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Iconic street artist Shepard Fairey's live mural painting at UT Austin has been postponed due to insufficient planning time, said organizers today.

One of the more talked about films from last year's SXSW, Beautiful Losers, is coming back to town for a few screenings at the Drafthouse. The documentary follows director Aaron Rose and his artistic cohorts, who have in large part defined the world of American street art and continue to make significant contributions to contemporary pop art. Rose founded Alleged Gallery in New York in the early 1990's and helped to establish legitimacy for the DIY ethos with art that was highly influenced by graffiti, hip hop, punk rock, and skateboarding.

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Tonight, 101X and the Alamo Drafthouse present The Princess Bride, in a special screening on the lawn at Central Market North. It's a no-brainer! Buy yourself a treat and indulge with everyone's favorite slice of 80's self-referential swashbuckling. A pre-Shepard Fairey-co-opted Andre the Giant! A pre-Penn Robin Wright! The so-hot-he's-cornz-Carey Elwes! Rodents of unusual size, cliff-scaling, and the six-fingered man! Vaudevillian troll Billy Crystal! And of course, sporadic interruptions from a whiny Fred Savage....

From the tallest skyscraper in the City of Brotherly Love to Canadian tourism copywriting brilliance, here's what you should know from our -ist cities: This week, Phillyist took a gleeful listen to the White Stripes' exciting new release, watched in awe as their new tallest skyscraper was finally completed, found a cheaper way to get to Gothamist, invented a tasty new dessert, and brought back their Craigslist Round-Up feature with a bang. Bostonist watches...