The Daily Texan has announced its list of endorsed candidates, with one glaring omission. ...

It's official: Lou Reed is the keynote for SXSW music 2008. His speech will be held in conjunction with Julian Schnabel’s film Lou Reed’s ‘Berlin,’ which documents a recent performance of the landmark 1973 album. ...

For the first time in its two-decades-plus history, SXSW is getting an official break from the City of Austin, after the city council last Thursday approved over $90,000 in fee waivers for this year's festival. According to the Statesman, most of this covers the cops and barricades needed for street closures (much of 6th Street and Red River Street will be shut down to car traffic). SXSW co-founder and Austin Chronicle editor Louis Black alluded......

For those of you who missed out on the ridiculous comment thread from earlier this week, we'll catch you up: when SXSW wristbands came out on Monday, one of our writers managed to snap a photo of SXSW co-creator and Austin Chronicle editor Louis Black standing guard outside Waterloo Records as Austinites waited in line. The resulting comments from our simple Snapshots post turned into a veritable shitstorm of vitriol, as dozens of readers piped......

SXSW co-creator Louis Black (left) looks on as folks wait anxiously in line at Waterloo Records for SXSW Music wristbands earlier this afternoon. First 2,000 are $130 and the next 2,000 shoot up to $160--nearly twice as much as they were five years ago, when the first round of wristbands were $85. Lines stretched around the block, with eager Austinites showing up in increasing numbers even as we left at 1:30pm. In '05, the......

Lewis Black -- the Daily Show regular---not Austin Chronicle magnate Louis Black -- is in our fair city tonight. The curmudgeonly comic will be at BookPeople in support of the paperback release of his book Nothing’s Sacred. It’s never safe to assume anything, but chances are Mr. Black will be talking to the crowd in a manner that may be conducive to generating laughter. The event gets underway at 7 p.m., but BookPeople officials recommend......