March 20, 2015

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

Best of Austin – Thursday

BOA all day, erryday

SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY

Best of Austin – Friday

BOA all day, erryday

SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY

Best of Austin – Saturday

BOA all day, erryday
news

Behold the Texas Miracle!

The Texas Miracle has a very mixed record on state prosperity

BY MICHAEL KING

Point Austin: Austin's Ruination

We've identified the trouble with Austin. It's Austinites.

BY MICHAEL KING

Public Notice: What Goes Around ...

This week's news sounds suspiciously familiar

BY NICK BARBARO

Headlines

Quote of the Week

Civics 101

UT, OU Take Different Approaches to Racist Speech

OU takes swift action, while UT declines to punish students, citing freedom of speech

BY MAC MCCANN

Council: Austin is Which Way?

Austin's planning woes have a long history

BY MICHAEL KING

Lege Lines: Film Incentive Program Funding Uncertain, Anti-Choice Buffoonery, and More

Lege considers film incentive program funding and anti-choice antics take hold

BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

Bill of the Week

Austin-area rep. wants landlords to think twice before disregarding eviction laws

BY TONY CANTÚ

Who's Responsible for Financial Aid Woes at H-T?

Students frustrated by delayed aid

BY TASHANNA TURNER

ATCEMS: Growing Overtime & Stress

EMS covers the city, but the stress is showing

BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

Death Watch: A Drug Shortage

How will Texas kill people if it runs out of the drugs to do it?

BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

The Hightower Report

An immigration loophole for rich foreigners

BY JIM HIGHTOWER

food

Let Them Make Cake

The artists that make Austin the cake capital of the world

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD AND BRANDON WATSON

AC Food Fight: East Side King

Battle of Paul Qui's holy rollers

BY BRANDON WATSON

Fixe

Flashes of brilliance

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD

Food-o-File

Where there's smoke, there's barbecue

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD

Food Events

SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY

Lovely Day

You're never too cool for breakfast

BY BRANDON WATSON

One More Cup

Austin is serious about coffee

BY BRANDON WATSON

SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY

Lunch Money

Slow your roll, SXSWer

BY BRANDON WATSON

Tap Dance

Who needs a three martini lunch when there's beer

BY BRANDON WATSON

SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY

First Plates for Your Last Night

Five award-winning dinners

BY THE FOOD STAFF

Lush Life

Five cocktail bars that stir us.

BY BRANDON WATSON

music

Austin Music Awards

2014-15 winners

All or Nothing

Ian McLagan: Small Face, Face, auxiliary Rolling Stone, A-list sideman, Austinite

BY TIM STEGALL

Texas Me

New Doug Sahm documentary and SXSW all-star concert resurrects Austin's cosmic groover

BY MARGARET MOSER

SXSW Music 2015

Playback: SXSW Mission Statement

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

Deerhoof

La Isla Bonita

Rae Sremmurd

Sremmlife

Laura Marling

Short Movie

Happyness

Weird Little Birthday

Public Service Broadcasting

The Race for Space

Ruby the Hatchet

Valley of the Snake

Avid Dancer

1st Bath

Silk Rhodes

Silk Rhodes

Tuxedo

Tuxedo

Swervedriver

I Wasn't Born to Lose You

Ryan Bingham

Fear and Saturday Night

Will Butler

Policy

Juliana Hatfield Three

Whatever, My Love

Houndmouth

Little Neon Limelight

the Blind Shake

Breakfast of Failures

Panda Elliot

Forastera

Ho99o9

Mutant Freax EP

Mick Jenkins

The Water[s]

