Each week, we'll look at some reasons to taunt, belittle, and bully the Longhorns' football opponent. This week: the Florida Atlantic Owls. more ›

• Four people dead after gas explosion in San Bruno, CA.
• Crowds attack NATO base in Afghanistan to protest FL pastor's planned burning of the Qur'an.
• On how the media covers Florida's Pastor Jones.

• Obama asks donors to help pay Clinton campaign debt
• Florida buying out the sugar business to help save the Everglades
• Six dead in shooting spree at Kentucky factory

No passport required for U.S. citizens. Including Hillary. Finally - someone from the Bush White House makes a little sense. South Carolina G.O.P. snubs the shrub. Florida shares some of its really great election karma with Michigan. Vatican: vagina = total deal breaker. In the world of fashion, either you're in or you're out. Cosmos, manolos and sex. Oh my. more ›

The coalition is a community of Florida farmworkers from various immigrant backgrounds who strive for fair wages and fair treatment and work to end modern-day slavery. One of the activists from this Coalition, Lucas Benitez, will be delivering the opening address at UT's 28th Annual Student Conference on Latin America tonight. more ›

Perhaps Perry should have held off on his endorsement: after losing to McCain last night in Florida, Giuliani is expected to soon drop out of the race. Bouncer assaulted after denying a couple guys entrance to his club and not allowing their friend to urinate in front of it. City may soon switch to LEDs in light fixtures to conserve energy. more ›

More talk of the coming recession: "The question is not whether we will have a recession, but how deep and prolonged it will be." Meanwhile, Austin's economy may be uniquely positioned among the nation's cities to withstand a potential recession. more ›

Image from MySpace Ready Steady GoFriday, December 7Rio Rita Cafe y Cantina (1308 E 6th St)Free, 9pm-2am[info] This Friday, get ready to get retro. Ready Steady Go is coming to Rio Rita, and East Sixth Street is about to get walloped with the sort of danceable goodness that only five, yes five DJs can produce. Moving from their residency at Beerland, Ready Steady Go collaborators Mike Hooker and Shorty Stump will be spinning their vinyl... more ›

The death toll from the cyclone that hit Bangladesh is over 3,000 now; the UN says a million people have been left homeless. We're (*cough*) so surprised: Austin named the fall allergy capital of the nation. Alberto Gonzales didn't have an easy time speaking at the University of Florida last night. After child workers were found at one of their factories in India, Gap is determined to improve working conditions there. US Military calls... more ›

LOOK MEXICO What’s the Deal: If this doesn’t make you think of a particularly pleasant spring day, you’re playing it wrong. Sharp, layered guitars ‘pling’ back and forth in a way that would make Minus the Bear salivate. Inviting melodies charm over the winding guitar experiments and jazzy, traveling drums. In their video for “Guys I Need a Helicopter,” the band is playing outside under a canopy of Florida trees in cut-off shorts and... more ›

• Texas Parks and Wildlife Expo takes place this weekend. Shuttles will be running from Highland Mall to TPW headquarters on Smith School Rd.
• Canyon Lake Gorge, formed in 2002 floods, will open for guided tours tomorrow. The next two months' tours are already full.
• Archeological conservancy v. Cedar Park family: who owns land where Ice Age woman was found in 1982?

The University of Texas raised $26 million in athletic donations in 2006, putting it 16th among all U.S. universities. A study by The Chronicle of Higher Education found that money for athletics accounts for more than one-quarter of all contributions to some universities. The Chronicle survey reported that the country's largest athletic departments and booster clubs raised more than $1.2 billion in 2006 and 2007. The University of Texas wasn't the top athletic fund-raiser in... more ›

It’s down to the final five! No, not The Sound And The Jury Contest, but the Public Radio Talent Quest. Presented by PRX and cpb, the quest started in April with thousands of applicants, all with high hopes of hosting their own show on public radio (along with some cash booty). Now it’s down to the last five and voting ends on September 23rd at 11:59 p.m. (Eastern). Why should you care? There’s an Austinite... more ›

University of Florida journalism student provokes John Kerry, gets Tasered by campus cops. A 10-year-old boy has woken up with a posh English accent after undergoing life-saving brain surgery. Betty Perry is charged with resisting arrest and failing to maintain her landscaping, both misdemeanors. Fed up with the threats, tired of natural disasters, Nebraska's longest-serving state senator is using his legal muscle against who he says is the culprit - God. State Sen. Ernie... more ›

#6 Texas (2-0) vs. Central Florida (1-0) Time: 2:30 pm, Saturday, Sept. 15 Location: Bright House Networks Stadium, Orlando, Fla. TV: ESPN2 Radio: KVET (98.1 FM, 1300 AM) Texas heads to Florida for their first road game of the season on Saturday, but when the Longhorns step onto the field at Bright House Networks Stadium, they'll have played as many games there as the home team. How's that? Central Florida rushed to build the... more ›

In the latest issue of Newsweek, "admission officials, educational consultants, students, parents and college and university leaders" were questioned to find the best American colleges in specific fields. The Top 25 Listing included topics such as Hottest Sports Fans (Florida), Hottest in the War on Terror (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology) and Hottest for Loving the Outdoors (St. Mary's College of Maryland). Individual achievements by various UT professors and the efforts of Teach... more ›

