Warner Bros Pictures Ready Player One Experience with VIVE VR One of most highly-anticipated sci-fi cinematic adventures of this year is “Ready Player One,” another Spielberg epic slated for release on March 29. As timing would have it, Warner Bros. Pictures (WBP) has quite a treat in store for the SXSW kids. Given the film’s […]
Alexandra Savior providing the exact sultry mood for a #TwinPeaks shindig. @showtime #sxswfilm A post shared by Kim Owens (@kaffeinebuzz) on Mar 16, 2017 at 1:18pm PDT For those of us who have been going to SXSW for a number of years, we can remember a time when Rainey Street, located on the […]
HBO Westworld – Live Without Limits Weekend at SXSW “The freedom of living without the rules or judgement is coming to Austin, Texas.” That’s how HBO describes the immersive vacation activation they’re building for Westword fans this year at SXSW. Celebrating the return of the HBO series on Sunday, April 22, this extensive two-hour experience […]
FOX Sports House Celebrates the 2018 World Cup This year numerous countries will come together to celebrate the world’s most popular sport: football. No, not the NFL, “the beautiful game.” The FIFA World Cup is coming to FOX Sports starting June 14, bringing you all 38 matches, which is more than the last four World […]
CNN Great Big Story’s World of Wonder and The Market At last year’s CNN party one of the main highlights of SXSW 2017 for me was having a conversation with Van Jones about his keynote speech earlier that day and Carl Berstein walking up to us to chat about the state of the world after […]
By Kim Owens, Liz Graves The old-guy studio arguments that movies starring women don’t do well at the box office or movies led by women behind the camera don’t make money were finally placed firmly into the “bullshit” category in 2017. The numbers don’t lie: the top three highest grossing U.S. domestic films all featured […]
My favorite SXSW showcase, The British Music Embassy (BME), celebrates its 16th year of spotlighting a variety of musical genre and geographical corners of the U.K., from punk and grime, to indie dance, garage thrash, and glam rock. From Northern Ireland and Scotland, to Wales and the Northern Powerhouse of Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Hull […]
Each year roughly 2,000 bands travel from around the world for one of the most diverse music festivals in genre and country of origin. Having covered SXSW since 2002, this is a magical, abundant holiday for us music geeks. While the craziness of Sx can be a bit overwhelming with so many amazing sounds to […]
The blockchain and cryptocurrency world has been on quite the rollercoaster ride in the last twelve months. Bitcoin (BTC) alone climbed in value from $1,110 in early February of 2017 to over $18,000 mid-December, and today sits at around $7,000 and change as of this publishing date. Meanwhile, you can’t swing a cat (figuratively, of […]
It’s been a few weeks since CES attendees were headed home, overwhelmed by the sights, sounds, and news of where technology, content, entertainment, driving, cities, and the world at large is headed. Presentations on the different levels of driverless cars, the whirl of drones overhead, the glee of Google’s playground, and many more points of […]
