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Following tonight's performance of Troades, the Vortex is hosting a reception in honor of Sean T.C. O’Malley, composer of the show's original score. // Every Wednesday night in March, all seats for Speeding Motorcycle at Zach are $15! // The Heroes of Comedy's Improvised Shakespeare, Saturdays at 8pm at the Hideout, is so popular that they had to extend the run through the end of March. // Mortified is back!

I spend very little of my time or money in corporate America, preferring to shop mostly at independent merchants. I also try to only buy things made in countries where it wouldn’t be horrible to be a worker, like, say, France or Sweden. This means not only going to independent merchants like Toy Joy, or Karavel Shoes but looking at where the things they sell are made. It’s actually kinda exhausting. It’s the kind of retail therapy that might send you into therapy.

Unlike San Antonio, Austin has so many more opportunities for musicians to play in actual venues attended by actual attendees, so at first glance the need for more private, unique places for bands to play seemed to be less of a necessity. But the deeper a person burrowed, the more they could uncover – with The Church of the Friendly Ghost, out on Pedernales street, standing in as the most odd and accommodating venue for which a music geek could wish. A former site of a real, honest-to-god church whose landlord was glad to rent it out to musicians and curators of The Church of the Friendly Ghost – a step above the wacky fundamentalists who had the space before – the Church had a distinction of being a welcoming place that also catered to fringe music for those in the know.

Way, way back in the day, I had a perfectly good Valentine. What had initially attracted me to him was his enormous, regal afro. Seriously, wow. I am not kidding when I tell you that my Valentine had the perfect afro, and I would stare at it in wonder for hours on end. Generally, I felt like a lucky man. But things went awry when, on Valentine’s Day of 1996 he showed up at my house with a bright blue stolen candle that was covered in hand-painted stars and shaped either like a mushroom or a very unfortunate penis. His other hand cradled a bottle of Night Train.

I've decided to out myself about something that will shock even my closest friends. Hell, it might even get me fired. Oh well. Here goes. All day, Monday through Friday, I listen to conservative talk radio on 590-KLBJ. Being a lifelong, card-carrying Democrat, some folks might guess my husband turned me on to it—but this is all me. It began about a year ago in a desperate move fueled by pregnancy hormones. A bona-fide Morning Edition junkie, I needed a break from the incessant negative news, so I decided to find out what the enemy was up to. Somehow...I got hooked. Here's a brief run-down of what life is like on the other side.

Two months after I moved to Austin from the bleak and boring state of South Carolina, my car broke down in a parking lot by my house. After spending 2K fixing up my car to get it here, that was the last straw. The doors still didn’t close right, the driver’s seat was no longer attached to the car, it’s never had heat or air conditioning and it stunk; I was done. It did smuggle me out of Scare-olina to save my soul from being doomed to a fate of driving a potato chip delivery truck, getting married way too young, having barefoot children with names taken from my favorite daytime “stories” and only finding comfort in getting blind-stinkin’-drunk while watching the Saturday afternoon auto racing event, and for that I’m grateful.

Markus with a k and his cohort Bird Peterson will be working their magic to make your excessive inebriation that much more enjoyable, and your Thursday morning hang over that much less of an elephant shitting on your face. Which you totally deserve to allow yourself.

Let's play a word association game. You know how this works. We say apple and you say pie. We say table and you say chair. And so on. We'll start easy. Up. Did you say down? Okay, drag. Did you say worm? How about this one: poet. Did you say invading Austin next week with days and days of action-packed, slammarific insanity? No?? Well where have you been? The National Poetry Slam officially opens Wednesday 8/9 here in our fair city, with pre-events kicking off tomorrow. What started 16 years ago with two slam teams going head to head in San Francisco has grown to 75 teams from all around the nation -- plus Canada and France (France?? okay...) -- participating in a single-elimination style tournament.

Tonight (Wednesday night) there’s a new weekly that we’re hoping will drop some new flavor into the week. It’s on a Wednesday, which isn’t the most raucous of nights out, so it’s not like your dance card is full. Local DJ/Spoken Word/Mic Handler Jazz One has joined up with Orion, Broadband Selecta, and Jubal to take over Jazz (underneath The Parish off sixth street – it’s a good sized spot) for Choice Cut Wednesdays....

Every Wednesday in March, Austin Parks Foundation is teaming up with Yoga Yoga to offer free yoga classes in Republic Square Park at 5th and Guadalupe from noon to 1pm. So leave your cube, grab your mat, don your coolest Prana outfit and head over to this little urban oasis to forget, even if only temporarily, your pathetic Dilbert-like existence. These classes will be taught by certified instructors and are suitable for all ages...

The good folks over at Spider House, in conjunction with the good folks from CarStereoWars, are bringing you Neurotic November. Every Wednesday in November they will be screening a Woody Allen movie for FREE. The movies start at 9:30 and begin tonight with “Bananas,” one of Woody’s very first films. So head down to Spider House each Wednesday this month for a bite or a drink or just to glance lustfully at that wicked...

The guys from I Love Video, Super!Alright! and Car Stereo Wars will be screening Season 1 of “Lost” at Spider House cafe on Wednesday nights at 9pm, and the fun starts tonight. We have not personally seen the show, but we have heard and read great things about it from some respectable sources. One reader even went so far as to declare the show HBO-quality. The screenings will feature three episodes each Wednesday and...