As temperatures climbed over the 100-degree mark for the third straight day on Tuesday, the Texas Longhorns are taking innovative measures to beat the heat. The Longhorns are one of a handful of college and pro teams using the CorTemp ingestible core body thermometer pill. Before practice, a player swallows a silicone-coated capsule the size of a large vitamin. Inside the capsule is a sensor that transmits core body temperature to a data recorder.... more ›

Austin ticket broker TicketCity.com has published a list of the top 25 hottest college football games of 2007, based on the average price per ticket, and two University of Texas games are on the list. The Longhorns' game with Oklahoma at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on October 6 is currently #8 (average ticket price $555), while the November 23 game with Texas A&M in College Station is #18 ($402). The face value of... more ›

Southwest Key sounds like something out of Florida, but it is a locally-based non-profit corporation that currently runs detention centers in a few states (including Texas). Their shelters serve as holding centers for immigrant minors who came to the US without parent or guardian. Southwest Key asserts that their programs are nothing like the immigrant family detention center in Taylor (the Taylor center is run by a for-profit corporation). The Austin organization, for which former... more ›

Hello Lovers -- Vanity Fair (Inchworm): If it is possible to musically capture a lovesick, misunderstood poet wailing and moping about drunkenly in a scummy apartment overlooking a dark and lonely city, Austin’s Hello Lovers have done it. In fact, they have positioned their sound around the voice that embodies said misunderstood poet: that of J.C. King. If you can’t latch on to King’s Antony-esque vibrato, Colin Meloy-esque (of The Decemberists) nasality, or off-melody, sputtering sing-talk style, then move on: Hello Lovers just ain’t for you. (We understand that the unpredictable cadence and style can be a bit annoying and difficult to access). But if you are patient or if your ears are generous or if, to you, King’s voice sounds just plain fantastic, then you’ll be able to enjoy the lovely (sometimes manic) saxophone, string, and accordion accompaniment to spoken poems about being nakey. more ›

Yesterday, we told you a little bit about the films of gore wizard Herschell Gordon Lewis. But what we didn't tell you is that since his days in the movie business, Lewis has become one of the world's foremost experts on direct marketing. A prolific author, columnist, and all around brilliant guy, Lewis recently took time out of his busy schedule to chat with us about movies, showmanship, and the current state of advertising. Firstly,... more ›

The City of Austin has narrowed down the choices for APD chief. The five semi-finalists/candidates remaining include one female, three Texans, and one guy from Naples (Florida, that is). The female candidate is Cathy Ellison, who is currently serving as acting chief for Austin. If chosen to be chief, Ellison (who was the first African-American female police officer in Austin) would be the first African-American female police chief in Austin history. But let's not get ahead of ourselves; there is still another screening phase for these five candidates. more ›

In case you haven't heard, local playwright Dan Dietz will be leaving Austin (boo for us!) to take on a professorship at Florida State University (yay for him!). We're very sad to see him go. The author of such lauded works at Dirigible, Blind Horses, Tilt Angel, and Americamisfit, Dan Dietz is a brilliant rising star in the theatre world. The women of Shrewd Productions are gifting us with one final production of Dietz's work,... more ›

In Austin, all the malt shops, arcades, bowling allies, drive-ins and wherever else the hip kids hang out these days will be empty May 13th. Instead, they’ll all be gathered at Bass Concert Hall with their hearts in hand ready to give them freely to Bright Eyes indie folk heartthrob Conor Oberst. He’s now become a coveted American musical icon, and thanks in part to the media, we have watched him mature through breakups... more ›

Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank From the opening moments of WWDBTSES—god, even the acronym’s a mouthful—it's apparent that Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock has become a capital-R Rock Star, perhaps the oddest one since David Byrne: track one, “March Into The Sea,” finds the newly-svelte songwriter frothing and howling from word one. The man hasn't lost his knack for colorful illustrations of human nature, tossing off wry observations like... more ›

Spring Break is over and the students at The University of Texas have reclaimed their city--things are slowly coming back together. However, before the break, one would assume that these future leaders of tomorrow would have saved up their energy for a vacation to Cancun, a road trip to Florida or, god forbid, staying in town for that music festival that you only gets you a wristband tanline. But just months, weeks and days... more ›

For those not aware, ISIS (they prefer all-caps) play a hard-to-categorize brand of hard rock incorporating elements of doom-metal, progressive rock, trance-y song structures, and lots of yelling. They do cool things like open for Tool and run a big-time independent label, HydraHead Industries, that most bands would kill to get with. They're back in Austin for a near-sold-out show at Emo's. more ›

This Sunday, February 4th at 5:25pm central time, the world supremacy of American football for the 2006 season will be decided when the Colts of Indianapolis face the Bears of Chicago on the hallowed turf of Dolphin Stadium in Miami, Florida. Captained by the tenacious Brian Urlacher (a man who was known to bed a wench named Paris some fortnights ago), will the formidable Bears defense overcome late season gaffes and rise to this the... more ›

Andy Roddick, the world’s sixth-ranked men’s tennis player and part-time Austin resident, was in town last weekend for his Second Annual Andy Roddick Foundation Charity Gala. Founded in 2001, the Andy Roddick Foundation raises money to benefit organizations that aid in the development of at-risk children and families, including those that have been abused, abandoned and neglected. The Foundation’s goal is to improve the quality of life and enhance educational and economic opportunities for all... more ›

A billowing American flag against a pitch background opens this compelling story of a Seattle grandmother, Bev Harris, who started asking questions after presidential candidate Al Gore managed to get negative votes (-16,022, to be exact) in Volusia County, Florida in 2000. more ›