Markus with a k and his cohort Bird Peterson will be working their magic to make your excessive inebriation that much more enjoyable, and your Thursday morning hang over that much less of an elephant shitting on your face. Which you totally deserve to allow yourself. ...

The ladies at Sweet Tempered continue to offer new, creative ideas for entertaining. Their latest little masterpiece is their Spring Twinkie Cake - a golden vanilla rosewater cake filled with homemade strawberry jam and a fluffly buttercream icing. Topped with pink and green fondant flowers, these cakes are 6" high, retail for $30 and serve 8-12 people. If you don’t need a full cake, they also offer a Twinkie Cupcake made of the same......

A couple of quick, sweet notes: The girls at Sweet Tempered are busting out a new guitar-shaped cookie just in time for SXSW. Head over to Little City, Epoch Coffee Shop, or Farm to Market to purchase. Meanwhile, chocolate nerds rejoice. The Second Annual Chocolate Festival Gala and Auction benefiting the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure starts tonight and continues throughout the weekend . Get your greedy little hands messy during an......

Starting today (actually, you are probably missing some of it right now, so hurry up and finish reading) The Queer Students Alliance of The University of Texas at Austin will be kicking off their sixth annual Pride Week. Until next Monday, October 16th, the QSA will be holding events from early in the morning til late in the evening--from rallies, conferences, workshops, movies and an AIDS walk at Waterloo Park. The theme for this year's......

You can blame higher rent, blame Starbucks, or blame the cheapness of college students, but Little City on Guadalupe is serving their last cup of coffee tonight when the shop -- a Drag mainstay for over ten years -- will close its doors for the last time. This west campus sidewalk café is the latest in an already high number of coffee shops that just can’t compete on the Drag anymore. Donna Taylor, owner of......

Do you have burning questions about burning food? Do you want to know more about cutting on the bias but want to remain impartial? Do you want to know why saffron is only somewhat less expensive per pound than crushed Faberge eggs and Bald Eagle skulls? Well, we may not know the answers, but we certainly know a ton of people in the culinary community who might. Don’t be afraid, just ask. We’ll run......

We spent last weekend wandering around the Austin Ballet administration building. No, we weren’t in an ether haze, nor were we trying to tap into our inner-Billy Elliot. We were shopping for books. Cheap books! We walked away with a few older Phillip Roth titles, a biography of Hunter S. Thompson, some Tom Robbins, even a few choice non-fiction titles (admittedly picked out for us by a friend, cause when it comes to non-fiction we’re......

We have a confession to make. We kind of want to be Andy Greenwald. He interned at Spin magazine in college, which led to a full-time editorial job and interviews with emo heroes like Dashboard Confessional and Jimmy Eats World. His first book, Nothing Feels Good, was an in-depth exploration of the kids and culture that centered on those bands. Now, at 28, his second book is out, and he’s freelancing for Spin, hanging......

Central Texans have a new device for navigating their dining outings and it is called Food Hawk. The website describes its services as a tool "to help people select restaurants and find other area food resources based on their personal interests in cuisine, dining experience, location and price through a searchable Web site." Works for us. Hungry Austinites can search for restaurants by name, cuisine, or neighborhood. An advanced search allows one to enter......

One local coffee establishment that's been keeping Austin good 'n weird for the past 10 years is closing its doors come January 1st due to financial losses. Mojo's Daily Grind has felt the mighty force of that global coffee virus, Starbucks, as well as the strain from rising rent costs along the Drag and too much coffee competition. Founded by Wade Beesley in 1994, Mojo's has been well-known for its laid-back attitude and openness......

The storm may have passed, but there is still tons of work to do. In an effort to raise funds for Hurricane Katrina Relief, there will be a benefit show this Saturday at Room 710. The evening will feature an eclectic mix of bands including The Always Already, The Denim Tsunami, Cochino and Two Guy Trio. Entry is a mere $5, and there will also be some fabulous raffle prizes ($2 a ticket), including:......

We drove all the way to South Lamar for some sweets. We had been eyeing a shop called Indie Pop Cool Treats for some time and decided what better time to get a sugar fix than right before lunchtime. But it was closed on Mondays (like nobody needs ice cream on a Monday?). Lucky for us, we spied muffins through the windows next door. Hey look, we said to ourselves, this here place is a......