The University of Texas is set to become that much bigger and massively more medical. As explained in a press release sent out today from the university, the Regents have okayed a plan to "allocate up to $30 million a year from the state's Available University Fund to establish a medical school." more ›

The Yellow Pages, once a symbol of convenience and organization, is now viewed as the all-too-physical manifestation of a company's refusal to get with it, already, and a registry created by the Austin Resource Recovery in partnership with Catalog Choice is making it possible to preemptively keep that yellow doorstopper from even making it as far as your door. more ›

Mayor and day-off proponent Lee Leffingwell is about to throw down with challengers to the seat, Brigid Shea and Clay Dafoe, in a debate happening at 12:15. more ›

The Community Action Network, a "collaboration of organizations and individuals in Central Texas who are working together to build a community of equity and opportunity" released a report on the 12th that - as you can see from the above graph - shows that the number of low income Austinites has exceeded the State's percentage, the first time this has happened since 2005. Low-income means earning "less than 200% of the federal poverty level," which the Statesman explains is "$44,000 a year for a family of four." more ›

The City Council met today to discuss changes for pedicabbers, with special emphasis on general procedure, safety, and loading areas for those in the business. more ›

One man shot another at around 1:15 this morning at the Palazio Men's Club on 501 E. Ben White, according to KXAN. more ›

[T]his new project "You Are Listening To..." series that pairs a police radio stream with ambient music (we're listening to a track by Lim Giong right now while the radio crackles about a "red Mazda") is strangely listenable, active, and at the same time immersive and mesmerizing. more ›

In memory of the passing of Austin Icon Leslie Cochran, Austinist's Steve Hopson took a look back at Leslie over the years. more ›

Part of the SXSW experience is seeing music in peculiar locations, from car garages to condemned chemical plants. Still, what's more strange - grooving to Best Fwends in a puddle of chlorine, or jamming to Nakia at six in the morning? These legit showcases lead us to wonder. more ›

We’re wacky, y’all, and the Times is telling everybody about it! more ›

Earlier this month we reported on a new project announced by KUT called the "Austin Music Map," which had just been awarded funding by the Association of Independents in Radio. The press release forwarded to us by KUT hinted as to how producer Delaney Hall would create something billed as a "collaborative documentary and performance series" that would act as something of a musical cartographer for Austin, which would end with another Austin music festival. more ›

A site called Austin Pinball Map allows users to search by location, machine, type, operator, zone, and city (though only Austin is listed, which is obvious?) for every pinball machine in town. more ›

Kickstarter is full of projects, and - like so many others - this one by Austinite Juan Gil de Lamadrid is designed to raise funds for an album release. This project, though, is especially unique - the proposed album is the work of de Lamadrid's father, Jose Gil de Lamadrid, who died in 1985. The songs were put onto tape and one vinyl copy decades ago, and Juan is hoping to release his father's music on iTunes, on compact disc, and to create animated videos for two of the songs more ›

Maybe NPR was right - we do suck. Leslie Cochran, the colorful cross-dressing magnet-immortalized sixth street etc. fixture is up and leaving for Oak Creek in Colorado, says the investigative staff at KXAN. more ›

Austin punky and poppy band The Impossibles are reuniting with a show at the Mohawk on June 9th. The band originally formed after the demise of another band called Fat Girl in 1994, and so came the Impossibles, who combined bright alternative rock with ska and punk leanings. They released their debut The Impossibles in 1997. They broke up, got back together again, broke up again, and, happily, are coming back after ten years off. more ›

We've got an interview coming up with Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra principal Efrim Manuel Menuck prior to their performance at the Mohawk this evening. As always with this Canadian collaboration, the expected is to be unexpected. more ›

By Tuesday we should be up to almost 80 degrees again (blech), but today our streets were nearly glazed over for about ten minutes with something that wasn't quite snow but wasn't really hail. People are calling it "sleet," and ReMIX on KOOP shared with us this pic under the excellent title "The Storm of Twenty Twelve." more ›

Finding love or lust via the world of mass communication has changed just a bit over the last few years. While meeting in bars, religious functions, or being set up by your mom's friend are still great ways to find your one and only True Soulmate Forever, the field has been expanded by more interest and regionally-specific online presences. The socially wanting have for some time bumped foreheads awkwardly at Nerd Nite's Austin Speed Dating events, held once a month, and many of you reading probably have a lapsed or crazy-active OKCupid profile. Joining the Austin dating fray is - from the people at Nerve.com - Nerve Dating, a (currently, but not forever) free service launched at the end of last year that is opening up to our market just today. more ›