Photos courtesy Steve Hopson.
Austinist Preview: Texas Book Festival
Usually, street closures around the Capitol hail the arrival of one of Austin's many street festivals, where you can listen to a wishy-washy blues-rocker do his best to channel Stevie Ray Vaughn while you eat a turkey leg amongst a sea of fanny-packed families and homemade jewelry vendors. But once a year it means it's Texas Book Festival time. As literary events go in this town, it is the big one. For two days...
The Real World Recap: Season Premiere!
If the visions of debauchery seen in the season premiere of The Real World: Austin is any indicator of what is to come, we may have on our hands a pop culture episodic that carefully documents the total disintegration of all things good and wholesome, like a giant Nothing rolling across the land, destroying everything in its path. This is like the decadence of Ancient Rome - orgies, gladiator combat, drunken celebrations of Bacchus...

