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Volume 26, Number 28
features
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
After a Fashion: Thursday
A field guide to festival attendees, and more random notes from inside the circle
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
After a Fashion: Friday
Your Style Avatar is on the scene at the AMAs!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
After a Fashion: Saturday
Our Sytle Avatar's Style Avatar, one Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las rocked his little world
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
news
History Still Hidden
Reporter of 'Statesman' racial cleansing series disowns published version
BY KEVIN BRASS
TDCJ Negligence Alleged
Texas Civil Rights Project says failure to follow policy and provide adequate medical attention in timely manner are to blame in prisoner deaths.
BY JORDAN SMITH
A Kealing Compromise
District won't formally separate Kealing Middle School's magnet program from neighborhood school
BY JUSTIN WARD
Naked City
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
SXSW Pixels
Friday music in pictures
WEEKLY ISSUE
Point Austin: Think of the Children!
Health care no match for hot air
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
Protecting the Furnishings; and Black's Abacus
BY WELLS DUNBAR
On the Lege
Pro-gambling interests try their luck again; and other Lege news
BY AMY SMITH
Reefer Madness
But DEA still refuses to admit hemp and pot are different crops
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Hightower Report
Garbled Translations; and Another War in Iraq
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Full Plate
In planning your SXSW itinerary, make room for these 10 dining destinations
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Irish Pubs on the Event Menu
Beannachtam na Femle Padraig
BY WES MARSHALL
True 'Cue
Rodeo Cook-Off and Stall Crawl
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Food-o-File
Mother's is tough; Vera's Pies are stuffed; and Dream Bakery offers a Persian puff
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Shake Appeal
Iggy Pop, whistling a merry tune
BY MARGARET MOSER
Spiritual Boys
Pete Townshend pays tribute to Ronnie Lane
BY JODY DENBERG
Austin Music Award Winners
SXSW Music Fest Preview Guide
Picks & sleepers
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
2006-07 Austin Music Awards Show
Austin Convention Center, Wednesday, March 14
BY GREG BEETS
SXSW Music: Pete Townshend Keynote Address
Hilton Grand Ballroom, Wednesday, March 14, 6:30pm
BY MICHAEL BERTIN
Girls Can Tell
Gadding about
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Day Party Crawl
My SXSW
Music Fest Diary
BY THOMAS DOLBY
The Insider: Scott Lapatine
Blogosphere's big gun on SXSW and who to stalk
BY ANDY LANGER
Ice Cream Man Presents!
Division Day
BY MATT ALLEN
TCB: Thursday
SXSW Music News and Carryings On
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Spotlight: Billy Cook
The sampled sound of the South: Billy Cook
BY ROBERT GABRIEL
Spotlight: Shearwater
Okkervil River offshoot Shearwater finally takes flight
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Spotlight: Micah P. Hinson
Back from back surgery, Micah P. Hinson tries his hand at Roy Orbison
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Spotlight: Hacienda Brothers
The Hacienda Brothers' Western soul gives Chris Gaffney his uppercut
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Spotlight: Bill Kirchen
The King of dieselbilly, Bill Kirchen, taking one step forward and two steps back
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Spotlight: Nightwatchman
Tom Morello doesn't have to preach revolution through Marshall stacks
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW Panels
'Mojo' Recommends
British picks for SXSW by 'Mojo' Editor-in-Chief Phil Alexander
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
The Insider: Chuck D
Chuck D, gathering no moss
BY ANDY LANGER
My SXSW
Music Fest Diary
BY DONOVAN
Ice Cream Man Presents!
Friday's Flavor: The Pipettes
BY MATT ALLEN
Girls Can Tell
Gadding about
BY MELANIE HAUPT
'Mojo' Recommends
Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys, driving popsters and cows mad
SPOTLIGHTS
Spotlight: Pam Tillis
Pam Tillis plots her comeback.
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Spotlight: Willie Tee
Willie Tee won't just be "Teasing You" at the Ponderosa Stomp
BY ROBERT GABRIEL
Spotlight: Dennis Coffey
Dennis Coffey, "Scorpio," and funk soul brother forever
BY ROBERT GABRIEL
Spotlight: Hoodoo Gurus
Aussie essentials Hoodoo Gurus, back from the dead
BY MICHAEL BERTIN
Spotlight: Green Milk From the Planet Orange
Japanese prog-punk in two minutes or 40
BY GREG BEETS
Spotlight: Bobby Patterson
Dallas soulman Bobby Patterson, no blues caddy
BY GREG BEETS
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW Panels
TCB: Friday
SXSW music news and carryings on
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Day Party Crawl
SXSW Pixels
Thursday music in pictures
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
The Insider: Jim Pitt
Conan O'Brien's music booker sees Explosions in the Sky
BY ANDY LANGER
My SXSW
Music Fest Diary
BY ANDREW W. K.
