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...excited to see any bands while you're in Austin? I'm excited to see Amanda Palmer's show, which I'm also performing in. I'm just excited to go. It's huge - it's South by Southwest...
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...
...divvied up last year after more than a quarter century of marriage, 50-year-old Myerson got 57% of the loot. Ingrid Myerson walked away with the rest. So in return for paying his ex-wife $13.1 million in cash, and handing over a $2.1 million beach house in South Africa, Brian Myerson kept hold of stock in Principle Capital Holdings (PCH), his investment company, worth more than $20.1 million at the time. (See pictures of things money...
...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and China's Foreign Minister, Yang Jiechi, both agreed on Wednesday that China and the U.S. should work to ensure that incidents like Sunday's showdown in the South China Sea "do not happen again." The incident in question involved several Chinese naval vessels harassing a U.S. surveillance ship off the island of Hainan. But despite the soothing words of the two top diplomats, it's a safe bet that more such incidents can be expected in the future. The Pentagon was quick to note that the mariners aboard the U.S.N.S. Impeccable were civilians working...
...China confrontation took place while the Impeccable was sailing 75 miles south of China's newest sub base, Yulin, at the southern tip of Hainan. The U.S. vessel carries sophisticated surveillance equipment that was in use - Chinese sailors used poles in an effort to snag the Impeccable's towed acoustic array sonars, which dangle beneath the vessel. The gear was most likely being used to try to detect the movements of Chinese subs in and out of Yulin, where Beijing's new Shang-class nuclear-powered attack subs have recently been spotted...