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Prohibition made America great. Because apparently, as you'll recall from your early college years, boozing when it's illegal is way more exciting. Out of the clandestine debauchery wrought by Prohibition, America found itself in the swingin' twenties. We're talking flapper dresses that were way too short and jazz that was way too good. Tonight begins a series of local music happenings brought to you by the prestigious Harry Ransom Center as a part of...

That's right: it's time to heat up your winter nights again, with the 14th season of FronteraFest. The Short Fringe, the Long Fringe, or Mi Casa es su Teatro -- FronteraFest is five weeks of alternative, offbeat, new, and just plain off-the-wall fringe theatre presented by Hyde Park Theatre and Austin Script Works. For complete FronteraFest 2007 information, including times and locations for the Short Fringe, the Long Fringe and Mi Casa es su Teatro,...

That's right: it's time to heat up your winter nights again, with the 14th season of FronteraFest. The Short Fringe, the Long Fringe, or Mi Casa es su Teatro -- FronteraFest is five weeks of alternative, offbeat, new, and just plain off-the-wall fringe theatre presented by Hyde Park Theatre and Austin Script Works. For complete FronteraFest 2007 information, including times and locations for the Short Fringe, the Long Fringe and Mi Casa es su Teatro,...

Austin Lyric Opera has one more performance of Madame Butterfly tonight. We attended the Saturday opera, and while we weren't blown away, we weren't disappointed, either. Madame Butterfly is Giacomo Puccini's tale of a Japanese geisha done wrong by an American sailor, Lieutenant Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton. Pinkerton marries a young Cio-Cio San (aka Butterfly), mainly to sleep with her. He explains to his friend that upon his return to America, he will marry a...

Seattlest saw a house party get senselessly attacked with a shotgun and end in seven dead. A local senator is debated and their version of the big dig is investigated. To truly get to the bottom of it they interview the writer Jonathan Raban. Bostonist has its first birthday party and investigates how to attach more gambling dollars to the Red Sox. Benjamin Franklin is celebrated and Johnny Damon is not. Image by Ethan Bagley...