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Making it work by making it weird and a look at Austin's Rosetta Stone.

Grandpas take us to school, noodling with Cleve, and Gay Heat headliners Lord Friday the 13th talk early NYC punk.

Also: Smugglers smuggle. That's what they do. How Huntsville got high.

Marijuana kills? Plus "more than queso and Dr. Pepper."

A special night, a special week.

PLUS Steiner Ranch Swingers, myth or fact?

Politics makes for strange bedfellows. So does money. What comes next?

Snapshots from a fast-moving week, free concerts, movies that move us.

How SXSW continues to evolve, Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves launch a new tequila, and one cool couple powers two docs in the festival's film competition.

The Austin Music Awards showcase past and present, Soul Sunday adds Jackie Venson. The best threat to the extremists in our midst.

Flame in the engine, Yankee bullshit and the 8-cent piece of plastic. Lessons from a creative economy.

Mojo Nixon, Wayne Kramer. SXSW. New work from Spaceflight. Plus, Save the Date: March 10th

OutsiderFest celebrates 10 years, Alejandro Escovedo celebrates legends, and Soul Food Sunday meets the Full Moon Barn Dance.

It's primary season. It's spring. See something cool without breaking the bank.

The city’s changed, the event’s changed, so what still works and what doesn’t?

When folks cry for us to Keep Austin Weird, conscious or not, they’re saluting the industry that fueled the city’s creative explosion in the ‘70s — drug smuggling.

Bruce Spelman of Extreme Heat talks about becoming a zombie in Fear the Walking Dead and other weird side gigs.

Examining the impact of AI art.

His work covers 50 years, and he keeps coming back to the same theme. Cops are a problem.

Three generations of local rappers reflect on their experience at SXSW.

A curated glimpse of SXSW critiques from then and now today.

How a 1968 snapshot from a porch on 22nd st weaves a web of relationships formed by the counterculture movement in Austin.

Videos chronicling the inspiration behind our first issue.

A Saturday with the Jones Family, C.C. Adcock and Tommy McLain.

From Jackie Venson to Gretchen Phillips, multiple generations reflect on the SXSW music experience.

Manuel Frayre, queer latinx photographer and dj better known as scam likely.‍

Michael Tully and George Rush talk about the rise of the assholes.

When life is so surreal it becomes a cartoon.

Cops roughed them up and threw ‘em in jail, and these pissed off Texans responded by penning a punk classic.

Under Austin's merciless sun, adults are playing sandlot baseball.

Happy Heat spotted at a brunch in honor of Quentin Tarantino's new book.

Dé Randle reflects on the magic of the tunnel rave.

Pocket-doc on the band Abortion featuring Genny Wood.

Paying homage to Austin's pioneering queer punk.

Austin’s rise as the misinformation capital of the world. ‍

A profile of Gothess Jasmine of House of Lepore.