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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Your A-List, Best Latin Group or Singer
Ages ago, the musical category “Latin Group or Singer” would have naturally attracted a long list of Tejano artists. No longer. Austin’s Latino music scene has diversified in a dizzying manner, leaving A-List voters with a hemisphere of candidates.
No. 3 on these particular charts was an old Austin hand who still retains a boyish charm — David Garza with 11 percent. No. 4 is one of the city’s ecstatically embraced bands — Grupo Fantasma with 9 percent. Critically lauded Alejandro Escovedo took 7 percent, while large-sound Del Castillo snapped up 4 percent.
Salvaging 1 percent or less were Brownout, The Brew, Manejo Beto, Patricia Vonne, Lila Downes, Los Bad Apples, Ocote Soul Sounds, Charanga Cakewalk, Kanko and Latin at Heart.
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Your A-List, Best Blog
Austin’s first role — other than that buffalo camp thing — was as capital of an independent republic. Every since, politics has overshadowed most other activities in the city. And despite the rise of higher education, sports, high tech and entertainment as competing pastimes, politics still makes for popular reading.
The only entertainment blog in the Top 5? Out & About with 5 percent of the tally. (Thank you, thank you.) Dear friend Eugene Sepulveda and his aptly named Community Matters — also pretty political — followed closely with 4 percent (my husband, Kip, vote for CM over O&A).
Attracting 3 percent or less were Kat Candler’s noodlings, Austinist’s Allen Y. Chen, Harry Knowles’ Ain’t It Cool News (surely the most read blog of all these on a global scale), Austin Tidbits, Scott Henson’s Grits for Breakfast, Austinist’s TrueCraig, Austin Chronicle’s Earache, (newsroom colleague) Matthew Odam’s The M.O., Bryan Poyser’s Austin Film Society entry and Random Neural Misfirings.
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O&A SXSW 28: Tip Jar 1
We did ask for SXSW tips. And readers responded. Some gossip was impossible to confirm (like David Bowie shopping at Prototype on South Congress Avenue). Other lemon drops were simply self-serving without entertainment value.
Culled from the tips so far:
Michael Penn had the ladies — and some men — fainting with appreciation before, during and after his SXSW talk on music and film.
BMI’s Kay Clary, Michael Penn, BMI’s Anne Cercere, Austin publicist Jill McGuckin. Photo credit: Erica Goldring
Privacy-concerned Sandra Bullock was seen dining with man Jesse James at Bess. Recently, Bullock has been trying to prove her Austin credentials, but you’re not likely to see her granting your columnist an interview.
Caught shopping at Eliza Page during SXSW: Carla Gugino (“Watchman”); Connie Britton (“Friday Night Lights”) and Marley Shelton (“Never Been Kissed”).
Janell Vela-Smith from Iron Dragon Productions sent in this not-so-candid SXSW shot of herself with Henry Selick of “Nightmare before Christmas” fame (above).
Fred Miller reported this tidbit that I hadn’t heard so far: On Saturday at 12:45 Gene Kranz from NASA control center who made famous the saying “Failure is Not an Option!” during Apollo 13 will arrive at the Parmount Theater in Alan Bean’s restored 1968 Corvette. HD version of “For All Mankind” will show for the first time at 1:30. The filmmaker Al Reinert will host Kranz for Q&A after the show and then it is off to Sholtz Garten at 4:30 or 5:00.
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