If you tried out in last week's ACL Fest presale ticket raffle, your odds of "winning" a pair of bargain $50 passes are considerably worse than we initially anticipated. According to one of our B-School buddies over at UT, the head of Capital Sports & Entertainment reportedly announced during a lecture yesterday that an astounding 90,000 people had entered the contest. No headliners have been announced for the fall festival, but the good folks......

Like most attendees, our biggest frustration with last year's Austin City Limits Festival was the wretched dust cloud blanketing Zilker Park after the first day. With tens of thousands of people milling about and the daytime highs between 98-107 degrees, everything was worsened by the fact that the park was already suffering from drought-like conditions. But not anymore, if Capital Sports and Entertainment (CSE) and its massive coffers have anything to say about it. Perhaps......

Its premise is charming in its optimism: let's, for a single day, transform a barren, urban city block into a vibrant, organic gathering of public art and music. This weekend, Austin Green Art and Capital Sports and Entertainment (CSE) are taking over Block 21 -- better known as 2nd Street and Lavaca -- to throw a huge Earth Day celebration. "Rock The Block" promises to be replete with performance art, temporary sculptures/installations, and a......

None of the Austinist staff was among the lucky 1 million who scored tickets to the much-ballyhooed Live 8 international music orgy. And chances are, neither were you! But who needs London's boorish Hyde Park, the stuffy Palais de Versailles, or the way uptight Red Square when we've got our own live broadcast at Auditorium Shores? We do, but no one seems to care. Capital Sports Entertainment, the people who bring you tomorrow morning's......

Every now and then Austinist likes to go a little high-brow. Hence, we spent this past weekend indulging ourselves in the decadence that was the The Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival . Produced by Capital Sports Entertainment , and in conjunction with Saveur Magazine, the festival offered a variety of events, from demonstrations and samples by world-renowned chefs such as Wolfgang Puck and Todd English, to boat cruises which offered tapas and sangria......