It seems Texas voters will pay for new pipes. With 2,912 (35.54%) of the state's 8,193 precincts reporting, the plan to establish a new $2 billion water infrastructure bank is cruising to an early and easy victory.

If show folk across Austin are pulling out their spiffiest duds and stocking up on cash for the bar, it must be time for the B. Iden Payne Awards, our town's longest-running celebration of outstanding work onstage. Tonight's ceremony, starting at 8pm at Stateside at the Paramount, will be the 38th time local thespians have gathered for these honors.

To possess even one artistic bone or whiff of rebellious means of achieving something outside life's neatly drawn box of restrictions is simply to exist truthfully.

Jim Wright votes, Joaquin Castro gets hitched, and John Cornyn raises some eyebrows. Milestones are on the News Ticker.

Big Freedia had a visitor at her 2011 Fun Fun Fun Fest set. His Excellency Ryan Gosling, who inspired a near manhunt while filming around the music festival with legendary director and recluse Terrence Malick, hung backstage even as a mob of rafter-swinging dancers joined the New Orleans bounce queen onstage.

In full support of Movember, I have risen to the challenge and given up shaving, waxing, and plucking. Though perhaps a bit overzealous, it’s not just an excuse to revel in untamed shrubbery, it’s for a great cause.

There is one singular truth in this life: No one can eat 21 slices of brisket at once. However, the Texas Monthly BBQ Fest certainly provided folks the opportunity to put the lie to that notion, with thousands of guests lining up on a perfect fall afternoon to sample the wares of those deemed most worthy by the state’s foremost authority on slow-smoked meats.

Hardcore heroes, comedy at music festivals, and the ones that got away. Transmission Events principal Graham Williams talks the ins and outs of booking Fun Fun Fun Fest.

"It's Raining Men" tonight, so break out the glitter and rainbow headbands, and make your way to Alamo Drafthouse. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and their Way Gay Sing Along are doing their part to Keep Austin Queer'd.