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SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
Gay Place
Where the queers at? SXSW!
BY ASH BELL AND KATE X MESSER
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
Gay Place
Where the queers at on Friday? SXSW!
BY ASH BELL AND KATE X MESSER
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
Gay Place
Where the queers at on Saturday? SXSW!
BY ASH BELL AND KATE X MESSER
news
Just Watch the Livestock
Texas schools' sex ed favors 'don't ask, don't tell ... and keep 'em ignorant'
BY JORDAN SMITH
Point Austin: Removing the Mask
Hard times reveal the way things actually work
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: Bored by campaigning? Don't show.
A funny thing happened on the way to the candidates forum
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Headlines
Res Publica
Naked City
ON THE LEGE
Stingulus: Rick Perry and the $555 Million He Doesn't Want
Perry's stingy rejection of the stimulus money might backfire
BY LEE NICHOLS
Proposed Bills Address Death Penalty
Meanwhile, Texas' death machine churns stronger than ever
BY JORDAN SMITH
Voter ID's Sails Will Lose Wind in House
House Dems eager to stick a fork in voter ID bill
BY LEE NICHOLS
LegeLines
Odds and ends from the Capitol
BY THE NEWS STAFF
Special Session Especially Likely?
With the session at the 60-day mark, bills are running out of time
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Low-Income Women Could Take a Hit
Budget rider targets Planned Parenthood
BY JORDAN SMITH
Bill Would Ban Arms to Drug Cartels
Carona aims to stop gun-running to Mexico
BY JORDAN SMITH
Downtown Austin Plan: Why Do It?
At least three council members question cost
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
City Counseling: If It's Too Loud, You're Too Old
Stop, hey, what's that sound?
BY WELLS DUNBAR
BFI Landfill Is for the (Dead) Birds
A homeowner near a BFI landfill thought the scourge of vultures was bad enough – then they turned up dead
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Ghost Mall? Retail Bagpipes Sound a Dirge for Highland Mall
Retail bagpipes sound a dirge for Highland Mall
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
Corporate Control of Independent Scientific Research; and Death, Taxes ... and Debt Collectors
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Local Hangover Cures
Defeating the porcelain god and that pounding brain
BY MICK VANN
Biscuit Breakfasts in Austin
The best places to grab a biscuit breakfast in Austin
BY MM PACK
Event Menu
Your local foodie events for March 21-28
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Austinites rake in foodie honors, and Downtown food keeps getting better
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
2008-09 Austin Music Awards
Quintessence
Quincy Jones has lived a career that would make his hero, Duke Ellington, proud
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Uncontrollable Urge
Devo's 21st century 'de-evolution' hopefully won't get anyone arrested
BY MARGARET MOSER
SXSW 2009
Wednesday Music Preview Guide
Thursday Music Preview Guide
Friday Music Preview Guide
Saturday Music Preview Guide
Off the Record
The Future Is Unwritten: 360 Degrees of South by Southwest
BY AUSTIN POWELL
SXSW Records
The Decemberists
The Hazards of Love
M. Ward
Hold Time
Glasvegas
Glasvegas
Peter Bjorn & John
Living Thing
Ashu
Sigh of an Angel
Brother Ali
The Truth Is Here
Phosphorescent
To Willie
School of Seven Bells
Alpinisms
Pack of Wolves, Kylesa, Tombs, Absu, Megazilla, Wolves in the Throne Room, Earthless
Betrayer, Static Tensions, Winter Hours, Absu, Please, Please, Sorry, Thank You, Black Cascade, Live at Roadburn
Handsome Furs, Obits, Vetiver, Red Red Meat
Face Control, I Blame You, Tight Knit, Bunny Gets Paid
Callers, Balmorhea, J. Tillman, Here We Go Magic
Fortune, All Is Wild, All Is Silent, Vacilando Territory Blues, Here We Go Magic
Danny Schmidt
Instead the Forest Rose to Sing
Elvis Perkins in Dearland
Elvis Perkins in Dearland
Justin Townes Earle
Midnight at the Movies
Richard Swift
The Atlantic Ocean
Frank Turner
Love Ire & Song
Julie Doiron
I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day
Bishop Allen
Grrr ...
