Formed from the ashes of Split Enz, Crowded House may well have been the best pure pop-rock group of their era. Twenty-two years after their beginnings in Melbourne, Australia, Neil Finn and Nick Seymour have brought back Crowded House's classic songwriting and effortless melodies via a new album and tour. The group disbanded in 1996 and has weathered the shocking suicide of founding member Paul Hester, the disconnect of distance (Finn lives in Auckland,......

Dionysus is the god of wine; Dionysium is the wine of debate. Or something like that. In keeping with this weekend's Live Earth concert, which used only 357873 billion* kilowatts of electricity to promote green energy practices, Austin's infamous Alamo Drafthouse-housed (Drafthoused?) Dionysium debate/music/film/ drunken-intellectualism panel goes green tomorrow night. This latest installment of Dionysium will feature a presentation about Austin's Kill-A-Watt Challenge, a highly important debate about a still-nebulous topic between as-yet-undetermined individuals,......