Unless you have been under a very large boulder, you are well aware that the Original Alamo Drafthouse is closing its Colorado Street doors this Wednesday night. Soon you will see people wandering the downtown streets, suffering from celluloid withdrawal and desperately looking for their next film reel hit. We know it’s hard, we’re suffering too, but the Paramount Theatre knows what you want and they’ve got what you need, as they continue their 32nd......

Okay, okay—so it's not that big a deal that the Alamo Downtown is relocating. All it really means is that we have to walk a few extra blocks to get there, which, quite frankly, will be good for our waistline. Plus, there'll be more seating and bigger screens, so we guess we'll learn to cope. But we're definitely sad to see the old theatre go; we've spent a lot of nights eating, drinking, laughing, cheering......

The Superman Returns unprecedented 7-day opening weekend begins today. To kick off this holiday “week end,” film philes might opt for something really special: An Austin Film Society 20th Anniversary screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s Week End at the Alamo Downtown. This 1967 classic follows a bourgeois French couple as they make their way to the country to visit the wife’s mother and find themselves in the mother of all traffic jams. What is intended to......

Because Black History Month is relegated to 28 short February days, and because Arizona didn’t even celebrate MLK, Jr. Day until 2004, it’s only fitting that the long, beautiful month of June serves as National Soul Food Month. Feel like celebrating? Well, get happy because we've compiled our list of the top five places to embrace National Soul Food Month: Gene's New Orleans Style Po'Boys 1209 E 11th St Insert Homer Simpson noise here. Chicken......

Update: After going through the backpack, police found only miscellaneous items - no bomb, no anthrax, no illegal pornography. We're glad our city is safe! And that we have cool robots to perform dangerous tasks. Neat! According to a News 8 Austin story published about, oh, 15 minutes ago (2:59pm), parts of downtown are/were shut down after the discovery of an abandoned backpack. Police have shut down Sixth Street from Congress Avenue to Colorado......