Just a reminder that badges for the epic Moontower Comedy and Oddity Festival are on sale as of right now. You can get yours on the festival website, the Paramount’s home page or call 512-474-1221. Single show tickets go on sale Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. The illustrious list of twenty four confirmed headliners includes Seth Meyers, Aziz Ansari, Steven Wright, The Amazing Johnathan, Maria Bamford, Hannibal Buress, Matt Bearden, and John Ramsey. more ›

Austin is finally hosting its first another really big all-comedy festival with the just-announced Moontower. Taking place on April 25th, the event has 24 featured comedians announced so far, including headliners Seth Meyers, Aziz Ansari and Steven Wright. The event will be spread out at multiple venues, including sponsor The Paramount, Cap City Comedy Club, landing somewhere around twelve venues to host the 60+ comedians expected to hit town for the festival. more ›

Image by the "Subway Cyrano," from GothamistNew York City was at its strangest and swellest this week. On Sunday, tens of thousands people ran in the NYC Marathon, including Mrs. Tom Cruise, aka Katie Holmes, who ran it in just under 5 hours, 30 minutes. Gothamist also found out that limes in Corona are sometimes illegal, the weird maple syrup might be back and a famous punk music pioneer-turned-real estate broker was possibly killed by... more ›