What: Antelope with house bacon, arugula, and pears Where: Cipollina: West Austin Bistro 1213 West Lynn, 477-5211 How Much: $17 Why We Love It: Because it’s antelope with homemade bacon, arugula, and pears. Is there much more you need to say? more ›

• Country singer Billy Joe Shaver is gonna have to pay $1,000 for taking a gun into a bar.
• As the variety of delicious foodstuffs you can get from mobile venues in Austin continues to expand, we’re secretly starting to wonder if people are opening up the most absurd combo they can imagine. Most recent entry: Philly cheesesteak in a double-decker bus!
• Another story about how difficult it is to be a kid in the foster care system in Texas. Note the detail about the girls being goaded into fighting with the promise of “after-school snacks.”

Texas Monthly's longstanding tradition of the twice-a-decade BBQ issue has led to arguments, road trips, debates, and all sorts of cacophony. Their food editors travel the state in search of new, obscure, and classic joints serving the holy trinity of brisket, ribs, and sausage. When all is said and done, they pick their favorite 50 spots, and explain why. In the past, such stalwarts as The Salt Lick have sometimes missed the cut. Texans take BBQ personally, and when Texas Monthly mentions, say, Snow's BBQ as the #1 spot in the state for 'cue, Snow's immediately gets hour-long lines (in Lexington, TX) and starts running out of food at 10am on a weekly basis.

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That's right, the Hamburger Bed is for sale on eBay. Inspired by the 1986 movie, Hamburger: The Motion Picture, in which dorm room beds were hamburgers, Austinite Kayla Kromer cooked one up for herself. More accurately a Cheeseburger Bed, the handcrafted original quickly became an internet sensation and has appeared in seven magazines. After months of warding off would be buyers, Kromer sites a series of personal setbacks requiring her to make sacrifices as the reason she is finally willing to sell her masterpiece. Since the burger is large (8 feet in diameter!), Kromer is nor arranging for shipping, which puts Austin area residents at a great advantage should they want to sleep between a slice of memory foam American Cheese and a sesame seed bun. more ›