10fflogoweb.jpg After a month of nearly nightly performances, the audiences and judges have whittled down the list of short fringe entrants from the original pool of 80+ to bring you the cream: The fifteen 25-minute-or-less shows that make up this week's Best Of Fest schedule, which opens tonight and runs through Saturday.

While there's a focus on the one-person performances that are the short fringe's bread and butter, the list of one-chracter plays, poetry readings, and monologues also features a handful of more traditional stage work, including Kyle John Schmidt's pirate brothel piece Saint Matilde's Malady, Roger Reeves' teenage exploration of racism Here, Nigger, and the Michelle Flanagan/Rubber Rep collaboration, Parents/Kids Dance Party.

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Call it a hipster show, call it hipster chic, call it the Crown Jewel of Hipsterville, Texas, but friends, you and your hipster bashing cannot deny how hands-down rad Fashion Freakout is. more ›

Phantogram is Josh Carter and Sarah Barthel, the Saratoga Springs duo that have known each other since junior high. Their chemistry is remarkable, showing through on their compositions again and again. more ›

KGSR Hires Mark Abuzzahab

KGSR has announced their hire of Mark Abuzzahab to replace longtime afternoon drive host and Music Director Jody Denberg, who signed off back in December. Abuzzahab formerly worked for WOXY back in Ohio, and most recently for Clear Channel’s KBCO in Colorado. He starts his first on-air shift at KGSR Feb. 22.

Lineup, details and RSVP info on all official and unofficial SXSW week events can be found on this dedicated party page. Keep up with Austinist's ongoing coverage of all things SXSW via our twitter account, @sxswist, and all posts tagged 'sxswist'. Have a tip? Send it in to sxswist@austinist.com. more ›

White Rabbits Coming to the Independent

White Rabbits will be at the Independent on April 14, supported by Here We Go Magic.

Britt Jones, Slaughter Creek Trail Opening
There is a new place to hike and bike in town! In 1998, Austin voters approved bonds to buy water protection land. On Friday, February 5th, thanks to 4,000 hours of help from volunteers (including the Austin Ridge Riders), the City of Austin Water Utility Department agreed to share a one-foot wide strip on their 700 acres. To the right, Britt Jones, the employee who managed the project, cuts one of four orange ribbons. This is the first of what the Water Utility Department hopes will be many opportunities to share access with the public.

You may notice from the signs that this hill-country retreat can be used for horseback riding, as well as hiking and cycling -- you can bring your horse, but not your dog. For safety, the horses will travel counter-clockwise and the bikes clockwise on the double-loop, five-mile trail. Horses have the right of way (sorry, cyclists). more ›

Stream The Golden Archipelago at NPR

NPR Music is streaming Shearwater's The Golden Archipelago in its entirety starting now and continuing until the album's release date on Feb. 23. Listen here.

Information is starting to surface about Filter Magazine's SXSW day party at Lustre Pearl. According to our friends at Ultra 8201, the event will be on Friday, March 19 (evening) and will feature She & Him. There's also emerging information on the Village Voice party, which will be at La Zona Rosa on March 19 (daytime) and will have Surfer Blood, Superchunk, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, the XX and more TBA. more ›

A 136-year-old mansion and all of downtown Austin's historic buildings were among this year's Preservation Texas list of the Most Endangered Places statewide. more ›

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To call Casual Victim Pile, the two-LP collection of primarily Austin, primarily salt-of-the-earth bands a vanity project feels kinda rude…or would, if the chronicler of this scene hadn’t beat us to it. “It’s admittedly a very arbitrary, self-indulgent thing,” Gerard Cosloy told the Austin A.V. Club. more ›

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