Category: sxsw

Scenes From the SPIN Party, SXSW 2012

While we’re thinking about the upcoming SXSW, it’s hard not to think about last year’s party. Here’s a couple of picture from last year’s event! Santigold Evil Eyes, after her band’s set!

Conan at SXSW

I hope that by now you’ve seen the Conan O’Brian doc “Can’t Stop” about the time between the end of his hosting The Tonight Show and taking his talk show to cable. “This is...

Downtown Abbey and Cough Syrup

As I sit on my sofa, chilling with my post SXSW cold, while watching Downton Abbey, I’m really grateful for modern medicine. I so would not want Lady Grantham in charge of my healthcare...

Dig those crazy grooves, daddy-o

I spent a few days loitering on the fringes of the South By Southwest Interactive festival this past week. Every year the festival blows into town, bringing a cornucopia of digital goodies that promise...

Focusing on Horror Films at SXSW Film 2007

At the 13th Annual South by Southwest Film Festival, science fiction, supernatural and horror films comprised an increasingly larger proportion of the festival’s 600 plus films, according to SXSW film programmer Matt Dentler, 27. Among the events at the spring festival was the “Grindhouse 101” panel where “GRINDHOUSE” director Robert Rodriguez and Harry Knowles of Aintitcoolnews.com discussed their appreciation of the vintage low-budget films with shocking gimmicks that were played in the old theaters known as grindhouses.