Make something special out of this Thursday night and buy a lottery ticket on your way over to Austin Bat Cave's Story Department reading series, where the theme is LUCK and the beer is free! You'll not only get to hear great local storytellers read their original pieces, you'll do a good deed as well, as the $10 admission will help the continuation of their free writing center and tutoring program for kids. Kids, people...drink and be merry for the kids! more ›

The Story Department, in its never-ending quest to bring you Austin’s best in adult (read: 21+) storytelling and free (!) beer, is throwing another Austin Bat Cave benefit tonight at 7:30 at Austin Art + Music Partnership’s warehouse on West Monroe. more ›

Austin Sound, if you haven't checked it out already, is a great site featuring information about local music. This Saturday, they're pulling out all the stops to celebrate their one year anniversary, and throwing a mini-ACL that's much, much cheaper. With 13 bands playing, there's bound to be someone to rock your picky ass. Also: free food and FREE BEER for five bucks! We know, it doesn't make sense to us either, but it... more ›

When the people behind Vice Magazine throw a party, it's safe to assume that much booze will be enjoyed, and, on more special occasions, that buildings may partially collapse. All in the name of good fun. Meanwhile, Harley Davidson recently spawned the latest hellion in its family of meaty motorcycles: the "Nightster" is an ultra-low sportster designed, as its 27-year-old creator put it so succinctly, "to look illegal." We know precious little about fancy... more ›

THURSDAY [15] benefit •St. Valentine's Day-After Massacre, A Spay/Neuter Fundraiser at Mother Egan's (5:30pm-7pm) art •Public Tour: Michener and Modernism at Blanton Museum (7:00 - 8:00 PM) art •Public Tour: By the River by Radcliffe Bailey at Blanton Museum (12:30 - 1:00 PM) ballet •Ballet Austin presents Director's Choice at The Paramount Theatre (8pm) film •Flicker Film Festival at Alamo Drafthouse Downtown film •Love Bites: The 80s Power Ballad Singalong at Alamo Drafthouse Downtown... more ›

One of the more intriguing panels during SXSW Interactive isn't even part of the official conference: 20x2 assembles twenty interesting individuals from the creative industry -- "writers, musicians, filmmakers, web geeks and other bon vivants" -- and poses a broad, abstract question that each must answer in two minutes. Having been around since 2001, questions presented at 20x2s past have included "Who Are You?", "What's the Word?", and "What's the Big Idea?". Abstract, indeed. This... more ›

What with Memorial Day or Labor Day coming up this weekend, we've teamed up with the lovely folks over at BlogBurst to host an Austin Blogger Happy Hour on Thursday, over at Club de Ville. The product of local tech company Pluck, BlogBurst syndicates some of the internet's top blogggers onto major media sites (think The Washington Post, SF Gate) and other "top-tier online destinations." For bloggers, it represents a tremendous opportunity to have their... more ›

What with Memorial Day or Labor Day coming up this weekend, we've teamed up with the lovely folks over at BlogBurst to host an Austin Blogger Happy Hour on Thursday, over at Club de Ville. The product of local tech company Pluck, BlogBurst syndicates some of the internet's top blogggers onto major media sites (think The Washington Post, SF Gate) and other "top-tier online destinations." For bloggers, it represents a tremendous opportunity to have their... more ›

Mondo Tees, purveyor of all t-shirts pop-culture related, is having a huge sale, a “rummage sale,” to be precise. In honor of the launch of their new-fangled website, Mondo Tees is selling hundreds of t-shirts for only $5. And not only can you score a t-shirt for a fiver, you will also get FREE BEER with a shirt purchase! No, that is not a joke. From 5:30pm-10:30pm tomorrow, head over to the Alamo Downtown and head upstairs for a gigantic t-shirt and beer bash. As for the new site, from now until mid-September anytime you buy a shirt online you get a 20% discount. Just type in promotional code AT4MT2 when you get to checkout…and, voilà. more ›

These warm days are putting us in the mood for day trips, so we took our asses to San Antonio this past weekend and had ourselves a Sea World Adventure.
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Tonight at the Parish (214 E 6th): ROCK THE CASBAH 18. Starting at 10pm, DJ Mel will be dropping all things 80's. The night even includes an Atari 2600 battle. $7 at the door. These Rock The Casbah deals tend to sell out, so we suggest hitting up frontgatetickets.com and getting your tickets in advance. more ›