Gang of Four

What Happens Next

Badbadnotgood & Ghostface Killah

Sour Soul

Steve Earle

Terraplane

Your Old Droog

Your Old Droog

Ray Wylie Hubbard

The Ruffian's Misfortune

Mandolin Orange

This Side of Jordan

Bros. Landreth

Let It Lie

Pop Group

Citizen Zombie

Lydia Ainsworth

Right From Real

J. Cole

2014 Forest Hills Drive

THEEsatisfaction

EarthEE

Father

Young Hot Ebony

Gal Pals

Velvet Rut

Viet Cong

Viet Cong

Carl Barat

Let It Reign

TV on the Radio

Seeds

All Them Witches

At the Garage

Ryley Walker

Primrose Green

Brandi Carlile

The Firewatcher's Daughter

Courtney Barnett

Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit

Von Hertzen Brothers

New Day Rising

Dodos

Individ

Alvvays

Alvvays

John Moreland

High on Tulsa Heat

Lolawolf

Calm Down

SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY

Playback

Late SXSW Creative Director Brent Grulke memorialized, and other Thursday SXSW tips

BY KEVIN CURTIN

SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY

Playback: SXSW News and Sightings

Polaroids, print, and dance funk – can they survive SXSW?

BY KEVIN CURTIN

SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY

Playback

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

SXSW Film Jury and Special Awards Announced

Texas filmmakers take top feature competition prizes

BY KIMBERLEY JONES

SXSW Film 2015 Rundown

Your one-stop shop for all our reviews and interviews

A Conversation With Guillermo del Toro and Ryan Gosling

BY MARC SAVLOV

A Conversation With Sally Field

BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN

Ava DuVernay Keynote

BY KATE X MESSER

The Cast of Community on Moving to Digital

BY RUSS ESPINOZA

Film Reviews

Ballet 422

Doc captures young dancer Justin Peck choreographing his first ballet

Do You Believe?

Mira Sorvino stars in this faith-based movie

Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem

Women's unequal status under Israeli law is vividly conveyed in this award-winning film

The Gunman

Sean Penn stars as a regretful ex-mercenary in this international game of cat and mouse

Janda Pai Kapiraju

Telugu action-thriller.

Red Army

Doc presents the Russian team members' views of their stunning defeat by the U.S. during the 1980 Olympics

Run All Night

Liam Neeson reunites with his Unknown and Non-Stop director for another action ride

South by Southwest Film Festival 2015

Reap the film bounty.

Spring

A genre-tinged story about a love affair abroad keeps us guessing

Yevade Subramanyam

Telugu comedy.
arts & culture

How Not to Be an Artist

Advice on how to be an artist

BY ADAM SULTAN

Who Brings the Wondershow?

Is this Patrick Terry the Patrick Terry you're looking for?

BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER

Arts Reviews

The Christians

Hyde Park Theatre's The Christians is remarkable in its compassion for its characters' beliefs

Hands Up Hoodies Down

Zell Miller III mounted a stirring, provocative blend of slam poetry, dance, improv, and rap

"000000"

"000000" makes something out of nothing at Pump Project
columns

Oops!

The Good Eye: Crossing the (180-Degree) Line

Austin actresses go behind the camera

BY AMY GENTRY

Gay Place: One Queered Up Year

This way a gay, that way a gay: Steer here, queers

BY KATE X MESSER

Day Trips: Marina's German Bakery, El Paso

Hot cross buns in the land of pan dulce

BY GERALD E. MCLEOD

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

BY MR. SMARTY PANTS

SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY

Gay Place

What's at the fest through a queer lens

BY KATE X MESSER

SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY

Gay Place

Through a queer lens, brightly

SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY

Gay Place

Gathering Tribes

BY KATE X MESSER

WEEKLY ISSUE

The Luv Doc: The End Times

Don't expect Mickey D's to bring sick game

BY THE LUV DOC

Feedback

Letters to the editor, published daily
sports

Soccer Watch

BY NICK BARBARO

comics

Eyebeam

BY SAM HURT

Jen Sorensen Comics

BY JEN SORENSEN

This Modern World

BY TOM TOMORROW

Maakies

BY TONY MILLIONAIRE

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