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Dear reader, we’re sure you’ll agree that it’s been too long since we’ve heard from our favorite Bear Den/music venue, The Chain Drive, up there on Willow Street.

As we move to the next square on the calendar you're still out there trying to make a connection. Sadly you let most of them slip by without saying a word. We understand, no one wants to be overzealous and get shot down. If only you had some place to find a second chance. Oh yes, Missed Connections. If only you had someone to sort through and find the best of the above. Oh, right, read below....

Presidential Primaries: Hillary and Mitt Romney take Nevada, McCain takes South Carolina.

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• Former convention-center director Robert Hodge was indicted on record-tampering charges by grand jury.
• Voter registration cards sent by Travis County to incorrect addresses increase the chances of voter fraud.
• Sixteen people arrested near Manor for being (allegedly) involved in a cock-fighting ring.

Photo courtesy lagarconne.comAustin/NYC production team, The Witty Pioneers, are producing a fashion feature for Lucky magazine in Austin on Thursday, Dec. 6, and they're combing the area to cast some real women from our fair city. It involves a brief time commitment and the requisite hair, makeup, and wardrobe treatment with the end result being a prominent portrait in the March 2008 issue. They're looking for local ladies who are: 18-35 years old Sizes 2-8...

Ben Reed & Bill Cope Read Christmas Fiction, Live!Friday, November 30thCafe Mundi (1704 East 5th St.)Free, 8pm - onwardAustinist’s own Benjamin Reed’s doing a Christmas Story reading with Bill Cope! Using real words! This Friday evening! Remember back when words actually meant something? Back when they meant “on paper, in printed form, to be read aloud to people who like hearing stories told by the authors who write them”? Back when books were things...

This summer, Austin resident Scott Blackwood received the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for his forthcoming novel, We Agreed to Meet Just Here. His collection of short stories, In The Shadow of Our House (2002), received great reviews. In The Shadow of Our House interweaves nine tales of Austin — marriages falling apart, youthful anger erupting into inexplicable violence, sudden tragedy testing family bonds, and adulterers caught between incomplete worlds. Blackwood’s keen sense...

Details on the murder that occurred on Juneteenth were sketchy when we posted yesterday (as we mentioned). More details of the event have been culled since then, and here is what the police think happened at this point. Two men in a Ford Taurus were driving near the Booker T. Washington housing development Tuesday night and accidentally hit a 2-year-old boy. The driver of the car got out (to check on the boy, perhaps)...

Although it may just look like a pizza stand parked in a Mobil gas station on Barton Skyway and South Lamar, Giovanni's Pizza Stand may be one of the greatest South Austin pizza joints since Austin's Pizza (Ed Note: and Home Slice Pizza, ahem). Barton Hills residents don't have far to look for value-priced pizza with a ton of toppings to satisfy their hunger after a jump in Barton Springs, a spin around The...

Salons here are like coffee shops in New York. It seems like there’s a cute, hip one on every street corner – which isn’t necessarily a bad thing; it just gives us more options to find that special someone who'll give us the perfectly groomed-but-casual Austin look. But don’t forget about the bottom line! Find out if your salon gives people in the service industry a discount with proof of a paycheck stub (such as Sage Salon on 4111 Medical Parkway, Ste. 111, and its brand-spanking-new location on 237 W. Third St.) or free bang trims. If you’re willing to take a risk on your hair, many salons will use you as a hair model.

The following article and interview is by guest contributor Lisa Kaselak, who will be curating a short film series at the Fuse Box Festival tomorrow evening. Check the IST list for details. -- Ed. Note I first met Ron Berry last year, after I finished a short documentary piece and some accompanying prints and was looking for a community space to house the whole exhibit – not necessarily an easy task since this work was...

Sonny Tremblay is the father of my best friend & he's been missing since late yesterday morning. He is 61 years old & is an insulin-dependant diabetic. He hasn't had an insulin injection since Friday & if he doesn't get his meds soon, he could go into a diabetic coma. A missing person's report has been filed & the family is working with the Ft. Bend police department. The cell phone this missing person had on him has been traced to the Austin area.

People of Austin, patrons of the World Wide Web, you’re about to get ripped off! If you’ve ever rented a car, you know how this works. You don’t want the Mercedes, just something reliable that will provide the basic necessities. “I’ll take the Lincoln, please.” This seems like a good, mid-level choice. The clerk obliges and enters your credit card information. Then, with a plastic smile, she looks up and asks you: “Would you...

