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The Fabric of Reality (TV)?

Okay, you know that
one strip mall on Airport Boulevard,
the one that looks like it was designed to evoke
the Art Deco brilliance of the Jazz Age?

10:57AM Thu. Jan. 26, 2012, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Beetsolonely’s Top 40 of 2011

Following in the footsteps of Jim Caligiuri, I decided to make a Best-of-2011 Spotify mix some weeks ago. Then a nightmarish DIY plumbing disaster intervened.

9:47AM Thu. Jan. 26, 2012, Greg Beets Read More | Comment »

Derek reminds us why we should all love the Harlem Globetrotters

Harlem Globetrotters at the Frank Erwin Center

The Harlem Globetrotters will arrive to Austin Friday (1/28) and they will be doing a whole lot more than just playing basketball.

3:26PM Wed. Jan. 25, 2012, Derek Van Wagner Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Peach Pit, Briston Maroney, Bnny

Moody Amphitheater

Showgirls
at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar

Happy Together + God’s Own Country at Paramount Theatre

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

The Good and Bad of the Rain

At last, Austin got some of the rain it so desperately needs, courtesy of last night's dramatic thunder storm. The 5.66 inches dumped overnight is a new local record for the date, but with it comes the cleanup and rescue efforts.

12:27PM Wed. Jan. 25, 2012, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Easy Tiger

The owners of the long-awaited new Easy Tiger Bake Shop & Beer Garden (709 E. Sixth) sure know how to throw a party!

11:20AM Wed. Jan. 25, 2012, Virginia B. Wood Read More | Comment »

FronteraFest B.O.?

FronteraFest's Long Fringe started last night.

11:18AM Wed. Jan. 25, 2012, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Kitchen Nightmares

Last Friday night, watching the Kitchen Nightmares segment filmed at Austin's El Greco in late summer was a painful experience: an hour of family members screaming, crying, and swearing at each other in English and Greek felt more like an intervention than a restaurant make-over.

11:04AM Wed. Jan. 25, 2012, Virginia B. Wood Read More | Comment »

Radio Radio

I’m a radio geek. Always have been. So I tackled Kim Simpson’s new book, Early '70s Radio, with more than a little interest. I felt I knew the subject. Lived it. Simpson, who's speaking on the subject tonight at Book People, 7pm, writes that at the beginning of the decade commercial radio formats numbered in the single digits. By 1980, the tally was 133.

10:47AM Wed. Jan. 25, 2012, Jim Caligiuri Read More | Comment »

Face Off Recap: Boys, Girls and the Drowned Man

So we're two episodes in to season two of SyFy's makeup challenge show Face Off and already (this isn't just local pride) Austin's own Matt Valentine is looking like one of the top contenders.

9:00AM Wed. Jan. 25, 2012, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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