Reservation Road I Dir. Terry George Friday, October 12th, 7:30pm Paramount Theatre It could happen to any of us. Running late and in a dizzied hurry, distracted by cell phones, radios, possibly a conversation that we had earlier in the day, and unexpectedly a single moment changes the course of our lives. In his adaptation of the John Burnham Schwartz novel Reservation Road, Writer/Director Terry George dissects the lives of two men whose destinies are......

We at the Gothamist network would like to express our heartfelt wishes to the people of Minnesota in the days after their tragic bridge collapse. We're not trying to discount the severity of the accident by making note of it in opposition to our usual -Ist lightheartedness - we just wanted to take a moment and recognize those affected last week. After the Minneapolis bridge collapse, Bostonist did a little research and found that Massachusetts......

Austin police are on the lookout for a UT football player-turned-fugitive considered to be "armed and dangerous." An arrest warrant was issued yesterday for 17-year-old Andre Jones, a freshman defensive tackle from El Paso known by some as "Big Dre." Jones faces first-degree felony charges of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. Allegedly, Jones and his teammate, Robert Joseph, held up two victims at an East Austin student apartment residence last Friday. Joseph reportedly pointed......

We were so excited when Thomas Dolby graced our city with his presence last year, and when the prospect of an interview with the pioneer came our way last week, we literally planned our weekend around it. Now, the thrill has gone and we’re left with some wonderfully insightful responses from the master himself. Enjoy. And then jam out that Grammys performance again. Are you working on new studio material? When can we expect......

Oh no. Ohio. Again. In Tokyo, people pay to hang out in houses filled with cats. (Real cats, not Sanrio ones.) A crooked sports agent (think Jerry Maguire, before he met the girl with the annoying kid) is charged with smuggling potential Cuban ballplayers into the US on go-fast boats. (It's an interesting story, but mostly we just wanted to have the chance to drop "go-fast boats" into a sentence. Try it! Addictive.) Gmail......

Billing themselves as an "indie-vaudeville-conceptual-art-rock-slideshow" band, the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players are a quirky -- if not downright hilarious -- mom, pop, and daughter trio who create and perform songs about random slides found at garage sales, vintage shops, estate sales, and other places where vintage archival flotsam might be procured. Frontman, guitarist, pianist, and father Jason Trachtenburg leads mother Tina Piña (slide projectionist, backup singer) and 12-year-old daughter Rachel (drums, vocals) through intricate......

Total annual budget for University of Texas system: $10 billion Number of cell phones confiscated from three "Texas citizens of Pakistani descent," which police alleged could be used in setting off explosives or making meth: 1,000 Cost of renovating Carl's Corner truck stop on I-35 to include a hotel, saloon, and possible golf course, rebadged as Willie's Place in honor of investor Willie Nelson: $5 million Length of sentencing, in years, that 35-year old......

Earlier this week, a lady barreling down Westlake Drive in her Acura totally misjudged a curve near the 1800 block. And drove off a cliff. Amazingly, the woman suffered only minor injuries, despite falling over 30 feet, or the equivalent of three office stories. No word on whether alcohol, cell phones, or post-Botox jitters other circumstances played any part in this.......

“Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs...And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.” - Rush Limbaugh, October 5th 1995 Adapted by Austinite Richard Linklater from Philip K. Dick’s 1977 novel, A Scanner Darkly is the story of......

Every state in the United States has failed to meet Bush's already low standards for the No Child Left Behind Program. Apparently. there isn't enough of a demand to get those gas-guzzling, extravagant SUV's; GM is nixing the original Hummer. Hideki Matsui's streak of 1,768 consecutive games played (US and Japan leagues) ends. Will Wynn and Brewster McCracken were both re-elected in this weekend's election. The Senate reached a delightful conclusion regarding School Finanace......

The whole world is at your fingertips. Check it out... Shanghaiist probably knows a little more about China than the Chicago Sun-Times. Giving them the benefit of the doubt on that one. The city does too have a music scene. Don't even front like they don't. They also have Dorito bananas and white guys shopping for wives. What they don't have is any more tolerance for jaywalkers. Bostonist sees Boston and Somerville each whip out......

Estimated damage of last week's hailstorm in San Marcos: $100 million [link] Percentage of Austin school district students who went on to college, in 2005: 57 [link] Final count of UT students whose private information, including SSNs, was compromised, according to official figures: 106,000 [link] Estimated value of electronic equipment stolen from Westlake Hills Presbyterian Church by a former church employee and his cohorts: $13,000 [link] Approximate horn span, in inches, of MooTube's world......

We once had the good fortune of living in Italy, and there are times we miss it terribly. What is it we miss, you ask? The emasculated, gelled-hair twenty-something guys on their mopeds smoking cigarettes and pleading on the cell phones with their mothers to let them stay out just another hour so they can sit around the fountain in Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere and butcher Nirvana/Bob Marley songs on an acoustic guitar?......

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. Note that the last time we did some volunteer work that didn't involve......

Although we know you like to boogey and we know you like to booze, sometimes a nice night at the movies is the perfect cure for what ails you. With that said, there are five new movies being released in Austin theatres this weekend and a host of first-runs worth checking out if you have not already taken our advice. But if you see one movie all weekend, go see Broken Flowers. *Broken Flowers......

Apparently when your concert ticket says ALL AGES, it really means that if you are over a certain age you are either A) there with your kid, B) a narc, or C) a pedophile. We guess that’s what happens as you get older; the kids at shows look at you funny as they wonder what category you fall into. It’s strange to be only one of 15 people in a sold-out venue old enough......

Before the ubiquity of the internet and cell phones, there was a time called the 90’s. (I am sure some of you remember them.) And ushering in that decade and waving the banner for the new Austin music scene was the funkified, rocked-out sound of a band called Soulhat. Led by guitarists Bill Cassis and Kevin McKinney (killer vocalist), with a solid, driving groove laid down by bassist Brian Walsh and former Funkadelic drummer......