If you walked down the drag yesterday hoping to grab a barbacoa burrito at Chipotle, you may have been interrupted by a throng protesting the chain's alleged poor payment of Florida tomato pickers. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), from Immokalee, Florida, is on a small "Chipocrasy" tour, on its way to the company's home base in Denver. The CIW's complaint is that workers are paid 40 or 50 cents per 32 lb. bucket of tomatoes, the same price paid in 1978....

Ah, back to school – that magical time of year when students across town come back from those lazy days of summer and start emptying their wallets on books, parking tickets, and cover charges. So what's the best way to actually break the monotony of ramen and grilled cheese without going broke in the process? Four magic letters: BYOB. Thai Noodle House is nestled in at 2602 Guadalupe, just behind the 7-Eleven on the north......

This month's election really is getting dirty. This long-haired South Austin revolutionary was on The Drag today across from the university's busiest pedestrian intersection, protesting, from what we can gather, Bush's stupidity, arrogance and bitchiness.......

Local artist Stephen Reidmiller took his camera to The Drag to compile The Type Project. The letters and numbers above were made using light trails from The Villas on Guadalupe, Kerbey Lane, Toy Joy, Spider House and I Luv Video. We recommend it for your desktop background!......

Tonight on The Drag around 21st, expect delays due to Scream-mask-wearing fanatics of moist children's treats and vintage clothing as Blue Velvet is throwing their annual Halloween Cupcake Party. Even if you don't have time to dress up, the folks at Blue Velvet have plenty of old clothes for you to throw something together. The best costumes will be eligible for a variety of prizes. If you bring a Halloween-inspired mix CD, they'll play it......

Walking to class down The Drag, we were pleasantly reminded of our childhood--four times. Genuine Waldo sightings on Kerby Lane, then The Hole In The Wall, then Pipes Plus and then the front door of the former Baja Fresh. We rushed back the next day, armed with our camera to snap some shots. We liked them, but then found the artist's own pictures on his Flickr site. Thanks for the shots, the memory and a......

In less than one month, the incoming class at The University of Texas will start walking the sidewalks of Guadalupe Street, listening to Nick Drake on their shiny iPods and buying every Bob Marley poster within a mile radius. These sidewalks, between 19th and 29th street, are affectionately known as The Drag, an area in a constant state of flux as businesses attempt tirelessly to keep up with the perpetual flakiness of an 18-24......

DJ Starsign, fresh from his applauded performance at the wildly successful Beats of Basquiat music series in Houston, is back in Austin to get you off your ass and a drink in your hand. He and the Young Adorable (the very affable John Angle) are hosting their second Erotic City party at Nasty’s this Saturday night. Their guest DJ is going to be New Berlin from Teleportdoor’s cast of creative characters. This is quite......

One local coffee establishment that's been keeping Austin good 'n weird for the past 10 years is closing its doors come January 1st due to financial losses. Mojo's Daily Grind has felt the mighty force of that global coffee virus, Starbucks, as well as the strain from rising rent costs along the Drag and too much coffee competition. Founded by Wade Beesley in 1994, Mojo's has been well-known for its laid-back attitude and openness......

Last week, we posted a review of a brilliant locally-published novel entitled "Egypt Egypt" by a certain Sam Ramos. An enthusiastic bout of Google-stalking yielded, to our surprise, nothing. It seemed that, so much as 8,058,044,651 web pages were concerned, neither the author nor the publisher existed. This, naturally, left us intrigued and somewhat confused – had we yet again replaced our vitamins with crazy pills? But mere days later, through a series of......