It's day eight of Fantastic Fest, and Simon Barrett may be the only person who doesn't look like 10 miles of bad road. The writer of 80s-tinged horror-thriller The Guest wisely only arrived for the second half of the bacchanalia. He said, "Normally I'm in way worse shape by now."

On Friday, Let’s Go Austin – the umbrella political action committee created to support Proposition 1, the Austin rail and road bond - released the initial result of a phone poll taken of 500 likely Austin voters. According the release by research group Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, “Proposition One holds a 52 to 43 percent margin.”

The Austin Civic Orchestra kicks off its season this weekend by embracing the Past & Present. Video game enthusiasts might be interested in the "present" portion of the show with locally composed music from the seminal Wing Commander series. It wouldn't hurt for you to hear some Beethoven either.

On Sunday, there's going to be a smack down. Five chefs will be duking it out to be the Cochon Heritage BBQ King, transforming 200 pound heritage breed pigs into six dishes for a panel of distinguished judges (and one Chronicle food editor).

As we pack up the glitter, glowsticks, and strands of baubles and beads; cut off Stargayzer wrist bands, and slide our aGLIFF badges into scrapbooks, Pride Season feels officially put to bed. Lucky for us ATX queers, there's never a lackluster weekend here. You may wish to not pack away that glitter. You're gonna need it.

It happened in seconds. Without objection, the motion was passed by Austin City Council to direct the City Manager to begin finding the means and method for installing rainbow crosswalks on Bettie Naylor Street, cementing the once-derelict Warehouse District’s center as Austin’s historic “gayborhood.”

Before her descent into Weird City cyphers Saturday at the Empire Control Room, New York rap idol Jean Grae talks femcees, the possible re-release of her pulled 2008 masterpiece Jeanius, and why she still considers retirement.

Phaorahe Monch’s April release, PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, attacks social injustices with an anti major-label sentiment in ways the Queensbridge, New Yorker’s previous three albums didn’t. That’s largely due to the rapper’s realization of the circumstances surrounding his longstanding depression.

Sometimes there is too much Austin food news to squeeze into the print edition of the Chronicle. Rather than wait a week, we've decided to give our readers a little bite of something extra.