University of Texas Tower
Volume 25, Number 29
features
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
Gay Place
A SXSW online extra
BY KATE GETTY AND KATE X MESSER
After a Fashion: Thursday
Your Style Avatar dishes the style dirt at SXSW!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
After a Fashion: Friday
Your Style Avatar does SXSW in style!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
After a Fashion: Saturday
Your Style Avatar does SXSW in style!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
news
Skies Partly Cloudy
Two years down the road, liberal network still struggles to
establish itself
BY KEVIN BRASS
Feds' Animal ID Program Raises Ruckus Among Small Farmers
National Animal Identification System favors factory farms over Ma and Pa
BY FRANK RIVERA
Primary Numbers
Crunching the numbers on who voted where in the 2006 primaries
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
How to Read a Charter Amendment
Ballot language too confusing? Let us translate!
BY MICHAEL KING
Is It Legal to Save Energy? Well, Maybe ...
Blackland neighbors told they can't share solar power, but Austin Energy tries to find a loophole
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
Point Austin: Lessons Learned
I was down at the precinct last Tuesday, but I didn't see you
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
Council and SOSA haggle over ballot language
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
Wal-Mart's New Frontman; and Mr. President, Greenland Is Melting
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The Sixth Course
Eating our way up and down the city's busiest street
Food-o-File
'60 Minutes' digests Whole Foods; plus, St. Patrick's Day predictions by local publicans
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Private Life
The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde tells it like it is
BY MARGARET MOSER
Over the Wall
Echo & the Bunnymen's guitarist Will Sergeant didn't much care for Donnie Darko.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Blurbing three nights of SXSW 2006
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
2005-06 Austin Music Awards
BY GREG BEETS
Girls Can Tell
Gadding about
BY MELANIE HAUPT
My SXSW
Tres Chicas' Caitlin Cary
BY CAITLIN CARY
The Insider
Ultragrrl handicaps SXSW 2006
BY ANDY LANGER
Spotlight: Richie Furay
Buffalo Springfield, Poco, and Richie Furay – one with God
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Spotlight: Anthony Hamilton
Ain't nobody worryin' about the future of true R&B when Anthony Hamilton croons
BY ROBERT GABRIEL
Spotlight: Bobby Bare
Bobby Bare Sr. returns with one helluva fish story
BY MARGARET MOSER
Spotlight: DJ Rapid Ric
The king of the Lone Star mixtape
BY ROBERT GABRIEL
Spotlight: Ben Taylor
A chip off the ol' J.T.
BY DAN OKO
Spotlight: Translator
Translator, 'Everywhere I'm Not' – except SXSW 2006
BY MARC SAVLOV
TCB
SXSW music news
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Day Party Crawl
MY EDUCATION
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
Girls Can Tell
Gadding about
BY MELANIE HAUPT
My SXSW
BY HARRY SHEARER
WEEKLY ISSUE
The Insider
With folks like Jason Flom at SXSW, yes, Virginia, there's a Santa Claus
BY ANDY LANGER
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
Spotlight: Archie Bell
Houston's Archie Bell still knows how to "Tighten Up"
BY GREG BEETS
Spotlight: Barbara Lynn
Beaumont's southpaw R&B queen, oh yeah
BY JAY TRACHTENBERG
Spotlight: The Subways
'England's Newest Hitmakers' try to love up to the hype
BY ANDY LANGER
Spotlight: Jana Hunter
Jana Hunter's unstaring DIY
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
Spotlight: The Clutters
Nashville's Clutters are cleaning out the garage
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Spotlight: KT Tunstall
KT Tunstall, what a difference a year makes
BY ANDY LANGER
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels
TCB
SXSW music news
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
Girls Can Tell
Gadding about
BY MELANIE HAUPT
My SXSW
BY JON LANGFORD
The Insider
Sam Moore wants to make you feel good; just ask Springsteen
BY ANDY LANGER
Spotlight: Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk
Ivan Neville's New Orleans Social Club
BY ANDY LANGER
Spotlight: The Jones Family Singers
Praise the Lord for the Jones Family Singers
BY MARGARET MOSER
Spotlight: Glass Eye
Austin's Glass Eye reunites!
BY GREG BEETS
Spotlight: What Made Milwaukee Famous
What Made Milwaukee Famous does pretty good for Austin, too
BY DARCIE STEVENS
Spotlight: Lady Sovereign
'I'm the little girl with a big voice.'
