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A 1992 painting by Lucian Freud sold for approximately $11.5 million dollars (7.8 million Euros) at a Christie's auction this week. This sale broke the record price for a work by a living European artist. /// Well-hung: After an unsuccessful attempt to enter the current U.S. Presidential race, everyone's favorite pseudo-archconservative pundit, Stephen Colbert, got his portrait hung in the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery last week. The portrait is dangling in an "appropriate place" - between the public bathrooms near the exhibit of American Presidents. The "showing" is temporary and will last for only 6 weeks. /// "Beirut" - a play depicting a dystopian American future in the midst of a destructive plague - ends its current run at The Vortex Repertory Theatre this Sunday. The play has a long history with The Vortex, originally showing in the early 90s and attracting strong critical acclaim.

This weekend, first-time directors Brian Cassidy, Jennifer Loeber and (ex-Austinite) Aaron Hillis will bring their unusual but fantastic new documentary Fish Kill Flea to Austin for its world premiere at SXSW. Strange and funny and sad by turns, Fish Kill Flea is an honest, close-up portrait of a decaying mall in upstate New York that has become home to a popular (though shabby) flea market. Though the subject seems fairly specific at first, the film...

Some people are just that desperate for inexpensive furniture. We hope you love your new Kaarten Caaffee Taable. From deep in the heart of West Texas, Amazon.com founder, Jeff Bezos launches his rocket. MySpace is worth an estimated $6 Billion. We wanted to be part of a prestigious organization but it looks like we'll have to rule this one out. Al Jazeera begins broadcasting in English today and is expected to draw at least...

Badly Drawn Boy - Born In The UK (Astralwerks): If Talking Heads were last year's band to emulate, The Boss is certainly the sound of 2006. After seeing a great Springsteen record from The Hold Steady and a suspect one from The Killers, we now find Brit Damon Gough wrapping himself in the English flag and turning up the shiny, Human Touch-style production. Unfortunately, Badly Drawn Boy's main charm were his lo-fi early songs...

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Accompanying the release of Bryan Singer's quarter-billion-dollar summer epic Superman Returns is a compilation album put out by Rhino Records entitled, aptly enough, Sound of Superman. More of a themed record than a soundtrack (also available), the disc piles together fourteen tracks of Man of Steel-related rock, mostly performed by today's batch of MTV bands like The Academy Is ..., The Sun, Motion City Soundtrack, American Hi-Fi, and The Spill Canvas. Covers make up nearly...

Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddie for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bid's Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television shows have an elderly audience and DCist has some suggestions to fix that. They're also throwing Butterstick the panda bear a birthday bash. Yeah, we may have a few issues with our World Cup broadcasters here, but this guy...

Film and public radio fans rejoice; legendary Director Robert Altman (M*A*S*H, Nashville, Short Cuts) will open the SXSW Film Festival this March with the North American premiere of his new film “A Prairie Home Companion,” the feature-length adaptation of the wildly popular public radio presentation from original American voice Garrison Keillor. The premiere is a boon for the fest, which has establishied itself as one of the country’s premiere film festivals. The film, penned...