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The Entertainment Economy
As the Austin film, music, and gaming scenes become a "cluster," civic leaders are looking for industrial-strength creativity
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Lawyers, Drugs, and Money: The Latest on Metabolife
BY MICHAEL KING
Eight Years Later, Elgin Man Becomes a 'Terrorist'
A 1994 outburst lands a local man in jail -- last fall
BY LAURI APPLE
Brack's Ex-Watchdogs Say Seton Thwarts 'Oversight'
Two departing members of the Brackenridge Hospital Oversight Council say Seton's strategies rob the group of any useful purpose.
BY AMY SMITH
Weed Watch
The draconian R.A.V.E. Act sneaks back into Congress, but reform advocates are pushing drug bills across the nation -- including in Texas
BY JORDAN SMITH
Morales Takes Federal Rap
BY MICHAEL KING AND JORDAN SMITH
Linebarger's Legal Travails
BY MICHAEL KING
Naked City
Headlines
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Capitol Chronicle
The pundits say Karl Rove is the One, but he's really only one among many.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
All hail Leslie Cochran, Austin's queen of political soul.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
Bush ignores the terror of tainted meat -- and Americans are revolting.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Fast, Fresh, Portable, Affordable
Hello, hungry traveler. Welcome to the land of the breakfast taco!
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
Second Helpings: Always -- or Almost Always -- Open
Consider these always-open or almost-always-open places the enablers in your life of depravity and self-abuse.
Second Helpings: Bagels, Beignets, Doughnuts, and Kolaches
Store some SXSW energy by eating lots of carb-loaded dough.
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
Second Helpings: Local Barbecue
You're here for SXSW, but you're also here for barbecue, right?
Second Helpings: Regional Barbecue
You're here for SXSW, but you're also here for barbecue, right?
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
Second Helpings: Irish Pubs
Booze clues
Second Helpings: Pub Grub
Drunk? Eat something, for god's sake.
WEEKLY ISSUE
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood dishes up all the event news you can stomach, in this week's "Food-o-File."
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Down-home country cooking
Come on down and get comfortable, in this week's "Second Helpings."
music
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
TCB
SXSW News
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
TCB
SXSW News
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
WEEKLY ISSUE
Austin Music Awards
2002-2003 results
Together Again
Reuniting the team behind Teatro, Willie Nelson and Daniel Lanois
BY ANDY LANGER
SXSW Picks and Sleepers
Blurbs on (mostly local) bands showcasing Wednesday night at SXSW 03.
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
Austin Music Awards 2002-03
Austin Music Hall, Wednesday, March 12
BY JERRY RENSHAW
The Insider: Cheech Marin
Brief Interviews With Important People
BY ANDY LANGER
Spotlight: Sahara Hotnights
Sweden comes to SXSW in the guise of Sahara Hotnights.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Spotlight: Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
Ted Leo is Rising.
BY GREG BEETS
Spotlight: Halley
Halley lights up Austin with their deliberate supernova rock.
BY MICHAEL CHAMY
Spotlight: Kathleen Edwards
Kathleen Edwards says f**k the buzz.
BY CHRISTOPHER HESS
Spotlight: Milton Mapes
Look out Uncle Tupelo, here comes grandpa Milton Mapes.
BY GREG BEETS
Spotlight: Raveonettes
The Raveonettes: three chords and the brute.
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
Spotlight: Cat Power
Chan Marshall gets cagey.
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Spotlight: Riverboat Gamblers
Denton's Riverboat Gamblers are Austin punkers in everything but location.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Spotlight: Alabama Thunderpussy
Call 'em Pussies, but don't call 'em stoner rock.
BY DAVID LYNCH
Spotlight: Mr. Lif
Mr. Lif MCs it like it is.
BY CHRISTOPHER COLETTI
Spotlight: Molotov
Mexico's Molotov soccer up their "patada en los cojones."
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Spotlight: Johnny Irion & Sarah Lee Guthrie
Woody Guthrie's granddaughter joins the family business.
BY JIM CALIGIURI
The Insider: Wavy Gravy
Brief Interviews with Importnant Pepole
BY ANDY LANGER
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
Spotilight: The Coral
More Liverpudlians who are bigger than JHC
BY ANDY LANGER
Spotlight: Joe Jackson Band
On the 25th anniversary of Look Sharp!, Joe Jackson remains the man.
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Spotlight: Camper Van Beethoven
The return of Camper Van Beethoven -- and Tusk?
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Spotlight: Nina Nastasia
Nina Nastasia bewitches.
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Spotlight: Those Peabodys
Angus, Malcolm, Bon, and Those Peabodys
BY MICHAEL CHAMY
Spotlight: Drive-By Truckers
The DBT will rise again.
