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The Austin Foodie scene has truly exploded over the last couple of years, exposing our growing metropolis to so many opportunities to eat tasty food and drink delicious drinks. It is overwhelming to consider just how long it would take, and just how many pounds we would gain, in order to experience the best of what Austin has to offer in the dining realm. Thankfully, over the last seven years, the Austin Film Festival's Film & Food Party has been able to compress all of the tasty business around town into one night of bites, booze and bidding.

Offering up a little something for everybody, Saturday's We Make Stuff party will feature music, skateboarding, roller girl and burlesque dancer models, art, crafts, and fabulous fashion. Presented by Electric Promotions, We Make Stuff will be held at the Scoot Inn. The guys from Find n' Grind Skate Shop will be setting up a half-pipe for skate demos set to music from Hollywood Gossip, Lost Werks, and Panjoma. The evening will include a fashion show featuring designs from Jinxedaposed Clothing, Tara Tonini, Loves Mariessa and others worn by models, members of the TXRD roller derby team, and the Jigglewatts.

We're proud of this community, and we can't think of a better time to celebrate it than on the eve of Fun Fun Fun Festival. Join on us November 7 promptly at 8 p.m. for Local Music Is Sexy VI at the Mohawk Bar on Red River.

Produced by the Downtown Austin Alliance, Action Figure, and KLRU-TV, Lonestar Emmy award-winning show DOWNTOWN offers insightful glimpses into urban life here in Austin. Focusing on the inevitable vignettes that make up our experience here in this special community, Downtown has become one of the most-watched programs here in Austin and beyond.

It is said that there is one being out there in this grand universe that is the perfect compliment to our person; a "twin flame" of sorts, and only when we meet shall our fires burn the brightest. Well, we think we have found our soul mate and its name is the 6th Annual Austin Film Festival Film & Food Party. We're serious. Basically, if we were reincarnated, we think we would come back as the AFF Film & Food Party, because this event brings together what really defines who we are at our core: people who live to eat delicious food, and people who love to watch flickering lights on cinema screens. Truly, that is pretty much all we need to survive. The great news is that since the AFF F&F Party, which will be shaking up the Driskill Hotel on Wednesday, October 15 at 7pm, is really just a concept as opposed to a physical being, you can also share in the joys of its bountiful awesomeness. We'll try to conceal our jealousy.

Back in 1994, when Common was Common Sense, a soulful underground Chicago rapper with a sinewy flow, he recorded “I Used To Love H.E.R.”, which remains perhaps his most widely cherished song. In four minutes, Common told the story of hip-hop’s trends and pratfalls to that point, glossing it over as a love story with a young woman. In turn, he added an undercard bout with Ice Cube to the day’s bi-coastal rap conflict, which should give some perspective to exactly how long ago ’94 was in hip hop. Since then, the story progressively enveloped the storyteller. Common hit the national scene in 2000, viewed as a tempering, traditionalist force in the face of the ascending Dirty South. He ran with the Roots when they were the emerging face of East Coast hip hop, and joined up with Kanye when he took those reins with College Dropout.

The Yellow Tape Construction Company, one of Austin’s most innovative and playful theater production companies, turns three years old on July 25th. YTC isn’t taking the occasion lightly: they’ve overhauled their website, are launching an online store soon, and have scheduled a fourth season of performances at the Long Center for Performing Arts.

An Austin institution in itself, the annual Red Hot fundraiser benefits local nonprofit Project Transitions, which provides hospice and housing services for individuals and families living with HIV/AIDS in Central Texas. Seventeen years in the running, tonight's Red Hot returns to Oilcan Harry's with a massive gala that promises to surpass even last year's event, which had the distinction of being named Best Independent AIDS Fundraiser in the Austin Chronicle Best of Austin Critics Picks.

Austinist & Gothamist's day party is today, at the Mohawk (912 Red River). The party kicks off around 11 a.m., and the day ends at 6, but not before Shout Out Louds, Shearwater, Liam Finn and Phosphorescent perform.