Roy Choi wastes no time establishing the mission of his memoir, spelling it out on page one of the intro: “I had to…tell the story of my journey from immigrant to latchkey kid to lowrider to misfit to gambler to a chef answering his calling.”

Take a break from South by Southwest recovery with some of this other film and TV news.

The Austin Police Department have released the names of the injured in the early morning crash near the Mohawk that claimed the lives of an unidentified Austin woman [update 5:50pm: Jamie Ranae West, 27] and Dutch SXSW attendee Steven Craenmehr.

Boston and New York go for "straight acting" parades, Utah files an unappealing appeal, and Lady Gaga goes Poo Poo Platter, as your AggreGAYtor wakes up the mannequin.

This is Ryan Obermeyer, assisting with writing duties as strict security measures separated my trusty writer Rob Cohen and myself.

On Saturday, Austin Police arrested rapper “Tyler the Creator” (Tyler Gregory Okonma) on a charge of “riot” – a Class A misdemeanor. Along with the arrest affidavit, APD released a brief video clip of Okonma exhorting the crowd outside Scoot Inn to “Fuckin’ run in right now, just do it!” while the crowd yells, “Push, push, push!”

When the top hat goes on, the magic starts. Well, nearly. In the seemingly acoustically perfect Central Presbyterian Church, the stylishly chapeau’d Suzanne Vega had the traditional technical problems as she stop-started with brokenhearted “Marlene on the Wall.”

Pale, male, and Yale: three words that when lumped together conjure the epitome of American privilege. And yet, despite his degree in classical composition from that vaunted Ivy League realm, Ellis Ludwig-Leone has managed to compose a deeply American document of youthful existentialism, while also capturing the sheer, messy joy of existence.

Amid the deep-fried sugar punk chaos that was Burgermania III at the Eastside’s Hotel Vegas on Saturday night, Habibi was something of an outlier.