City officials have turned away FOX's crapfest viewer-favorite Cops, which was supposed to start filming here very soon. A couple years ago, Travis County Sheriffs were featured on the ultimate reality show (and plan to be on the show again), but Austin officials aren't allowing APD to get involved with it. While some in the Austin Police Association are disappointed, it may be best that America is spared seeing another half-naked drunk person being......

This was not a very happy week for the -ist network as one of our own, Phillyist co-editor Star C. Foster, passed away early in the week. Her wit, intelligence, and good nature shone through the site, making Phillyist an immensely fun read. She was loved by many and will be missed by all. Phillyist paid tribute to her this week with a heartfelt letter to her and an obituary. And now, the awkward......

As you may have heard, Schlitterbahn Waterpark – the massive expanse of water rides, germ-infested tube-streams and jaundiced kiddie pools in New Braunfels, Texas – may be the focus of a new MTV reality show, Waterpark, in which the park’s employees – mostly adolescents from 16 to 22 – will be put under the lens. The show represents an effort by MTV to attract a younger demographic of viewers. Schlitterbahn has reportedly agreed to filming,......

So, like, you guys, guess WHAT? Tara Reid is totally in Austin right now! OMG! She’s like, BFF with Paris Hilton! No shit! Like, she got into town yesterday, and she’s just chillin’ with some of her girlfriends for a while. Yeah, like, she was hanging out at Six last night. Seriously! Our friend Aimee’s ex-boyfriend Brad like, TOTALLY tried to hit on her. He is such a tool. OMG y’all, maybe she’ll like,......

The Frost Building in downtown Austin. In case you haven't seen it enough on The Real World.......

We watched episode twelve from a bed in the Hilton Hotel in mid-town Manhattan. We were on a business trip that we didn't particularly want to go on. We've been watching a lot of episodes on the road lately, and it's making us home sick. (We're actually writing this recap at Chicago's Midway airport.) And here's the thing -- seeing those silly shots of the Frost Bank building, the montages of Congress Ave and......

OMG, we are so late writing our weekly recap of The Real World that for a while we were considering not even doing one. I mean, how relevant is a recap once the episode has been aired three hundred and fifty times? But then we realized that this episode has another few thousand runs in it's lifetime, which means that our grandchildren will probably be watching it on their Lazer Vision 8000-X Holographic Brain......

George W. Bush: aka Dubya, President of the United States, dumbass Owen Wilson: aka The Butterscotch Stallion, screenwriter, asslicker, and Movie Star Wes Anderson: writer/director of the best films ever(Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, etc), wears cool glasses Sandra Bullock: aka Mrs. Jesse James, producer, movie star, nice gal Matthew McConaughey: bongo player, weed smoker, movie star, hunk Marcia Gay Harden: character actress, Oscar winner Benjamin McKenzie: stud, lead actor of the O.C. Molly Ivins: whip-smart......

So, we’re a little late in posting about this, but that’s just because we’re so damn cool we couldn’t be bothered. Forbes magazine has once again released their Official Rankings of the best cities in the U.S. for singles, as calculated by Really Smart People using Highly Scientific Methodology. Overall, Austin was ranked #11, right behind our buddies in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Seattle, respectively. Most impressively, Austin ranked Numero Uno in......

More minds than Mencia'sRich white adults are likely protesting, claiming "who will cut our grass and watch our kids?!" as the projected increases in the Hispanic population has the state's higher education people planning for an increase in Hispanic enrollment in college. [Statesman] London police buddies with APD?London police have shot and killed a suspicious guy wearing a trench coat in a subway station. Little more details than that as of now. [KXAN] "Celebrities"......

Before we begin, we'd like to point out the interesting comments left by reader Sgt. Anonymous, who gave us some insight into Rachel's actual experiences in the military with quotes from a magazine called Air Force Times, which clearly isn't getting enough real news from the military about the wars we are fighting, and has to fill its pages with nonsense about The Real World. Oh, we are so political! How about that Supreme......

As is our tradition around here, the first order of business before we get into the dirty details of this week's episode is to list off the errors and errata that have been submitted since last week. In our previous recap, we accidentally said that Danny and Melinda were in front of the "Driscoll" hotel, when we meant to say "Driskill." Also, we were totally wrong, it wasn't either of these hotels. In other......

Because we never turn down a chance to dither on about something we know nothing about on television, this Austinist contributor was just filmed for tonight's 10 o'clock news on KXAN about the underage drinking portrayed in recent episodes of The Real World: Austin, about which we write a very funny recap. We think the reporter's line of questioning will convey the general idea of what this report will be about. It went something......

We begin this week's recap with a few small corrections to the last one, which have been requested by umpteenzillion readers. First off, the person who appears in episode 2 in the big directors chair is John Pierson, not Paul Stekler. Stekler appears later on in the episode, and is the guy who is going to actually be helping the housemates film their documentary. Pierson is the guy who had to defend his relationship......

Due to retardation problems on the part of the editor of this site, and an errant button press on the TiVo remote while we were buffering the show so that we wouldn't have to watch commericials -- there may have been weed involved -- we screwed up big time and didn't get to watch the third episode of The Real World last night when it aired. BUT DON'T WORRY! We've got our TiVo set......

We were surprised the other day when, on our regular "Can We Get Ourselves On TV" drive by the Real World house, we noticed that not only has the large, glowing AUSTIN sign been taken down, but so has all the nice landscaping that surrounded the building. We don't know what the plans are for that space now that our newest neighbors have fled the city, but we thought they'd at least leave a......

As you watch the next episode of The Real World, eyes glued to the television like a loyal member of the Viacom Special Forces, you may notice, if you are incredibly detail oriented, that one of the items of furniture in the Real World house is a gigantic beanbag chair. This chair was made by a company called Sumo Lounge whose core business is the making of gigantic beanbag chairs. The beanbag chairs are......

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......

What happens when people stop being nice and start getting real (real obnoxious, real drunk, real lazy, real coddled, real melodramatic, real self-conscious, real drunk and real drunk)? Well, we will all find out soon, as The Real World: Austin premieres tonight on MTV at 9PM. If any of the previous shows, which have become so blatantly producer-sculpted after the moderate success of the early seasons when the cast actually looked like real people......

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......

For those of you who have watched MTV’s “The Real World” and ooh’d and aah’d at their lavish digs and fancy shmancy furnishings, this weekend presents you with the opportunity to get your grubby little hands on their hand-me-downs. That swinging ‘modern’ pod chair where the first three housemates to arrive get all Pamela-and-Tommy Lee? It’s yours! The bumper pool table where some unwitting drunk co-ed loses her virginity in episode 4? Name your......

They are such nice guys, those lads from 302 Designs. They sure know how to make a girl feel welcome, not to mention giggle. Perhaps it was the pitcher of Lone Star or the festive atmosphere at Spiderhouse, but we had fun interviewing the three young men that comprise one of Austin's more innovative clothing design companies. 302 Designs is Franco Barrera, John Michael Torres, and David Walker. All three are (clearly) busy UT Students......

As most people know, MTV's The Real World is being filmed in Austin as we type. The six, or is it seven? We can never remember... The castmembers have been in their house for a little over a month now, and have been spotted all over downtown and South Congress, including at Austinist's preferred Yoga spot, the Gold's on 6th. But what are they doing? We know that Austin is not a town that prides......