SXSW LONDON 2026
SXSW is now international: it will return to London this June, after a successful inaugural appearance in 2025. I spoke with Clare Hill, director of marketing & communications for SXSW…
Others Were Here Beforehand: City Theatre Austin’s Men on Boats
There is a single line in Jaclyn Backhaus’s Men on Boats, now running at City Theatre Austin through April 12, that cuts through everything: the rapids, rhetoric, gender politics, and…
DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: 125 Years
Celebrating its 125th anniversary season, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra is now led by Grammy Award-winning Italian conductor Fabio Luisi. The DSO traces its origins to a concert given by a…
Frightening Trends in Design
NICK FOSTER, futures designer and head of Google X from 2016-2023, took to the stage at SXSW in Austin to issue a dire warning about the future of design: “I…
Accessing the Rage of the Heart
In a wide-ranging SXSW discussion about People Skills in a Changing World, two prominent leaders offered a lot of sage advice. Here, I give two of the core arguments from…
JANE FONDA: Tyrants drink fossil fuels
Jane Fonda, 88, started the Committee for the First Amendment in 1947. She reprised her appearance at SXSW 2025 with another one this year, joined by the comedian W. Kamau…
Witch — Bewitchingly Witty
I was fortunate to grab one of the remaining tickets for the closing night performance of Witch, at Hyde Park Theatre, a bewitchingly witty play directed superbly by Ken Webster…
Davis Harris: Bootstrapping Austin’s Liaison AI into a Hub for Enterprise AI
Davis Harris, founder and owner of Liaison AI, has spent the last several years quietly building one of Austin’s most practical bridges into the enterprise AI ecosystem. Liaison AI doesn’t…
DALLAS at centre of Synthetic Biology Revolution
“I think synthetic biology will be more transformative than any other technology set of capabilities that we have on this planet.” That bold declaration was made at SXSW by Ben…
Austin Gay Men’s Chorus: Drag Contest
Nic Key as Celine won the tiara at a fundraiser for the Austin Gay Men’s Chorus. Held last night at Highland Lounge on Colorado Street, the event saw nine drag…