Weekend Round-Up

: : FRIDAY : :

[art] Coy Poage and William K. Stidham Art Exhibit benefiting the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition of Austin, 7pm-10pm @ Barocca Studios - $15 donation
[music] Mae Shi @ Elysium
[film] New Films! @ Your Local Theaters
[music] Andy Rourke of The Smiths @ The Parish
[music] Loxsly, 8pm @ Red Fez
[music] AM Syndicate with Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Cue and Dear Nora, 8pm @ Beerland
[books] Douglas Menuez presents his new book, "Heaven, Earth, Tequila: Un Viaje Al Corazon de Mexico", 7pm @ Bookpeople
[music] Real Heroes, Kissinger, Peter Elliott and the Sellouts @ Emo's
[in-store] Aimee Mann, 2pm @ Waterloo Records - FREE!
[music] Aimee Mann @ UTs Hogg Auditorium

: : SATURDAY : :

[music] Benefit Concert for Algiers Relief Effort, 7pm @ Room 710 - $5
[music/shop] North Loop Strip Block Party, 12pm-10pm @ North Loop Shopping Strip
[music] "Comedy to the Rescue," benefitting the musicians of New Orleans residing at the Austin Music Co-op, with These Things Make Us Lounder, Ratty Scurvics and The Sleepwalkers, 8pm & 10:30pm @ The Ritz
[music] Ghostface Killah, Swollen Members, Starving Martyrs @ Emo's (Outside)
[music] Life & Times, Stories from the Frontier, Lovely Sparrows, Corruption is King @ Emo's (Inside)
[food] The 15th Annual Fredericksburg Food & Wine Festival, 12pm-7pm - $20
[in-store] Andrew Colin Sheffield, Rick Reed, Adam Pacione, 8pm @ End of an Ear - FREE!
[music/dance] The Mullens, The Ugly Beats and the Shimmy Shimmy Go Go Dancers @ Beerland

: : SUNDAY : :

[benefit] The Texas Civil Rights Project's 15th Anniversary, "15 years – Human Rights at Home and Abroad", with a keynote address by Paul Rusesabagina, 6pm @ the Texas Union Ballroom
[music] Anna Nalick and Blue Merle @ The Parish
[music] Billy Idol @ Stubb's
[music] UK Subs, The Hates, Johnny Switchblade and the Blackouts @ Emo's
[music] Spagirus and Photon Ghoul, 6pm @ End of an Ear - FREE!

: : ALL WEEKEND : :

[film] Austin Film Festival!
[scary] Haunted Trails, sundown @ The Wildlife Basin Preserve (Friday & Saturday only)

: : ROUND UP WRAP UP : :

+ We love Maureen Dowd because she's pretty. Ugly things aren't worth loving.
+ We interviewed Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, and found out they prefer bagels to breakfast tacos.
+ Congratulations, Ellen Spiro. We've never won an award for 68-minutes worth anything we've done...yet.
+ Austin is trying to grow up. We don't care so much about growing up. We want to stay young forever.
+ Astros go on to the World Series. Yay Astros!
+ "Diamonds in the Greenbelt?!" Not really. It's a metaphor. That's right, we're literary and shit.
+ We hung out with Shane Black in the bar at the Driskill. It's no big.