Dale W. Eisinger

Fabrice Muamba, the young midfielder for England's Bolton Wanderers soccer club, remained in intensive care following a cardiac episode Saturday night.

Youth Lagoon played to the Boise party at the IFC Crossroads House on day two of music for South By Southwest. March 14, 2012. Read a full review of the performance. See photos of the performance here; listen to them playing live; check out the fans at the scene.

Scroll through for photos of fires, lasers, smoke, a camel under a pyramid, marimba/conga hybrid bands, dueling tap dancers, the canal at the bottom, found street eats, and shots of Little War Twins, Thelophilus London, Le Fleur, Danny Brown, Two Chainz, Mr. Dream, The Men, Oberhofer, Finn Riggins, Brett Netson and every street performer who caught the eye.

This year's 25th iteration of the industry-geared event is at the height of demand: promoters, labels, bands, partiers, punks, parasites, the pigeonholed, the plied-for, and the primped are all out in full force

This year's South By Southwest is the 25th iteration of the industry-geared festival in downtown Austin, Texas. Originally conceived as a mechanism to propel Austin's own isolated music scene into the national and international conversations, SXSW now seems to be a physical manifestation of the kind of momentary hype cycle that can either raise an act to fame or destroy a band's career chances with a single paragraph.

A new study on behalf of the British Association for Pharmacology suggests that lysergic acid diethylamide--otherwise known as LSD, acid, L, blotter, cid, boomer, et al--is effective in the treatment of alcohol abuse.

Mario Batali, the celebrity chef whose empire of cooking shows, restaurants and endorsements stretches around the world, settled a $5.25 million settlement in a Manhattan federal court on March 5, according to a report.

When news of the racy tape hit the web yesterday, the 58-year-old professional wrestler/semi-pro actor reportedly became enraged, bewildered and ready to seek the maximum criminal penalty for whoever may release the tape.

Los Angeles-based psychedelic punk duo No Age played a last-minute show to a thrashed and thrashing crowd at Death By Audio Wednesday night, March 7 2012.

Proposed federal congressional redistricting in New York City reinforces a demographic criticism that ties the north Brooklyn neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Greenpoint, as well as Queens' Astoria, with Manhattan's Upper East Side.

Fran Drescher, lady of the famous The Nanny laugh and star of the TV Land comedy Happily Divorced, had harsh words for outspoken marriage equality opponent Kirk Cameron Tuesday night.

A video emerged Wednesday of Barack Obama protesting at Harvard, in alliance with Professor Derick Bell's push for diversity in 1990.

A district attorney is investigating the death of a two-week old boy on Sept. 28 2011 at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn after contracting herpes, following an Orthodox, ritual circumcision.

A Texas jury found Allen Stanford, Texan financier, multi-billionaire and cricket mogul, guilty of $7 billion fraud Tuesday.

Baltimore dream-rock duo Beach House released a new single into the cloud early Wednesday morning, March 7 through a tweet that simply read: Hello Again.

Google unveiled on the company's Google Mobile Blog Tuesday a new search feature called Recent.

Robert Gibbs, a Livermore, Calif., man who weighs nearly 700 pounds, uploaded a plea to YouTube on March 1, begging for help losing weight. By Tuesday, March 6, the video had over a million views, 20,000 likes and an offer from transformation specialist Chris Powell to help lose the weight for good.

The Colorado Supreme Court says the University of Colorado system can no longer ban firearms on its four campuses.

Cupcake automats are coming to the streets of Manhattan by summer to offer cupcake-craving consumers the 24-hour spot for sugar satiation--how will the health-conscious Bloomberg administration react?

British dance-punk duo The Ting Tings shared a cover of Lana Del Rey's Born to Die on BBC Radio 1 Thursday, fusing the smoky lament with a surprising but clever Skrillex sample.

Ever the instigator, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, announced Thursday that his six-month investigation into the legitimacy of President Obama's birth certificate has reached a logical conclusion: It is a complex digital forgery.

The U.S. Navajo Nation has sued Urban Outfitters Inc. for trademark violations and licensing discrepancies in regard to products offered in its retail stores and online.

The Converse-commissioned, star-studded 13-minute Gorillaz banger DoYaThing has been making the rounds lately; a new video started appearing today.

Aaron Carter, teen heartthrob and younger brother of one the main roles of formative boy band The Backstreet Boys, has been under the weather lately, and using his Twitter feed to update fans, in detail.

Norah Jones dropped a new track Tuesday from her upcoming May 1 LP on Blue Note Records Little Broken Hearts, this single being called Happy Pills. Here's the breakdown.

A 40-year-old man was shot to death in front of rapper Rick Ross's Miami Gardens mansion Wednesday morning.

Cee-Lo Green has optioned a memoir with Grand Central Books to be published in 2013: what should The Ladykiller name the book?

Renown street artist creator of the famous Obama Hope image plead guilty to contempt in Federal court Friday; we examine a few other art-related crimes.

Esperanza Spalding