American Craft Beer Week presents: Shortcase 2012

North by Northwest Restaurant and Brewery

05.17.12

In celebration of American Craft Beer Week, North by Northwest Restaurant and Brewery joins Austin Film Society to sponsor an encore presentation of the AFS Member ShortCase from SXSW 2012. Me

Utopia sessions music

SXSW Encore: A private performance from Holiday, your musical antidote to the blistering summer

By Caitlin M. Ryan

04.04.12 | 12:30 pm

A five-piece band born and bred in Austin, Holiday (Maggie Leyenberger, Kent Arnold, Dennis McHale, Waybe Dalchau, Travis Tejas) serves up unaffected indie pop-rock that's guaranteed ...

where'd you get that?

Street Seen special: The retro-heavy, musician-filled SXSW edition

By Shelley Neuman

03.19.12 | 3:00 pm

Austin city streets were littered with retro, vintage-inspired looks over the course of SXSW. We stopped a handful of people sporting particularly bold get-ups — many of whom turned out to be ...

SXSW Recap

Nas brings his whole neighborhood (plus Sleigh Bells) to ACL Live, while Nikka Costa funks up Buca

By Dan Solomon

03.19.12 | 11:44 am

SXSW Saturday was a battle between the hordes of coastal out-of-towners (and their local counterparts) frantically fighting through lines and exhaustion to guarantee a successful conclusion to the ...

style in action

Part fashion show, part trade show: Style X proves fashion is up to you, not the elite

By Kelly Wendt

03.19.12 | 10:17 am

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unofficial SX

Hill Country rocks with some downhome tunes at Heartbreaker Banquet at Willie's Western Town

By Meredith Rainey

03.16.12 | 5:28 pm

Heartbreaker Banquet at Willie Nelson's western town known as Luck in Spicewood was a rousing success Thursday.  More than a dozen artists and bands played two stages during the music even ...

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NPR's day show celebrates indies and ends with an electric set from The Magnetic Fields

By Garland Grey

03.16.12 | 5:00 pm

Every year I make it a point to make it to NPR's day show at The Parish. I always walk away having seen phenomenal acts and this year was no different. Here's the rundown on a few artists t ...

cocktail culture

Sloshed by Southwest: A menu of Austin's most potent cocktails

By Mark Killian

03.13.12 | 2:00 pm

What do SXSW attendees do when they’re not geeking out about the latest geolocation app, lining Congress for a Paramount premiere or checking the Twittersphere for Springsteen speculations? T ...

Party on, Dudes

Join Alex Winter for a most excellent adventure through the rise and fall of Napster

By Austin Sanders

03.13.12 | 11:00 am

As the struggle to control online piracy continues throughout the world, SXSW Film-goers will have the chance to look back at the peer-to-peer service that started it all. Napster, the infamous fil ...

ideas in motion

Roll with it: Record-breaking Cinetics puts cameras in unexpected places

By Caitlin M. Ryan

03.12.12 | 3:05 pm

“It’s really easy to have an idea,” says founder and CEO of Cinetics, Justin Jensen, of entrepreneurialism. “But it’s the act of putting everything aside and saying &# ...