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10:23 am
Mar. 20, 2010
SXSW Saturday Morning Scorecard
By Jennifer Maerz
Awesome!Saving tired feet by taking a pedi-cab across the city driven by a dude who swerved around the streets like a crazy cabby...with my buddy Tom Monday from LimeWire.This guy, getting a dri... More >>

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9:33 am
Mar. 20, 2010
SXSW Friday PM Pt. 2: Hole's Botoxed '90s Flashback
By Jennifer Maerz
If you wanted the '90s delivered to your festival this week, you had two obvious choices: Stone Temple Pilots and Hole. And I'll give you one guess as to which toxic, tempermental frontperson ha... More >>

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6:00 pm
Mar. 19, 2010
SXSW Friday PM: Village Voice Day Party w/ Surfer Blood, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Superchunk, The xx
By Jennifer Maerz
View more photos of the bands and partygoers in the "SXSW Village Voice Media Showdown" slideshow.At an hour when most folks were still sleeping off last night's music benders, indie rock fans sta... More >>

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12:36 pm
Mar. 19, 2010
Choose Your Own Adventure! On Twitter.
By Maya Baratz
Remember the Choose Your Own Adventure series? If you do, skip to the third paragraph. If you don't, read on. ? CYOA was a book series with a non-linear structure that allowed you to explore... More >>

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12:22 pm
Mar. 19, 2010
Videos of the Day: Homage to the Girl Band
By Jolene Torr
As a kid, I owned nearly all of Joan Jett's and Lita Ford's solo albums; theirs were my first cassette tape and CD respectively, so with the opening of The Runaways today, I'm getting myself amped... More >>

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12:08 pm
Mar. 19, 2010
Weekend Party Preview: Disco Weekend Extravaganza!
By Patric Fallon
We're happy that San Francisco is embracing the timeless sounds of disco more and more on a broader scale. Gone are the days of having to listen to your Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder records ... More >>

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11:21 am
Mar. 19, 2010
R.I.P. Alex Chilton
By Ian S. Port
Maybe Alex Chilton, dead at 59 of a heart attack, would recoil at the fond remembrances of him now sneezing out through the digital ether: Salutes from the floor of the House of Representatives, o... More >>

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10:32 am
Mar. 19, 2010
Tonight's Album Release Party: Celebrating Cybergirl Janelle Monae
By Jolene Torr
Janelle Monáe plays hostess tonight at The Renaissance Stanford Court in celebration of her upcoming album The Arch Android. A genre-bending union of brass and ukulele, of wailing soul and hip-ho... More >>

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9:50 am
Mar. 19, 2010
@sk Jamie Varon: What is the Point of Formspring?
By Jamie Varon
? Dear Jamie, I've been noticing that a lot of people are using this Formspring website. I've been thinking of starting one since everyone else is starting to incorporate it into their websites.... More >>

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8:39 am
Mar. 19, 2010
SXSW Friday Morning Scorecard (So Far)
By Jennifer Maerz
Scorecard for SXSW w/ 2 Days Down, 2 Left To GoAwesome!*Sets by The Antlers, Real Estate, The Morning Benders, Surf City*Your first veggie dog with a can of Lone Star in the sunshine* Music "venu... More >>

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8:38 am
Mar. 19, 2010
SXSW Roundup Thursday PM Pt. 2: Surf City NZ
By Jennifer Maerz
Levi's took over the east side of Austin for all of SXSW, creating a semi-private world of tight pants and tall beers, a denim labyrinth where the 45-minute line to grab a wristband was made sligh... More >>

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7:56 am
Mar. 19, 2010
SXSW Roundup Thursday PM Pt. 1: Didn't Meet Bill Murray
By Jennifer Maerz
In Austin, you can research and schedule and make the right Twitter friends and you're still gonna miss something with every decision that you make. Case in point: on Thursday afternoon, realizing... More >>

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7:34 am
Mar. 19, 2010
10 Things To Do This Weekend For Under $10
By Emily Savage
? While most of the music world is far away drinking excessively and waiting in line for sweaty, packed shows at SXSW, we San Franciscans still have plenty of homegrown activities to keep our c... More >>

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12:54 pm
Mar. 18, 2010
Videos of the Day: Chatroulette, All the World's a Stage
By Jolene Torr
If you've had better things to do than peruse the Webbernet for cheap thrills and easy laughs, then there's a chance you might not yet know of this behemoth in debauchery: Chatroulette. Naturally,... More >>

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12:47 pm
Mar. 18, 2010
Intelligent People are Never Bored
By Alexia Tsotsis
? This is our favorite slice of SXSWi thus far. Well, what would Don Draper do at Texas' premier tech conference? Most likely he'd spend four days in Austin, pay nothing for food and drink, and ... More >>

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11:55 am
Mar. 18, 2010
Behind the Beat with Altair Nouveau
By Patric Fallon
Altair Nouveau is a bit of a nomad and a vagabond. Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, producer Brandon Mitchell only came down to stay in San Francisco for a small time before recently deciding ... More >>

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11:36 am
Mar. 18, 2010
Last Night: Gomez and Buddy at Great American Music Hall
By Ian S. Port
GomezBuddyWednesday, March 17, 2010Great American Music HallBetter than: What your mom told you she was doing on St. Patrick's Day. We're pretty sure we saw her there. In 1998, the bluesy Britis... More >>

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11:12 am
Mar. 18, 2010
Local Frequency: Q&A with Judgment Day
By Jasmine Blocker
Brothers Anton and Lewis Patzner of Judgment Day got their start playing together on the streets of Oakland back in 2002. Highlighting heavily the fact that there are no guitars in Judgment Day,... More >>

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9:02 am
Mar. 18, 2010
SXSW Roundup: Thursday AM, RIP Alex Chilton
By Jennifer Maerz
I spent most of SXSW's opening day en route (or, I should say, en airport....) but the big news on Wednesday wasn't about any specific show, but about a performer who would no longer be in Austi... More >>

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7:11 am
Mar. 18, 2010
What To Do? Thursday's Pick: SFMOMA's Now Playing
SFMOMA: Now Playing w/ My BarbarianNext to food carts and Sunset growhouses, one of the most welcome recent trends in the city has been going to museums at night, and then drinking. Previously, y... More >>

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