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Volume 30, Number 29
news
Old Soul
Bill Maddox died violently under bizarre circumstances – and left a legacy of music, love, and friendship
BY JORDAN SMITH
Point Austin: We Have Just Begun To Fight
The budget battles are only skirmishes in the long march toward democracy
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: Win, Place, and No-Show
One race, two walkovers, and games to be played later
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Headlines
Naked City
Quote of the Week
Keeping Texas Smart – and on the March
Thousands rally to save Texas schools
BY MICHAEL KING
Res Publica
Citizens' calendar, March 17-24
Department of Strange Clarifications
Fire chief sets the record straight
BY MICHAEL KING
Timing Is Everything
Events in Japan cast a long shadow
BY NORA ANKRUM
LEGELAND
Navigating Possible MAP Detours
More reproductive health care antics at the Lege
BY JORDAN SMITH
Republicans Play Defense on Education
Their strategy? Find someone else to blame.
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Bill of the Week
A proposal to outlaw abortion
BY JORDAN SMITH
Getting Puppy Mills to Heel
A bid for the humane treatment of animals
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Hightower Report
Where There's Smoke, There's Firing; and Plenty of American Jobs
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Buen Provecho!
Favorites from Mexico on your SXSW breakfast plate
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Is Glas Beoir Cac
No green beer here, a short list of pubs and eateries for an authentic St. Patty's Day
BY WES MARSHALL
Event Menu
March 17-25
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Apps guide you to grub; and more
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Wednesday Music Preview Guide
Three Wednesday-night appetite-whetters
Thursday Music Preview Guide
Friday Music Preview Guide
Saturday Music Preview Guide
SXSW Lists
SXSW groupings: Metal, Austin jazz, Polish acts, plus everything else
Let's Build a City
All stages lead to the 2010-11 Austin Music Awards
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
The Secret Club
South by Southwest 2011 Keynote speaker Bob Geldof played the Armadillo World Headquarters with the Boomtown Rats. Afterward ....
BY MARGARET MOSER
Move On Fast
Yoko Ono walked on thin ice and lived to tell
BY JODY DENBERG
Off the Record
South by Southwest turns 25, the Austin Music Awards score a Bubble Puppy coup, and Ted Nugent leaves his hat on
BY AUSTIN POWELL
SXSW Records
Amplified Heat, Los Lonely Boys
On the Hunt, Rockpango
Agalloch
Marrow of the Spirit
Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age
Cough
Ritual Abuse
Crowbar
Sever the Wicked Hand
Suplecs
Mad Oak Redoux
Josh T. Pearson
Last of the Country Gentlemen
Devotchka
100 Lovers
Tennis
Cape Dory
Sea of Bees
Songs for the Ravens
Hot Club of Cowtown
What Makes Bob Holler
Nicole Atkins
Mondo Amore
Caitlin Cary & Matt Douglas
Are the Small Ponds
Ólöf Arnalds
Innundir Skinni
James Blake
James Blake
All Tiny Creatures
Harbors
Chikita Violenta
Tre3s
The Baseball Project
Volume 2: High and Inside
Sims
Bad Time Zoo
Beans
End It All
Statik Selektah & Termanology
1982
The Cave Singers
No Witch
Warbeast
Krush the Enemy
The Band of Heathens
Top Hat & the Clapmaster's Son
Gary Wilson
Electric Endicott
Say Hi
Um, Uh Oh
Ron Sexsmith
Long Player Late Bloomer
Toro y Moi
Underneath the Pine
Abigail Washburn