'Mojo' Recommends
Field Music, from the Beatles and Monk to Igor Stravinsky
SPOTLIGHTS
Spotlight: Boris
Japenese metal trio Boris lurch into drone
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Spotlight: The Strange Boys
Soon to be Austin garage quartet the Strange Boys and their American Bandstand
BY DARCIE STEVENS
Spotlight: Graham Parker
Graham Parker, still squeezing out the sparks
BY MICHAEL BERTIN
Spotlight: Saints
The Saints, not stranded in punk nostalgia
BY MICHAEL BERTIN
Spotlight: Girl Talk
Girl Talk's fantasy mash-ups
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Spotlight: Trae
Trae's not too 'Restless' to be real
BY ROBERT GABRIEL
TCB: Saturday
SXSW music news and carryings on
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW Panels
Girls Can Tell
Gadding about
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Day Party Crawl
Live Shots
SXSW showcase reviews
BY DOUG FREEMAN
WEEKLY ISSUE
TCB
SXSW at 21 is one heckuva wascawwy wabbit
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
SXSW Reviews
Amy Winehouse
SXSW showcase reviews
Viktor Krauss
SXSW showcase reviews
Powell St. John
SXSW showcase reviews
Thurston Moore Instrumental
SXSW showcase reviews
Public Enemy
SXSW showcase reviews
Peter & the Wolf
SXSW showcase reviews
Andrew Bird
SXSW showcase reviews
Duncan Sheik
SXSW showcase reviews
screens
SXSW Film 07 Awards
Jury and audience awards announced on Tuesday, March 13
SXSW Interactive 07 Web Awards
OwnYourC wins Best in Show, and more from Sunday's ceremony
Texas Film Hall of Fame
Playing Around
Reports From Interactive Panels on Gaming
BY CARSON BARKER
SXSW Film Reviews
From the festival front: reviews, panel reports, photos of famous people, and more
SXSW Panels
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
SXSW Film Minute: Honeydripper
Indie film icon John Sayles, not lip-synching
BY MICHAEL BERTIN
SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews
WEEKLY ISSUE
Film News
Texas could be like New York
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
Showtime for This American Life
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
A wickedly entertaining postmodern take on the hallowed, Eighties-era slasher flicks.
Hat Trick
New Bollywood film linking stories about the game of cricket.
The Italian
An Italian couple’s decision to adopt a Russian boy creates a troubling situation for young Vanya, who doesn't want to leave the country without meeting his birth mother.
Maxed Out
A documentary about our credit-card mess and some of the casualties of debt.
SXSW Film Festival 2007
Something for everyone. See this week's Screens section, issue insert, and www.sxsw.com/film for full schedule and lots of info.
The Ultimate Gift
In this inspirational film, a deceased tycoon's will decrees that his grandson perform a series of tasks to determine if the young man is worthy of inheriting the fortune.
The Work and the Glory III: A House Divided
The third and final installment in this film series based on the bestselling series of novels about Mormon history.
arts & culture
How Does an Artist Get a Passport?
Two Austin playwrights join dozens of writers from across the hemisphere to 'dream the Americas'
Joe Ely's 'Bonfire of Roadmaps': A life on the road, in 50 feet of drawings
Veteran Texas rocker Joe Ely forsakes the roadhouse for the Ransom Center, to show off his lifetime of artwork and verse about a musician's life on tour
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'Cry-Baby': Rockabilly heartthrob needed for Broadway run
A new stage musical adapted from John Waters' 1990 film Cry-Baby needs a hunky musician for the title role and thinks he might be in Austin
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Austin Art Galleries: Venues in bloom
This is the season when new visual arts galleries seem to sprout up everywhere like bluebonnets, and this spring brings us a bumper crop
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'I Am Not Tartuffe': American rock & roll vs. French art film
Yellow Tape Construction Company's I Am Not Tartuffe reimagines Molière's satire as a tale of scheming French people plotting to take over America's future
BY ELIZABETH COBBE
Arts Reviews
The Lion King
The cast of this touring production of Disney's The Lion King performs with such skill and fullness of spirit that the show soars on an uplifting freshness
'Draw'
Gallery Lombardi is in its new space on Seventh Street with another group show hanging salon-style, but there's something a little different about "Draw"
'Christa Palazzolo: City Folk'
Christa Palazzolo was an astounding painter before she left Austin for New York, but her solo show at 1906 Gallery shows that her artistic skill has only deepened
columns
Page Two: The Glory of It All
Celebrating the insane energy and rippling barrage of popular culture
BY LOUIS BLACK
Letters @ 3AM
These Lubbock friends of mine were always writing books – thick notebooks of drawings and words
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
How many times did Stephen wear that suit? Come along to the premiere of the Domain and this year's Texas Film Hall of Fame.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Simon Vega pays tribute to Elvis with his own Little Graceland
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Common Law
Landlord's perspective on tenant disputes
BY LUKE ELLIS
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: Saturday Dew Music Festival at Town Lake with Riverboat Gamblers, Against Me! and Mastodon
Auditorium Shores at the Long Center, Saturday, March 17, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
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