Volume 34, Number 29
Issue Supplements
SXSW 2015 Music Supplement
SXSW 2015 Thursday Preview
SXSW 2015 Friday Preview
SXSW 2015 Saturday Preview
features
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
BOA all day, erryday
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
BOA all day, erryday
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
BOA all day, erryday
news
The Texas Miracle has a very mixed record on state prosperity
BY MICHAEL KING
We've identified the trouble with Austin. It's Austinites.
BY MICHAEL KING
This week's news sounds suspiciously familiar
BY NICK BARBARO
OU takes swift action, while UT declines to punish students, citing freedom of speech
BY MAC MCCANN
Austin's planning woes have a long history
BY MICHAEL KING
Lege considers film incentive program funding and anti-choice antics take hold
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Austin-area rep. wants landlords to think twice before disregarding eviction laws
BY TONY CANTÚ
Students frustrated by delayed aid
BY TASHANNA TURNER
EMS covers the city, but the stress is showing
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
How will Texas kill people if it runs out of the drugs to do it?
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
An immigration loophole for rich foreigners
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The artists that make Austin the cake capital of the world
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD AND BRANDON WATSON
Battle of Paul Qui's holy rollers
BY BRANDON WATSON
Flashes of brilliance
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Where there's smoke, there's barbecue
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
You're never too cool for breakfast
BY BRANDON WATSON
Austin is serious about coffee
BY BRANDON WATSON
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
Slow your roll, SXSWer
BY BRANDON WATSON
Who needs a three martini lunch when there's beer
BY BRANDON WATSON
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
Five award-winning dinners
BY THE FOOD STAFF
Five cocktail bars that stir us.
BY BRANDON WATSON
music
2014-15 winners
Ian McLagan: Small Face, Face, auxiliary Rolling Stone, A-list sideman, Austinite
BY TIM STEGALL
New Doug Sahm documentary and SXSW all-star concert resurrects Austin's cosmic groover
BY MARGARET MOSER
Six lists to get you through SXSW 2015
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Wednesday SXSW Music Preview Guide
Thursday SXSW Music Preview Guide
Friday SXSW Music Preview Guide
Saturday SXSW Music Preview Guide
SXSW 2015 Records
La Isla Bonita
Sremmlife
Short Movie
Weird Little Birthday
The Race for Space
Valley of the Snake
1st Bath
Silk Rhodes
Tuxedo
I Wasn't Born to Lose You
Fear and Saturday Night
Policy
Whatever, My Love
Little Neon Limelight
Breakfast of Failures
Forastera
Mutant Freax EP
The Water[s]
What Happens Next
Sour Soul
Terraplane
Your Old Droog
The Ruffian's Misfortune
This Side of Jordan
Let It Lie
Citizen Zombie
Right From Real
2014 Forest Hills Drive
EarthEE
Young Hot Ebony
Velvet Rut
Viet Cong
Let It Reign
Seeds
At the Garage
Primrose Green
The Firewatcher's Daughter
Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit
New Day Rising
Individ
Alvvays
High on Tulsa Heat
Calm Down
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
Late SXSW Creative Director Brent Grulke memorialized, and other Thursday SXSW tips
BY KEVIN CURTIN
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
Polaroids, print, and dance funk – can they survive SXSW?
BY KEVIN CURTIN
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
Neil Young premieres his director's cut of Human Highway at SXSW, while Graham Reynolds brings Marfa to the Festival
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
SXSW FILM 2015
Texas filmmakers take top feature competition prizes
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Your one-stop shop for all our reviews and interviews
BY MARC SAVLOV
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
BY KATE X MESSER
BY RUSS ESPINOZA
SXSW INTERACTIVE 2015
BY ERIC SOLLENBERGER
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
BY ANDY CAMPBELL
BY ERIC SOLLENBERGER
Film Reviews
Doc captures young dancer Justin Peck choreographing his first ballet
Mira Sorvino stars in this faith-based movie
Women's unequal status under Israeli law is vividly conveyed in this award-winning film
Sean Penn stars as a regretful ex-mercenary in this international game of cat and mouse
Telugu action-thriller.
Doc presents the Russian team members' views of their stunning defeat by the U.S. during the 1980 Olympics
Liam Neeson reunites with his Unknown and Non-Stop director for another action ride
Reap the film bounty.
A genre-tinged story about a love affair abroad keeps us guessing
Telugu comedy.
arts & culture
Advice on how to be an artist
BY ADAM SULTAN
Is this Patrick Terry the Patrick Terry you're looking for?
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Arts Reviews
Hyde Park Theatre's The Christians is remarkable in its compassion for its characters' beliefs
Zell Miller III mounted a stirring, provocative blend of slam poetry, dance, improv, and rap
"000000" makes something out of nothing at Pump Project
columns
Austin actresses go behind the camera
BY AMY GENTRY
This way a gay, that way a gay: Steer here, queers
BY KATE X MESSER
Hot cross buns in the land of pan dulce
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
What's at the fest through a queer lens
BY KATE X MESSER
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
Through a queer lens, brightly
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
Gathering Tribes
BY KATE X MESSER
WEEKLY ISSUE
Don't expect Mickey D's to bring sick game
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY SAM HURT
BY JEN SORENSEN
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE