What is The Show!? The Cliff's Notes version is that it’s a mixture of short films and live improv comedy. But for creator Ben Snyder, it’s more than that. It’s two of Austin’s fastest growing scenes coming together.

As the saying goes, drop yer linen and start yer grinning. For the first time in six decades, there's going to be burlesque on the Stateside Theatre stage this weekend.

The Harry Ransom Center welcomes a special guest to campus this week: acclaimed author Don DeLillo.

When author and director C. Mikki set out to write her first novel, she says, “I had the same thought most new writers have: You write it, and it will come."

Maybe you recall a survey about creative space needs in Austin conducted last fall by Minneapolis-based nonprofit developer Artspace Projects. Well, the results are in and will be shared with the public at the MACC at 6pm Monday.

The launch party for the new cookbook Austin Breakfast Tacos by Mando Rayo and Jarod Neece, held at Tamale House East Saturday, was a colossal success.

There's a joke in the comic strip Twisted Toyfare Theater. Franklin Richards, son of Mr Fantastic and the Invisible Woman, asks Ben Grimm, aka The Thing: All super heroes have an origin story, uncah Ben, so what's mine? "Haw!" laughs Grimm. "Condoms break."

So it's San Diego Comic-Con and no, we're not bitter at all that, yet again, we're missing the biggest mediagasm on the planet. But we just thought we should send a quick shout out to the local comic creators, movie makers and all-round instigators of nerd love currently crammed in the San Diego Convention Center.

As of today, the visual arts institution born of the merger between Arthouse and the Austin Museum of Art will no longer operate under the ungainly name that reminded everyone it used to be two organizations. After a lengthy effort to redefine its mission and direction, AMOA-Arthouse has rebranded itself The Contemporary Austin.