Image from AmericanApparel.netAustin will move three steps closer to becoming Southern California a real city a place where you can try on those high-waisted hot shorts and shiny tights before buying them with the opening of three new American Apparel locations (two real stores in Austin and an outlet in Round Rock). The first location will be on the Drag at 2316 Guadalupe, which is good news, because there are few things as vital to......

In case you’ve been holed up in your apartment/home/condo with no electricity for the past few days, we’re sad to tell you that Southern California is currently being devoured by raging wildfires, and there are no signs of the fires stopping. CNN is updating like, every 2.3 minutes, and it’s one of the most devastating things we’ve ever seen. Times like these, it feels like there’s not much you can do but sit and refresh......

When the people behind Vice Magazine throw a party, it's safe to assume that much booze will be enjoyed, and, on more special occasions, that buildings may partially collapse. All in the name of good fun. Meanwhile, Harley Davidson recently spawned the latest hellion in its family of meaty motorcycles: the "Nightster" is an ultra-low sportster designed, as its 27-year-old creator put it so succinctly, "to look illegal." We know precious little about fancy......

It's the hot Astanga instructor at Yoga Yoga South, or the girl in the cutoffs at El Chilito. It's the smoking UPS guy or your favorite Lone Star Rollergirl. It's your local secret crush. Our column returns with an interview with one of Austin's local gallery owners and artists: E. Moises Diaz of Urban Roots Gallery. We received a request to interview him by a married lady (gasp!) who wrote not just on her behalf,......

Alpha Dog Dir: Nick Cassavettes There's an interesting moment early on in Alpha Dog that sets up the gist of the movie. At a house party in an affluent LA neighborhood, teenagers are getting loaded and generally misbehaving. One, eyes heavily lidded by pot smoke, points at a rap video playing on a plasma TV and proclaims derisively, “Man, they only thing they be shooting is music videos!” Apparently these upper-class Valley kids know a......

We know it’s hard to believe, but we Austinist staffers are human. We’re real people, with real feelings, and sometimes we make mistakes. Some of us make so many mistakes that we can’t even remember them all. Anyhoo, last week we fucked up huge by not telling you to go see Rock the Bells, the true story of concert promoter Chang Weisberg’s attempt at reuniting all ten members of the Wu-Tang Clan for one night......

Before we begin, we'd like to extend our deepest sympathies to the family of James Kim. We are not, by any means, trying to discount that tragedy by juxtaposing posts about the Kims with more light-hearted posts. It's the nature of doing a compilation such as this one: we're trying to give a full slice of the goings-on in the Ist-a-Verse: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Londonist wants you to know where to......

When we first heard Southern California-based Rilo Kiley's More Adventurous last fall, we were hooked almost immediately. Lead singer Jenny Lewis, also part of synthpop group The Postal Service, pens melancholic tales of heartache, betrayal, loss, and even the occasional social commentary, with the rest of the band supplying a sound that alternates between folk pop and surf rock.In our opinion, the lyrics are the driving force behind Rilo Kiley's success. The songs have......

For those about to rock we have .. umm ... and then we got …well? Ok, slim pickings this week for the harder side of music. All Shall Perish - Hate, Malice, Revenge (Nuclear Blast) Old-school West Coast hardcore with just a hint of melody via Scandinavian death metal influences. Bleed the Sky - Paradigm in Entropy (Nuclear Blast) This West Coast metal band has yet to develop a unique sound as they try to......