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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...

After we announced that NBC's new fall series Friday Night Lights would be shooting in Austin, a few of you wrote in asking us about whether they were still casting for the show. We got in on this rather late, as they're indeed looking for extras today.

Students from Lanier, LBJ, Garza and Reagan High schools walked out of class this morning and set on their way to the Capitol in protest of the Immigration Bill (or rather, the anti-Immigration Bill) up before Congress. A large group of students from the Del Valle area are headed to downtown Austin in protest and the Statesman reports that at the rate the students are walking, they may make it to the Capitol sometime tonight. A smaller number of Round Rock students also walked out and protested in front of their city library. Kick-ass. Comparable walk-outs occured in El Paso, Houston and Dallas this morning.

We've only ever had fake plastic trees for Christmas - which, invariably, stay up till August - but those of you with giant pinetrees rotting away in your living rooms might consider dropping them off at Zilker Park. Come mid-January, they'll be recycling the lot and grinding them into mulch, which you can then get ahold of for free. But exercise some caution when handling the fetid fertilizers, says the City of Austin: