The best klezmer-punk band you’ve never heard, Golem are a six-piece from New York who blend old-world Jewish music with a witty repertoire of modern influences. Debuting in 2001, the band really hit their stride in 2006 with Fresh Off Boat, a whirling collection of originals and traditional numbers (including their own version of the Hora, of course) sung in five languages. ...

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. ...

From ImageAfterArt The Teresa Long Center for the Performing Arts (formerly the Palmer Auditorium) will be opening with a bang in early March 2008. Enter: "The Earth Harp," a gargantuan outdoor stringed instrument created by these guys. /// Art thieves strike in Brazil! They robbed the Sao Paolo Museum of Art (MASP), making off with two paintings worth a total of approximately $100 million dollars. The paintings: Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (Picasso) and The Coffee......

The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (Canada)Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, 7 PMThe last great shaman of the Inuit Avva and his beautiful and headstrong daughter Apak live on the verge of change in 1922. As the father is trying to resist encroachments upon his family and culture, a group of Danish scientists arrive to study and record his way of life. Explorer/adventurer Knud Rasmussen pays Avva a visit, accompanied by two fellow Danes: trader......

Lord knows we've been wearing a do-rag in honor of Prince's superbowl performance since early February; his technophallic guitartistry reignited our girlhood crush. And as "the artist" teetered on the brink of electrocution-by-instrument in Dolphin Stadium that torrential evening, we thought, "Will anything EVER bring us as much delight as Purple Rain?" Answer: yes, the new major exhibit at the Blanton Museum, The Geometry of Hope, which opens today. The phrase “geometry of hope”......

FIRST THURSDAY [1] music • Tre Orsi (members of Shearwater, South San Gabriel, Little Grizzly), The Paper Chase, Red X Red M, at Emo's music/benefit • ME! Live presents the Emerging Artist Series Debut with Meagan Tubb band, Tacks, the Boy Disaster and the Channel at Antone’s (7pm, $5) music • Yonder Mountain String Band at La Zona Rosa music • Onion Creek Crawdaddies at Waterloo Records (5pm, Free) music • Horse + Donkey,......

The 27th Student Conference on Latin America, organized by the Institute of Latin American Studies Student Association (ILASSA) at The University of Texas at Austin starts tomorrow, Feb. 1 with Anderson Sá, the Brazilian social activist who is the protagonist of the film Favela Rising. Sá will be speaking at 6:30 p.m. in the Thompson Conference Center, Room 1.110. Events will continue through Feb. 3 with student presentations throughout the day on Friday and Saturday......

Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddie for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bid's Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television shows have an elderly audience and DCist has some suggestions to fix that. They're also throwing Butterstick the panda bear a birthday bash. Yeah, we may have a few issues with our World Cup broadcasters here, but this guy......