• Today, we have reason to celebrate. Wal-Mart reported a decline in sales.
• The grand state of Maine is dragging their feet. We bet Santa's Butt is tasty.
• Now might be a good time to stop having cyber-sex at work. Your boss is now required to track your emails, instant messages and electronic documents.
• Similar to bike helmets, seat belts might actually cause accidents.
• Have sex with horse, have a movie made about you. Hopefully, no horsies were harmed.
• A woman is cited for improper lane usage after she killed a cyclist while driving while downloading ringtones to her cell phone.

If you're hiking, consider charging up your iPod, as Seattlest finds out that a man lost during a hike was found by the glow of his iPod. That cleverness seems to be devoid in cops who were using police cruiser instant messaging clients - although we imagine IMs "so are you nakie" to be included in cop shows, just for realism. If only the cops were busting the Hummer-driving jerk who made a poor...

Round Rock police spent hours last Tuesday tracking down a prank caller who'd brazenly dialed 911 emergency dispatchers nearly fifty times, each call disconnecting amid peals of laughter.

Next time you run that red light, you might want to take the latte/cell phone away from your grill and smile big, cause you could be on not-so-candid camera. Actually, it’s only your license plate that gets photo’d, but you get the idea.

Out at the refurbished Del Valle High School football stadium, a staged homecoming football game was filmed last Friday night and into the pre-dawn hours of Saturday. The “game” was the backdrop for the Austin-based NBC series Friday Night Lights. The show’s pilot premieres tonight at 7:00 p.m. “We wrapped at 4:00 a.m.,” assistant director Michael Waxman said. “I’ve had about 3-1/2 hours of sleep at this point.” Waxman was talking by cell phone from...

With ten years of experience under their collective belt, the bandmembers have grown from the lo-fi fuzz of their earlier work to a sound that might even be called melodic. Percussionist William Kuehn overcame dodgy west Texas cell phone reception and took a few minutes from the band’s jam-packed touring schedule to chat with Austinist about the new album, the old fans and the current tour.

Stranded somewhere between Hollywood blockbuster and political-minded home movie, Cavite is nothing if not an unusual filmgoing experience. Conceived and produced entirely by no-budget veterans Neill Dela Llana and Ian Gamazon, the story concerns an aimless Filipino-American (and lapsed Muslim), played by Gamazon, who becomes embroiled in a nasty kidnapping scheme when he returns to the Philippines for his father's funeral. As Gamazon wanders the devastated town of Cavite, taking orders via cell phone...

Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddie for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bid's Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television shows have an elderly audience and DCist has some suggestions to fix that. They're also throwing Butterstick the panda bear a birthday bash. Yeah, we may have a few issues with our World Cup broadcasters here, but this guy...

That bitch that cut you off almost swiping the side of your shiny car wasn't drunk. She was gossiping on her cell phone. But she might as well have been drunk. Check out some proposals for Austin's largest public art project and tell the developer what you think. Who knew that Disney World was such a dangerous place? A judge in Oklahoma, was insecure about his own sexual performance behind the bench. He was...

The Statesman just reported that a teenage girl in Travis County, who was allegedly sexually assaulted last month by nineteen-year old Pete Solis, has filed suit against MySpace for $30 million:

There was a pretty interesting group out last night to bear witness to Arctic Monkeys and We Are Scientists at Stubb’s. Moms and their kids, shuttled in from the suburbs, were taking in the sounds alongside preppy potheads (we saw the dugout guys, you’re not slick. And un-tuck your shirt, you’re at a show). Apparently and unfortunately, blue hair-dye is still popular with some young ladies. Faux English soccer hooligans, well-tanned and not the least bit aggressive, dappled the crowd with red crosses while double-fisting plastic pints. Every person in attendance was anticipating a great show and they got one.

