SXSW

After the pandemic led to the cancellation of the 2020 festival, SXSW returned this year in a shortened, virtual form but was looking for a financial lift to get back to a full-sized festival in 2022.

South by Southwest will host an online event next year, but plans for a physical one are still in the works, the organization announced Tuesday.The annual…

From Texas Standard:The annual SXSW festivals and conferences were among the first major economic casualties of the coronavirus in Texas.But now, fans…

Cindy Lo spent the weekend after South by Southwest was canceled reassessing things. The owner of Red Velvet Events and her 27 employees have a reputation…

South by Southwest laid off a third of its full-time staff Monday, a SXSW spokesperson said. The company employs about 175 people. The layoffs come three…

One of Austin’s biggest months for visitors has begun, just as concerns grow around the new coronavirus COVID-19. While most events are proceeding as…

From Texas Standard:It started as a joke. But when a couple of guys from Fort Worth started distributing literature for their new, fake religious group in…

From Texas Standard:Leslie Cochran was a man who experienced homelessness and often walked the streets of Austin in a thong and a feather boa. He became…

For the better part of three decades, Joe Ables was on an island, surrounded by used car lots and some dilapidated apartments.He says when he opened Saxon…

Kim Roxie was a student when she first realized there was a problem.“It was working at a makeup counter while I was in college and coming in contact with…