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This Sunday two local interfaith events will take place. The first and largest gathering of the two is the Annual Interreligious Thanksgiving Service. This service is sponsored by Austin Area Interreligious Ministries and has been held for 22 years now. It is an amazing opportunity to see all the diverse faiths of our city represented under one roof. Our favorite part of the service is the call to worship, which has in the past...

• City safety rankings coincidentally reflect MLB standings...St. Louis was recently named the Most Dangerous City in the US while Detroit was only in 2nd place.
• MySpace is not so MySpecial anymore.
• Online Christmas Shopping could be more costly than playing Spider Solitaire at work.
• An Oklahoma man was killed in his attempts to scare the Haunted Hayride passengers; we can't say his attempts failed.
• Vaseline is only one way to make your pumpkin last longer.
• Though we don't really consider it camping, we're excited that Texas is getting Yurts!

Columbus' Miranda Sound have been warming the hearts of post-punk loving Midwesterners for years, and Austinites finally get a chance to take in their live performance tonight at Red Eyed Fly. They've been heralded as a "Fugazi for the next generation" (Playback St. Louis), and their latest album, Western Reserve, has been given accolades all over the music world. Produced by J Robbins (Promise Ring, Shiner) and engineered by Neal Schmitt and Jon Chinn, it's...

Old Spice today released its Fifth Annual Top-100 Sweatiest Cities List, with Austin coming in seventh place. Overall, Texas has the dubious distinction as being the sweatiest state in the country, with six cities -- Dallas, Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Austin, Houston and Waco -- all among the Top 10. The rankings are based on the amount of sweat a person of "average height and weight" would produce from walking around for an hour in...

"Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack..." The sports gods are smiling on us today. As we wrap up March Madness tonight with the men's basketball championship, we also celebrate the unofficial national holiday known as Opening Day for Major League Baseball. We Seamheads are in wide-eyed excitement in anticipation of six months of the best sport in the world. Lo siento, futbol. And we are even more excited than usual, as our beloved...

We know people who drove for 24 hours from Minneapolis to make it to SXSW this year (much love, kids). We know people who flew from Bangkok and Madrid. We even have a friend who hitched from Seattle to be here. We thought that last scenario was a little extreme. The we read this.

• Scientists assigned a new genus to this creature they recently discovered in the ocean. We're thinking it would taste good with some garlic butter. ***Don't be fooled, a tabloid posting says that some NASA Scientists are calling it an alien life form.
• Tragically, 5 UT students were killed in a car accident this weekend on their way to a medical school convention in St. Louis. None of them were wearing their seat belts.
• A woman was attacked and sexually assaulted and left with serious injuries in the Bull Creek Greenbelt.
• Freescale announced that it is dropping its sponsorship of the Freescale Marathon. It will, of course, continue to be an important running event, but it will now be known as the Austin Marathon with several different corporate sponsors.
• The death of Milosevic has brought on a critical eye to the hotel jail in which Mr. Milosevic spent his final years. Though tests show that he died of a heart-attack, a foreign drug has been found in his body leading to speculations of poisoning.
• American's debate over abortion is getting hotter.
  
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Oh, God. Might San Antonio play host to the 2008 Republican National Convention? In a press release issued today by the RNC, 31 cities across the country were chosen as preliminary contenders to host the next convention, two years from now. Each is required to submit an application proving that they can meet such requirements as: Main Convention Area: Facility capable of seating at least 20,500 persons, including the convention floor with seating for...

SXSW.com released an updated lineup for this year's SXSW Music Festival earlier today, and it's one hell of a list. The SXSW committee hastens to note that "This is a partial list of performers confirmed to appear at the 2006 SXSW Music Festival. This list is current as of 1/13/06. All of this information is subject to change." International acts include: Masahiro Nitta, DMBQ, Ellegarden, Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re, PE'Z, The Emeralds (Japan)...

Two weeks ago, we sat down for a chat with Lillian Berlin, frontman of Living Things, a rock band whose emphatic liberal leanings all but scorn the conservative suburbs of St. Louis from where they came. Touring for the past two years with the likes of The Libertines, Velvet Revolver, and The Vines, the quartet - brothers Lillian, Eve and Bosh Berlin and guitarist Cory Becker - earned the respect of music critics, the...

The enigmatic Naomi Shihab Nye seems determined to undermine categorization, judging from her extensive accomplishments: one might choose to call her a poet, novelist, editor, song-writer, essayist, teacher, or columnist. But when you strip away the labels and the mediums, it becomes crystal clear that she is, above all else, and social and cultural commentator. Which shouldn't come as a surprise, given her background. As a child in her half-Palestinian, half-American family, Nye lived...

It seems a requirement of living in the South is the enjoyment of iced tea, especially during these long, hot summer months. We've searched the web and found a few recipes that sound both tasty and refreshing--a winning combination! The Carnelian Rose Tea Company out of Vancouver, WA sells a list of awesome sounding teas that would be yummy over ice, we bet. And they offer tips on brewing as well. Epicurious.com provides a sweet black currant recipe. We are eager to delight our tastebuds with this concoction. Because, y'all, it's like a hundred degrees outside and we are thirsty.