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May 1, 2012
In Luling, TX, A Shop Devotes Itself Almost Exclusively to Watermelons; All Hail the Thump Queen!
The sheer quantity of watermelon-themed merchandise is bewildering. Luling is an important whistlestop on the Central Texas barbecue trail. Sitting on the main drag just across from the railroad tracks that bisect the town, City Market is one of those venerable pits that grew out of an early-20th ... More >>
Blogs
April 30, 2012
SXSW Nostalgia: Breakfast Tacos at Downtown Bakery
Two to an order, the breakfast tacos are not far from those you had in Texas. Generations of SXSW attendees have returned from Austin totally addicted to breakfast tacos. They've been treated like drug users on a cold-turkey program due to lack of supply in the city. You'd think some canny restaur ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 28, 2012
READY, SET, LOOP
SBTRKT brings the beats to Webster Hall
Music
March 21, 2012
Muscling in at SXSW
What happens when music's big names want to be rediscovered?
Blogs
March 19, 2012
Live: The Village Voice Hosts An 18-Band Marathon In Austin
Village Voice SXSW Showcase Red Eyed Fly, Austin Saturday, March 17 Better than: Drinking green beer on Sixth Street. During South by Southwest, musicians, industry folks, and people who want to have a particularly music-filled spring break head to Austin in order to soak in the less-threatening M ... More >>
Blogs
March 19, 2012
The Worst Moments From SXSW 2012
Over the last few days, Village Voice Media's music editors have been regaling you with stories of the best from Austin's South By Southwest Festival. But with the best must come the worst, and our critics unfortunately came across the following borefests, technical problems, and insults to their in ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2012
Lil Wayne, Skrillex, And Others Fire Up Austin On Day Two Of SXSW
If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in this planet's many happenings, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. To break down the chaos, a few of Village ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 14, 2012
CALIFORNIA DREAMING
EMA skips SXSW for NYC
Blogs
March 13, 2012
Heading to Austin for SXSW? Here's Where the Locals Say to Eat
SXSW (South by Southwest), the film, interactive, and music festival is in full swing right now in Austin, lasting through March 18. If you happen to be down at the festival at this very moment, or, perhaps, are boarding a plane on your way there, be sure to check out Our Man Sietsema's 10 Favorite ... More >>
Blogs
January 10, 2012
Whirlybird's Austin-Style Breakfast Tacos
$3 for this beauty, $4 with chorizo (click on image to savor) It's like a little bit of Austin, Texas, detached itself and floated up here. At Whirlybird, the seating area out front consists of two benches and several tree stumps. Inside a laid-back vibe pervades, the counter-guy is eager, and all ... More >>
Blogs
November 23, 2011
Four Top Five Lists From The Spits
Ever-touring, ever-spazzing, ever-wig-donning punk rock nutsos The Spits have a brand-new album out on In the Red, their fifth. It's called, as all their albums are, The Spits, and it's another buzzy blast of freaky fun, if a tad darker than the rest of their gonzoid garage catalog. To celebrate its ... More >>
Blogs
October 13, 2011
Bombay Curry Kale Chips From Rhythm Superfoods
The bag flaunts a litany of food obsessions: Gluten-Free, Vegan, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Cholesterol-Free, GMO-Free, Raw. Remember last year's foodie parties? When everywhere you went, the host would produce a bowl of fresh farmers' market kale that had been slicked with the best olive oil, c ... More >>
Film
September 7, 2011
Remember When Austin Was Cool? The Commodification of a Town in Echotone
The bag flaunts a litany of food obsessions: Gluten-Free, Vegan, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Cholesterol-Free, GMO-Free, Raw. Remember last year's foodie parties? When everywhere you went, the host would produce a bowl of fresh farmers' market kale that had been slicked with the best olive oil, c ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 24, 2011
INDIE GEMS
A new film fest opens in Hell's Kitchen
Music
July 13, 2011
The Black Angels: Reed Scholars
The Black Angels take time off from planning their festival to play ours
Blogs
March 15, 2011
The Best Things I Ate While at SXSW Interactive
The kimchee fries from the Chi-Lantro BBQ truck made a magnificent lunch one day. At the SXSW Interactive festival -- which started last Thursday, and concluded today -- I represented the Village Voice at a panel called "Bite Me" organized by chow.com concerning the ethics of food writing. ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2011
Posts of the Week
Huzzah, it's Friday afternoon. Time for a little bit of nostalgia: We ranked Our 10 Best Vegetarian Street Foods. Just in time for South by Southwest, Our Man Sietsema provided an eating guide for New Yorkers who find themselves in Austin. A battle of the ostrich burgers between Bare Burger and E ... More >>
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March 4, 2011
Week In Review: "This Was A Weird One, Folks."
