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From March 13-22, more than 1,800 acts will descend upon Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest, one of the largest music, film and arts festivals in America. From seasoned veterans like PJ Harvey to unknown bands hoping to make it big, the weeklong festival is a mecca for hipster PBR-drinking music nuts. But amid all the unwashed dye jobs and American Apparel outfits will be Margaret Cho, the stand-up comedian who will appear at SXSW - as a musician? Cho talked to TIME about her sudden career switch. (See pictures from South by Southwest...
...Harvey, Paul • passing...
Born in Tulsa, Okla., in 1918, and on the air there at age 17, Paul Harvey Aurandt settled in Chicago after stints at several Midwest stations, including one in St. Louis, Mo., where he found a lifelong partner, his wife Lynne. His show, News and Comment, began on ABC radio in 1951 and eventually had a weekly audience of 12 million. In 2000, ABC reupped Harvey with a 10-year, $100 million contract...
...stern defender of the right, he backed Joe McCarthy's search for imaginary Communists and, a month before his death, was ripping at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But sometimes he just got fed up with policies he'd supported; Harvey famously reversed himself on Vietnam, telling Richard Nixon, "Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong...
Right or wrong, Harvey was an artist of elocution, making music of news copy, building suspense with pauses Harold Pinter might envy. Though his voice wavered toward the end, he refused to quit. "Retiring," he said, "is just practicing up to be dead." He was still broadcasting the week before he died. Nobody, himself included, wanted Paul Harvey to stop talking...