It's been a big week for Claudio Sanchez: Not only did his band Coheed and Cambria rip up the LiveStrong stage at Austin City Limits, but his new comic Kill Audio hits the racks.

After a few days in Copenhagen, I'm a convert: I've seen for myself that people in a wealthy nation can happily use the bicycle as their primary way to get around. “The never-ending flow of Copenhagners on bicycles is like a symphony of human power …. The morning rush hour is graced with such poetic motion,” is how a deliciously literate city brochure puts it ...

Click on "Open Image Gallery" at right to see hay bales about to become biomass fuel and our beautiful smorrebrod of open-face sandwiches. Main story posted earlier today.

I’m not like most of the folks who attended the Austin City Limits Music Festival. A t-shirt I saw last weekend pretty much sums it up: “I’m here for the opening band.” I get in early, get my fill, and leave before the headliners hit the stage.

A big, if not unexpected, announcement from Austin Energy: General manager Roger Duncan has announced that he will be retiring on March 1, 2010.

Tuesday we visited the island of Samso, a small-scale example to the world of how to achieve carbon neutrality. After a competition sponsored by the Danish government, Samso – a small, bucolic island located between the Baltic and the North Sea – was selected in 1997 to become a case study for renewable energy. It's a sweet story...

As fits a film about Austin's other favorite sport, there's been a lot of derby love for Whip It. Tonight there's an opportunity to meet the real Babe Ruthless at the Alamo Ritz, and Wednesday night the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls will be ready for their close up.

“I’ve been singing soul music for, like, 10 or 11 months. It’s very, very new to me but I’m getting the hang of it now and starting to find the groove.”

The independent investigation into the shooting death of Nathaniel Sanders II concludes that the APD Internal Affairs investigation was biased, according to a redacted version of the report prepared by KeyPoint Government Solutions.