If your heroes include absinthe guzzling artistic wack-jobs like Oscar Wilde, Toulouse Lautrec and Vincent van Gogh, get ready to party like it's 1899....

*The views expressed in Truesday are those of the author and do not represent Austinist as a whole. Thank heavens.* -The Editors Initially, I planned on writing about the boat-party-Summer-Extrav-O-Ganza thing. But, I didn’t attend, so I’d be talking out of my ass. Well, I'd be pulling more out of my ass than normal. So I won’t even touch on that event, as I’d just be speculating without a real purpose. (though I soooooo......

Currently making his way on a nationwide tour and in town performing a single show tonight is Jade Estoban Estrada, who'll be presenting his self-authored musical, ICONS: The Lesbian and Gay History of the World, Vol. 1. Estrada was last here in May at the Vortex; for tonight's show he'll be at the play! Theatre Group, also on the Eastside. ICONS is a 75-minute solo musical wherein Estrada "channels various queer icons": Sappho the......