Charlie Sheen dominated the wild and weird this week but the rest of the world proved able keep pace. Lady Gaga birthed some sort of goey monster-baby while blood-covered panda bears danced with leather-bound vampires at the Cradle of Filth show. Suffice it to say we felt the stirrings of a t ... More >>
Blogs
February 17, 2011
James Beard Awards Restaurant and Chef Semifinalists Announced
opentable.comThe product of blood, sweat, and tearsIt's almost time for the Oscars. That is, the Oscars of the food world: the James Beard Foundation Awards. Today marked the announcement of the restaurant and chef semifinalists, who were chosen from a record 28,000 online entries. Finalists ... More >>
Film
November 17, 2010
Total Badass/Hell on Wheels: In the Gutter and on the Roller Rink With Austin Double Feature
opentable.comThe product of blood, sweat, and tearsIt's almost time for the Oscars. That is, the Oscars of the food world: the James Beard Foundation Awards. Today marked the announcement of the restaurant and chef semifinalists, who were chosen from a record 28,000 online entries. Finalists ... More >>
Blogs
August 20, 2010
Air Waves Singer Nicole Schneit Says Goodbye to New York
"I'm moving away from this city in two weeks," said Nicole Schneit last night, between songs at Zebulon. "It's been nice living here." Schneit is the leader of the Brooklyn indie pop band Air Waves, whose second full-length will be released this fall through the label Underwater Peoples. The albu ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 22, 2010
Voxtrot
"I'm moving away from this city in two weeks," said Nicole Schneit last night, between songs at Zebulon. "It's been nice living here." Schneit is the leader of the Brooklyn indie pop band Air Waves, whose second full-length will be released this fall through the label Underwater Peoples. The albu ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 20, 2010
Harlem
"I'm moving away from this city in two weeks," said Nicole Schneit last night, between songs at Zebulon. "It's been nice living here." Schneit is the leader of the Brooklyn indie pop band Air Waves, whose second full-length will be released this fall through the label Underwater Peoples. The albu ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 2010
How Fucked Up's Savvy SXSW Post About Artist Exploitation Applies to Other Venues (Like, Um, the Internet) Too
Very smart post up today written by guitarist Mike Haliechuk at the Canadian band Fucked Up's blog, talking about the economics of Austin's South By Southwest music conference. The gist of it is an attempt to answer a simple question, one that a person could easily ask about CMJ or other, sim ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 24, 2010
NOT TURNING OFF
Spoon rock Radio City Music Hall
Blogs
March 12, 2010
Posts of the Week
It's sweet, sweet Friday. An ideal time to look back, through the wind and rain, at the best posts of the last five days. Alone in the kitchen with a pig's uterus... Pulino's Beth Ann Simpkins talked about pizza, bi-coastal pizza obsession, and her 100 percent carbohydrate diet... ...While Eugene ... More >>
Blogs
February 20, 2010
Great Barbecues of Texas: The Salt Lick in Driftwood
What's that curious yellow fluid? Read on to find out. In many ways, the Salt Lick Bar-B-Que in Driftwood, Texas is the odd man out among Central Texas barbecues.
Blogs
February 18, 2010
Austin Plane Crasher: Is This His Suicide Note? (Updated: Looks Like It Is)
twitpic via jeff_lakeThey're still trying to figure out why that guy stole took off in a plane and crashed it into an office building in Austin, Texas*. A suicide note is being circulated that some believe was written by the pilot, though. (Update: The admin has taken the site down "in com ... More >>
Blogs
February 2, 2010
Todd P's Mexico Fest, the MtyMx All Ages Festival of Art and Music, Is Fully Confirmed; Tickets On Sale Now
There had been speculation about this show going all the way back to December. Privately, Todd P began confirming it this week. And now comes the official announcement about one of the more ridiculous bits of derring-do ever attempted by a local DIY promoter: an outdoor, two stage, three day ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 2009
Todd P Now Making Promotion Excursions Into Mexico?
