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Nic Cage Plays Nick Cage in Acclaimed New Movie

New Nic Cage Movie Scores
Rare 100% on Rotten Tomatoes

Mar 17, 2022 11:37 AM CDT

New Nic Cage Movie Scores Rare 100% on Rotten Tomatoes

He plays actor Nick Cage in 'The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent'

(Newser) - Critics definitely haven't loved every Nicolas Cage movie in the last few decades, but they're united in praise for his latest, in which he plays an actor called Nick Cage. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, which one critic calls "the most Nicolas Cage movie ever,"...

Thousands Want SXSW Canceled Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

Petition: Cancel SXSW

Mar 2, 2020 3:52 PM CST

Petition: Cancel SXSW

Coronavirus outbreak sparks concern as Texas conference looms

(Newser) - If smack dab in the middle of a potential historic pandemic doesn't seem to you like the best time to hold a conference that attracts hundreds of thousands of people from around the world, you're not alone. More than 18,000 have so far signed an online petition...

AOC Draws Massive
Crowd at SXSW

Mar 11, 2019 5:33 AM CDT

AOC Draws Massive Crowd at SXSW

She took a question from Bill Nye

(Newser) - A gaggle of 2020 presidential hopefuls descended on the South by Southwest festival in Austin over the weekend—but the political figure everybody wanted to see was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The 29-year-old freshman lawmaker spoke to a massive ballroom that was "full to the brim" and she could have filled...

Austin Cops Say 3 Package Bombs Are Related

2 Killed by Austin Bombs Are
Relatives of Prominent Blacks

Mar 13, 2018 5:51 AM CDT

2 Killed by Austin Bombs Are Relatives of Prominent Blacks

Cops believe 3 mail bombs are related

(Newser) - As hundreds of thousands of people descend on Austin for the SXSW Festival, police have confirmed that they believe a serial bomber is on the loose. Interim Police Chief Brian Manley said Monday that evidence suggests that three package explosions that killed two people are related, the Austin American-Statesman reports....

Arnold Accuses Oil Companies
of 'Knowingly Killing' People

Mar 12, 2018 1:33 PM CDT

Arnold Accuses Oil Companies of 'Knowingly Killing' People

Schwarzenegger says he's going after Big Oil for 'first-degree murder'

(Newser) - Like Big Tobacco, Big Oil has been complicit in "knowingly killing people all over the world," due to the global warming caused by fossil fuels, and they're about to be held accountable for it, per one of California's most high-profile ex-governors. Arnold Schwarzenegger recorded a live...

Obama Skipping Nancy Reagan's Funeral for SXSW

Mar 9, 2016 10:01 AM CST

Obama Skipping Nancy Reagan's Funeral for SXSW

Michele Bachmann says it's a 'classless' move

(Newser) - Michele Bachmann is blasting President Obama as "self-centered" and "classless" after the White House announced he would not attend Nancy Reagan's funeral on Friday. Instead, he'll attend the technology and music festival South by Southwest as a headliner and discuss civic engagement with The Texas Tribune'...

Top Texas Lawman: Snoop Is a 'Dope Smoking Cop Hater'

Top Texas Lawman: Snoop
a 'Dope Smoking Cop Hater'

May 7, 2015 3:45 AM CDT

Top Texas Lawman: Snoop a 'Dope Smoking Cop Hater'

He wasn't happy about trooper's photo with rapper

(Newser) - Texas' chief law enforcement official called Snoop Dogg a "dope smoking cop hater" before reprimanding a state trooper who posed for a picture with the rapper, according to emails made public yesterday. Snoop Dogg posted a photo to Instagram with Department of Public Safety Trooper Billy Spears in March...

Texas Trooper to
Get Counseling
After Snoop Dogg Pic

Apr 2, 2015 10:59 AM CDT

Texas Trooper to Get Counseling After Snoop Dogg Pic

Not because Billy Spears is traumatized—because his bosses are making him

(Newser) - A photo op at a Texas music festival has landed a state Department of Public Safety trooper in counseling. DPS officer Billy Spears was moonlighting at the SXSW event in Austin two weeks ago, in uniform, when the keynote speaker asked for a picture with him, the Dallas Morning News ...

Google Exec Interrupts Woman During Gender Panel

Mar 17, 2015 11:32 AM CDT

Google Exec Interrupts Woman During Gender Panel

Eric Schmidt's behavior questioned by fellow Google employee

(Newser) - The kind of headline you probably don't want written about you after participating in a panel where the topic was often gender diversity: "Google chairman gets called out for cutting off a woman while talking about diversity." And that, from Mashable, was kind. The Verge was a...

Woman Once Called
'World's Ugliest'
Shows True Beauty

Mar 16, 2015 2:25 PM CDT

Woman Once Called 'World's Ugliest' Shows True Beauty

'A Brave Heart' tells Lizzie Velasquez's story—and how she's fighting bullying

(Newser) - "I thought everyone looked like me." That's how Lizzie Velasquez viewed herself growing up—until she was 17 and accidentally found a terrible video on YouTube. It was an eight-second clip of her entitled "The World's Ugliest Woman," and to her horror it had...

4th Person Dead
in SXSW Crash

Mar 28, 2014 7:37 AM CDT

4th Person Dead in SXSW Crash

Teen DeAndre Tatum succumbs to injuries

(Newser) - The March 13 crash at Austin's South by Southwest festival has claimed a fourth life: Fort Worth native DeAndre Tatum, the last of the crash victims in critical condition, succumbed to his injuries yesterday, USA Today reports. He had been in a medically induced coma since the crash. That...

3rd Person Dies
in SXSW Crash

Mar 17, 2014 12:13 PM CDT

3rd Person Dies in SXSW Crash

Sandy Le succumbs to injuries

(Newser) - A third person is now dead following the horrific SXSW crash last week in which Rashad Owens allegedly drove into a crowd of festivalgoers in Austin. Local resident Sandy Le succumbed to her head injuries today, the Houston Chronicle reports. A grand jury will decide whether Owens should face any...

SXSW Crash Suspect Was About to Perform at Festival

Mar 14, 2014 10:48 AM CDT

SXSW Crash Suspect Was About to Perform at Festival

Rashad Owens is aspiring rapper

(Newser) - At 12:30am Thursday, Rashad Owens was an aspiring rapper heading to perform at an Austin club during the South by Southwest festival. By 1am, he was in custody on charges that could bring the death penalty. The 21-year-old accused of driving his car into a crowd of people while...

21-Year-Old
Driver ID'd
in SXSW
Car Fatalities

Mar 13, 2014 2:23 PM CDT

21-Year-Old Driver ID'd in SXSW Car Fatalities

Rashad Owens faces death penalty

(Newser) - The driver accused of plowing into a crowd at the South by Southwest Festival, killing two and injuring 23 others, has been identified as 21-year-old Rashad Owens of Killeen, Texas, reports the Austin American-Statesman . Police say the tragedy began about 12:30am when an officer tried to pull over Owens...

Car Plows Into
SXSW Crowd,
Killing 2

Mar 13, 2014 4:28 AM CDT

Car Plows Into SXSW Crowd, Killing 2

23 injured; driver to be charged with capital murder

(Newser) - At least two people were killed and 23 injured—five of them critically—when a car sped into a crowd in downtown Austin just after midnight, plowing through barricades set up for the South by Southwest music festival. The incident left victims scattered along a city block where several clubs...

Edward Snowden to SXSW: I'd Do It All Over Again

Mar 10, 2014 1:48 PM CDT

Edward Snowden to SXSW: I'd Do It All Over Again

He addresses conference from Russia

(Newser) - By leaking NSA data, Edward Snowden forced himself into exile—but he'd "absolutely" do it again, he said today during a video talk broadcast at SXSW. He spoke from Russia, saying that he "took an oath to support and defend the Constitution," NPR reports. "I...

Pizza Hut Holding
140-Second
Job Interviews

Mar 6, 2013 2:23 PM CST

Pizza Hut Holding 140-Second Job Interviews

Would-be social media managers can apply at SXSW

(Newser) - Want to be Pizza Hut's social media manager? Then you better be able to market yourself well—in 140 seconds. That's precisely how long interviews for the position will last during SXSW in Austin this week, Mashable reports. The way the pizza chain figures it, anyone who can...

Doom for LiLo's Film Career?

Jan 23, 2013 10:46 AM CST

Doom for LiLo's Film Career?

Film festivals rejecting 'The Canyons' right and left

(Newser) - And the bad news for Lindsay Lohan just keeps on a-comin': Now, sources tell the Hollywood Reporter that at least two film festivals have declined to show her latest film, The Canyons. Sundance was first to reject the erotic thriller, and now SXSW has followed suit. "It’s got...

Awful SXSW Idea:
Turning Homeless
Into 4G Hotspots

Mar 12, 2012 4:05 PM CDT

Awful SXSW Idea: Turning Homeless Into 4G Hotspots

Bloggers cringe at marketing company plan

(Newser) - A plan to turn homeless people into 4G hotspots has digitalphiles at the SXSW Interactive Conference in Austin crying "exploitive" and "dystopian." In a nutshell, a marketing company wants homeless people to carry MiFi devices that would enable passersby to get online when their carrier service won'...

4Chan's Moot: We're Not All 'Young Rambunctious Males'

Mar 14, 2011 4:20 PM CDT

4Chan's Moot: We're Not All 'Young Rambunctious Males'

'Moot' also says Zuckerberg 'totally wrong' about anonymity

(Newser) - 4Chan founder Christopher Poole says his creation isn't just "the dark heart of the internet," but a place that fosters creativity. "4Chan is misunderstood," Poole, aka "Moot," said in a speech at SXSW, according to the Guardian . "People want to think everyone on...