Austin Downtown
Arts Magazine

March 1998
Volume 4 Number 2

As SXSW Grows,
So Do Its Alternatives by Paul Klemperer
Audiences also have ambivalent reactions to SXSW. Downtown traffic, always problematic, is horrendous at this time. The clubs are jammed, the sets are too short, and the ticket prices have soared.

Forget SXSW's Rock & Roll...Enjoy Some Jazz by Manuel Gonzales
What would happen if we took Fred Sanders, Earl Harvin, and Marchel Ivery, threw them into the same jazz club, turned the lights down real low, and let them play all night long?

A Film Festival in the 30th Parallel by Jenna Colley
When going in the direction of south by southwest, you are exactly on the 30th parallel.

Inner-Media by Sandra Beckmeier
We try to put a positive spin on African American news and African American experience in a sense so that everything you read about and hear about isn't negative.
-- Tommy Wyatt

New Media in Austin by Courtenay Nearburg
Interactivity is the essence of new media. It's the ability for the user to engage the content.
-- Dewey Winburne

Rock Star & Barbie Dolls: An Evening with Johnnie Medina by Christopher Keimling
He is more than cool. He is perhaps the coolest man I've ever encountered in my short, unhip life. I'm not expressing an opinion here, I'm voicing a fact.

Up All Night by Harold McMillan
Regardless of what side of the debate you find yourself, fellow Austinite, you gotta admit at least one thing. It's big. SXSW is very big.

Verities by Christopher Keimling
Usually when you see Christ with a cross, he's either on it or he's dragging it on one shoulder to his own crucifixion, looking kind of dejected. Here, he was Atlas Christ, holding up the world. I could see his muscles strain.