This week’s installment of Music Mondays at the Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz is all country, all the way. You’re Looking at Country, a film that shares the name of a Loretta Lynn song, is a look back on that golden age of country and western music when George Jones, Johnny Cash, and their ilk ruled the airwaves and parlayed their fame into television spots and even shows. Dolly Parton, one of SXSW’s most anticipated performers, also makes appearances in the film, as does Lynn and many, many more....

What's not to love about that hairy chest and denim jacket?...

For the first time ever, Fangoria is bringing their Weekend of Horrors event to Austin. A pantheon of famous horror movie actors and directors, including Austin's Robert Rodriguez, will be appearing/speaking/signing autographs (IN BLOOD - just kidding) at the convention locale, the Renaissance Austin Hotel....

Slackerwood features some notes and photographs from the Simpsons Feast @ The Alamo Drafthouse. Keith Richards: He didn't mix his dad's ashes with cocaine, you guys. He snorted him outright. Humidity got your hair in a funk? In the U.K., they have hair straightening vending machines. Jealous much? Unpopular Ideas: The downside of cultural diversity. Karl Rove has an iPhone, wears Twins hat to show support for collapsed bridge victims. How is it that......

Reported just days ago on the their own blog, The Alamo Drafthouse revealed two bits of interest concerning their future transition down the street to take over the famous, and schizophrenic, Ritz on 6th. It's looking like the final day at The Original Alamo on 4th & Colorado will be Wednesday, June 27th, 2007. From the blog, "We'll have three shows, something special for 3 different crowds that we serve at the Alamo. We will......

The Alamo Drafthouse Downtown is hosting a special event featuring everyone's favorite kitschy-yet-dependable food storage solution. The movie Tupperware! will be screened and an actual Tupperware party will take place in the theater. Proceeds from this event will benefit the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Fest. Tupperware!, directed by Laurie Kahn-Leavitt, "tells the remarkable story of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor, and Brownie Wise, the self-taught sales-woman who built an......

If you are anything like us, then you have shoes on your feet. And you’re behind on your manscaping because you’ve been getting up too late to handle that business so your girl’s been giving you the stink eye as of late but shit, a man’s got priorities in life and sometimes the details get lost in the big picture woman! It can't all be done! All the time! But this is about the shoes.......

Aqua Teen Hungerforce is one of our favorite late-night TV shows. Cartoon Network's trippy and witty antics of fast food products living in the suburbs of New Jersey has been entertaining inebriated viewers since Adult Swim's debut. One of the signature artists in Adult Swim's motley crew of hip-hop contributers is DJ Spooky, who penned theme songs and more for these cult cartoon favorites. Hailing from Washington D.C. and armed with a degree in......

We were sitting down at the Drafthouse months ago, anxiously awaiting whatever over-hyped major motion picture was about to let us down (probably War of the Worlds), when we first witnessed our next YouTubeAUSTIN feature. The Alamo Drafthouse's infamous Or We'll Take Your Ass Out trailers--warning patrons to stay quiet throughout the film--starred none other than Austin's true tough grandma, Ann Richards. This trailer--which premiered only months before she was diagnosed with cancer--is a......

Alex Jones must be grinning from ear to ear, as most conspiracy theorists do when they think their ideas, brushed off by most, are finding more and more credence. Today, the White House released The National Strategy for Combating Terrorism, a new security strategy that takes less emphasis on "extremist networks" like Al-Qaeda and more on the countries that back them, like Iran. No better timing for Jones, whose film, which premieres tonight, predicts steps......

First things first. Alamo Drafthouse EAT DRINK WATCH MOVIES events pretty much always kick ass, but the bar just may have been raised with the upcoming showing of Stephen Chow’s God of Cookery, loosely based on Japanese wundershow Iron Chef. Alamo South Lamar Exec Chef John Bullington and Alamo Village Exec Chef Trish Eichelberger face off Wednesday, August 30 at 7pm at The Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar. The stakes? The title of Alamo Iron......

Today we introduce a new feature. With the ubiquity of all sorts of amazing content available on YouTube, we figured it was time to start mining the site for some great Austin-related video clips for your enjoyment. As with everything here at Austinist, if you have a great find you think we should share with our readers, please email us Alex Jones is at it again. He’s coming down from his sophomore major-movie appearance......

Continuing with the tradition of an already high number of events incorporating fan interaction, The Alamo Drafthouse is making Austin a safe haven for film geeks and hecklers alike on Tuesday, June 20th. Hecklers, come one and come all tomorrow night, as the Drafthouse will let YOU yell at the screen as you see fit. Judging by the film they've chosen, you'll get plenty of chances. From deep within the Alamo Drafthouse's seemingly endless......

The Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar is offering a special one-night-only Da Vinci Code Feast, replete with wine parings, inspired Dan Brown's best-selling novel (the Overrated Grigio is deloosh). So, if you have never experienced one of the Alamo's themed feasts, and feel that Tom Hanks' hair will not spoil your appetite, get online and get your tickets now, cause they will be gone soon. The Menu Amuse Green Olives stuffed with smoked dove Appetizer Loaves......

