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SXSW 29: The Mayor’s Welcome
Mayor Lee Leffingwell welcomed the SXSW guests to Austin on Wednesday. I didn’t hear him do so. In fact, I’ve come to think of Leffingwell as our stealth mayor. He’s always on the job, always doing the city’s work, mind you. But I always just miss him, unlike his predecessor Will Wynn, who stuck around, soaking up the sunlight of Austin socializing.
Erin and Michael Portman
Just different styles, that’s all. The party — and the exchanges of vital SXSW information — still continued after Leffingwell slipped back into his no-nonsense office off the City Hall extension called the Mayor’s Balcony. Another SXSW Music, another ideal day for the Welcome — bright, dry, slightly breezy. Who could ask for anything more?
Jason Callahan, Melissa Rivers and Nathan Felix
New insights. I got ‘em. I spent the most time with Erin and Michael Portman of Birds Barber Shops. They confirmed an impression I’d heard all over town: Friends were skipping SXSW Music for SXSW Interactive or Film in increasing numbers. Not that anyone would undercut the blunt power of Music, which generated the whole East Austin colony over near the Birds outlet on East East Sixth Street.
It’s just that, perhaps the Mayor’s Welcome should come a week earlier.
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