Wavves
Wavvves
POS
Never Better
K'Naan
The Truth Is Here
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour
Fruit
Vivian Girls
Vivian Girls
Women
Women
Gomez
A New Tide
Deradoorian, Violens, Abe Vigoda, Ettes, Suckers
Mind Raft, Violens, Reviver, Danger Is
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
Tell 'Em What Your Name Is!
The Krayolas
Long Leaf Pine (No Smack Gum)
Willie Nile
House of a Thousand Guitars
Alela Diane
To Be Still
Dent May
The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele
Mark Olson & Gary Louris
Ready for the Flood
The Felice Brothers
Yonder Is the Clock
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Cursive
Mama, I'm Swollen
Riverboat Gamblers
Underneath the Owl
Lady Sovereign
Jigsaw
O+S
O+S
Marco Benevento
Me Not Me
Crystal Antlers
Tentacles
Sheet Music
Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
The Strange Boys
And Girls Club
PJ Harvey & John Parish
A Woman a Man Walked By
Bosque Brown
Baby
Indigo Girls
Poseidon and the Bitter Bug
Kat Edmonson
Take to the Sky
Razorlight
Slipway Fires
Telekinesis
Telekinesis!
Iran
Dissolver
Titus Andronicus
The Airing of Grievances
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
2008-09 Austin Music Awards Show
Austin Music Hall, Wednesday, March 18
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW Panels
Day Party Crawl
Off the Record
SXSW music news and carryings-on
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Live Shots
Bogart & the Addictives
The Parish Downstairs
Cut off Your Hands
Vice
The Boat People
Buffalo Billiards
Anni Rossi
Central Presbyterian Church
Hacienda
Headhunters
'Mojo' Recommends
The best British music at SXSW as selected by 'Mojo' editor-in-chief Phil Alexander
Ice Cream Man Presents!
Thursday's Flavor: Still Flyin'
BY MATT ALLEN
My SXSW
BY SUZANNA CHOFFEL
SHOWCASE PREVIEWS
Spotlight: Dirty Projectors
The psychotic musical plays on
BY DARCIE STEVENS
Spotlight: Foot Patrol
Fetish funk and rubber soles
BY GREG BEETS
Spotlight: Erin McCarley
SXSW 08 success story returns for her encore
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Spotlight: BeauSoleil
Cajun licks with Michael Doucet
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Spotlight: Ben Harper & Relentless7
Unloading both sides of the gun
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Spotlight: The Bar-Kays
Hot buttered soul that aims to please
BY GREG BEETS
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
Live Shots
Dirty Projectors
SXSW showcase reviews
Dappled Cities
SXSW showcase reviews
Descartes a Kant
SXSW showcase reviews
Flower Travellin' Band
SXSW showcase reviews
Quincy Jones
Keynote address
Grizzly Bear
SXSW showcase reviews
K'Naan
SXSW showcase reviews
Doug Sahm Tribute
SXSW showcase reviews
Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguar/Dead Oceans Showcase
SXSW showcase reviews
Red Red Meat
SXSW showcase reviews
Total Abuse
SXSW showcase reviews
Off the Record
Playing in Traffic with Los Lonely Boys, Daniel Johnston, Roky Erickson's Ice Cream Social, and Dan Auerbach
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW Panels
Day Party Crawl
'Mojo' Recommends
Mojo showcasers prog the rock
Ice Cream Man Presents!
Ice Cream Man slings the Love Language
BY MATT ALLEN
My SXSW
What it took for one metal band to make it from Tehran to SXSW
SHOWCASE PREVIEWS
Ponderosa Stomp
Where the past comes alive
BY GREG BEETS
Margaret Cho
What wouldn't the Renaissance woman do?
BY KATE X MESSER
The Arc Angels
The official reunion has begun
BY JIM CALIGIURI
The Sonics
Ancient garage-rock back from before the Summer of Love
BY AUSTIN POWELL
The Drones
Savage punks from the Australian outback
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Mr. Lif
Positive MC gets second lease on life
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
Live Shots
The Sonics
SXSW showcase reviews
Mayyors
SXSW showcase reviews
Alash
SXSW showcase reviews
Scottish Arts Council Showcase
SXSW showcase reviews
Flatstock 20
SXSW showcase reviews
T Bird & the Breaks
SXSW showcase reviews
Pilar Diaz
SXSW showcase reviews
The Felice Brothers
SXSW showcase reviews
Tombs
SXSW showcase reviews
Tarantist
SXSW showcase reviews
Absu
SXSW showcase reviews
Solange & the Hadley St. Dreams
SXSW showcase reviews
School of Seven Bells
SXSW showcase reviews
Off the Record
Surprise, guess what Bay Area metal behemoth played Stubb's after all?