It seems everything and everyone is getting their own national month these days. This month alone, Barbecue; Bikes; Eggs; Hamburgers; Physical Fitness & Sports; and Salsa all get their time to shine. Nothing the overrated food item eggs need more than their own damn month, after already single-handedly trying to take down the taco industrial complex. But we digress. As all of these categories own a special place in Austinist's heart, we will be doing......

You're listening to your iPod walking down Congress Ave., the beats pounding in your head conspire with your artistic sensibilities, painting in your mind's eye a visual landscape for the song you are hearing. You're sitting on the couch at home, trying to finish that twelve-pack, hearing something come from the latest Dead Prez album that makes you think, "Oh, this song would make the perfect video. There'd be a kid sitting obliviously on......

The Alamo Drafthouse Downtown is bringing you the double feature of a two-decades-ago lifetime. This Saturday night, there will be Breakin’, and then there will be some Boogaloo to follow, sucka! Yep, it was the eighties. The clothes were little more than layered flaps of mesh, pleather, zippers, and no-pocket pockets. Having a dick did not preclude one from the use of rouge or lipstick. Dudes dressed a bit girlish at times, and the......

Dionysium will be holding court at The Alamo South Lamar, Tuesday night. Know what that is? DO YOU? Well, if you know, then you need read no further. Because the rest of this will be little more than a half-assed and decidedly broken description of what the celebration is, and how it all goes down at The Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, the first Tuesday of every month. Alright. Not that it should be trivialized......

As if SXSW didn't just bring enough film love into your life, the Austin Film Society and the Drafthouse have announced some new events to entertain you this spring. First, the freebie. The Alamo Drafthouse will be screening classic films at The Glenn @ The Backyard. The Glenn is apparently a new, smaller outdoor music venue on the Backyard grounds on Highway 71. "Rebel Without A Cause" (April 6), "East Of Eden" (April 20),......

It's Tuesday, which means that your local DVD shop has several shiny new titles on the shelf. This week's biggest entry is James Mangold's Walk The Line, a Johnny Cash biopic in the mold of Ray that is up for five Oscars this weekend. The film wisely steers clear of a wide-scope biography, and instead concentrates on Cash's romance with second wife June Carter, his early music career at Sun Records, and his struggles......

Owen Egerton takes a crack (for the second hilarious time) at goofy sex ed films from the 40's - 70's. It's called "The Best of Sex Ed" and it happens tonight at 9:45 at the Alamo Downtown. Spend a couple of hours getting your jollies, and perhaps learning some important information. Like how premarital sex could lead to insanity. But you already knew that. We remember our own sex ed class in grade school,......

On April 4, 1968, less than twenty-four hours after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assasinated, James Brown was scheduled to perform a concert at the Boston Garden. He arrived at the airport and was told that the mayor had serious concerns about Brown playing during a time of intense anxiety and anger over the murder of one of the greatest civil rights leaders in American history. The Godfather would not hear of it.......

M O N D A Y [12] [music] UT Ethnomusicology Dept Ensembles at Momo's (8pm) [music] David Newbould at Flipnotics (8pm) [music] Singer-Songwriter Night at Longbranch Inn [music] Elizabeth McQueen at Theadgill's (8pm) [music] Listening party for Ludacris' new album, Disturbing Tha Peace at Nasty's (8pm) [music/shopping] Armadillo Christmas Bazaar with the Eggmen at Austin Music Hall (Check website for dates/hours) [party] Friends of the Spade Christmas Party at Velvet Spade (11pm) [film/food] "Narnia"......

Those crazy kids at The Alamo Drafthouse. What will they think of next? Tomorrow afternoon their Rolling Roadshow heads out to the venerable Myers’ sausage manufacturing facilities in Elgin. After a tour of the plant (you never sausage much crankin'), the group will retire to the eating hall at Myers’ restaurant for a delicious feast and 90 minutes of the best/wurst/hilarious/disturbing meat industry film footage. Although we have not been on said tour, we......

FRIDAY [movie] "Metropolis" with a live soundtrack by DJ Nicknack, 7pm & 9:45 pm @ The Alamo Drafthouse Downtown [shop] The Real World Garage Sale, 1-6pm @ the alley behind the Real World house. [music] Prefuse 73, 9pm @ The Parish. SATURDAY [shop] The Real World Garage Sale, 10am-6pm @ the Real World house. [dancing] Rock the Casbah w/DJ Mel, 9:30pm @ The Parish. [musicshop] Opening Party for End of an Ear @ 2209......

Some of you old-schoolers may remember back when the Alamo Drafthouse had $1 Monday nights. You know, back when there was only ONE Alamo Drafthouse. Well, the good folks at our favorite beer-and-a-flick cinema house are back to their old good-neighborly-ways. Beginning next Monday, April 4, The Alamo Drafthouse Downtown will be offering movies for $1 , popcorn for $1 and, you guessed it, soda for $1! And, seeing how we love our music and......