• Slideshow for ways that people remember Day of the Dead.
• The World Series came to Texas!
• Great Halloween costumes, via the Dallas Observer.

• On election eve, the size of the coming Republican wave is hard to predict
• Thousands descend on Washington DC for Rally to Restore Sanity
• Bomb plot shows key role played by intelligence

• Keep an eye out for "claws" and "antlers" among Texas Rangers fans during the World Series.
• If you find antlers that an animal has shed at a public park, you should be able to keep them!
• Texas Rangers fans sometimes live outside of Texas.

• Whoa! One Republican House candidate from Dallas says that violent overthrow of the government is an option.
• Former Austin artist Mark Schatz has a show opening in San Marcos!
• Local writer survives trip thru charity haunted house, lives to write about it.

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Chain Drive’s Wednesday night gigs continue this week with a quality triple bill along with their usual mid-week domestic beer price of $1.75. Chromosome Damage bleed black with an ominous soundtrack of electro-goth-metal while The Devil Bat soften things up a bit with folk tales accentuated by psychedelic six-strings. The latter act boasts members from bands such as Power Snatch, Dogshit Rangers and ST 37, while their Lingers Like a Ghost EP (on Sister Skull Records) was produced by Gretchen Phillips. more ›

F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” ...(but) F. Scott never met our president. more ›

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Hey, hey Austin – guess what? The black guy from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Ghostbusters, Designing Women and Walker, Texas Ranger is appearing live this weekend! Yes, that’s right, Andre Meadows (also known by his hip-hop alias, Arnie Sykes – big ups A-money!) is headlining at the Velveeta Room this Friday and Saturday night. The club spawned by those comedy rascals over at Esther’s Follies will now host one of Austin’s brightest young stand-up... more ›

Last night, as the rains approached, we found ourselves at a car wash vacuuming and armor-all-ing the inside of our car. Yea, we know, why wash your car when it is about to pour rain? Well, we were actually just there for the interior detailing (cause we couldn’t let a certain someone see the inside of our car for the first time and have it looking like a dog kennel/pig sty). The car wash was strictly perfunctory. more ›