BY ANDY LANGER
Spotlight: Skullening
Welcome to Skullening's loud, guitarless, screwball drama
BY DARCIE STEVENS
TCB
SXSW music news
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
WEEKLY ISSUE
TCB
What if Austin was its own satellite-radio service?
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
SXSW Records
The Little Willies
The Brakes, The Kooks
The Brakes/Kooks
Real Ones
Head of Femur
Isobel Campbell
Robyn Ludwick
Great Lake Swimmers, Phosphorescent
Great Lake Swimmers/Phosphorescent
Ponderosa Stomp
Kelley Stoltz
Mika Uchizato, Keisho Ohno, Afrirampo
Mika Uchizato/Keisho OhnoAfrirampo
Gogol Bordello
Elijah Wood and Harry Knowles
Elijah Wood and Harry Knowles
Ray Davies
Ray Davies at the Continental Club
The Reatards
Teenage Harlets
Towers of London
A buncha drunk bananas
South Filthy
Austin's South Filthy at Antones
KT Tunstall
KT Tunstall at Waterloo Records
Super XX Man
Super XX Man at Bella Blue Boutique & Gallery's Peek-a-Boo party
screens
2006 Texas Film Hall of Fame
After the Crash
'AMERICANese'
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
SXSW Film 06 Film Awards
Jury and Audience awards from the March 13 ceremony
SXSW Interactive 06 Web Awards
Eminem.com and Technorati win big, while the Dewey Winburne goes to Dale Thompson
What Have We Seen?
Well, quite a lot, actually. Where should we begin?
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
SXSW Film
Wanna see a movie on Thursday? First, read today's reviews, interviews, and more.
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
WEEKLY ISSUE
TV Eye
The theatre of outrage: What happened when I slipped into the packed house for the one-on-one with Henry Rollins at SXSW last Sunday
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Jonathan Demme dreams us back to the golden age of performance films, in which Neil Young unfolds his latest album Prairie Wind in concert at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.
SXSW Film Festival 2006
Something for everyone. See www.sxsw.com/film for full schedule.
V for Vendetta
This is a thinking person’s action film – a futuristic slice of pop-culture agitprop, replete with a costumed antihero, lovingly choreographed action sequences, cunningly ornate dialogue, and a terrific, rousing score.
arts & culture
Who They Are and What They Deserve
The new play 'Voices of Valor' records the memories of a generation that won the war abroad and at home
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
'Biscuit: A Retrospective'
Gallery Lombardi’s posthumous exhibition of 150 collages by local punk rock renaissance darling Randy Turner is a friendly walk through the brain of Biscuit
BY KATE X MESSER
'The Bob Schneider Show'
Whatever your ears think of Bob Schneider's music, your eyes will widen in appreciation at his intaglio etchings on view in his new Flatbed Press solo show
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Arts Reviews
Richard III / The Rivals
In its rotating repertory of 'Richard III' and 'The Rivals,' the Austin Shakespeare Festival shifts between polar extremes: violent tragedy and frothy romance
Greyhounds and Other Virtual Ways to Travel
Spank Dance Company's 'Greyhounds and Other Virtual Ways to Travel' may not move you to the next plane of existence, but its force and beauty will make this plane much more satisfying
'Into the Soul of the Rhythm'
In her exhibition 'Into the Soul of the Rhythm', photojournalist Jana Birchum provides perceptual richness of the moment when the music and the camera dissolve
columns
Page Two: Tonight's the Night
Moving forward into the fog of SXSW
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Letters at 3AM
Bob Dylan says he doesn't know how a guy like him came out of a place like Hibbing. He's been saying things like that for 40 years and I don't know a rock critic who doesn't take him at his word. But I also don't know a rock critic who's been to Hibbing. I wanted to see for myself.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Stephen goes to the Texas Film Hall of Fame and tells who was dripping in what
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
Useful tips in avoiding lung cancer for smokers and nonsmokers alike
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Boating on Town Lake – what's the law?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Day Trips
A family feud has given barbecue lovers two top-notch options in Lockhart, Smitty's Market and Kreuz
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Zebras are evolving something fierce, and how to gauge your shotgun
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: SXSW Free Concert with Spoon & Echo & the Bunnymen
Auditorium Shores at the Long Center, Thursday, March 16, 2006
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
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