“Beer and music go together. They amplify the experience of the other.” So said Sam Calagione, founder of Dogfish Head Brewing, on Friday to a theatreful of Austinites who probably pair beer and music often enough to agree.

Late Eighties New York was a city of schism: black vs. white, rich vs. poor, haves vs. have-nots. After a decade of Wall Street boom and the introduction of crack cocaine to the urban core, the wedge between rich whites and poor blacks was driven deeper than ever.

The brutal disparities of global poverty are glaringly apparent when an upper-class American on holiday to Africa suffers the loss of her child to an entirely preventable disease – malaria. This is the story of Mary and Martha, which premiered on HBO Saturday, April 20.

Southern man is accused of the rape and murder of a young girl, is convicted and sentenced to death, and serves 19 years in prison before DNA evidence appears that may exonerate him from guilt. Sound familiar?

For two full seasons now, the Austin Film Festival's On Story has been bringing great interviews with filmmakers on the process of storytelling, and now it's back for round three.

It's been an exhausting week. Between the bombings in Boston and the explosion in West, you wouldn't be blamed for wanting to hide out in a room full of puppies for a while.

Each summer, a couple dozen University of Texas students hop on their bikes in Austin and ride … and ride and ride, for 70 days and 4,500 miles, until they reach Alaska.

Finally, a spring cleaning effort that gets that tricky e-waste covered.

If you love films, it's cool to say you hate Michael Bay. C'mon, Transformers? Transformers 2? Those shitty Platinum Dunes horror remakes? But this weekend, as the Alamo Drafthouse holds its Baymaggedon marathon, Greg MacLennan has a message for the haters: You love his movies too.