All photos via Todd P's Facebook.Local mega-promoter Todd P latest quixotic venture? An proposed outsized south of the border post-SXSW festival in Monterrey, Mexico, a five or six hour drive from the weeklong Austin, Texas music festival from which he will be presumably drawing most of his a ... More >>
Blogs
November 13, 2009
Take That, Daily Fork!
Our sister blog Daily Fork was recently amused to find a coffee spot with the name Bad Ass, and wondered just how bad ass it could really be. Well, right back at you Daily Fork...
Voice Choices
July 22, 2009
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
Our sister blog Daily Fork was recently amused to find a coffee spot with the name Bad Ass, and wondered just how bad ass it could really be. Well, right back at you Daily Fork...
Blogs
April 28, 2009
Some More Drag Queen Names!
A few of these I stole from actual drag queens, while others were made up in the sequined closet of my mind. But wherever they were born, these super fun drag names are all tucked and pretty and begging to be ripped off by any lady with razor stubble. Kitty Porn, Sue Veneer, Bessie Mae Mucho, Sybil ... More >>
Blogs
March 6, 2009
Todd P Announces Free Day Show SXSW Line-Ups, Broke-Ass Austin-Bound Kids Rejoice
The back patio in 2007 Let it be known that Todd P's deftly orchestrated unofficial all-day parties are one of the SXSW's undisputed highlights, tucked a few blocks away from the main Sixth Street drag on the back patio of Ms. Bea's, the best dive bar South of Rosemary's Greenpoint Tavern. So we a ... More >>
Blogs
January 8, 2009
SXSW's 2009 Partial Performers List: If You Can Afford to Go, You Must Be Running a Ponzi Scheme
Dark Meat at last year's SXSW, photo by Rebecca Smeyne See, it's totally lame, don't worry, you're not missing a thing South by Southwest just firebombed everybody's inboxes with a partial list of names playing this year's barbecue-and-booze blitz. A quick scan reveals the midsize marquee names to ... More >>
Blogs
October 30, 2008
Epic Fail: Times Square Thriller Beat by Texans, Others
Dark Meat at last year's SXSW, photo by Rebecca Smeyne See, it's totally lame, don't worry, you're not missing a thing South by Southwest just firebombed everybody's inboxes with a partial list of names playing this year's barbecue-and-booze blitz. A quick scan reveals the midsize marquee names to ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2008
SXSW: Unacceptable Souvenirs for Your Sweetie Back Home
Dark Meat at last year's SXSW, photo by Rebecca Smeyne See, it's totally lame, don't worry, you're not missing a thing South by Southwest just firebombed everybody's inboxes with a partial list of names playing this year's barbecue-and-booze blitz. A quick scan reveals the midsize marquee names to ... More >>
Blogs
March 7, 2008
Bisexuality Storms Bush Country in New Film!
Dark Meat at last year's SXSW, photo by Rebecca Smeyne See, it's totally lame, don't worry, you're not missing a thing South by Southwest just firebombed everybody's inboxes with a partial list of names playing this year's barbecue-and-booze blitz. A quick scan reveals the midsize marquee names to ... More >>
Film
June 5, 2007
The Whole World in Our Hands
Activist fest takes on global warming, suburban sprawl and, as if war weren't enough, AIDS in Iraq
Music
May 2, 2006
Cortex-Cutting Cobras
More desperate gutter psych-rock from Texas
Music
March 14, 2006
A Level Field
1,500 up-and-coming acts take the music-biz mat in Austin
News
April 5, 2005
Following the Money
1,500 up-and-coming acts take the music-biz mat in Austin
Music
October 12, 2004
Competing With Life
Annual clusterfuck pulls in hordes except when it doesn't
News
May 11, 2004
Big Spam Hunter
In which our hero tracks the hairy beast behind a skeezy mortgage offer
Dining
May 13, 2003
Got Goat?
The Art of Fainting in the Hill Country
Music
April 22, 2003
Auto-Erotic Fixation
Here in Her Car, It's the Only Way to Live
Film
October 1, 2002
Opposing Forces
Austin City Limitless
News
June 25, 2002
Muff Diving in Our Time
Lesbian Public Sex Beyond the Bars
Music
May 8, 2001
Grandpa’s Hands
Lesbian Public Sex Beyond the Bars
Music
March 30, 1999
Work To Do
Lesbian Public Sex Beyond the Bars
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