Thursday, March 8, 2007

Austin Chronicle Inundates Us with More SXSW Coverage

Check out this week’s issue of the Chronicle and their official guide to SXSW for more relating to SXSW. This time it’s all about SXSW Film.

South by Southwest begins Friday, March 9 and runs for nine days. And starting on Thursday, March 15, for three days they will publish daily Chronicles.

In particular, I’d like to point out their guide to eating and drinking on the cheap, SXSW on $10 a day by musician Kathy McCarty of Glass Eye:

Hopes of becoming rock stars are pinned to many a band’s South by Southwest showcase. They’ll endure adversities of all kinds to travel to Austin and have a chance at impressing the right people with raw, awesome talent. Those adversities often involve finances: wages lost, savings depleted, and even jobs sacrificed to make the trip. This means that there will be bands coming to the Festival who will be sleeping in their vans, on top of their equipment, hoping that $50 will be enough to see them through five days of SXSW.

This article is for them: the van-dwellers, the broke and hopeful, the persistent and the optimistic. Yes, you too can experience Austin in a meaningful way on very little money.

For breakfast she recommends breakfast tacos, and for dinner:

Getting a cheap, delicious meal is pretty easy in Austin. Getting it during SXSW without having to wait an hour is a little harder. My first suggestion is to eat early, as close to 5pm as possible. You’d think that restaurants would clear out around 8:30 or 9pm, because the music is starting, but that has not been my experience. Eat early if you don’t want a long wait.