Last year at this time, actual dust was settling in Austin as well as the proverbial sort after a somber September in which the term "relief effort" was on the tip of everyone's tongue all the time. This month, Audio Austinist brings you the stories of a few people who ended up in Austin around that time and decided to stay. more ›

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In his first-feature film Brick, director Rian Johnson set own to make a noir detective film. But he was tired of seeing the same old characters playing out similar storylines. He wanted to bend the genre, so it would still look and feel like a noir pic, but with a different sensibility. Enter, high school. Brendan Frye (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) has just received a disturbing call from his distressed ex-girlfriend Emily (Emilie de Ravin). She's... more ›

Two of the most well-known and influential political bloggers in America, Jerome Armstrong of MyDD.com and Markos Moulitsas of The Daily Kos, attended SXSWi to kick off a tour to promote their new book Crashing The Gate. The book is a scathing look at how the Republican party has failed Americans and how, in turn, the Democratic party has failed to step up to the plate in our defense. more ›