Clik here to view.
SXSW Music Festival 2015: Day 5 (March 21, 2015): Tove Styrke, Tove Lo, and More
Saturday, March 21 marked the fifth day of the 29th annual South By Southwest (SXSW) Music Festival in Austin, Texas. I had mixed feelings about the final full day of the festival. Having been in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SXSW Movie Review: William F. Buckley, Asteroids and Al Qaeda
Three documentaries at SXSW provided insightful snapshots of things worth seeing, each with its own special twist: Best of Enemies explores the psyches of two influential thinkers of the late 20th...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SXSW – Summing Up
SXSW is the ultimate immersive learning experience, but I didn’t expect to start learning things on the bus to the convention center. I learned that SXSW has a new Internet presence: SXSW On; available...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SXSW Film Reviews: ‘The Diabolical’ and ‘Roar’– Learning from Mistakes with...
Not all movies can be winners, but as film fans and writers we can learn something from other people’s mistakes. Two mistakes presented at SXSW Film were The Diabolical, staring Ali Larter (Resident...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Interview: Ray Wylie Hubbard on His New Album, Writing with Brooks & Dunn’s...
Among the “elder statesman” of Americana music – an amorphous genre to begin with – Ray Wylie Hubbard may be the most protean. The Texas songwriter has long had his guitar-playing and songwriting...
View ArticleClik here to view.
South by Southwest Music Festival: Closing Thoughts on SXSW 2015
Sunday, March 22 marked the sixth and final day of the 29th annual South By Southwest (SXSW) Music Festival in Austin, Texas. Due to rain, the BBQ and Softball Tournament – the only event scheduled for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SXSW V2V: How Neurobiology and Yoda Can Make You a Better Speaker
“On October 20, 2000, they pulled the plug,” explained motivational speaker John Bates. “We had lost $80 million and when you do that, they come in, usually with security guards, lock you out, and you...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SXSW V2V: Technology to Help Mom When She’s Alone
Two entrepreneurs at SXSW V2V, a four-day (July 19-22) educational event in Las Vegas for startups, demonstrated hardware and software solutions for “Mom.” They work for “Dad,” too, but as one...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SXSW V2V: Growth Hacking in 10 Easy Steps
“Grow fast or die slow,” was the quote from growth mentor Samir Patel (@meetsamir) that Vincent Dignan used to set the tone for his presentation, “Growth Hacking Live: Boost Your Startup in Realtime.”...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SXSW V2V: Warning – You’re Losing Money by Not Being a Cultural Architect
“The secret to great service brands, like Starbucks, Nordstrom and Nespresso, is that they inspire the customer experience through their teams,” said SGEi president Shane Green. Green, a customer...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SXSW Film Review: ‘Beware The Slenderman’
‘Beware The Slenderman’ at SXSW. Photo from the film. There is nothing particularly amazing about Waukesha, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. One would never imagine that this unexceptional place would...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SXSW Film Review: ‘Tower,’ Keith Maitland’s Award-Winning Documentary
A scene from Keith Maitland’s award-winning documentary Tower. The deserving winner of the 2016 SXSW Grand Jury Award, Tower tells the story of the clock tower shootings that occurred at the University...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SXSW Music Festival 2016: March 18 – Chvrches, The Kills, Future Blondes and...
Hinds at SXSW 2016 The second-to-last full day of SXSW Music – part of the 30th annual South by Southwest in Austin, Texas – was a bit of a challenge. Being a Friday, it felt like the entire city came...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SXSW Music Festival 2016: March 19 (Featuring Waxahatchee, Sara Pi, Overcoats...
Transviolet at SXSW 2016 The feeling on the final full day of SXSW Music — part of the 30th annual South by Southwest in Austin, Texas — was melancholy; it was effectively the last day of no-regrets...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SXSW Film Review: ‘Gary Numan: Android in La La Land’
Gary Numan on his ‘Splinter’ tour. ‘Gary Human: Android in La La Land’ at SXSW. Photo from the film. In Gary Numan: Android in La La Land filmmakers Steve Read and Rob Alexander focus on the comeback...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SXSW Film Wrap-Up: Keynotes and Conversations
In addition to the sheer magnitude of films that screened at this year’s SXSW, there were a number of intriguing conversations and keynotes with actors, filmmakers, and reviewers throughout the week,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SXSW Film Review: Seth Rogen Makes Food Talk Dirty in ‘Sausage Party’
At this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival Seth Rogen debuted, as a work-in-progress, his new animated feature Sausage Party. It is the first foray into the “R-rated world” for an animated...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SXSW Film Review: ‘Goodnight Brooklyn-The Story of Death By Audio’
Death By Audio fans dancing and “exuberating” from ‘Goodnight Brooklyn-The Story of Death By Audio’ at SXSW. Photo from the film. The ending is the beginning of Matt Conboy’s documentary, Goodnight...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SXSW Film Review: ‘Baby Bump’
Kacper Olszewski in ‘Baby Bump,’ at SXSW, directed by Kuba Czekaj. Photo from the film Sexual identity can be elusive to an 11-year-old boy on the cusp of puberty, especially if he is the darling only...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SXSW Film Review: ‘Orange Sunshine’
‘Orange Sunshine’ by director/screenwriter William A. Kirkley at SXSW. Photo courtesy of the film. The 1960s ushered in a cultural revolution whose contributions we still experience today. It was a...
View Article