We're gonna come right out and say it: We're total crybabies. No seriously, we may be the most empathetic people in the entire world. Anytime that we see someone in pain, someone suffering injustice, or even something sappy and overly romantic, like a first love, it's Niagara Falls, Frankie Baby. When you see a bunch of puffy-eyed, slobbery messes walking around downtown for next week, you can blame these films. And yeah, we're fine, we've......

On the second day of the new year, Austinist offers you an apocalyptic warning courtesy of the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA): much of Austin could one day be submerged in water. More specifically, it would arrive in the form of a 100-year flood, so named because it describes the 1% likelihood of it occuring in a given year and not, as we had initially imagined with shock and horror, the duration that it......