It's been 20 years since the release of Richard Linklater's Slacker, and you may have heard about the AFS/Alamo Drafthouse project to recreate each scene from this meandering and beloved Austin-based film. You have your chance to participate in the making of this multi-director homage (which will premiere Aug. 31) this Sunday, when the final bit of the movie will be re-shot using a flash mob. more ›

• The October issue of Men’s Health magazine declared Austin to be the most sexually active city in America. You might care that part of the data they used to determine this ranking was the rate of STD’s!
• Barton Springs Pool might be open again by this weekend!
• We had no clue that Townes van Zandt ever loved a goat who didn’t love him back!

This Sunday at 3pm, the flash mob make out session known as the Great Global Kiss-In will take place at City Hall Plaza. At the sound of a whistle, the crowd begins kissing for one minute. A series of kiss-ins will be taking place in over 50 cities across the globe between May 14-17. The kiss-in is meant to commemorate the International Day Against Homophobia, which falls on May 17 the day homosexuality was removed from the International Classification of Diseases of the World Health Organization.

Centuries from now, aliens from Alpha Centauri will land on our post-zombie-apocalypse-ravaged planet, digging beneath the gnarled metal of rusted Hummers and blood-spatteredPlayboy magazines to unearth the only surviving artifacts from a glorious civilization gone awry. more ›