City of Refuge
G-Side
The One ... Cohesive
IMAKEMADBEATS
IMAKEMADBEATS
Caitlin Rose
Own Side Now
Jessica Lea Mayfield
Tell Me
Jason Isbell
Here We Rest
Ian Moore
El Sonido Nuevo
Guy Forsyth
300 Miles From There to Here
North Mississippi Allstars
Keys to the Kingdom
Fitz & the Tantrums
Pickin' Up the Pieces
Luncinda Williams
Blessed
Black Joe Lewis
Scandalous
The Civil Wars
Barton Hollow
Wye Oak
Civilian
Ancient Astronaut
Into Bass and Time
Ringo Deathstarr
Colour Trip
Esben & the Witch
Violet Cries
J Mascis, Obits, Dum Dum Girls
Several Shades of Why, Moody, Standard and Poor, He Gets Me High
Chico Trujillo
Chico de Oro
Candy Claws
Hidden Lands
The High Dials
Anthems for Doomed Youth
Fergus & Geronimo
Unlearn
The Endtables
Endtables, The
Mother Falcon
Alhambra
High Tension Wires
Welcome New Machine
We Were States
Rasa
Liz Phair
Funstyle
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion
Bright Example
Carrie Elkin
Call It My Garden
Kurt Vile
Smoke Ring for My Halo
Middle Brother
Middle Brother
Ha Ha Tonka
Death of a Decade
Bright Eyes
The People's Key
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
Off the Record
SXSW news and carryings on
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels
Day Party Crawl
Live Shots
Josh T. Pearson
SXSW showcase reviews
B L A C K I E All Caps, With Spaces
SXSW showcase reviews
Esben & the Witch
SXSW showcase reviews
Eagle Claw
SXSW showcase reviews
Jimmie Dale Gilmore & The Wronglers
SXSW showcase reviews
Dikes of Holland
SXSW showcase reviews
Follow That Bird!
SXSW showcase reviews
James Blake
SXSW showcase reviews
Freddie Gibbs
SXSW showcase reviews
Foster & Lloyd
SXSW showcase reviews
Ice Cream Man Presents!
BY MATT ALLEN
'MOJO' Recommends
Rising British talent at SXSW picked for your delectation by MOJO Editor-in-Chief Phil Alexander
My SXSW
BY STEVE WYNN
SHOWCASE PREVIEWS
Glasser
The future's so bright Glasser put a ring on it
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
Emmylou Harris
At 63, Emmylou Harris still drives a 'Hard Bargain'
BY JIM CALIGIURI
The Bangles
The 'Doll Revolution' continues
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Chico Mann
Fela Kuti goes Latin
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
Black Milk
The prophecy fulfilled
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Old 97's
The Grand Theatre: Volume One was only the beginning
BY JIM CALIGIURI
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
Off the Record
SXSW news and carryings on
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels
Day Party Crawl
Live Shots
The Strokes
SXSW showcase reviews
Bob Geldof
SXSW showcase reviews
Carla Morrison
SXSW showcase reviews
Schmillion
SXSW showcase reviews
G-Side
SXSW showcase reviews
Band of Heathens
SXSW showcase reviews
Devotchka
SXSW showcase reviews
Capsula
SXSW showcase reviews
Datarock
SXSW showcase reviews
Gabriel Prokofiev
SXSW showcase reviews
Sounds from Colombia
SXSW showcase reviews
Ice Cream Man Presents!
BY MATT ALLEN
MOJO Recommends
Rising British Talent at SXSW as selected by 'MOJO' editor-in-chief Phil Alexander
My SXSW
BY HAYES CARLL
SHOWCASE PREVIEWS
SXSW Music Panel: Fun Fun Fun? Thirty Years of Chronicling Austin Music
Taking The Austin Chronicle Music Anthology to the man on the streets
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Men Without Hats
1am, Club de Ville
BY MEMORY HARKER
Taiwan Indie Night
The Taiwanese will play anywhere, even South by Southwest!
