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Capital Metro staff has proposed changing its fare structure in January 2011, including raising some fares, standardizing rail and express fares, and elimination of free fares. The public may weigh in on the proposal at a series of upcoming open houses, online meetings, and a public hearing. Schedule below:

There are a few things we insist upon when shopping for a brassiere. Avoid bulges, hike some boob support, and stand up straight. This according to the German or Russian matron at every department store who grabs said girls forthwith and manhandles them into submission. "You will sign ze papers!" Bet you never considered a real emergency though.

"Please live long enough to be there to see it!" That's Fort Worth City Councilmember (and now, in our books, LBGT Superhero) Joel Burns testifying in honor of LGBTQ kids. Grab a hanky. You're gonna need it.

This just in from the "Have you read your own resume?" files: Rep. Warren Chisum, R-Pampa, has officially jumped into the Speaker's race to replace Speaker Joe Straus.

Art exists not as a luxury but a necessity and tool for revolutionary re-envisioning. At least that's what Audre Lorde said, "[Poetry] forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action." IOW, queermos, poetry is the way we exist.

The good news: The Texecutioners are going to nationals. The not-so-good news: The Texas Rollergirls' travel team enters the uncharted waters of entering the championship quest ranked second in their region.

The Sword's performance at ACL on Friday was the last to feature its original drummer, Trivett Wingo. After canceling an upcoming European tour and citing exhaustion, Wingo, the group's original manager and one-time documentarian, announced his departure on Monday afternoon.

Tomorrow’s City Council meeting has a fair amount of action: naming a firm to design the form-based code pilot program for Airport Boulevard, and signing a master developer agreement for the former Austin Energy Control Center Downtown, just west of City Hall. The Hustle has loads more on these development deals after the jump.