If there's a lesson to be learned from The Duke of Burgundy, the latest exquisite puzzle picture by British director Peter Strickland, it's this: Being the dom in a sub-dom relationship is really tiring.

Earlier today, Austin City Council passed a resolution that supports the full repeal of Texas’ abortion law, House Bill 2.

Known for real-life lyrics combined with an elite technical skill, Dilated Peoples log more than two decades of rhyme. Coming off the release of the long-awaited and well-received Directors of Photography, the Los Angeles trio co-headlines the Weird City Hip-Hop Festival on Saturday at the weekend’s headquarters, Empire Control Room.

Louisiana follows the trend, the trend lines level off, and Yoweri Museveni vows to give Uganda the Dallas treatment, as your AggreGAYtor harasses Chris Pratt.

Gabrielle Hamilton, chef/owner of the popular Prune restaurant on Manhattan's Lower East Side, will present dinner Friday night on the rooftop deck of the Contemporary Austin Downtown. The dinner is hosted by Tribeza magazine as part of the 11th annual Austin Style Week and benefits Creative Action.

In 1972, Dalis Allen drove her mom’s 1955 turquoise Chevy Bel Air to her first Kerrville Folk Festival. Thirty years later, 2002, she took over producing the globally-attended hootenany when founder Rod Kennedy retired. She’s in Austin putting on the Southwest Regional Folk Alliance Conference at the Holiday Inn midtown beginning Thursday.

Internationally renowned Argentine chef and live-fire cooking guru Francis Mallmann brings his outdoor cooking fire pits to Austin again this week, celebrating Central Market's 20th Anniversary at a sold-out party on Thursday night and promoting a new cookbook in the bargain.

Amy Everson is not a screen actress by first calling: But that did not stop her taking the Best Actress award in the Fantastic Fest Next wave category for her performance in Felt.

For those lucky or zealous enough to have attended both Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival shows at the Austin360 Amphitheatre over the last 13 months, the difference between 2013’s inaugural show (the first in the festival’s history) and Sunday’s finale of the 2014 tour must have felt rather profound.