early February, and we don’t come up for air until the end of March. But just when we think we’re about to collapse from the strain and the sensory overload, along comes that blessed pick-me-up, the Austin Chronicle‘s SXSW Film Bash. Last night’s party at La Zona Rosa, which featured Austin band the Black and White Years, was a blast. Don’t believe us? Click on the photo for our gallery of smiling, happy, sloshy faces.
This article appears in March 13 • 2009.
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A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Kimberley has written about film, books, and pop culture for The Austin Chronicle since 2000. She was named Editor of the Chronicle in 2016; she previously served as the paper’s Managing Editor, Screens Editor, Books Editor, and proofreader. Her work has been awarded by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for excellence in arts criticism, team reporting, and special section (Best of Austin). The Austin Alliance for Women...
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