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South by Southwest Cuts Ties to Army After Gaza-Inspired Boycott
The festival said it would no longer be sponsored by the U.S. Army or weapons manufacturers, which had prompted artists to withdraw from this year’s gathering.
By Marc Tracy
I cover film, television, popular music, theater, books, art and other cultural disciplines. I’m especially interested in how culture intersects with the fierce political polarization that seems to seep into every crack of public life. I am drawn to stories exploring the debate about appropriation and the ways arts and culture frequently become flash points. I am interested more broadly in stories about film, television and books, and have made a cottage industry of covering jam bands.
I was previously a business reporter covering the media industry, specializing in digital outlets, print magazines and newspapers. Before that, I covered college sports, where I wrote stories on scandal, the amateurism debate, the dominance of Alabama football and the mausoleum that houses the ashes of Butler University’s late and lamented bulldog mascots.
Before arriving at The Times in 2014, I covered politics and media for The New Republic and contemporary Jewish life and culture for Tablet. I continue periodically to cover the American Jewish community for The Times. I coedited the 2012 book “Jewish Jocks,” a collection of 50 original essays about great (and not-so-great) Jewish sports figures.
I grew up in Bethesda, Md., and moved to New York to attend Columbia University as an undergraduate.
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