When President Barack H. Obama visited Austin yesterday, he set off yet another social media tailspin.

Christeene performed in Boy George's backyard, and guess who has a new fan?

Watch out, Austin, and lock up your daughters. Or your moms. Louisiana-bred comedian Jen Kober is in town for the Moontower Comedy Festival, and she's loaded with chewy SweetTarts.

Laura Jane Grace, frontwoman of Against Me!, wears a lot of hats these days. Already a punk rock stalwart, her journey as a trans woman has put her firmly on the frontlines of LGBTQ rights, awareness, and education.

“I started touring with my band in 2000 and we’ve played 200-plus shows a year since then,” explained Against Me! frontwoman Laura Jane Grace. “All of a sudden I’m 30 years old, and I don’t know who the fuck I am. Life happened quick.”

Two years ago, Seattle singer-songwriter Mary Lambert offered a longshot deal on Kickstarter: Donate $1,000 and join her at the Grammys if she ever went big. No one jumped on the deal, but in January there she was – flanked by Madonna on one side, Queen Latifah on the other – belting out the chorus of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ marriage anthem “Same Love.”

After news leaked last week that the Doritos stage behind Esther’s Follies had been deemed unsafe by the city to stage mega techno diva Lady Gaga, South by Southwest announced this morning that Stubb’s would host the chip brand’s headliner on Thursday, March 13. Time for the peanut gallery to go Gaga.

Last week, I had a prolonged text exchange with a fellow Chronicle writer about Grantland’s “Dr. V’s Magical Putter.” As a journalism grad student, I pontificated long and hard on the sports site outing the inventor of the “scientifically superior” golf club – Essay Anne Vanderbilt – who committed suicide before the story came out Jan. 15.

Sadly, we can't have everything. But if we could, we'd take it with a side of these sexy heterosexuals.