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People, it is time to start kinking outside of the box. Coming right up at Club MIXX on Sixth is Extravagasm Fantasy Ball VIII. This year’s theme is Erotic Renaissance, a nice blend of that Ren-Fest nuttiness and not-a-dry-seat-in-the-house eroticism. No need to wait for Halloween proper to inhabit your inner-fantasy-alter-ego. The time is now to dig out the whips and ball-gags and masks and prance about in all your wenchy and studly splendor.

About twenty of us, women all, gathered in plastic molded chairs and waited for the presentation to begin. On the screen, the first image of the instructional PowerPoint appeared: an illustration of a tube of lipstick. Only instead of lipstick, the thing sticking out of the tube was an erect penis.

TUESDAY [17] party • Red Bull Music Academy Info Session, hosted by Prince Klassen, featuring SuperContinent at Beauty Bar (Click to RSVP) books • Mark Regnerus presents Forbidden Fruit at Intellectual Property (5:00pm) books • Mayor's Book Club Author Event with Mayor Will Wynn and Stephanie Elizondo Griest at Mercury Hall (6:00pm) books • Darryl Wimberley presents The King of Colored Town at BookPeople (7:00pm) comedy • Comedians Nathan Timmel, Normal Wilkerson, Robb Loving...

East Austin's Saltillo Lofts will host its first annual "Sidewalk Celebration" this Sunday, kicking things off with the official opening of the New East Arts Gallery. New East is the latest venture by DiverseArts, a local nonprofit producer of multidisciplinary art and culture projects such as East End Fourth Fridays and the former Downtown Arts Magazine. Their inaugural exhibit, entitled "Fresh Black Paint," features works by New Orleans artist/musician Terrence Moline, who relocated, post-Katrina,...

Valentine’s Day may be over, but that doesn’t mean the love has to end. If you’re looking for a special way to celebrate with a partner/friend/whoever – and benefit Amnesty International while you’re at it – may we suggest attending the next Burlesque for Peace event this Saturday, February 17th? This year’s theme is “Black Tie Burlesque,” and prizes will be awarded for the best James Bond, Bond girl, and Bond villain costumes. The...

Are you ready to get naughty this weekend? There are some sexy carnies begging you to play their games at this year's Extravagasm 2006: Carnival of the Senses. Free your Saturday night plans and take your sexiest costume out of the closet. This celebration of sensuality, eroticism, and creative naughtiness offers a fun, frivolous, and safe environment to explore the risqué. Performers include fetish model and performer Angela Ryan, burlesque group Kitty Kitty Bang...

*The views expressed in Bun in the Oven are those of the author and do not represent Austinist as a whole.* -The Editors Hot Tip! Before I delve into our favorite topic in the whole wide world, I want to put the word out that the Lauterstein-Conway Massage School is looking for second and third trimester pregnant women who'd like a free massage on Saturday, October 28. The school is having a pregnancy-massage workshop,...

Starting tonight, and running this week only, sexy, socially-conscious performance artist Annie Sprinkle and her partner, experimental artist / professor (is that a great combo or what?) Elizabeth Stephens, are staging the US premiere of their current work, Exposed: Experiments in Love, Sex, Death, Art, at the Vortex. We're bringing it to your attention yet again because this show will sell out fast, and it's a unique opportunity to see a new work by...

For a while after all of our friends moved to the North Loop area, we cursed them. Their relocation meant more money spent on gas, longer commutes for reality t.v.-watching, and packing on the pounds from all those Parlor pizzas and Ararat hummus. We changed our tune when we drove down 53rd St. one day and spotted our new favorite store, Slinky Whistle Bait. The boutique (whose name apparently comes from a World War...