2009 General schedules

Film

• 3/13: Registration, festival begins; opening party
• 3/14: Film conference registration and festival
• 3/14-3/17: Film panels, festival, trade show
• 3/17: Film awards and conference closing party
• 3/18-3/21: Film festival
• Official Web site

Interactive

• 3/13: Registration, panels begin
• 3/14: Opening parties, trade show opens, panels
• 3/15: Trade show, panels, Web awards
• 3/16: Panels, trade show
• 3/17: Panels, trade show, closing party
• Official Web site

Music

• 3/18: Registration, panels and festival begin, welcome dinner, Austin Music Awards
• 3/19-21: Panels, festival, trade show, Flatstock Poster Artist show
• 3/21-22: Austin Record Convention & Texas Guitar Show
• 3/22: Music festival, softball tournament and barbeque
• Official Web site

Posted: Mar. 30, 11:18 AM
At least for now. We report this because 20 minutes of raucous clips of the new Sacha Baron Cohen comedy screened during SXSW and our own Charles Ealy watched and blogged about it HERE. Sharon Waxman at The Wrap reports:…
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Posted: Mar. 20, 4:29 PM
I saw another exquisite film during SXSW, Ramin Bahrani’s human-scale pearl “Goodbye Solo” on Thursday at the Alamo South. I’m a vocal fan of Bahrani’s work — last year’s “Chop Shop” made my Top 10 list — and the new…
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Posted: Mar. 18, 9:20 PM
A guy stood up in the front row, peeled off his shirt and swung it above his head tonight at the Paramount. A movie was playing. On the giant screen was a thrashing metal concert. Iron Maiden was performing “Number…
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Posted: Mar. 18, 12:30 PM
Sometimes we think we’re in the loop. Sometimes we are laughably deluded. We missed this big special show during the festival, and we are sad. Karen Carpenter, played by Academy Award-winner Barbie…
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Posted: Mar. 18, 11:44 AM
As I was leaving the Hilton of Fourth Street around 10:30 a.m. after interviewing director Kathryn Bigelow for “The Hurt Locker,” I ran into a group of young German hipsters, who wanted to know whether I knew my way around…
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Posted: Oct. 29, 5:21 PM
I spent half the day at Innotech Austin, a one-day conference that melds elements of business, technology and marketing, among other subjects. I’m not a business reporter anymore, so I’m always a little leery of events with such a heavy…
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Posted: Sep. 24, 1:05 PM
At the AT&T Austin human factors lab. Omar L. Gallaga/AMERICAN-STATESMAN Yesterday, I had a chance to visit AT&T’s Austin lab, where it tests out new wireless products, makes improvements to its U-verse TV service through human interaction testing and makes…
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Posted: Mar. 24, 3:55 PM
You can’t see this (thank goodness), but I’m doing deep knee bends and wrist rotations in order to try to recover some muscle memory of the last time we did a Linkdown around here. Has it really been that long?…
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Posted: Mar. 23, 5:08 PM
It’s been almost a week since my head exploded from all the fun that was South by Southwest Interactive (maybe you heard something about it on this blog?). Although i didn’t get enough rest afterward like I’d planned (never plan…
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Posted: Mar. 19, 12:29 PM
In an interview yesterday, South by Southwest Interactive director Hugh Forrest (pictured at right) said attendance at the festival grew about 25 percent over last year, which we estimate puts the number of people with access to SXSWi at more…
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