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The relevance of a 7" originally pressed in 1987 (two years after the band broke) being reissued now, in 2008, speaks volumes about a band with impact beyond its lifespan, beyond its then-insular and divided scene, and beyond our own expectations. In 1985, the punk scene in D.C. revolved around a sort of Machiavellian machismo which turned many punks into disgruntled outsiders at their own shows. Rites of Spring retaliated (even before Fugazi did), with unapologetically emotional lyrics about friendship, love and (oh my god hardcore scene) personal issues and groundbreaking song structures that took the hardcore scene by storm.

With the cycling world in a mess after widespread doping allegations, the Discovery Channel team officially disbands Boating bans on Lady Bird Lake and Lake Austin are extended yet again Officials at a Christian boot camp are in hot water after allegedly tying a girl to a van and forcing her to "participate" in a morning run A man posing as a police officer attempts to kidnap an 8-year-old boy in Round Rock Arlington...

Canadian researchers believe they have identified the Unknown Child who perished aboard the Titanic Walmart cuts costs in Mexico ... by hiring thousands of teenagers without pay or benefits Self-described Luddite Sir Elton John wants to close the internet—but only for a few years An English headteacher causes 400 schoolchildren to simultaneously freak out when she reads aloud the last page of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows The Discovery Channel acquires #1 green...

Scientists, nature buffs and stoners alike have gathered in front of their television sets every Sunday night for the past few weeks in order to catch the awe-inspiring footage of the Discovery Channel mini-series, Planet Earth. Originally produced and aired by the BBC, the eleven part mini-series took crews around the world, working for 5 years and shooting 2,000 days of footage with the latest in high-definition camera technology. Capturing the rarities and wonders...

Fortune smiles on Mr. Armstrong, who - after deftly conquering this year's Tour for the seventh consecutive time with the aide of his elite Discovery Channel team, earning the resentful ire of most of Europe, and brushing aside oft-repeated doping allegations, earlier this week proposed to longtime girlfriend Sheryl Crow. Austinist offers our congratulations to the happy couple!We were, however, taken aback by this little teaser attached nonchalantly to the press release - it...

Growing up, Austinist loved playing with toys. On stormy weekends we'd barricade ourselves in our room and enact gargantuan, epic battles that always ended with cataclysmic destruction. We'd divide our motley collection of action figures, Lego pieces and crazy Japanese metal machinations into Good Guys and Bad Guys: more often than not the former would be championed by the heroic and uber-creatined He-Man; his nemesis was invariably the nefarious Mr. Sinister (with light-up laser eye beams!), or if we were stealthy enough to sneak into our sister's room, the voluptuous younger-sister-of-Barbie, Skipper. What confusing feelings we had about Skipper!