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VOLUME 13, ISSUE 1
2 | AT A GLANCE
Your to-do list for SXSW 2019
4 | IN BRIEF
Updates from the SXSW
family of events
40 | A LOOK BACK
2018 me Convention:
Björn Ulvaeus
FEATURES
12 | Olivia Wilde
Film star goes behind the
lens with directorial debut
14 | Shirley Manson
Outspoken Garbage vocalist
won't stop fight for equality
16 | Kevin Systrom
& Mike Krieger
Where will the Instagram
co-founders land next?
18 | Jessica Brillhart
Film Keynote is opening
new VR frontiers
STORIES
22 | Remembering
Apollo
NASA to celebrate moon
landing's 50th anniversary
at SXSW
24 | Laura Jane Grace
True trans soul rebel discusses
new band and record
26 | Tim Shriver
Special Olympics head
battles "attitudes of
mass destruction"
28 | Celebs Embrace
Esports
Emerging pro gaming market
attracts famed investors
30 | Journalists
& Robots
How AI is coming to a
newsroom near you
32 | She Shreds
Inverting the gear magazine
world's gender dynamic
34 | Blockchain
New applications emerge as
cryptocurrency values drop
EVENT INFO
36-39 | Get ready for
SXSW 2019 with this useful
information
Cover: Olivia Wilde, courtesy
of Sam Jones Pictures
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EDITORIAL
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Laura Jane Grace.
Photo by Clair McAllister
Photo by Thomas Tischio Courtesy of NASA on The Commons
