The American craft beer industry will converge on Austin tonight for this year's Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo America. Black Star Co-op - the world's first cooperatively owned and worker self-managed brewpub - will be hosting a Craft Beer Celebration to raise startup capital for their beer-boasting business. The event, tonight at Fiesta Gardens from 8PM to midnight, will feature live music from local bands PONG and Opposite Day, funky beats from The Second......

Tonight, Alamo Music Mondays presents Michael Mabbott's 2005 country rock mockumentary The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico. The films stars Matt Murphy, best known for his Canadian indie-rock bands The Superfriendz and The Flashing Lights. The film features appearances by country music superstars like Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson, as well as Canadian country favorites like Ronnie Hawkins and Blue Rodeo (and CBC TV personality George Stroumboulopoulos). The film had its Austin premiere......

We should probably preface this whole thing by saying that we absolutely love Don McKellar. And not in a cute, innocent, forgivable way—in a nerdy, fawning, obsessive kind of way. And so while much of the following interview does relate directly to Reg Harkema’s new film Monkey Warfare (which Don is in, and which will be screening at SXSW), we also couldn’t resist occasionally veering way off topic, randomly blurting out years worth of pent-up......