It's April 1st, which means your daily media intake will be fraught with cheesy pranks and incomprehensible jokes. Locally, here's a few we've come across that deserve an "A" for effort: more ›

To those of you who followed the false Daniel Johnston rumors earlier this afternoon, and especially to those to wrote in to us or left comments: The rumors stemmed from a confusing timestamp glitch in a past news article, which generated a considerable amount of buzz on Facebook, which, in turn, caused a reader to write in to us about it. We confirmed the situation with City Hall, but only later realized that they had... more ›

Update: Thanks to a confounding formatting glitch, it now looks like the previously mentioned rumor of tomorrow's removal of Mr. Johnston's mural was just that -- a rumor. Austinist and our sources at City Hall were both fooled by the mix-up. Our apologies for any confusion caused by this, and good on you to those who exhibited enough care to call in the story. Daniel Johnston's historic mural is safe, for now. -- Ed Note more ›

Micah at Reel Distraction offers his vision of what the new Alamo Drafthouse Downtown might look like. more ›

Recently, we've become increasingly frustrated with the eating choices in Austin. As chic restaurants rush to accommodate equally chic new residents, it seems like no one's building shitty old, often carpeted, fast-food joints anymore. Our search for an affordable yet filling meal has led us to three neon lights peeking out over a quiet East Austin road. Far from First Thursday or 2nd Street, the new place to park and walk is Cameron Road.... more ›

While we're confused enough by the daily goings-on over at Craigslist Austin, reader Christina kindly alerted us to an even more perplexing spate of dairy and poultry-related posts that have been showing up recently in their free stuff section. more ›

Conservative "columnist" Ann Coulter has been called many a naughty name during her "illustrious" career as America's Most Despised Republican, the least of which might be "bigot," and the among the worst being a certain four-letter word that even Austinist wouldn't dare print. Most of these titles are aptly chosen, given her perchant for outrageously quixotic diatribes - and we have to admit that we find a slightly guilty pleasure in hearing her prattle on about people like ourselves. But when it was her turn to unleash the verbal vitriol at a speech at University of Connecticut yesterday, after students there clearly weren't having any of her silly shtick, the best she came up with was this gem: more ›

Another one of those asinine polls are out that we can all assail as being unscientific, pointless and a waste of our time in a product’s lame attempt to draw interest to its brand by releasing Top-25 polls. But, we’re a blog, you’re bored, people like to bitch, so here it is. Axe body spray (the one that if you wear it your girlfriend’s mom will rape you) has released a poll listing the... more ›

(Austin) -- An unnamed reader leaked an Austinist.com article to the Myspace.com bulletin wires early this week, leading to mixed reactions from the social networking site's large hipster population. The article in question, "A Guy's Guide to Snaggin an Austin Hipster" was reportedly copied and pasted early Sunday night. Through a phenomenon known on the internets as "reposts," by Tuesday, the text had been exposed to more hipsters than Brit Daniel's manhood. Reactions varied... more ›