Around 9:00 p.m. on Sunday evening, an event police are calling a "freak accident" took the life of a driver who fell from the Ben White overpass above I-35. ...

In case you're still curious about where to vote on Tuesday, we've reprinted the official list from the Travis County Clerk web site as of Monday evening. For up-to-date information, you might want to double-check the Office of the Registrar's database To find out which precint you're in, use their handy Voter Verification form. From the Elections Divison: Registered voters can vote with a voter registration card, driver’s license or any official photo ID,......

CNN today announced that Campbell Brown, NBC News' White House correspondent during President George W. Bush's first term and host of a new prime-time news program that's set to debut this month, will anchor next Thursday's debate. CNN chief national correspondent John King and Univision anchor Jorge Ramos will serve as panelists asking questions of the candidates during the debate....

Kay Bailey Hutchison may be running for governor and detests your anonymous blog. Retiring Republican Reps may lead the Dems to a larger majority in the House when election time rolls 'round. Temporary pedestrian islands to go up on S. Congress Avenue, in the area between Riverside and Ben White. Live bat found at McNeil High School yesterday has tested positive for rabies. And another rabid bat was found this weekend at the Convention......

The word ‘naïve’, stripped of its pejorative connotation, is a good description of Snakepit for other reasons. While the comic has gotten a smidge flashier over the past few years, it’s hasn’t developed in any manner that would suggest Ben is trying to improve. On the contrary, the sheer discipline of his daily drawing is only excelled by his ethic to not let his art evolve—to keep it crude/shitty/primitive, whatever....

ME Television (Time Warner cable channel 15), Austin's local music video station, is gearing up for their own reality show which will be based on their nationwide search for two new VeeJays. The first set of open auditions takes place Thursday, August 30 in Austin. These auditions will be filmed for the reality series, which will start showing on ME in October. Duties of ME VeeJays include artist interviews, as well as coverage of......

Patsy’s Cowgirl Café, 5001 E Ben White Blvd, proudly announces the lucky return of the Rosie Flores Trio on Friday the 13th. Six months ago Rosie was told she would not be able to play guitar due to arthritis. After several gigs in California, she's back in town and Patsy's owner and Esther's Follies alum Shannon Sedwick is asking Austinistes to come out and show Rosie their support. Rosie, who has been known to say,......

Posted for Veronica Meewes How’s a mom to celebrate Mother’s Day when she’s stuck working a double at the Yellow Rose? Or catering someone else’s mom-day brunch? Or doing any of the number of things Austin’s plentiful parental population will be busy doing this and every Sunday? Well, the folks at Patsy’s Cowgirl Café feel your pain and they’re offering a Post-Mother’s Day service industry lunch special this Monday, May 14 for those who......

When Austin's newest Chick-fil-A opens its doors this Thursday, it's planning on handing out $26,000 in free food to the first hundred adults eagerly salivating in line. "We have given away more than $4.2 million in free Chick-fil-A food since we launched the 'First 100 Fans' promotion in 2003 to celebrate each grand opening," boasted Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy, the Willy Wonka of breaded poultry. "It's our way of thanking our raving fans who have......

Mobile Loaves and Fishes has recently started a program called Habitat on Wheels. This program supplies homeless and working-poor Austinites with gently-used trailer homes for very reasonable rental rates. This weekend the organization is presenting a renovated mobile home to Elalein Hathaway, a 63-year-old single homeless woman whose husband died in service in Vietnam. Mobile Loaves and Fishes is currently seeking land in Austin to develop its own trailer park community for this program,......

An 18-wheeler struck a pedestrian at the intersection of East Ben White and the south I-35 northbound service road just over an hour ago. Understandably, traffic at that intersection is extremely congested. From the Statesman's Blotter: A news release by the Austin Police Department: At approximately 2:50 p.m., APD patrol officers responded to a collision at East Ben White Boulevard and the south I-35 northbound service road. It is believed that an 18-wheeler was......

Statesman jack of all trades Michael Corcoran has probably been here longer than most of you, and many of us. The writer moved to Austin in 1984, and over the years has seen the city change drastically. Sure, we can all sit around and talk about how much better Austin used to be, as Corcoran admits in one of his latest blog posts, but being overly-nostalgic about the past and overly-critical about the present......

Austin's real estate market is still as crazy as ever, with the median house price now just shy of $170,000, according to numbers published by the Austin Board of Realtors and reported by the Statesman today. Along with the price increase is a jump in the number of houses sold -- a whopping 15 percent rise in existing home sales from last February. Coupled with the decreasing number of homes available on the market (down......

A piece of birdshot in Harry Whittington's heart caused a mild heart attack yesterday; he's in stable condition. The Austin Lawyer was shot in a hunting accident this weekend by his friend Dick Cheney. The Texas Longhorns were honored at the White House yesterday. Governor Rick Perry is posing a fitness challenge to Texans; the Texas Round-Up is a program being implemented to help Texans make healthier lifestyle choices. More locally, Mayor Will Wynn......

Austin's own Independence Brewing Company, purveyors of local handcrafted beers - we're partial to their Bootlegger Brown Ale, and we usually don't even care for beer - are celebrating their first anniversary this Saturday with a massive shindig at their brewery. From 1-6, come check out Barrelhouse Dogs and local label Chicken Ranch Records artists Willie Heath Neal and The White Ghost Shivers, while downing endless quantities of their fresh brews - right from......

American Youthworks, a "dropout recovery" charter school in downtown Austin is having a benefit event on Thursday, May 12th. From 5:00-9:00 PM, young artists from the charter school will team up with local university and professional artists for an art show and sale. From 7:00 - 10:00 PM, there will be live music at the event. American YouthWorks is an award-winning non-profit organization that has been serving the Austin community for nearly three decades. It's......