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
EPMD
Back in business, strickly
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Sarah Jaffe
Denton's dark horse of suburbia
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
Freddie Gibbs
Str8 Killa
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
Off the Record
SXSW news and carryings on
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels
Day Party Crawl
Live Shots
Japan Nite
SXSW showcase reviews
James Hand
SXSW showcase reviews
Erin Ivey & the Finest Kind
SXSW showcase reviews
Literature
SXSW showcase reviews
Sarah Jaffe
SXSW showcase reviews
Reading Rainbow
SXSW showcase reviews
The Civil Wars
SXSW showcase reviews
Texas Battle League
SXSW showcase reviews
Pustki
SXSW showcase reviews
Blu/Shad
SXSW showcase reviews
Ice Cream Man Presents!
BY MATT ALLEN
MOJO Recommends
Rising British Talent at SXSW as selected by 'MOJO' editor-in-chief Phil Alexander
My SXSW
BY SAHARA SMITH
SHOWCASE PREVIEWS
Sharon Van Etten
Better. Stronger. Faster. Harder.
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
Chimera Music Night
Sean Lennon on making oatmeal cookies, by hand
BY JODY DENBERG
Peter Stampfel & the Ether Frolic Mob
1am, Creekside at Hilton Garden Inn
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group
12:50am, Emo's Annex
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Dennis Coffey
From Holy Modal Rounders to the Ether Frolic Mob
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
Odd Future
Straight raw forever ...
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
screens
SXSW 2011 Film Awards
Jury and audience award winners announced
Rock the Block
Joe Cornish on working-class angst and alien invaders in Attack the Block
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
SXSW 2011 Film Reviews
Capsule reviews
SXSW Film Conference Quickies
SXSW Interactive Conference Quickies
2011 Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards
Renée Zellweger, Rip Torn, and more
TV Eye: All Thumbs
SXSW outtakes; in line with Roger Ebert; and bad karma
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews
Film Reviews
The Last Lions
This stunning nature documentary about the vanishing lions of Africa is not your children’s Lion King.
Limitless
As cautionary tales go, this is an entertaining take on finding your muse through chemical means.
Lord of the Dance 3D
Opens Thursday, March 17 – on St. Patrick's Day.
Red Riding Hood
Catherine Hardwicke, the director of the first Twilight movie, helms this update of the fairy tale.
SXSW Film Festival 2011
A few more days to go ...
arts & culture
The Hand Inside the Puppet Head
Connor Hopkins and his friends are pleased to meat you
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
'Austin Secrets'
Handling real people's secrets sends improv pros places they've never been before
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Esther's Follies
Laughmeister Kerry Awn retires from the Follies – and is twice as busy as before
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Fiction
Steven Dietz's thoughtful, language-loving play may leave you not liking writers much
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
A cast that knows funny lands the laughs in Neil Simon's comedy about comedy
'Women Printmakers of Austin: Under Pressure'
A lovely, carefully crafted exhibition of ancient techniques that invite contemplation
columns
After A Fashion
Your Style Avatar repents for earlier anti-Renée Zellwegging, peanut butter, chocolate, and pee-pee
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Gay Place
The Gay Place gets all tingly in her unmanned southerly territories.
BY KATE X MESSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
Big Bend Ranch State Park includes some of the most rugged and scenic country in the state
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Oops!
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
After a Fashion
And So(Co) it begins: Your Style Avatar flits through SXSW one daily issue at a time
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Gay Place
Welcome to your warm gay port in the storm, sailor.
BY KATE X MESSER
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar says, 'Ward, we have to talk about Mel Gibson ...'
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Gay Place
Austin loves itself. Hard. Gayness abounds.
BY KATE X MESSER
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
After a Fashion
It's all about the give and take. And the swag.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Gay Place
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu! It's the last SX Fest day and time for GayBi!
BY KATE X MESSER
WEEKLY ISSUE
Luv Doc Recommends: Austin Music Awards
Austin Music Hall, Saturday, March 19, 2011
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
UT Baseball Opens Big 12 Play
UT baseball offers a nice respite from SXSW
Soccer Watch
Man U and AC Milan advance to Champs League final, and more
