Austin is Taradise! And Lance and Sheryl split Congrats to Adlai McMahon, winner of our giveaway contest for Bloc Party's documentary/concert DVD, God Bless Bloc Party! The SXSW Music Festival roster expanded to over 1,100 this week, including such esteemed acts as Morrissey and The Flaming Lips Austinist photographer Matt Wright captures yet another amazing night shot in Austin, as well as some sexy shots of last week's Box Magazine issue release party. The......

In a bizarro turn of events, the judge in The Hammer's criminal case issued an apology recently, evidently because the trial has degenerated into "a very confused state." District Judge Pat Priest this past weekend canceled a hearing originally scheduled for next week, and further opted not to decide whether DeLay should be tried solely on money-laundering charges. Records indicate that Judge Priest was initially inclined to ruling for DeLay, but then suddenly changed......

The Hammer has been taking some heat from the press and blogs of late, but whether he faces some real heat should be determined today. DeLay is in court for a hearing where a judge will determine whether there is enough evidence to take the scumbag former exterminator to trial for criminal conspiracy and money laundering charges. The savvy Dick Deguerin, DeLay’s attorney, is claiming that the laws which DeLay allegedly broke were not......

The Hammer continues endeavoring to get his trial moved over to his home county of Fort Bend, or at the very least out of our neighborhood, complaining that here in the "People's Republic of Travis County" it'd be damn near impossible to find an impartial jury. Democratic group The Lone Star Project claims otherwise, citing figures showing that "averaging Travis County election percentages for the Democratic and Republican candidates in five top races from......

Tom DeLay succeeded yesterday in having Judge Bob Perkins removed from his money-laundering and conspiracy case, complaining that the Democrat had donated over $5,000 to "liberal" causes since 2001. While a new judge has yet to be named, The Hammer's already working on his next weaselly tactic: having the trial moved out of Austin. Ridiculously, his indictment hearings have become something of a farce - it's hard to remember that the whole thing stems......

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We just can't get enough of The Hammer, and we know you can't either. But apparently Tom DeLay has had enough of legal dramas. More specifically, NBC's "Law and Order" which recently referenced him in its season finale. From the E! Online: During the episode, a police officer stymied for leads jokes to his partner, "Maybe we should put out an APB for somebody in a Tom DeLay T-shirt." From DeLay: "This manipulation of......