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels
Day Party Crawl
'Mojo' Recommends
Blur guitarist returns to SXSW for some BBQ.
Ice Cream Man Presents!
R&B raunch, an ice cream flavor you never knew existed.
BY MATT ALLEN
SHOWCASE PREVIEWS
Spotlight: The Cannabinoids Featuring Erykah Badu
Erykah Badu takes you higher
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
Spotlight: Rachel Goodrich
Tinker Toys in the attic
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
Spotlight: The Wooden Birds
American Analog Set's Andrew Kenny takes solo flight
BY DARCIE STEVENS
Spotlight: Amplified Heat
Classic. Power. Trio.
BY DANIEL MEE
Spotlight: Kat Edmonson
Kat Edmonson redefines jazz and pop
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Spotlight: Dead Prez
Still revolutionary and gangster
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
screens
SXSW 09 Film Awards
And the winners are ...
Help Me Help You
Career advice and self-help evangelism at SXSW
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
SXSW 09 Film Reviews
SXSW Interactive Bytes
TV Eye
'TV Eye' puzzles over Kings and ponders 10 years in print
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
SXSW Film
Reviews and Interviews
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
SXSW Film
Reviews and interviews
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
SXSW Film
Reviews and interviews
Film Reviews
Circus
This is a Kannada-language romantic thriller from India.
Duplicity
Julia Roberts and Clive Owen star in this new thriller about schemers and double-dealers.
The Great Buck Howard
Appearing as the has-been mentalist Buck Howard, John Malkovich delivers another memorably eccentric performance.
I Love You, Man
Paul Rudd stars in this "bromance" comedy in which sweet scenes of male camaraderie contrast with moments of gross-out humor.
The Last House on the Left
Two parents take revenge on the scum who raped and savaged their daughter in the remake of Wes Craven's grisly horror landmark.
Miss March
Two-fifths of the Whitest Kids U'Know comedy troupe wrote, star in, and co-directed this nubile sex romp about a road trip to the Playboy mansion.
Race to Witch Mountain
In this updated remake of the beloved Disney series of family movies, two siblings with supernatural powers seek refuge with a cabbie and a UFO specialist.
SXSW 2009 Film Festival
Go out and explore. With so many options, it's hard to go wrong.
arts & culture
Such Stuff as Screams Are Made On
Austin punk gets the museum treatment, but does the scene come off as dead or alive?
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Todd Barry: Todd Barry Rock City
The veteran stand-up comic isn't a rock star, but he played one on TV
BY STEVE BIRMINGHAM
Andrew Jeffrey Wright: Making us believers in art
The pop sensibility and humor of this Philadelphia artist feel a lot like Austin
BY RACHEL KOPER
Long Center for the Performing Arts: Light that first candle!
As the performing arts venue turns one, Marvin Hamlisch sings "happy birthday" to it
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Shooting Star
Stories told this well don't come around very often, and this one deserves to be seen
Bombs in Your Mouth
Two siblings mourning their jerk of a dad are cause for hilarity rather than grief
Tom Molloy: Lucid
Tom Molloy's drawings are delicate but have the power to give you nightmares
columns
Page Two: Hymn to My Own
The untalented, the ungifted, the slow, and the lost
BY LOUIS BLACK
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar is all agog at the gods of film and music
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Gay Place
The Gay Place is queer for SXSW!
BY KATE X MESSER AND ASH BELL
Day Trips
Enchanted Rocks & Jewelry sits near the center of one of the richest geological areas in Texas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Playing Through
At the Boot Camp Challenge, 'what you hate the most works the best'
BY MARK FAGAN
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Lawyer Referral Service of Central Texas
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Cold War Kids, and M. Ward
Auditorium Shores at the Long Center, Thursday, March 19, 2009
BY THE LUV DOC
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