BY JERRY RENSHAW
The Insider: Beatle Bob
Brief Interviews With Important People
BY ANDY LANGER
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
TCB: SXSW News
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
WEEKLY ISSUE
TCB
Attacking the busiest week in the Live Music Capitol
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
Phases and Stages
Artists Panel: Activism and Protest
Conference Panel
Doug Sahm
About a Mover: Doug Sahm
SXSW Interview: Tony Wilson
Conference Panel
The Life and Work of Patsy Cline
Conference Panel
Roky Erickson
Roky Erickson's Psychedelic Ice-Cream Social
My Education, Halley, Maserati
Music Showcase
Canoe
Music Showcase
Cat Power
Music Showcase
Trachtenburg Family Slide Show Players
Music Showcase
Dan Brodie & the Broken Arrows
Music Showcase
Elizabeth McQueen & the Firebrands
Music Showcase
WE
Music Showcase
Jean Grae
Music Showcase
Sondre Lerche
Music Showcase
screens
Life, Death, and Dance
Robert Duvall loves to tango. Robert Duvall loves Buenos Aires. And Robert Duvall loves Luciana Pedraza, the ravishing Argentinean-born woman who plays opposite him in Assassination Tango, a film in which the screen legend somehow conflates all these things.
BY SARAH HEPOLA
SXSW Film 2003 Festival Winners
2003 SXSW Web Awards Winners
Web site competition winners.
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
Born Again
Joel Schumacher & 'Phone Booth'
BY PETER DEBRUGE
The Weasel Has Landed
Pauly Shore and 'You'll Never Wiez in This Town Again'
BY MARRIT INGMAN
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
In the Mood for Love
Alex Holdridge and 'Sexless'
BY SARAH HEPOLA
WEEKLY ISSUE
Live From SXSW's Screening Room
Reviews, live shots, film critic smackdowns … SXSW Film 2003
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
WEEKLY ISSUE
Snippets From SXSW Interactive 2003
Starry Night
The Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Short Cuts
SXSW Film Festival 03 update
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
That lean, mean, tanning machine George Hamilton is back on TV, playing a parody of himself on the new reality series The Family.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Agent Cody Banks
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
City of God
City of God, like the Rio de Janeiro housing project for which it’s named, is often grim and dire, but the film is also imbued with hope and transcendence.
arts & culture
Rock Your Eyes Out
"The Musikshow" and "The Rawkshow," a pair of linked exhibitions at Gallery Lombardi, explore the connection between rock music and art, one from the angle of musicians who also make art, the other from the angle of artists who also make music.
BY MOLLY BETH BRENNER
Organniversary Party
In honor of the 20th anniversary of the Visser-Rowland Organ, the UT School of Music is hosting a special recital that allows you to listen to glorious music made by a machine that seems alive, step inside the machine and spend some time with it, meet the organ's designer, Piet Visser, and its keeper, Dr. Frank Speller, and benefit the school's Great Organ Series as well.
BY BARRY PINEO
Articulations
Esther's veteran Joel McKean passes away, and during a rare Broadway strike Austin playwright John Walch is honored by the American Theatre Critics Association.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Damn Yankees
Austin Playhouse's production of Damn Yankees doesn't always serve up the vocal prowess to make his tender moments sweet, but the overall production is a true-blue treat: a traditional home-cooked musical, well done.
'Texas Photographers'
The "Texas Photographers" exhibit at Flatbed World Headquarters features several images by several of the artists from the show at Blue Star Art Space in San Antonio, and their relatively simple compositions manage to convey a tremendous range of contrasting colors.
La Bohème
Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème brings to life a fantastic world through gorgeous music, and Austin Lyric Opera's production treated the audience to rich glimpses of that fantastic world: 1870s Paris bustling with people, ideas, love, and song.
columns
Page Two
If war is inevitable, you might as well be in Austin, enjoying South by Southwest.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Matthew McConaughey, Peter Fonda, Luke Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Owen Wilson, Farrah Fawcett, Louis Black: Which godlike celebrity did Style Avatar Stephen deign to spend a hot 15 minutes in a trailer with? Oh, wouldn't you like to know …
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
After a Fashion: SXSW Wednesday
Ka-plam! Your Style Avatar is out and about and making the scene at SXSW. It's just begun, y'all.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
After a Fashion: SXSW Thursday
Which local / international celeb has a "nice butt," according to a bevy of hot tub beauties? Who wore white tennies with her black Liz Claiborne? And who needs a bike more? A Fish? Or a Woody? You know you'll only find out in here!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
After a Fashion: SXSW Friday
While old geezers Camper Van Beethoven may be back in town taking the skinheads bowling, our Style Avatar gets all, "I'm With the Band," with Ms. You-Know-Who Des Barres herself, and takes the celeb shopping.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Daytrips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
HIV and TB: Texas & beyond
BY SANDY BARTLETT
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