• As smart as we think we are, we can barely remember the names of the people were introduced to yesterday. Dolphins have us beat, damn brilliant creatures.
• The energy-producing windmills that are supposed to be uber-environmentally-friendly have some bird lovers in a tizzy. Is anyone else eerily bothered by the Grackles? We're thinking we need some of those windmills scattered around town. Incidentally- Grackles are known for imitating human speech better than parrots. C.R.E.E.P.Y.
• In response to the brutal, racially motivated attack on a Houston teen, a State Senator wants to set up a "Hate Crime Registry" similar to the registry for sex offenders.
• It looks like thunderback Henry Melton could also see action at DE: With the Horns so loaded in the backfield, Brown and Melton decided to give [playing Melton at defensive end] a shot. The 270-pound Mack truck played both ways in the spring and might find himself in some situation roles at an equally stacked end position. Other news from that scouting report: We should look for WR Jordan Shipley, TE Jermichael Finley, and all three of our linebackers to make some big plays alongside all the returning talent. The big question, of course, is at quarterback.
• Ironically, the UN's latest Human Rights Forum contains members that have reputations as being the World's Worst Abusers.
• I want someone to eat me. That's what one German dude really did tell a cannibal that he met on the internet. Satisfying sexual urges has never been so easy. Said cannibal is getting life in prison where he just might take on a new fetish.
• Is there anything that your cell phone can't do? Nokia now offers a phone that acts as a personal trainer. We're just going to hold out for the pocket liposuction phone that might come out next year.
• Disney and McDonald's are ending their business deal that puts those worthless cute toys in Happy Meals. Disney doesn't want to be associated with a role in childhood obesity.

Austinist is running around town (just like you) catching as much South By action as is possible this week. The following are our thoughts on the first three films we caught on Friday and Saturday: The Last Western (Documentary) - This short feature (65 minutes) tells stories from Pioneertown, CA, a small outpost built in the 1940's to film western movies. An oddball mix of drifters, eccentrics, and Roy Rogers fans have made the...

-Keeping your cell phone on in London can get you kicked out of the theatre -Google aims to ease your holiday shopping ordeals -MTV's Real World: Austin ends tonight. Yawn. -The iTunes music store has become one of the top ten song sellers in the States -The hotly anticipated Xbox 360 hit stores today - and promptly sold out -Gary Glitter faces the death sentence in Vietnam after [allegedly] having sex with a 12-year...

We were on our way to our neighborhood Taco Deli on Barton Skyway and Spyglass Drive, thinking about our weekly Puerco Borracho plate, when we were greeted by the sight of a dozen police cruisers parked haphazardly at the T-intersection. We thought it was a normal traffic accident until we noticed that the cops were putting on camouflage gear. Evidently there's a crazy man with a shotgun prowling the Greenbelt! With paramedics and firefighters on hand, Austin's finest ventured into the hike and bike trail in search of the armed lunatic. We didn't stay to watch the spectacle unfold - we needed to walk our dog, and we're also somewhat put off by being shot at - but as we pulled out of the parking lot we passed an armored assault minitank, sirens blaring. Ahhh, Austin. UPDATE: The Statesman is now reporting that two gunshots were heard around 2pm, and that shortly thereafter "a man was brought on a stretcher from the greenbelt and loaded onto an ambulance."

Arumabh Das, who works at nearby Tacodeli, said that earlier today a woman was standing outside calling police from her cell phone to report that she was being chased by a man with a shotgun. Das said he heard the woman describing him as a fit white man. Officials said the man who was shot was white. Das said police arrived moments later and that the number of officers has increased for the past several hours. Witnesses also said the department's SWAT team arrived at the scene shortly after noon.
Elizabeth Patlan, who works at American Cleaners at Barton Skyway and Spyglass Drive, said she heard two pops that sounded like gunfire around 2 p.m.

If you’re looking to have your funny bone tickled this weekend and you can’t get us on our cell phone, head on over to The Hideout Theater for the Out-of-Bounds Comedy Festival. We checked it out last night, and as you would expect, some groups were stronger than others. Both the upstairs and downstairs stages run acts simultaneously. Last night there was improv upstairs and sketch comedy downstairs. The absurd and cute Rat Girl and her friend shared emcee duties downstairs. The highlight of the downstairs show last night was a group called The Plurals. The three young men who comprise the troupe mixed short video presentations and sketches to provide the near sold-out crowd with headscratching belly-laughs. We headed upstairs to catch the last improv group which was Jesters Ink from Richmond, VA. And not to put too fine a point on it, but they were horrible. It was pretty much beyond description. But with mid-sized festivals such as this, you can expect some laughs and some bombs. Regardless, it was good to see such strong crowds showing up to support these artists. Highlights for the weekend shows include Austin’s own Girls Girls Girls,a unique musical improv act, and local favorites Heroes of Comedy.

One of the advantages of being marginally employed is that we sometimes have days, like today, off from work. We were going to do something important with our day off, like take out the trash and check our e-mail, but then we kept reading the awful hurricane news. We got all worked up and decided to go do some volunteer work.