Art Alliance Austin is still accepting visual artists' application for participation in its highly anticipated annual art fair, Art City Austin, to be held next April 12-13 - but not for long! If you're an artist with the right stuff, submit your application here (and non-refundable $30 jury fee) by midnight, October 31, or risk turning back into a black velvet paint-by-number pumpkin. The competitive jury process draws thousands of applicants from around the......

With the cycling world in a mess after widespread doping allegations, the Discovery Channel team officially disbands Boating bans on Lady Bird Lake and Lake Austin are extended yet again Officials at a Christian boot camp are in hot water after allegedly tying a girl to a van and forcing her to "participate" in a morning run A man posing as a police officer attempts to kidnap an 8-year-old boy in Round Rock Arlington......

With the sweaty season officially in full swing here in Austin, Philadelphia-based First Person Arts has given us good reason to stick around in air-conditioned climes. Yesterday was the official call for entries in the 6th Annual First Person Arts Memoir Writing Competition. Now instead of trudging about in the soup you can spend time inside articulating your inner-most thoughts for a shot at some prestige in print-form. This year's contest features two categories: Short......

A prominent official at the Austin Museum of Art (AMOA) and his wife were arrested this weekend, after the two were caught trying to make off with paintings from the Fine Arts Festival. Austin Police Commander Michael Jung was on patrol near Republic Square Park early Sunday morning when he found a suspicious-looking Alexandra Sheppard, wife of former AMOA finance and operations director Nathan Sheppard, wandering around the Fine Arts Festival tents. In the process......

The 57th Annual Austin Fine Arts Festival is set to showcase the creative powerhouse of Austin artistry Saturday and Sunday, April 14 and 15 at Republic Square Park. The festival will shine a light on the work of more than 220 visual artists as well as Grammy award winning musicians. The event will also feature artist demos, local food, and art activities. Tickets are $8, kids 12 and under get in free. Saturday's festivities run......

MONDAY [5] art • Opening Reception for Sarah Canright and Melissa W. Miller: Measured Strokes at The Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Fine Arts Gallery (6-7:30pm) benefit/music • Heather Love Fest Benefit with Dan Dyer & Friends, John Pointer, Govinda, DJ Chicken George, BIGFACE, DJ Mahealani, DJ Chris, DJ Trey Lopez,DJ Orian, Performance by the Super Sonic Soul Squad, Complimentary Appetizers and TONS of Raffle and Silent Auction Prizes at Saba, Cedar Street, and......

FRIDAY [13] music/art • Austin Museum of Digital Art (AMODA) presents their latest Digital Showcase with Drop The Lime, MVSCLZ, HAPPYSUCKY, Wonder Jam Twins, Yatsuzaki, DJ Who's Jealous and DJ Radicon, plus visual artists including Ben Aqua, Ben Hibon, Bleep Labs, Cari Palazzolo, David Salinas, DEFASTEN, Eli Welbourne, Friedrich Kirschner, Johnny Cisneros, Lanneau White aka Karl Sapien, Lonja, Mike Ruiz, and Yuki Kawamura at The Mohawk (9pm-2am, $7/$4 general/members, 18+) ® music • Faceless......

- Wild Horses Couldn't Sell Those Cheap Seats: Charles Attal must be having some trouble filling those far corners of Zilker Park, because KGSR sent out an email this week offering four Rolling Stones tickets and four concert T-Shirts for $199. If you're keeping score, this is roughly half of the original $95 ticket cost. If you'd like to take advantage of the offer, head over here. - New Concerts Going On Sale his......

Austinist was eager to get outside yesterday and take in an outdoor festival. We consulted the IST-list and found ourselves spoiled for choice: The Austin Fine Arts Festival, Spamarama, and the Lone Star Hot Rod Round Up were all happening downtown yesterday! We chose to hit both Spamarama and the Hot Rod show (which we'll refer to as HRRU for brevity), and found them to be about as different as one could imagine. Here's......

Be sure to check out our extensive theatre coverage and new movie releases. Please let us know about any corrections/suggestions! FRIDAY [31] [music] Reckless Kelly at La Zona Rosa (link) [music] Peter & the Wolf, Navajo Radio and more at Emo's (Inside) (link) [music] Ghostface Killah, Word Association, DJ Notion at Emo's (Outside) (link) [music] The Glass Family w/ Quien es Boom (CD Release) & Brothers and Sisters at The Parish Room (link) [music] Red......

If you'll be so kind as to glance at the image to your left, you'll note that Austinist is more than pleased to provide you with your daily phallic fix. And now, to raise your mind from the gutter and elevate it to the highest heights, we bring you an exclusive interview with one of the major players at this weekend's TAFAF, or The Austin Fine Arts Festival. His name is Randy Jewart, and......

Austinist would generally claim you, dear readers, to be lucky ducks, though today we'll crown you as fortunate as the swans of Town Lake. Here's why: we're loading you up with tons of artdata. People, get ready. The first order of business is this weekend's Austin Fine Arts Festival, or TAFAF, which is fifty years old 'n strong. It was originally conceived in the 1950s by one Miss Peggy Frary, an art lover and......

One of our favorite parts of SXSW Music last year was only tangentially related to the thousand-plus bands in town -- it was Flatstock 6, a three-day gigposter show over at the Austin Convention Center that featured some of the world's most talented screen printers (we snagged a limited-edition print of the cover of Michael Chabon's The Final Solution, as well as some classic Flaming Lips show posters). And this South by, they're coming......

Apparently the folks at Superfly Productions overestimated the marketability of their wildly successful summer Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. After three years of producing the most economically prosperous music festival in America, Jonathan Mayers, producer of the Zooma Tour, felt that they had produced a synergy and a brand that would be able to draw fans from across the country to individual concerts. And thus was born The Zooma Tour. Apparently they thought wrong,......

…which must mean it’s time for the Old Pecan Street Spring Arts Festival! Every year hundreds – nay, thousands - of artists, musicians, men, women, and children flock to little ol’ 6th street for a full weekend of all the things that make Austin great: art, music, food, and F-U-N. And guess what? Admission is F-R-E-E. Unfortunately, nothing else is. But still! A veritable cornucopia of bands will be playing their hearts out at the......