Volume 30, Number 28
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features
Get everywhere, no car needed
BY KATE X MESSER AND JAMES RENOVITCH
news
Texans advance on Capitol in bid to preserve public schools
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Wrongly convicted exonerees come to the Texas Capitol
BY JORDAN SMITH
If apologies are in order, the line forms here
BY MICHAEL KING
It ain't what you do – it's what you shouldn't say in e-mails
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Exoneree entitled to full compensation
BY JORDAN SMITH
Facility master plan gets a supplement
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Framework thus far avoids controversy
BY WELLS DUNBAR
New coalition opposes nuke proposal
BY NORA ANKRUM
The consequences of hitting the send button
BY MICHAEL KING
LEGELAND
Republicans and their probes: Coming to a vagina near you
BY JORDAN SMITH
Leaping through the 'laundry loophole'
BY LEE NICHOLS
Code enforcers crack down on Casa de Luz
BY MIKE KANIN
Strange timing for Car2Go fleet switch, boundary expansion
BY KATE X MESSER
Citizens' calendar, March 10-16
Fumbling Lawsuits; and Snorting Koch in Wisconsin
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Strategic local restaurant suggestions to enhance your SXSW Film Festival schedule
Some late-night lifesavers to keep you well-fed in the wee hours of SXSW
BY MICK VANN
Food news for your four-legged friends and more
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Get your South by Southwest started the right way – with pork!
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Everyone profiled this SXSW is already clamoring toward the top of Austin's larger-scene dog pile
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Tuesday Music Preview Guide
South by Southwest Music showcases begin Tuesday night this year, so do our Picks & Sleepers
Carolyn Wonderland ties the knot while Gary Clark Jr. gets pulled up to the majors and a sea of SXSW news
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Phases & Stages
Red Barked Tree
Catch My Shoe
Color Blind
The Majestic Silver Strings
The Atlantic Recordings
screens
SXSW FILM
SXSW Film is here
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Film is where you find it
A regular schlub turns caped crusader in James Gunn's Super
BY MARC SAVLOV
Patty Schemel doc Hit So Hard remembers living and dying in the 1990s
BY CINDY WIDNER
Actor Olly Alexander puts aside the weirdos and psychos for the sweetly romantic The Dish & the Spoon
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Devilish doings in Ti West's new ghost story
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
In a Better World director Susanne Bier on her creative process
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
The meta world of Outside Industry, Alan Berg's new documentary about SXSW, coming soon to SXSW
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Sex meets social media in Fuck My Life
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
The unlikely heroes of big business
BY WELLS DUNBAR
A former exchange student re-examines her trial by fire in Brownsville
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Alex Munt spells it out
BY BOB BYINGTON
Kyle Smith explores friendships taking a hard hit in real-time in Turkey Bowl
BY JOE O'CONNELL
The facts: a tragic house fire, a man executed, a governor under suspicion. Everything else is a mystery.
BY JORDAN SMITH
No mere calling card or stepping stone, the short film is enjoying a renaissance
BY MARC SAVLOV
Doc explores the creative vision of an album cover art pioneer
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Wyatt Cenac on emceeing the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Luke Savisky and Wiley Wiggins put the visual in A/V
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
The Walking Dead's short season makes the case for more quality, less quantity
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Aliens fight the U.S. Marines in a gritty urban war. Viewers are the losers.
Based on a children's book by Berkely Breathed, this animated film looks good but lacks emotion.
In this Eighties-set romance, a guy spends an unforgettable evening chasing the woman of his high school dreams.
arts & culture
Beili Liu makes an art of channeling the forces within objects and us
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The march of 20 bands descends on Austin
BY KATE X MESSER
Vincent Kitch off to head the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs in Seattle
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Tapping the play's frivolity and optimism, St. Ed's students create a charming show
This play's use of social media and interactive tech brings something new to theatre
See this survey of Austin's emerging savants, and you'll do yourself a big, big favor
columns
Ghosts of SXSW and the Chronicle past
BY LOUIS BLACK
Rio eyed Shreveport. Shreveport eyed Rio.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Your Style Avatar wants Austin to actually have a fashion industry, not just the appearance of one
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
South by So Gay. That's what we like to call it.
BY KATE X MESSER
The Hangar Hotel engulfs you in a world far away from the ordinary
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Liquid lasers, comic books, and other stuffs
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Travis County Expo Center, Saturday, March 12, 2011
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Lonestar Rollergirls fill the SXSW sports void
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Barcelona knocks Arsenal out of Champs League, and more
BY NICK BARBARO