• Here’s a history of SXSW. Even if you were there, there’s a chance you might not remember it.
• There’s a free screening of The Misfits in 35 mm tonight at the Texas Union. Starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable!
• In The New York Times, Austin’s Andy Langer points out Texas acts to check out during SXSW.

• Houston just isn’t as pro-bat as Austin is! There’s not one good word about bats in the story about a bat colony that’s taken up residence in a Houston family’s townhome.
• Dallas Police Chief David Brown at a Public Safety Committee Crime Briefing: ladies, cut back on those drinks, lest you be raped.
• This is the wrong kind of Saturday excitement: bank robbery, car chase and suicide.

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