• Party time this time: the Texas Relays are in town thru Saturday!
• There's still time to say a quick goodbye to the old press that used to make the offices of The Daily Texan thud so nicely during the night.
• Horrible: a Yale student (from Austin) died after jumping off the observation deck of the Empire State Building on Tuesday.

• Texas A&M scientists are starting the zombie invasion. Texas ranchers are actually excited about this.
• Dallas couple found Jesus in a Cheeto. They nicknamed it "Cheesus."
• An 11 year-old Lakeway boy is among the people protesting the removal of trees at Barton Springs Pool. He even has a website and an online petition!

The Daily Texan has announced its list of endorsed candidates, with one glaring omission. more ›

J. M. Coetzee is probably the only Nobel Prize winner for Literature with a degree from UT. He spent several years in Austin in the 1960’s, playing intramural cricket, protesting the Vietnam War in the pages of the Daily Texan, and writing a dissertation on Sam Beckett’s novels. A few years later, he returned to South Africa, the country of his birth, and started writing one amazing book after another. (He hasn’t really stopped since then.) He’s visited Austin a few times since then, including a stint in 1995 as a visiting professor at UT. more ›

Photo by Sandstep on flickr Austin Music Commission MeetingMonday, November 5, 2007, 6 p.m.Momos [map][info]Austin's future as Rock Capital of the Universe or whatever hangs in the balance at tonight's meeting of the Austin Music Commission. The Commission will be discussing a proposed ordinance that would change the requirements for obtaining an outdoor music permit, prohibiting music within 100 feet of a residence and lowering the decibel limit from 85 to 75 or 70 depending... more ›

Austin city leaders announced late Friday afternoon that the U.S. Department of Justice is starting an investigation into the Austin Police Department and its use of force, specifically when dealing with minorities. "We are obliged to determine whether APD is systemically violating the Constitution of the United States," read the letter sent to the city from the Justice Department. In 2004, the Austin American-Statesman analyzed police data from 1998 to 2003, revealing that Austin police... more ›

Looking for a place for the summer? How about a pre-lease for the fall? If you thought the housing market has been bad lately, you may want to start considering that move to Round Rock right about now. The Daily Texan reported yesterday on a few numbers that seem to keep getting bigger, the prices of your average apartment in Austin. 94% - The occupancy rate in Austin by the end of 2006. 88%... more ›

ME Television and the Austin Music Foundation continue to promote the best of the city’s promising up-and-coming acts at Antone’s on Thursdays. After the success of the first Emerging Artists Series, the time is ripe for the latest edition. The good times rock n’ tonk of The Jungle Rockers (featured today in The Daily Texan) along with prog-metal from Stasis promises another night of diverse music. Add to that one of our fast emerging favorites,... more ›

"UT spied on its non comformists and dissident students"Your every move is being watched. Scary thought, right? A thought we like to associate with Orwellian sci-fi or Alex Jones, but in recent years we've seen this idea become a reality. Little black boxes with blinking red lights are at traffic spots, street corners or up in trees making sure you're not up to any funny business. Now, in a democracy sans Habeas Corpus, we... more ›

If you've become increasingly bored with the Old Lions of student media at The University of Texas, you may want to consider an alternative. The Daily Texan, once considered the legit alt-paper when this was still a one-horse town, was ousted by The Austin Chronicle long ago, and now tends to offer minimal reporting that increasingly looks more like any other college daily than the proud former home of Willie Morris and Bill Moyers.... more ›

UT Austin School of Law first-years ("1Ls") started off the term in rather poor fashion, earning the ire of law school dean Larry Sager and the Thurgood Marshall Legal Society after several students took part in a "Ghetto Fabulous" costume party. According to the Daily Texan, photos from the event -- originally posted online but now since removed -- showed students "sporting Afro wigs, large necklaces with medallions and name-tags with fake historically black... more ›

Note: this post has been revised after receiving additional information from the Austin Police Department. According to the Daily Texan, the body of a student from St. Edward's University -- identified by the Austin Police Department as 19-year old James Henry Leonard -- was discovered by officers at a small apartment complex at 22nd and Rio Grande, mere blocks from UT Austin, earlier this morning. Meanwhile, News 8 Austin's article claims that "party noises"... more ›

We read a few months ago that Concordia University, the Lutheran school that sits on the IH-35 access road, is looking for a new campus location. Manor was considered a possibility, along with Round Rock and other locations in North Austin/Pflugerville (see this Daily Texan article for more). Well, this morning the Statesman reports that the school is negotiating to purchase the site of the former Schlumberger facility in Northwest Austin. While they are... more ›

Daily Texan writer Eric Seufert has a bone to pick with the liberal media. And hipsters. And Democrats. Seufert is a senior at UT majoring in finance, with an apparent minor in either satire or unsubstantiated hate. Or so it seems. We were on the Dillo riding to work this morning when we came across his Opinion piece in the Daily Texan. The headline: SXSW: Liberal menace. The piece goes off on several tangents,... more ›

One local coffee establishment that's been keeping Austin good 'n weird for the past 10 years is closing its doors come January 1st due to financial losses. Mojo's Daily Grind has felt the mighty force of that global coffee virus, Starbucks, as well as the strain from rising rent costs along the Drag and too much coffee competition. Founded by Wade Beesley in 1994, Mojo's has been well-known for its laid-back attitude and openness... more ›

Only very recently did we go to Austinist landmark and creative foods diner Texicalli Grille on Oltorf (by Curra's). It's an unassuming little place, so much so that we don't think we ever really noticed it before, even though we've eaten at Curra's many times. We went on the recommendation of coworkers and were urged to order a Dr. Pepper which is made with real cane sugar and not high fructose corn syrup. We... more ›

For those of you who have been on the edge of your seats since last April, unclench: UT and those assholes at the Perry-Castaneda Library have no taste. The Espresso Yourself Contest has been decided and the name of the new coffee shop, which will be somewhere in that big concrete building, will be called Prufrock's. more ›