In the wake of an online article detailing repeated instances of inappropriate sexual comments and physical contact, longtime composition professor Dan Welcher is leaving the University of Texas' Butler School of Music.

Every child has carefully constructed a hideout out of couch cushions and blankets. Sadly, not every kid grows up and is given $10,000 to create the fortress of their dreams. Returning for its second year, Fortlandia at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center empowers local designers to do just that, and kids and adults are invited to enjoy the results.

The question that animates dancer and choreographer Sean Dorsey’s newest work Boys in Trouble is simple: What is the current state of masculinity? The answer, however, is less straightforward.

Meyer & Hislope, Hislope & Meyer: They’re back and they’re bound to set something on fire.

Brené Brown and the Center for Sports Leadership & Innovation are teaming up to bring the New York Times bestselling author back to her alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin. Tickets for Daring Athletes: Embracing Courageous Leadership in the Age of Toughness, A Conversation With Brené Brown are on sale now.

Time to fill in those last few square inches on your wall, the last spaces on your shelves, and the remaining room in your vinyl racks. MondoCon, the festival of prints, vinyl and toys produced and curated by the Alamo Drafthouse's Mondo art specialists, is this weekend.

So, yeah, school’s back in session. And, anyway, the rest of us long-graduated townies are, ready or not, caught up in the flood of So Much Good Shit Going On In Austin Right Now.

Get ready to welcome a new executive director to Texas Performing Arts. Today, the University of Texas at Austin College of Fine Arts announced its pick to lead the performing arts presenter, and he comes with not just extensive experience with new work – 100-plus pieces of theatre, dance, and classical music – but a Tony Award for one of them.

This week on The Austin Chronicle Show, staff writer Michael King swings by to discuss the legendary Texas journalist Molly Ivins, subject of the new documentary Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins. Plus, Food editor Jessi Cape and writer Melanie Haupt have tips for taking your tiny hellions out to dinner in Austin.