Let's get on with this new year of new audio adventures in queer-Fi. Tally ho.

For six years I was in band. I took private lessons; I would practice hours a day; I would neglect things like math homework and cleaning my room. I was extremely close to becoming a music major in college, even auditioning at a university before I decided a career in music was not for me.

Anybody who caught the song teasers last night during the Grammys telecast knew “Ain’t Messin ‘Round” deserved Best Rock Song of 2013, but by then Gary Clark Jr. was playing with house money. Earlier in the day, the local guitar phenom won his first Grammy: Best Traditional R&B Song for Blak and Blu favorite “Please Come Home.”

Is your dream day riding around in a van and going to photo shoots with Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul? Get ready to be very jealous of a couple of kids.

Last Wednesday, the Salty Sow hosted the first of two preview dinners for the meal Chef Harold Marmulstein will cook for the James Beard Foundation House in New York City on February 27th.

The Grammys go big, the Duma goes ugly, and something something Nazis, as your AggreGAYtor alleges everything.

On Saturday, January 25, Austin’s own Boomerang’s Pies threw their eighth Annual Australia Day Party, complete with face painting and a bouncy castle for the kids, cold beer, pie eating contests, a raffle, a silent auction, live music, and, of course, their famous Aussie meat pies.

DJs Young Creature and Mouthfeel branch into the visual with the monthly queer film series at the Alamo, Homo Arigato! This month's feature wanders a world of women, wigs, and wonderment: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.

Back to Baker Street, shall we?