Listening to Jeff Beck’s Emotion & Commotion (Atco), his first studio album in seven years, I was reminded of his 1975 release Blow by Blow.

We'll have plenty more on this in tomorrow's paper (see Austin Powell's "Off the Record" column), but there's breaking news about a possible new direction for the Cactus Cafe: A partnership with KUT Radio.

The Totescast gets all up in the municipal business this week, with a rundown of all manner of City Council items to be taken up Thursday. That's why we're hitting you a day early!

The Daily Hustle reactivates after the jump …

The city of Austin's Public Works Department has released its final recommendation for a bike boulevard and traffic calming devices on Rio Grande and Nueces streets. A map of the plan, staff's memo to Council, and other details are now posted on the city's web site. More later and in Thursday's print edition.

If you happened to be in the ExCel conference center in London, England on March 20, you might have noticed something special: Austin's own purple-clad skaters from the Texas Rollergirls, the Hustlers, winning their first ever intercontinental bout.

UT President Bill Powers finally has the one student he can claim supports the admin's efforts to destroy the Cactus Cafe: Student Government President Liam O'Rourke, who has unilaterally effectively vetoed last week's Student Government Assembly resolution supporting the venue.

If there's one thing that Democrats and Gov. Rick Perry can agree on it's that Perry's new campaign slogan, Moving Texas Forward, is a great slogan: So great, in fact, that it's been the Texas Democratic Party's slogan for the last four years.

Turn the TV off, and get out of the house. Queer rockstar turned award-winning filmmaker Silas Howard will be screening some of his recent short films tonight at 7:30pm in PHR 2.114, on UT's campus.