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$475,000

Amount Washington, D.C., will spend at this year's South by Southwest -- a film, technology and music festival in Austin, Texas -- which is almost three times what the city spent to attend the event in 2014.

Amount Washington, D.C., will spend at this year's South by Southwest -- a film, technology and music festival in Austin, Texas -- which is almost three times what the city spent to attend the event in 2014.

Daniel Luzer is GOVERNING's news editor.