Austin dweller Margaret Brown brings her new documentary, The Order of Myths, to SXSW after a successful showing at Sundance. Brown was born in Mobile, Alabama, where Myths takes place. The film follows Mobilians through one cycle of their Mardi Gras celebrations—a festival which the city is proud to have begun celebrating before New Orleans. Unlike the Big Easy’s do, however, the Mobile Mardi Gras is, effectively, segregated. ...

Okay, as much as we love Beverly Hills Cop (and Family Guy), we've actually got a more important topic to cover here. The Austin Film Festival is continuing its popular Conversations in Film series this Sunday, August 5th, with a special session on Story and Structure: What to Think About Before You Write the Script. Leading this conversation is none other than Dan Petrie, Jr., who's worked on such top films as Turner and Hooch,......

Austinist co-sponsors an awesome boat party out on Lake Travis, with bands, DJs, swimming, and more. Tickets are still available, but get yours now before they sell out! Gallery Lombardi's latest ocean-themed exhibition, entitled "Radical Nautical," opens with a full evening of music, videos, and more Forklift Danceworks debuts their "revised and expanded" performance of their Elvis-inspired dance production, The King and I Austin Film Festival brings in veteran screenwriter Dan Petrie Jr. ("Beverly......

It was music to our ears (and stomachs) when we heard the news. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival will not take the year off . So we are clearing our schedule for the same time and same place as we do each Spring – New Orleans’ Fair Grounds, last weekend in April and first weekend in May. It was going to take a lot more than a hurricane to keep the spirit......

Rumors are flying that Austin will host this years Voodoo Music Experience while New Orleans is being rebuilt. From E! Online: With Houston already taking in refugees at the Astrodome and San Antonio serving as temporary home to the New Orleans Saints in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Austin has now agreed to host one of the Big Easy's largest music festivals--the Voodoo Music Experience. Austin, which is known for hosting large-scale musical extravaganzas......

[This post by future Austinist contributor Ami]Specifically, remember to go there next Tuesday or Wednesday night.  No, not the historically significant Alamo in San Antonio, silly, we’re talking about the Alamo Drafthouse Village.  Leave it to our friends at the Alamo to come up with a fantastic fundraiser for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Now, we know that we shouldn’t require some benefit for ourselves in order to help those displaced by the hurricane - we......