TUESDAY [5] benefit • Holiday Mix and Mingle for AIDS Services of Austin at Firehouse Lounge (6-8pm, $10 donation with complimentary drink tickets) books • Annual Day of the Ninja books • The Utter Reading Series with Carrie Fountain and Steve Moore at BookPeople (7:00pm) film • AFS Essential: Millennium Actress at Alamo Downtown (7pm) film • Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels at Rounders Pizzeria (8pm, Free) film • Fuck: A Documentary at Alamo... more ›

FRIDAY [15] music • Ghostland Observatory and Thee Emergency at The Mohawk (912 Red River) ® party • Earthdance at NiaSpace (7:30pm-10pm, $15) party • Eastside City Limits party with Pink Nasty, Tnlons Fort, I Kill Cars, Missing Tapes, Brothesr and Sisters, Til We're Blue or Destroy, The Black at Red Scoot Inn and Old Austin Daze Compound (9pm-4am, FREE) ® party • Teleport Door presents the Pop Yo Colla' party with DJs Daniel... more ›

FRIDAY [11] [music] Sage Francis, Buddy Wakefield, Jared Paul, Grand Buffet, DJ Jester the Filipino Fist (outside), Those Peabodys, Horse+Donkey, The Carrots (inside) at Emo's [art/party] As Naked As You Wanna Be: Art Show and Celebration with Celesta Danger and Tamara Hoover at Pedernales Lofts Suite 2028 ($10 Suggested Donation, 6-11pm) ® [art/party] After-party for As Naked As You Wanna Be at The Peacock (11pm-2am) ® [film] The Sinus Show: Point Break at Alamo Downtown... more ›

BEAT is back, and tonight they’re taking over Firehouse Lounge, where Mike & Ike (if you join imeem, you can vote for Mike & Ike and perhaps even garner them a trip to The Winter Music Conference in Miami) will be showcasing their mic handling magnificence. Airborne Illness is opening up, and after Mike & Ike, The Table Manners Crew will be taking it from late into to the late night. more ›

Hey gentlemen, are you, like, totally ripped? Do you have an entire walk-in closet full of shiny striped shirts? Do you take yourself way too seriously and have the IQ of a bag of flaming hot Cheetos? Do you have time-share rights to a Gulfstream? Are you the brother of a B-List movie star? Would you like to meet a bunch of attention-starved silicone-laden dingbats who do not have the social skills to meet... more ›

ATX Magazine, Austin's latest free monthly set to launch this Fall, is throwing a Fashion Mixer tomorrow night at the Firehouse Lounge. They'll be displaying the works of some of Austin's best local designers, many of who will also appear in their upcoming runway show in September. This is also your chance to meet the folks behind the new mag, which plans on "illustrating local culture and lifestyle". Local DJ Toddy B will be... more ›