Seasonal Affective Disorder? Holiday hangups? Sunday depression? Well, stave off those blues, and spend the day with a trans family potluck followed by the third Trans GenderQueer Social.

The Golden Globe Awards announced its nominees today, and my eyes are fixed on the Best Original Song category. It’s a narrowed-lens look into the year in films, and for someone whose idea of a night at the movies usually means Netflix on the couch, it’s a glimpse outside of my cinematic bunker.

Strap on your best leather chaps and fire up that home-crafted iron horse: The Weird West Fest will be celebrating the era of bespoke engineering and steampowered frontier busters this weekend in Giddings.

Magnum photographer Alec Soth and writer Brad Zellar have finished their tour of Texas, and on Saturday they partied. The Harry Ransom Center hosted a pop-up show of the pair’s Texas Triangle project, a two-week photographic and journalistic exploration of the Lone Star State bounded by Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio.

There was plenty of big news in 2013.

This is how it happens: A new Robert Pollard album comes into the Chronicle for consideration.

Matt Timms will be back in Austin this weekend, when the third leg of his Holiday Cookie Takedown tour stops in at the Shangri-La. Whip up your best batch of cookies and be there for the fun.

Once every two years, the Republican Party of Texas gets some bad news. The Libertarian Party of Texas releases its list of candidates for the upcoming November election.

With a slogan that reads, "If you don't like our wings, we'll give you the Bird!" it's pretty obvious the owners of Austin's Pluckers Wing Bar aren't about being polite with their advertising. And that’s just the way founders and owners Mark Greenberg, Dave Paul, and Sean Greenberg want it.