Timmy Hefner laid on me a perfect wedding present: Church of Misery headlining Chaos in Tejas at the onset of June. Five days later, my would-be spouse and I caught the Japanese doom merchants in San Francisco, which resulted in us getting our marriage license there. So when the local booker mentioned Thursday's Southern Lord bill at Red 7, I paid heed.

A handful of defendants arrested in last week's bust of an alleged heroin-trafficking ring connected to Amado Pardo – whose family owns the legendary South Austin restaurant Jovita's – appeared for bond hearings in federal court today. However, the hearing for Pardo, whom the feds describe as the ringleader, has been postponed until Thursday morning.

You know that feeling you get when it feels like everything's broken, and it's not gonna get fixed, so, y'know, [shrug]. It's heartening when somebody decides, eff it, let's try to fix it this way. It helps if the person doing the fixing is wildly funny, talented, etc.

Leonard Pitts Jr. may be better known as a nationally syndicated, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Miami Herald – and best known for his heart-rending Sept. 12, 2001 column, "We'll Go Forward From This Moment" – but tonight he'll be in town talking up his new novel, Freeman.

Everyone knows that Austin is crawling with design talent. Per square mile, we triumph over Dallas and Houston in unknown clothing designers, and now, opportunity knocks. NBC's Fashion Star is holding an open call in Dallas on July 15th.

Here's looking at you, Casablanca: The Paramount Summer Classic Film series has secured a print of the series staple and will close out the season with the Bogey-and-Bergman classic.

Yes, it’s too early in the goddamned morning, but not too early to rock this sweet beige suit with highwater trousers, Hush Puppies, and Robert Duvall Apocalypse Now aviators on the corner of Fifth and Congress. This is a look that says, “I slept with a transvestite hooker last night and had to walk back to my car at the Capitol parking garage.”

In a celebratory Monday evening special called meeting of the Austin City Council, Mayor Lee Leffingwell and two council members – Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole and Place 2's Mike Martinez – were sworn in to new terms. (Place 5's Bill Spelman had a time conflict, and was sworn in earlier Monday.)

The Austin Aztex got a key win Friday night at House Park, knocking off the first-place Laredo Heat, 1-0 on a goal by Kekuta Manneh, to break a five-game winless streak, and stay even with the El Paso Patriots in second place in the USL PDL Mid South.