Like South by Southwest itself, the SXSW Cares Fund, an initiative to raise money for those injured or worse in the Red River hit-and-run that left four people dead, began small but has now expanded into a nine-day affair sprawling through a myriad of clubs.

Days after an appeals court upheld two provisions of the controversial House Bill 2, abortion providers today said they will file a second lawsuit, again attacking the hospital admitting privileges provision, and lodging a new attack against the legality of a requirement that clinics comply with standards devised for surgical centers.

Since his death more than a decade ago, there’s been no shortage of Johnny Cash releases. None match Out Among the Stars. Son John Carter Cash discovered the tapes that became this disc while cleaning out the Sony vaults two years ago, its 12 tracks recorded in 1981 and 1984 with Nashville great Billy Sherrill in the producer’s seat.

UPDATE: A federal district judge in Houston has stayed the execution of serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells and that of another condemned inmate, until the Texas Department of Criminal Justice makes available to them, via a protective order, information about the drugs it intends to use to execute them.

The Austin Film Society has plenty of news to share this week. Here's what we know so far.

The Noble Sandwich Company (4805 Burnet Rd.) is finally here. This week's debut of the eagerly-anticipated sandwich shop, deli, and charcuterie is being met with enthusiasm by midtown neighbors.

Oregon gets ready to rumble, OKCupid sends us a woof (on Scruff because we wouldn't see it otherwise), and TransMedia gets a double whammy, as your AggreGAYtor scatters rose petals in anticipation of D'Angelo.

The campaign treasurer filings – the first official indication of an intention to run for City Council – have begun to accumulate, and this week former CM Jackie Goodman filed her papers, as did a newcomer mayoral candidate, web designer and AdBirds CEO Randall Stephens.

The largest assembly on Sixth Street Saturday evening wasn’t a drunken group of troublemakers – it was four squadrons of police officers standing within two-sided barricades arranged between the four intersections along “Dirty Sixth.”