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  • Up all night with a psycho blonde

    Screwed-up strangers hook up for a last-minute New Year's date in the profane and delightful "In Search of a Midnight Kiss."
  • Has success ruined America's friendliest filmfest?

    No! Bring on the Tex-Mex, tequila and oddball movies -- Bigfoot! Bong jokes! Even a few big stars! -- that make South by Southwest so fun.
  • Beyond the Multiplex

    The best of South by Southwest: An extraordinary look at Kurt Cobain's life and an absorbing film about a forgotten pop legend. Plus: A chat with a Cannes winner.
  • Beyond the Multiplex

    Opening weekend at the Austin filmfest offers a controversial documentary about (not by) Michael Moore, an outrageous horror-comedy by Alan Cumming and a few Tarantino impersonations.
  • Greed, water and poetry

    Produced by Terrence Malick and Robert Redford, "The Unforeseen" is the "Chinatown" of Texas real-estate documentaries.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    A Texas newspaper looks into the green, green world of high school football coaching. They make way more than teachers. Not to mention players.
  • When Keillor met Altman

    Two greats join forces for "A Prairie Home Companion" the film -- with a little help from Streep, Tomlin, Reilly and an enthusiastic Texas crowd.
  • 7 Reasons I Like "Rollergirls"

    1) Punky Bruiser, 2) Miss Conduct, 3) Venis Envy, 4) Jailbait ...
  • All about DeLay

    The House majority leader's handprints figure prominently in a trial in Austin alleging the illegal use of soft money in Texas' 2002 election.
  • This just in: Bush stayed home

    As the prolonged stakeouts continue in Washington, Tallahassee and Austin, the people covering the presidential race are getting giddy.
  • Team Bush flings charges

    Republicans accuse Gore supporters of tampering with Bush ballots, blatantly disallowing military votes and much, much more.
  • "A little drama for you"

    Bush supporters wait for a victory speech -- and wait, and wait, while the networks move Florida back into the undecided column.
  • On the town with Mom

    We were wild in our youth.
  • "Boy, you sing like your granddaddy"

    Hank Williams III pays a debt to Nashville -- and looks toward Texas for real country music.
  • Generation R.I.P.

    The Village Voice pronounces Generation X as dead as Kurt Cobain and as irrelevant as a Cheesy Poof. Plus: Alternative health stories that don't suck.
  • Beth Orton

  • Barhopping with the Bud Girls

    Despite widespread publicity about the dangers of teen binge drinking, beer distributors use curvy babes and frat-boy reps to saturate the largely underage college market.
  • Get Cynical

    David Bowman talks to Bob Mould about his 'Last Dog and Pony Show'
  • Rufus Wainwright

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